If bad luck comes in threes...

NK?

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Nige,

'Candygram for Mongo'

R1

 

Bugger. Hope something comes up for you soon...

 

Very sorry to hear about the higgs project/job, all I can offer on the
positive side is the thanks I have been meaning to send for a week now -
that Velcro did the job, problem solved, person is delighted (1).

Being a lapsed agnostic I cannot comment on any Great Plan for the Universe,
or how that may affect you, I have a stack of platitudes in my desk drawer
(the Chinese symbol for crisis is the same as for opportunity etc), but you
will have heard them all by now anyway.

I do however believe that maintaining a sense of humour is essential in a
universe as ridiculous as this one.

Regards

Mike




(1) Part of the reason for the delay was necessity of visit to a client in
Layton Hospital, 'No problem Mike, the missus'll give you a lift'. (2)

I had wondered about all the trophies in the cabinet, turns out they were
hers, for rally driving, and she cannot 'turn it off'. I vaguely recall
signs whizzing past on the lines of '350 collisions here in the last three
years', which would not have been so bad had we not been passing them at eye
level.




(2) Frodsham in Cheshire is a nice place to live (bar the flying rally
drivers) with a selection of fine country pubs and there is a nuclear
accelerator of some description in the vicinity, cannot for the life of me
remember enough to gurgle it for details but you probably know all about it.
On the http://www.sciencefile.org physics forum the moderator appears to
have some connection (for one thing they live in Frodsham) so might be worth
checking if (a) you wish to remain in the UK and (b) you fancy accelerating
particles for a living.

 

Calibration!

'Dont Touch that!'

Click

'Dont Touch that!'

Click

'Dont Touch that!'

Click

Reminds me of the Mad Scientist who built a machine that could destroy the
universe instantly, he wasn't sure it would work so he poured himseff a
stiff ginger beer and turned it on. He never did find out if it worked.

Regards

Mike

 

Burma.


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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Cheshire? That sounds suspiciously like Daresbury. <google-earths>
Yes, that'd be it. </g-e>

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

S.W.A.L.K.

 

Norwich

 

They have an IT side as well. He's looking for a job for me at the
moment as I have decided that after 6 months working for Westpac bank,
it really isn't me ...

 

"I'm sorry, I panicked"

 

Better brush up on your Alice in Wonderland for that one

 

Or, indeed, anysheddi who wants a technical wbo.

 

...then hopefully the third is the failed kitchen fluorescent
light tube I just replaced after it got all flickery last night. I seemed
to have got the last one in the store (Focus) so I was terribly worried
about breaking it as I shopped in eTcso and brought it home.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

In such cases, I've always asked it to go back to roughly where I'd left
off, and never mind the few that get lost in the cracks.

Argh. I know what that's like, and it's not nice.

Richard

 

Well I hope that purged it!
Jolly bad news about the job, any chance of staying involved with CERN from
another angle? I enjoyed the little snippets and was rather hoping to see
you make the most significant ever UKRM post.

 

Meet oo.

Yes. I haven't even started to tap the Old Boys' (as it were...)
network yet. Possibly slim pickings in the UK, CMS is only Brunel,
Imperial, Bristol and Rutherford Appleton Labs, whereas Atlas has most of
the other Physics departments in their collaboration. emails have been flying
over the weekend, so I'm waiting for the US to wake up late this afternoon
to see if there's any reaction.


--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

That depends if you actually wanted to lose it or not.

 

Pah I was hoping for something more unexpected and ground breaking than
Higgs

 

It is perhaps worth noting that it is very unlucky to be superstitious.

Regards

Mike

 

Does anyone know what shape a Bosun is, and if not, how will we know of
what turns up is Bosun-shaped or not?