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+== Bernie's brain backup for November 2007 ==
+
+=== Fri 9th to Sun 11th ===
+
+==== An old friend ====
+
+One dayh my old friend DaSnake showed up on IRC and told me he's
+was an intern at FermiLab National Accelerator, near ChicagoCity.
+I told him I was at OneLaptopPerChild, in CambridgeCity.
+
+So we decided we were "close enough" to visit each other's workplace
+and do some tourism together.  So, on Friday morning, I took a cheap
+UsAirways plane to ChicagoOHare through Philadelphia.
+
+==== Trip To Fermilab ====
+
+Refer to the [[http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/map/site.html | Fermilab map]]
+My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab "village", surrounded by
+
+On Saturday, I took a guided site tour, starting from the museum.  They
+have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts and really working
+equipment such as scintillators and Geiger's counters.
+
+Then... WAH!  They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]!
+
+The Linac is the LINear ACcelerator facility, the first stage of acceleration
+that produces protons for the MainInjector.  It was like entering an old
+science fiction movie!
+
+FermiLab is no doubt the most amazing place in the world:
+
+ * http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/tevatron/
+ * http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/fermipics.html
+ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tevatron
+
+To beat this place, next time I shall visit the NCC-1701A!