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Day: September 14, 2019

Sushi night

Posted on September 14, 2019September 17, 2019 By admin

Ben wanted to have a sushi night, so we had one. It’s always a good meal, but damn if it isn’t a shit-ton of prep work.

 

Teriyaki beef, teriyaki chicken, omelette, tuna, seared peppery tuna, salmon.

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Bobble goes to CERN

Posted on September 14, 2019September 17, 2019 By admin

And is disappointed.

Paloma, her flatmate Elies and her friend Bianca, from Spain, had plans to go to the CERN open days. We had big plans to visit a few exhibits, the data center, and had hopes to go down and see at least one detector. That… proved to be ambitious.

No, we’re not lost at all.

It was packed, badly indicated, we couldn’t really see anything and all the detectors closed early because there were too many people. In the end, we walked in an industrial estate for 2 hours under a very strong sun, we spent 15 minutes seeing the data center (which was cool, if you’re a geek) and we listened to a 2 minute tesla coil concert.

Robotic tape library
LHC compute cluster
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Tesla coil

We then spent 25 minutes driving to get to CMS – to find out it was essentially closed. So yes. Not the best use of time. The side trip to carrefour for impromptu grocery shopping was more enjoyable.

Update: this is what we wanted to see. Dominik Gehl and his family were able to do down into CMS when they went on Sunday. Pictures are his:

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The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.
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