it's crawfish season

alleycat race awesome

After Jorge's General Relativity lecture on Friday evening I raced off on my bike towards downtown for Andy's first BR AlleyCat bike race, which is sort of like a scavenger hunt via bicycle. The warm, clear night was perfect for this, and I loved crossing paths with the other cyclists, everyone zipping around in urgent pursuit of their secret agendas. I also realized how much cool stuff there is downtown that I haven't yet properly explored! Here's what Andy had to say about it on his blog:

( 1st b.r.ALLEY CAT A SUCCESS!!!! )

Afterwards we all gathered at Chelsea's for many beers and delicious foods. A good time was had. I'm looking forward to next month's event ("know your bridges and waterways"!).

Also: while at Chelsea's, I saw an excellent train go by, entirely composed of Kansas City Southern grainers (gondolas), a perfect train to hop...

delorean time machine

Any DeLorean owners out there?

The LIGO arms are plenty long enough to get up to 88 miles per hour when driving on the access roads beside them. I propose that you drive your DeLorean down the road and we use our instrument to measure resulting perturbations of the spacetime metric.

deal?