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From: geoff on 31 Jul 2010 19:53 In message <slrni58jb7.4es.Ivan.Reid(a)smtp.orangehome.co.uk>, Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid(a)ivan.fsnet.co.uk> writes >On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:18:49 +0100, Mike Smith <notmike(a)invalid.not> > wrote in <i31bca$sra$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>: >> (2) Frodsham in Cheshire is a nice place to live (bar the flying rally >> drivers) with a selection of fine country pubs and there is a nuclear >> accelerator of some description in the vicinity, cannot for the life of me >> remember enough to gurgle it for details but you probably know all about it. >> On the http://www.sciencefile.org physics forum the moderator appears to >> have some connection (for one thing they live in Frodsham) so might be worth >> checking if (a) you wish to remain in the UK and (b) you fancy accelerating >> particles for a living. > > Cheshire? That sounds suspiciously like Daresbury. <google-earths> >Yes, that'd be it. </g-e> > Better brush up on your Alice in Wonderland for that one -- geoff
From: bobharvey on 1 Aug 2010 05:57 On 31 July, 00:05, bobharvey <roberthar...(a)my-deja.com> wrote: > On 30 July, 20:34, "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.R...(a)ivan.fsnet.co.uk> > wrote:> Then I lost my job. > > Bummer. > If'n you fancy a wbo jetting round t' whirled fixing huge motor > drives, I know where there are 4 going. No chance of getting > published, or famous, mind. Or, indeed, anysheddi who wants a technical wbo.
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 1 Aug 2010 09:05 ...then hopefully the third is the failed kitchen fluorescent light tube I just replaced after it got all flickery last night. I seemed to have got the last one in the store (Focus) so I was terribly worried about breaking it as I shopped in eTcso and brought it home. -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: Richard Bos on 1 Aug 2010 11:18 "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid(a)ivan.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > Firstly I lost my news-swerver. Which means I've also lost all my > unread posts because there's no way to synchronise between the departed > Brunel swerver and this one I'm test-driving. In such cases, I've always asked it to go back to roughly where I'd left off, and never mind the few that get lost in the cracks. > Then I lost my job. Argh. I know what that's like, and it's not nice. Richard
From: Hog on 1 Aug 2010 18:40
Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid(a)ivan.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > ...then hopefully the third is the failed kitchen fluorescent > light tube I just replaced after it got all flickery last night. I > seemed to have got the last one in the store (Focus) so I was > terribly worried about breaking it as I shopped in eTcso and brought > it home. Well I hope that purged it! Jolly bad news about the job, any chance of staying involved with CERN from another angle? I enjoyed the little snippets and was rather hoping to see you make the most significant ever UKRM post. -- Hog |