Just found out about this. Tonight will be part 2 (?) of a PBS NOVA series on Absolute Zero. Heck, even on the website, there’s an interview with Luis Orozco, who’s lab I’m sharing. Also, my advisor did some of the early experiments leading up to the first BEC. I believe the first part is available online. The second part will be too, after it airs.
It seems as if I’m spending far too much time dealing with spam comments and malicious hacks into my site. In fact, I feel as if I spend most of my time maintaining the integrity of this site than actually posting on it. Therefore, I have decided to no longer host and maintain my blog. Instead, I have moved it over to wordpress.com. Granted, it may not be as featureful, but at least I won’t have to be spending a majority of my time dealing with the annoying gnats of the internet.
The new location of my blog is now http://photicus.wordpress.com. Please update your links and RSS feeds.
At least for now. The EECS web server suffered a disk failure, killing everything for a few days. I’m glad that they have a backup. I probably should have one myself. But you know, there’s nothing like first-hand experience.
You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been down a few days. Apparently, there was a nasty bug in my code. So, things should be fixed now.
Starting sometime in August-December, I will be a member of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, College Park. My advisor has accepted a Faculty position there, and will be moving his lab.
I will still be getting my PhD from the University of Michigan, or least I should. I still have to talk to the EECS department here about this. But yay! Maryland! Washington DC! Now I just have to do research into where to live and where to hang out in DC.
Last night I went to see Pelican play at the Blind Pig. It was amazing. They played with another group I hadn’t heard of before, Russian Circles. Both groups were just awesome. Not in the “Electric Six live show” sense of awesome-ness, but in the “Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense” sort of awesome-ness. It was the kind of show that reached into my head and tickled the back of my spine.
I don’t know what it was, but there was something about that show. Something is ending. I can feel it. But what, exactly? I’m not sure. Last night was the final glorious end to whatever it was, as well as the birth of something new. After the show, I was at peace, and felt like I could move on. It was snowing after the show. A fitting—yet clichéd—way of an end and new beginning.
I woke up early this morning, due to lots of scraping & noise. But after that, it was quiet. Dead silent. I walked to work today in the silence. It felt like I woke up this morning to the birth of a new world, screaming loudly, then hushed. It was a sacred, holy walk to work. It’s not everyday that I witness the silence of a newborn world.
A new year, a new look, and now using WordPress. My resolution will be to keep this blog updated.
Hm… I happened to check this out on Christmas! A gift to myself?
I’ll have to see if wordpress can be loaded onto my U of M account…
