Chris’ Miscellanea

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On my last day in Hamburg it is too rainy to do something non-work related - like visiting the city. That's sad.

Phil , one of the queen's folk dancers just joined the shiftcrew of the experiment. And not only is he coming to do my work, he even b...

I worried that I would not have a nice guestroom but would get one with shared showers and bathrooms. Insted I got one of the rooms for di...

I just read a email from one of the bosses that people would not be allowed to work more than 10 hours straight. That's the same person...

It's good to have friends when you need them the most, which, sometimes, is for such mundane tasks as moving sand. So here goes a big t...

Having fun with roughly 0.5 m 3 of sand. Want to joing building sandcastles?

Kryptikmo is back from the dead, blogging again. Nice to hear that!

Two harddisks and one compact-flash card: Miniscribe, Model 6032 23 MB (s/n 122544), Hitachi HTS548080, 80GB, SanDisk UltraII Compact Flas...

Our cats are really good in bringing Ticks back into the house as soon as they are outside for a little while. Look what I found creeping ...

It was the fastest machine with the biggest storage once. Now it's just a noisy monstrocy from which I have to copy data off a unstable...

After being quite angered because of the computer problems, it is really nice to see spring finally arriving. It's also much better for...

So I'm installing WinXP on the notebook again. After some time it showed signs of bit rot. And I'm annoyed. Again. This is such a ...

This is what you get in your email-inbox if ... like I have to. Please give attention to the actual content of the email, one line at the t...

Currently the weather is really depressing.

I chose a good train-connection and printed out the online ticket. Nothing will keep me from going HOME! MuahahahahaMuahahaha.....! (thanks ...

Had a very enjoyable walk. Possibly someone knew that I would go that route?

Just completed a nice fill. HERA seems to work fine again.

Some snippet of analysis code. Some cut actually.

This are the meters on the power supply of our big spectrometer magnet. It's a fridge magnet, you can put refrigerators on it easily.