I know what you did last summer

Here we have the preprint of the first major paper of the PhD,

Nesting of electron and hole Fermi surfaces in non-superconducting BaFe₂P₂

n. b. I promise this is the real deal and not some April fools joke, despite being posted on the arxiv on the 1st

Good use of LaTeX

When I was an undergraduate, my mother asked how things were progressing academically. I handed her a lab report that had just been assessed along with demonstrator comments.

In retrospect 'Good use of LaTeX for an engaging presentation' is a bit of weird thing to write, even if you know about typesetting.

A Buckfast Supplier in Bristol

Something that every seasoned academic should know is where to get hold of a bottle of `Buckfastleigh Tonic Wine` in their town of study.

CARPENTER'S CONVENIENCE STORE on the Corner of Gloucester Rd. and Ashley Down Rd. sells for a fairly reasonable 6-8 pounds a bottle (I don't remember the exact price)

J. Wrng. Sci. now online

The first volume of the Journal of Wrong Science is now online. I present to you A SIMULATION OF PLANETARY MOTION - J. Wrng. Sci. 1 (2010) 12

A day in the life ...

From 'At Swim Two Birds' by Flann O'Brien

Nature of daily regime or curriculum: Nine-thirty a.m. rise, wash, shave and proceed to breakfast; this on insistence of my uncle, who was accustomed to regard himself as the sun of the household, recalling all things to wakefulness on his own rising.

10.30. Return to bedroom.

12.00. Go, weather permitting, to College, there conducting light conversation on diverse topics with friends, or with acquaintances of casual character.

2.00 pm. Go home for lunch.

3.00. Return to bedroom. Engage in spare-time literary activity, or read.

6.00. Have tea in company with my uncle, attending in a perfunctory manner to the replies required by his talk.

7.00 Return to bedroom and rest in darkness.

8.00. Continue resting or meet acquaintances in open thoroughfares or places of public resort.

11.00. Return to bedroom.

Minutiae: No. of cigarettes smoked, average 8.3; glasses of stout or other comparable intoxicant, av. 1.2; times to stool, av. 2.65; hours of study, av. 1.4; spare-time or recreative pursuits, 6.63 circulating.

Physical Noise

Trying to think of as many physics based tunes as possible - came up with 5. Ideas?

Thanks to Brian and Dan who came up with British Sea Power (Atom) and They Might be Giants

Hmm seems like the service does not exist any longer ...

What would Jesus do?

Got this email a while back from a work colleague of mine. Made me laugh.

Subject: GraceX Machine

Szup Bruvvaz, I require your advise...

There are some emission files I forgot to take from the GraceX computer, those
named
20060927_****, 20060928_**** and 20060929_****

What would Jesus do?
(I've searched the Good Book for references to FTP, but turned up none. But then
again it was the King James Version, so I'm stumped.)

Brian