That is what T said after his last beamtime (dedicated period for experiments) while cleaning the beamline and the lab. He is always perfectly cleaning everything both before and after his experiments. Last time he found two cables which we had been looking for for two months.The only problem is that when he finds something he does not recognize as useful, he throws it away.
I hope I will always be able to escape from him in time ... ;)
I am trying to convince him that my house is a beamline, but it does not work....
This is a real pity...I hate house cleaning!
Merry B
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
intersting link
Ok, now that you have seen us at our best (i.e. during holidays), you will know us at our worst..ops...work!
We work/live in a research center, and research world and its inhabitants will be the main subject of this blog. Maybe that we will even be able to talk about science! (in this last case, whoever will be caught at laughing, will be properly punished...)
It is always interesting to see how people confront themselves with the research world. While working in the cleanroom, waiting for the end of a wet etching, I was reading as little bit of "Science" and found a kind of diary:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/3220
/educated_woman_the_grad_school_adventures_of_micella_phoenix_dewhyse_index/
(parent)/158
take a look!
The Merry B
We work/live in a research center, and research world and its inhabitants will be the main subject of this blog. Maybe that we will even be able to talk about science! (in this last case, whoever will be caught at laughing, will be properly punished...)
It is always interesting to see how people confront themselves with the research world. While working in the cleanroom, waiting for the end of a wet etching, I was reading as little bit of "Science" and found a kind of diary:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/3220
/educated_woman_the_grad_school_adventures_of_micella_phoenix_dewhyse_index/
(parent)/158
take a look!
The Merry B
Of rings, nanoscales, science and sociology
Should a multi-disciplinary point of view on sciences be a good incipit?
In fact, this should be the topic of this blog - science - this is what we do, or at least we try to.
If you are a scientist, or you wanted to be one in your childhood, you will understand what follows: do you remember, when in the primary school somebody asked you "what would you like to be when you are grown-up?", and you thought "I will be a chemist/biologist/physicist/..., I will discover the wonderful secrets of the world and make the difference in other people's life"? OK, this is how it was for me, and my childhood dream became reality (even if yes, I am discovering some secrets, but how they change the other people's life is still a question mark... ), and I became what I am now, perhaps not a full scientist, but working - sometime this means living, actually- in a hi-tech, high level Scientific Institution, where X-rays are created by electrons running along a ring - it's a synchrotron radiation source!
Working in science, there is something new to learn almost every day: one of the first lessons I got when I started working here, is that something exciting was missing in my romantic, childish idea of being a scientist: there is more material for a sociological analysis in a lab, than somebody that has never entered one can guess.
Some say scientists are eccentric - well, you don't know how eccentric they can be...
cigar B
In fact, this should be the topic of this blog - science - this is what we do, or at least we try to.
If you are a scientist, or you wanted to be one in your childhood, you will understand what follows: do you remember, when in the primary school somebody asked you "what would you like to be when you are grown-up?", and you thought "I will be a chemist/biologist/physicist/..., I will discover the wonderful secrets of the world and make the difference in other people's life"? OK, this is how it was for me, and my childhood dream became reality (even if yes, I am discovering some secrets, but how they change the other people's life is still a question mark... ), and I became what I am now, perhaps not a full scientist, but working - sometime this means living, actually- in a hi-tech, high level Scientific Institution, where X-rays are created by electrons running along a ring - it's a synchrotron radiation source!
Working in science, there is something new to learn almost every day: one of the first lessons I got when I started working here, is that something exciting was missing in my romantic, childish idea of being a scientist: there is more material for a sociological analysis in a lab, than somebody that has never entered one can guess.
Some say scientists are eccentric - well, you don't know how eccentric they can be...
cigar B
Monday, November 26, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
ueee ueee we are born!
One ring to rule them all,
One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all,
and in the light bind them...
Now, try to guess what we do!!!!
One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all,
and in the light bind them...
Now, try to guess what we do!!!!
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