sleep overnight, so I don't feel to bad. I slept for about 2 hours and rested for about 2. I'm ok for the rest of the day. Anne made me a fried egg sandwich and I have a coffee I'm working on.
Most likely the word is out that physicists have discovered the elusive gravitational waves. The announcement this week that gravity waves have been detected adds another key to Einsteins theory of relativity. I'm not sure what the implications of this mean but its a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Apparently this discovery will allow researchers to understand more about space-time.
I'm in the office for the full day from 10-6pm cleaning up on a project. Its going to be a long day but for the most part its a afternoon shift. I should be home around 7pm, have a bite to eat and watch the jets/Oilers game. Anyway, that's all for now.
biggest
science stories of the year/decade, is how Nasas Opportunity
discovered flowing water on Mars. Its not like its a babbling brook or the North Saskatchewan river, but the discovery demonstrate that there is
life beyond this planet. This isn't going to change the world as we know it, but its big news.
Yesterday I received 2 pieces of expecting news. First, my transcripts came out in pdf to my email. Second, the last of my ei income. In other words my ei file is closed. Even though I have a job, I don't have work. That's going to change this week, or asap one way or another. not much going on beyond that. Anyway, that's all for now. .
talk my voice was that raw from this cold. So I've been taking a mixture of salted warm water and gargling with it. I hope to do this 4-5 times by this time tomorrow.
The LHC or Large Hadron Collider after a 2 year upgrade is set to go back online again almost doubling its power. This time the goal is to find the existence of dark matter. The LHC cost's about $10 billion. Before the LHC shutdown researchers discovered the Higgs boson that made headlines. They (cern) don't expect to find any major discoveries anytime soon but finding dark matter is right up there with finding the Higgs.
Other then work this week, I've got a Doctors appointment Friday but I'm going to rebook that for the end of the month. I'll be doing that Tuesday. Anyway that's about all for now.
at about a high of -0/-10 as it looks like its going to go between now and the end of the month, I can live with that. its cold but its not arctic weather.
At lunch I wanted to read Legion, my Warhammer 40k Legion ebook. However the memory card I put in my Kobo, the one I've been using for a couple of days now for some reason, popped out. After trying to insert it, it now says I have finished reading the book I just started. Huh? I don't know whats going on so, I'll be check into this on the weekend.
I had a better day on the job as I was away from my loud neighbor. For a 8.5 hour day ending at 10pm, it went by fast. This project will be over next Friday. So, I'll be off at 9pm and able to catch that 9:25pm bus home. I hope I'll get at least 2-9. I can handle those hours now until the end of the year.
Yesterday, the European Space Agency was able to land their comet probe "Rosetta" on comet 67p. This made international headlines because its the first time a probe from earth has landed in a comet.
I've got another full day today and 2 off. Well, lodge Friday so really 1 day off where I can just relax. Anyway, that's all for now.
here before I go back to work. That's ok, at least I'm getting (for now) steady hours.
It was built in 1978 but satellite ISEE-3 is staying alive. Thanks to band of space enthusiasts that located the spacecraft and have managed to "talk to it" and to resurrect some of its instruments that can still provide useful data. The project is mostly a labour of love for the 75 team of scientists working on their own time, from the people (some in there 80's) that originally worked on the satellite to younger scientists in their 20's-30's. They raised about $140,000 to be able to work on this project. You can read more about it here.
Anne and I opted out of "Money in the bank" mainly because it would have cost us more money, which we don't have. We'll probably get the WWE network soon. That and my blood sugar readings were very unstable all day and by the time we would have come back, it would have been about 9pm and Anne needed to do Face Time with her sister.
I'm heading out of here about noon today so I can get to my bank get the form for work and then across the street to get my Eagles book. The only tough part about the job is the long distance getting there. It's not like I catch a train and walk a block and I'm there within 30 minutes. At least though, its steady. Anyway, that's all for now.
and next week I've got most of the week off. I'm not complaining and I can take care of some other business as well.
Thanks for this Coast: The heinous Manson cult murders of Sharon Tate and friends on this date in 1969 were seen as the 'end of the 60's.' The Tate murders had become news on August 9, 1969. Today Manson is an old man at the age of 79.
I didn't make it out to get a cold one because of my hours next week. I went home and had a nice evening watching the Riders/Calgary game. I was rooting for Calgary and they gave the Riders a royal shellacking.
This way cool. Thanks i09. A strange, newly discovered particle could shrink a laptop computer's hard drive to the size of a peanut and an iPod's drive to the size of a rice grain. It's called a Skyrmion,it comes from Tony Skyrme, a British physicist who first theorized the particle's existence in 1962 – skyrmions are tiny magnetic fields that surround groups of atoms. I don't think we'll actually see Skyrmion based computers for a couple years yet and not in my lifetime but here's more of the article is here
So today I'm working on a track. I don't have a decent mic to put on any vocals so it's just a instrumental. For now. Anyway that's about all for now.
despite no football or hockey.
For nearing the end of July it's not that warm of a day out there sitting at +15 showing a bit of rain.
I'm going to miss iGoogle when it's gone in November. I can still get similar "gadgets" on my Google Drive page without going Chrome. I'm too used to Firefox. Anyway a Science story appeared on my iGoogle page about a 15 meter "magnetic ring" transported to Fermilab in Wisconsin. It took 6 weeks to get to Fermilab. The story from the Science insider is here.
I almost bought a Intel quad Core i7 laptop today from Future shop but I checked and it seems that all locations don't even have this item in stock. Best buy has a AMD A10 in my price range and if they have it in stock at t heir West Edmonton Mall location, I might just pick it up Wednesday. I'm not buying this for gaming, maybe 10% or so for gaming. So, we'll see. I might just end up waiting until their labor Day sale.
The objective is to put a full week in for this week. I've got the hours and the work. Hopefully nothing will go wrong. Anyway, that's about all for now.
but still a decent day.
My proline ticket is still alive as Montreal defeated Winnipeg in last nights CFL game in Winnipeg's new "Investor's Group" stadium 38-33. I have 1 W and 3 ties!
Hmm, in i09 yesterday there is this cool article about how Japanese researchers extracted a blood cell from a mouse tail and cloned it. It's very interesting to preserve endangered species. Here's the article.
After I leave the office, I'll have 3 days off over the Canada Day long weekend. Three days off. At my last job I got 3 weeks off with pay 3 times a year. Yet this is still good. Anyway, that's all for now.
