Back from Canada. Photo-spam to follow soon.
.ca
- 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
Not dead, just busy and distracted. Off to Canada in a couple of weeks and so I have to get some results.
Tagged – belated update.
I’ve been tagged by Ben to list six random things about myself. Here goes.
- My superpower is the ability to detect minute quantities of cucumber from large distances. It is rarely of use to anyone.
- I bake terrible cakes.
- The last book I read was The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I finished it on the train on the way home tonight.
- My dog is named Pointless, I had a cat named mincemeat.
- I plan to win an Ignoble Prize someday for my research.
- I can do this:
I tag anyone else that wants to do this.
Another view of the dark matter possible-detection
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.