I suppose this won’t be very different from my previous web-journals that I keep during experiments.  I’ll try to post periodically about interesting news from the lab.  If you’re reading this for the first time, this is mainly for family and friends that have asked me what it’s like to be an experimental scientist and physicist.  What you can find here: a bit of insight into the day-to-day activities of a scientist, things that interest me, and a bit from my life.  Hopefully you’ll find some of it interesting.  At some point I’ll try to expand on the choice of name for the blog.  Frankly it has nothing to do with the photo I’ve got at the top of the main page.

 

I’ve decided to merge everything into a single blog and to update it more often than previously.  Why?  I’m not sure.  Perhaps it’s just that I’m sick today (still) and this seems like a fun way to occupy some of my time. Perhaps it’s just a nice thought to have everything in one place.  It also gives me the chance to do some updating for the website and make a few stylistic changes.

 

So I’m supposed to go to Seattle this week, but I’m not sure if that’s going to happen with my head so full viruses and snot.  The german word for this is “Schleimkopf” : literally slime-head.  And I think I’ve got enough for 10 of them.

 

I decided to stick with the iWeb software because, well, I’m lazy about it.  Right now it works reasonably well for what I want to do and is very easy to use.  I wish it had the ability to categorize posts and sort things.  I also wish it was easy to edit the “themes” in an easy fashion.  But nonetheless it does most everything I desire with minimum fuss.