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Date: October 31st, 2008

Whew!

31 October, 2008 (08:43) | Lab Stories | 2 comments

Things have been rather hectic lately. On top of the normal (and abnormal) bureaucratic stuff, there was a little matter of moving our clocks to their new home in another building. The capacity for disaster was simply terrifying, because this represented several Simoleons worth of equipment, and scientist-years of effort. Breaking a [...]

Toys in the Office: Gettin’ Personal

31 October, 2008 (05:09) | Silly |

My balls, when I’m not using them. (The brass ones are kept in a climate-controlled vault). People will occasionally pick them up and play with them.

The reason why I have them in my office: several years ago, a colleague arranged to have a construction crew replace a telescope dome with a new, [...]

 

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