a sally-versary and superconducting super colliders!

[saturn]

• Sally and I have been together three years! I can't believe there was a time when we didn't have each other. She's my baby girl. *loves*
  
  October 24, 2004
  
  
  
  October 24, 2007
  
  
  
  
• Not being a physicist, until today I didn't realize that the Superconducting Super Collider referenced in the West Wing episode Dead Irish Writers is real! I mean, I knew about particle accelerators were real but I thought the Superconducting Super Collider was just a plot device for Sam.
  
  So, I'm about 2/3 through The Elegant Universe and I love it and I wish I had people to talk to about the book and the science and the theories. (And by "people," I mean people like me... regular ol' non-physicists who have a basic understanding and want to engage and know more but will never, ever have the capacity to understand this stuff at the level of a physicist. Ever.)
  
  
• I'm still sitting on the Creation e-mail announcing Patrick Stewart's appearance at a NY con in March. My current plan is to wait on tickets and go for GA if, and only if, they offer photo ops. I can't possibly turn down a photo op with Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart.
  
  
• My trip to KC was lovely most specifically because of my visit with powrhug. Kare - I hope you and Lori are having a fabulous birthday!
  
  
• Icon meme! Which one of my icons do you associate with me i.e. when you see it, you immediately know it's my post or comment. (Excluding my default grapes icon.)