time reversal

My brother came out to Berkeley this past weekend, so I determined it was my duty to show him some of the awesome things about California.
Day 1:
Alex showed up around 2pm, looking completely exhausted and really sick of traveling. Clearly the only solution to this was beer-lunch, so we went to Jupiter for beer [...]

I moved into my new house this weekend. So far we’ve built a wall, hung 2 doors, replaced the hot water pipe to the bathroom sink (yay for blow-torches in tiny crawl spaces!), weed-whacked the entire yard, pruned all of the plants, pick-axed out a garden plot, acquired furniture for ourselves and the common spaces, [...]

Almost exactly 3 months ago today I posted that I started taking apart my cryostat to refurbish it and make it bad-ass. It’s finally done, and it works really well. I can optically test 160 detectors at a time at 250mK. I presented the preliminary tests from our first optical cold run at our collaboration [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]