The Portal is Active Commander...

Welledy welledy welledy ladies, gents and any amorphous blobs which maybe reading this on their atrophied hands (we know who you are *GLARES*).

Now has two days of work-fest under me belt. And yes, its as awesome as was promised apart from one tiny problem. It would appear that the things required for me to start what I need to do haven't quite arrived yet. Well poop.

But fear not, Danger Supervisor* is here to save the day! I has problem to solve. Said problem involves them not having done a calculation which would be useful. Danger student** has a purpose and a plan. But danger student has a slight hitch. Danger student doesn't know a flippin' thing about linear accelerators, ion sources, beam focusing (think light but lenses just don't cut it, atleast not glass one, magnetic on the other hand...) and beam dynamics. Now we're getting somewhere. Commence 2 day read-a-thon, with something resembling 400 pages of the finest literature the Accelerators, beams and plasma physics world can bring together.

Danger Student now things he might have something resembling a chance at doing this shiznit. Soon to come, Danger Student's photoes, starring:
Himself
His Room
His Office (Oooh shiney you say...)
His New Office (the other was alas so shiney some other blighter piked it)
His Supervisor, otherwise known as Kargoth

Then there was food, and it was good, very very good. Om nom nom!

*Seriously, he's awesome, he showed me particle accelerators without batting an eyelid
**Note - May not infact contain any danger. Unless poked ala beehive.

P.S. I think I found a /b/tard. God help us all.

A purpose, we don't need no stinking purpose!

Welcome ladies and gentles!

This has a purpose, I assure you. This humble*, simple** little*** man**** has been chosen to go to CERN this Summer (2008 for time watchers), and so I've decided to make this log of the comings, goings, and otherwise excitements that may or may not happen there.

A little bit o'background. This is me

I know, I know, I'm too pretty for the camera, but that's just me for you. I shall be spending my time here, working for this man, Dr Detlef Kuchler, working on finishing the front end of Linac 4, one of the linear injectors of the LHC. Its going be awesome, honest.

Being as I won't be there for another week and a half, this is it for now, but I assure, ve shall return, hopefully more bagel stuffed than present.

* - Hehehe, yeah right
** - I mean as in simple pleasures in life, not as in 'Korgoth smash rocks together to make fire' simple.

*** - More medium sized than anything else.
**** - All investigations point here, but you never know...