40m boys

At lunch today I saw none other than Dan Busby walking by, on his way to the machine shop to build some parts for his fuel-cell research. Of course we shanghaied him into helping us transport a drill press across campus. We got this rare photo of a sequence of students of the LIGO 40m Interferometer: me (not grimacing appropriately), Rob Ward, and Dan Busby; and Rana on the right.

It was great being back at Caltech today. The cold and gloomy weather even cleared up, revealing the warm, sunny climate Southern California's supposed to have. Saw lots of my Caltech colleagues, ate delicious food (lunch was a caramelized apple, bacon, shrimp, and gorgonzola cheese pizza liberally doused in tabasco sauce, from the caltech cafeteria), drank good coffee, etc.