OT: Sure to enjoy these geek pics!

From Slashdot - CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Pretty serious looking equipment. I love the photo of the guy in the huge fancy organized server room with his old CRT on a cart. I've felt like that during startups before.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

WOW!!! I don't know what else to say.

My dad worked for cern (geneva), rutherford (uk) and stanford california for most of his working life as a electronic engineer/designer , he worked on many of the accelerators. He would have seen atlas through to the end before he retired but it was delayed by 10 years!. Found this link to one of the projects he worked on ,quite cool seeing his name on the top! its heavy going, my brain didn't make it to the end! he got me into the job i'm doing and loving now!

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-5906.pdf