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Happy Birthday, lalouve! Wishing you every blessing for today and the coming year.

Phallic Colliders and other Amusements

Last night, we had the best freudian slip student mistake in class. I had been asking the students to come up with interesting topics, in groups, and there is a group of nice geeky young men at the back. One of them volunteered that he thought a good topic would be the Large Hardon (sic) Collider and whether it was really going to blow up the world.

I shall send him a link from beable this morning which relates directly to the question has the large hadron collider destroyed the world yet?

Check out the source code - it's worth it :)

I am Bereft

Clio Dec 1993 - Sept 11, 2008



My dear little cat Clio went in for dental surgery this morning, investigating some swelling in her mouth. When she was under anaesthetic, they discovered she had a massive tumour in her mouth. Late this afternoon, she was euthanized while I held her in my arms. Even if we'd found the tumour earlier, the outcome would have been the same.

I am in shock - there was I thinking "oh, poor Clio, an abscess tooth, but now she'll be so much better" and then... she's gone. I can't believe I'm not going to hear her lovely little chirrup of greeting again, or feel her little warm body curled up against me at night, or see her beautiful green eyes. I know you probably think I'm all about the dogs, but I loved my little Cliocat and I'm going to miss her, terribly.