Happy Birthday Tom! May you become en-jobified soon, and have an excellent rest of the year.

Make the next four days count. They turn on the Large Hadron Collider on September 10th.

Why should we make the next 4 days count? Is the collider supposed to do something bad? t edit I *did* read the article linked, and I guess I don't know enough about physics to understand it all, but the collider sounded like a *good* thing, not a doom thing.

I think it's supposed to make tiny black holes that will EXPAND AND EAT OUR PLANET, SOLAR SYSTEM, ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

Except not.

Oh, Tom. That's so sucky. I hope you have a happy day, despite the biblical weather.

So, we have people on the board who take Xanax, right? How quickly does it kick in? I need to figure out when to start drugging poor Toto for the biblical weather. Poor guy is gonna be SO freaked out.

I *did* read the article linked, and I guess I don't know enough about physics to understand it all, but the collider sounded like a *good* thing, not a doom thing.

It's mostly a joke. I expect that, much like the fears of the first atomic bomb test setting the atmosphere on fire, the fears about the LHC are utterly unfounded.

However, they are trying to recreate the Big Bang (in a way...). There's no potential for anything there to go horribly, horribly wrong. Nope. No chance at all.

I think it's supposed to make tiny black holes that will EXPAND AND EAT OUR PLANET, SOLAR SYSTEM, ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

I totally didn't comprehend that from the article. I am a total physics moron.

So thank you for translating from physics-ese into Teppy-moron.

It's mostly a joke. I expect that, much like the fears of the first atomic bomb test setting the atmosphere on fire, the fears about the LHC are utterly unfounded.

Oh, THAT'S a comfort. Now I'm thinking "what are the unexpected 'poison the earth and give a bunch of army brats cancer thirty years later' effects of a super colider?"

I didn't read that specific article, but I've picked up random bits here and there. Physicists are not worried that my ASSCAP story will happen. Well, there's probably at least one out there who does, but he or she probably has other issues.

It's kind of a running joke, I believe.

Short summation: [link]

Grrrrrr. There was supposed to be a meeting today from 8:30-3 for the local Education Association site reps. I pulled my grumpy self out of bed, got ready and drove to the meeting site and no one was there! After 30 minutes and several unproductive phone calls to try to find out something I drove back home.

Why would they change venue or cancel a meeting and not tell anyone? Just one more indicator that the entire education system in this county is totally screwed up. No wonder the teacher contract for this year is such crap, the representation probably didn't show up for the meeting and the school board just did whatever they wanted.

So, we have people on the board who take Xanax, right? How quickly does it kick in?

I just started it Thursday. I'm not sure how much is the effect of the drug and how much is psychosomatic so far. Maybe an hour?

Cracked.com has an article about 5 Ways the World Could End or something like that. The LHC is (or would be) responsible for most of them.