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It occurs to me that crocheting and physics have a great deal in common. In the notation of standardized-test-style analogies,
(crochet patterns):(equations)::(crocheted project):(physics)
Crochet patterns are to equations as the crocheted project is to physics.
 

I used the scientific method, and now I look like the Joker. (Why so serious?) The whole sob story can be found below.
 

This morning, I checked my mailbox and found a CD in there. It turns out to be the abstract list from the Nuclear Structure 2008 conference, but I, for a moment, actually thought it was a CD of FRIB-related songs. Wouldn't that have been cool?
 

Cold pyrotechnics
Rushing liquid nitrogen
Fills SeGA dewars

The sun is setting
Even though it's summertime
I am still at school

So, Pulse of te Planet is going to air three snippets of things I recorded over a year's time. This is the one I like. It will air on August 20th.  

A friend pointed this out to me, but it's pretty funny.  

To all of my peers who began working here on the July start date:
Happy n-th anniversary!
(where $n \in \mathbb{Z}$ and $n > 0$)

I'm a second-year now! Where's the Chamber of Secrets?

In the atrium this morning, there was a meeting of the get-FRIB-in-Michigan committee which was televised by the university. Since it was so crowded in there, four or five of us watched it live on my computer, streamed from wmsu.org (the university's televised-event website). The recorded version will be available starting Wednesday, so I'll probably watch it again so I can see it with a faster frame rate. (I'm intrigued to see what exactly the university president did with the marble nuclei.)

I've heard people say "the NSCL," and I've heard people say just "NSCL"; likewise with "GSI" and "the GSI." So which one is it? Here we present the results of a literature Wikipedia search on the topic of "The Definite Article and Fragmentation Facilities" (see below).