time reversal

Dave came to visit me in Berkeley, but due to his injured knees, we couldn’t do anything too intense. We still went to the beach and flew kites, and had picnics in various locations, but we had much more free time for liesurely activities than we usually do. Hence, we decided to take up a [...]

This is the most brilliant thing nasa has come up with in a long time:
http://spaceyourface.nasa.gov/
Go Ruth go!

I had a pretty sweet weekend….sort of. Saturday I went to a barbecue for Martin’s birthday. Sunday, I went to Castle Rock State Park (near Santa Cruz) and went bouldering and hiking. Sunday, I went on a lovely 38 mile bike ride (+ picnic) with Martin, Sirena, and Kevin. I’m finally getting in good shape [...]

I haven’t posted here in a long time. There’s a few reasons for this. One, I’m really hosed in lab. I’m upgrading a cryostat and have been battling mechanical compatibility and cryogenic issues for over 2 months now. A more awesome reason is because I recently traveled to the east coast. I was in Boston [...]

Dave came out to California this weekend to give a talk at Berkeley (and visit me). He flew in really late Friday night, so we had a rather late start on adventures Saturday morning. First on the agenda (after a breakfast of blueberry pancakes and smoothies) was to fix up a bike that Martin had [...]

I finally finished knitting the socks that I started at Pole. They are awesome! I’ll have to make more of these wonderfully colorful socks.

Berkeley (and specifically my new apartment) has a lot of things my dad would like. My new apartment is right near Berkeley Bowl, a super market with every kind of produce you could possibly imagine. Wandering through the produce section I encountered 6 varieties of avocados (one kind for only 59 cents each) and at [...]

Well, my month-long vacation is finally over, and I’ve been back in the lab for a week now. Even though it is in fact work, it’s actually kind of nice. I completely dismantled my test cryostat this week over some protestations from other projects that had been using it in my absence, only to have [...]

After my failure to sound even remotely coherent at my Hertz interview the day after I got back from the South Pole (I blame jetlag–26 hours of flying), Dave arrived in Berkeley, CA to whisk me away on an epic climbing adventure. We started out at the crack of 10am on Tuesday morning with the [...]

I spent my last day in Arthur’s Pass climbing Mt. Aiken. The climb up to the tree-line was once again a scramble, including a 3m rock cliff that I had to scale. At the tree-line there is a sign saying, “Trail markings stop at this point. Do not proceed past this point unless you are [...]