I decided to clean my keyboard today, and guess what I noticed: the two most dirty (and thus the two most used) buttons are “)” and “?”. Apparently I write a lot of happy smilies, and ask a lot of questions. Funny, eh? 
Keyboard reading
August 28th, 2007New job
June 7th, 2007About a couple of months ago I was hanging around at the Niels Bohr Institute and I accidentally heard a rumour that The Dark Cosmology Centre might soon be looking for a student helper. Without hesitation I hurried upstairs to the office of the centre’s head of communication, and five minutes later I found myself in the middle of a job interview. Apparently they would soon be needing someone to help them with their web pages, so I tried to convince them that I was their girl. I think I did it pretty good. Well, today they called me in to tell me I got the job. Hurray!
I will be making web pages for special occasions (yearly events, anniversaries, conferences, etc.). I will start by making a page for The Internal Year of Astronomy 2009. I don’t really know any details about the work I’ll be doing yet, but I am so looking forward to be working with something relevant to my studies. Also, I will be getting my own (shared) office with a desk and computer and everything. In one of the university’s buildings, mark you. I am so happy!
Friday 13th
October 13th, 2006With only two minutes of the day to go I think it is safe to say, that I have survived this Friday the 13th. I’ve had to take my precautions though. For example I haven’t been near the back yard all day since fierce killer-squirrels are using it as hunting field at the moment (something to do with the fact that it is fall and we have a ripe walnut tree). I didn’t wish to gamble with the possibility of me looking like a delicious walnut.
Today both my courses officially ended which means I don’t have to feel guilty about not going to the university the next three weeks. Now I just need to prepare for my exam – the one thing I simply hate when oral. Well, that and squirrels. Oral squirrels are the worst.
Food advice
September 4th, 2006I am ill. Today has been absolutely horrible. I’ve been lying in bed most of the time wallowing in self-pity. And since I am probably going to die soon, I have decided to give away my few golden advices on food:
- Burgers taste best when they are eaten upside down.
- Chocolate is good. Stout is good. Chocolate stout is very good!
- Food generally tastes better if it belongs to someone else.
- If a course doesn’t have a name, think twice before eating it.
- Chocolate and sausage goes surprisingly well together.
- Cheeseburgers are the best remedy against hangover nausea.
- Everything looks better with a cherry on top.
No, you are the banana!
June 20th, 2006Today my sister and I conducted an experiment combining brainwash of children and the common acceptance of bananas. The idea was simply to try and convince a three-year old, Daniel, that he was a banana (background research to be found here). We might have started out a bit rash by plainly starting to call him a banana. It quickly became clear, though, that that didn’t work, as he continued to vocalize a somewhat distinct “No!” for a three-year old. Fortunately his determination started to waver a bit when his own mother started to call him a banana and the before so confident denial of being so became more of a muffled grunt. After about a quarter of an hour there was an 80% chance of the boy responding to the name Bananiel. Had we only had more time, we do not doubt we could have successfully convinced him, that he indeed was a banana.
Somewhere out there somebody must surely be able to use this piece of information to something. I just can’t think of where, who or what.
Universe controller
February 5th, 2006Tonight I was walking around on the sub floors of the university (don’t ask why) where all the research goes on. Being weekend most of the doors were closed, but in one of the corridors I managed to bump into something very interesting anyway. It was some sort of control device and what first caught my eye was the button labeled “control for gravity”. Very interesting indeed! But what really made me gape was another button (shown on the picture) marked “Universe type selector: 1 open, 2 balanced, 3 closed”. What the hell is going on down there?
296/375
November 29th, 2005What do you do when you want to make delicious chocolate truffles but had a chocolate frenzy on the way home from the grocery store and therefore don’t have enough chocolate for a full portion but still want to use every single gram of it? You bring out your TI-89 Titanium calculator and convert every ingredient to a 296/375 portion chocolate truffles.
Despite its cool vector function I don’t think my calculator has ever felt so useful before.
