This is going to be a short post where I confess my recent troubles with keeping everything going on at full speed in my life, while the workload constantly grows.

I believe it is a temporary problem -I have experienced the same situation in the past- but I feel swamped by a few things that have piled up. So today, rather than reading on a new physics result or a new article on the arxiv, you are going to find here a list of the things I am not attending in order to write this short post. In random order:

1. I have a undergraduate thesis to correct.
2. I also need to write a reference letter for him, by next Sunday.
3. There is a 100 pages paper in internal review by CDF and I am a member of the review committee.

"Why didn't these people follow their true vocation ending in a white-collar office, rather than breaking the balls to whom does Physics ?"

(Anonymous physics researcher from unnamed experiment, upon experiencing endless strings of meaningless objections and inane requests for wording changes  to a paper about to get sent for publication by a bunch of less worthy colleagues).

... And there would be a lot to say about the subject, but I will save it for another post.

Courtesy gizmodo:



The typo we had been all waiting for. And there is already who fantasizes about the need for a Large Hardon Condom, to play it safe...

Sorry for the reblogging, but this time I did not resist...