X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NovemberBlog;h=8f2aace3fb9ad7f6626f5e0916f419975250e5f1;hp=42564ac83e525b40c940129ab83f4f9b55f6236b;hb=54d50c5367a31d2f412986824df18ec681f70d7f;hpb=cdc3bef84bc18c22811a10dc07e208520e443def diff --git a/NovemberBlog b/NovemberBlog index 42564ac..8f2aace 100644 --- a/NovemberBlog +++ b/NovemberBlog @@ -1,6 +1,20 @@ == Bernie's brain backup for November 2007 == -=== Sat 24th === +=== 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 ==== @@ -18,14 +32,26 @@ DaSnake uploaded some pictures of the places we visited together on Flickr: 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 had to be back to work, so I left my friend alone sightseeing Boston. +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 -Natural History Museum. Pretty impressive. +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 === @@ -48,6 +74,8 @@ 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 @@ -57,7 +85,13 @@ 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 -ma cos'è tutta questa neve:è una cartolina? E tutti questi uccelli? + +//(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 @@ -68,6 +102,8 @@ 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. @@ -89,6 +125,8 @@ 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.