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-The story continues at DecemberBlog
-
-== Bernie's brain backup for November 2007 ==
-
-=== Thu 22nd ===
-
-==== Thanksgiving ====
-
-My friend and colleague DjbClark invited me at his parents'
-house for thanksgiving. It was a new, pleasing experience for me.
-
-My impression is that it is a family reunion very much like
-a second Christmas, but without the inconvenience of presents :-)
-
-http://www.bigoven.com/images/blog/tgiv/tradmenu.jpg
-
-//(stock photo)//
-
-=== Sat 17th ===
-
-==== Yummy photos ====
-
-DaSnake uploaded some pictures of the places we visited together on Flickr:
-
- * BostonCity: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasnake/sets/72157603205244949/
- * NewYorkCity: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasnake/sets/72157603203628915/
- * ChicagoCity: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasnake/sets/72157603198958510/
- * OneLaptopPerChild: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasnake/sets/72157603203191269/
-
-=== Wed 14th to Thu 15th ===
-
-==== Back to Boston ====
-
-I'm back in Boston with DaSnake. He's been my guest for just one day.
-Then he had to be back in FNAL for the shifts.
-
-I really had urgent business at work, so I left my friend alone sightseeing Boston for the day.
-
-http://www.radisson.com/rad/images/hotels/MABOSTON/loc3_450.jpg
-
-//(stock photo)//
-
-=== Mon 12th to Tue 13th ===
-
-==== Back to NYC ====
-
-Flought Went to NewYorkCity with DaSnake. Finally got to visit the
-AmericanMuseumOfNaturalHistory. Pretty impressive!
-
-http://www.iesny.org/images/OCEANLIFE.jpg
-
-//(stock photo)//
-
-http://www.rdominis.net/newyork/dinasaur01.jpg
-
-//(stock photo)//
-
-=== Fri 9th to Sun 11th ===
-
-==== An old friend ====
-
-A few days ago, my old friend DaSnake appeared 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, which is
-surrounded by several little lakes with gooses, buffalo and various other
-animals. Indeed, a very pretty natural park.
-
-http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/94-0470-09.jpg
-
-//(stock photo)//
-
-On Saturday, I took a bike and rode on the bike path to the main
-laboratory buildings. 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 we visited the Wilson Hall, a 16 floors building shaped like Goldrake's
-and Mazinger's atomic base.
-
-http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/99-0005-04.jpg
-
-//(stock photo)//
-
- Q: ma cos'è tutta questa neve:è una cartolina? E tutti questi uccelli?
-
- A: e' una foto presa a caso dagli archivi del FNAL :-)
-
-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. You know, like Frankenstein or Buck Rogers: with giant
-Tesla generators, panels with flashing lights and indicators...Buck Rogers
-The continuous buzz reminded us that the proton beam was shooting through
-this long corridor next to me.
-
-http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/93-0073.jpg
-
-//(stock photo)//
-
-Finally, we visited the MainControlRoom, from which they run the whole thing.
-The room looks like the bridge of an old starship, surrounded by monitors,
-with a bigger chair in the middle for the captain.
-
-
-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!
-
-
-==== Chicago By Night ====
-
-Yesterday we went to ChicagoCity's downtown. Wow... I was told the skyline was really
-magnificent, but the real thing exceeded all my expectations.
-
-http://allthingsgo.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/images-chicago-2005-chicago-by-night-2-700x700.jpg
-
-//(stock photo)//
-
-We walked around a little, then went up the
-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Center | John Hancock Center]],
-the third tallest skyscraper, for a breathtaking view of the whole city by night.
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