Galactic Burritos and the Physics Museum

 

This morning I was working away on something when suddenly I realized we were supposed to order our Greek pastries by yesterday. Argh! I'd only had two months' warning! I frantically emailed the Greek Orthodox church, and to my surprise they responded right away and said they could probably help me, what did I want? All I really wanted were "Galactic Burritos," but I'm not sure how to spell the actual word, so I took a stab at it, and they said no problem, one order is $14 and includes four pieces. So hopefully when I go to pick it up on the 23rd, it's the right thing... but in a sense, is there any wrong thing when it comes to Greek bakery items?

It was a warm but rainy day today, so I asked my colleague if she wanted to walk outside or go to the Physics Museum. In all these years I hadn't even realized we had a Physics Museum on campus, but now that the shuttle drops me off in front of the Physics building, I have had to run inside and use the bathroom, and I saw a sign saying it was on the second floor. As my colleague and I walked toward the Physics building, she suddenly remembered she had been to it with her kids when they were younger. (One just got married.) So we entered the building and found this model of the Ice Cube Project:

What is the Ice Cube Project? It's a neutrino detector at the South Pole. If you want more details, maybe Google it. Apparently it works well, too, because I've seen maps of space they have created from the data they got from it.

The museum itself was full of fun, interactive displays with magnets and circuits and all sorts of fun stuff. This is a Tesla something or other. I loved how it glowed.

There were a few displays we couldn't seem to get to work, despite following the instructions. As we were almost at the end, an actual faculty member came in to see what we were up to. (We had been the only ones in there.) He quickly ascertained that we were two harmless, middle-aged staff members, and he even helped us to get the ones we didn't understand to work. Anyway, that was my big adventure for the day, because Travalon and I thought about going swimming after work, but it's so nice on our porch - and this might be our last chance to sit out on it - that we just hung out on it all evening.

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