affable-lurking

Back from Canada. Photo-spam to follow soon.

• Passport
• Tickets
• Talk

I think I’m all set for Canada now.  I’m off to ICOOMPA 2008, for five days of hardcore optics geekery and a few days exploring Alberta.  My talk is on Monday afternoon, so I can relax as soon as that’s over.

Not dead, just busy and distracted.  Off to Canada in a couple of weeks and so I have to get some results.

I’ve been tagged by Ben to list six random things about myself. Here goes.

1. My superpower is the ability to detect minute quantities of cucumber from large distances. It is rarely of use to anyone.
2. I bake terrible cakes.
3. The last book I read was The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I finished it on the train on the way home tonight.
4. My dog is named Pointless, I had a cat named mincemeat.
5. I plan to win an Ignoble Prize someday for my research.
6. I can do this:
   

I tag anyone else that wants to do this.

http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/04/21/guest-post-juan-collar-on-dark-matter-detection/

Summary - it’s good, but is it real? Could be many other things.