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The demise of SSC caused the current financial crisis

The cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider was an idiot thing to do for any number of reasons. First, it still would have been the most powerful accelerator on earth, with the most luminosity. We would have found the Higgs in 1996, instead of not quite yet in 2011. We rarely get measurable quantities like […]

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2011 12 18 Brent High Energy Physics
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Strike this

SFPD sergeant Peter Thoshinsky (helmet #2197) is recorded walking the police line, ordering his officers, “If they do not do what you tell them, strike them.”

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2011 12 16 Brent Rant Comments Off on Strike this

How it goes down

Not even working for Fox can save you: I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA’s First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally […]

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2011 12 08 Brent Rant Comments Off on How it goes down

The long slow road to having nothing worth defending

The long slow road.

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2011 12 07 Brent Rant Comments Off on The long slow road to having nothing worth defending

Seasons

People speak of LA not having seasons, but it does. It’s just subtler. The pups and I ran up to the top of the trail on Lake this morning, and Pasadena is ablaze in changing leaves. Not that much different than Kentucky looked a few weeks ago. Most of the color comes from the native […]

2011 11 30 Brent Comments Off on Seasons

This is how it looks

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Everyone lives in NYC

I am definitely SOHO.

2011 11 18 Brent Comments Off on Everyone lives in NYC

First they negated the fourth, now it’s the first

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Charles P. Pierce says it better than I: Your right […]

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2011 11 15 Brent Quote of the day
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And then there was one…

Armistice day, 2011.

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A bunch of little old ladies in tennis shoes

Sidney Coleman, on his time at Caltech: Caltech, at that time was (and still is) a much smaller school than this. There were something like a thousand students, graduate and undergraduate together when I was at Caltech. Also it was out in Pasadena so it was the Caltech students, the Caltech faculty and a bunch […]

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2011 11 08 Brent Quote of the day
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Boulder is…

Boulder is San Francisco for white people.

2011 10 06 Brent Rant
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R.I.P., Steve

Your vision lessened friction in my computer life, everywhere you decided to focus your vision.  Two weeks in Europe without an iPhone reminded me of that.  MacBook Pros, iPhoto, iTunes, iPods, iPhones, Shuffles, .mac calendar, contact, keychain, and settings syncing across all these devices, etc. Thanks, and goodbye. So it goes.

2011 10 05 Brent Comments Off on R.I.P., Steve

First post

Stay tuned for pix, rants, politics, and boredom.

2011 09 26 Brent Comments Off on First post