Stories about a prof from University. Setting: Lyon, France.
 
Prologue: A few days ago I had a dream. I was taking an exam in crystallography and could not remember the formula for the volume of a unit cell in a crystal. I was sweating! And I thought “Where are you Monsieur Deshayes? Where are you when [...]

I’ve been reading The Naked Redhead’s musings for almost a year now. And every post of hers is a delight.
Plus now, she has this really awesome blog header which says “The Naked Redhead in ‘This is my blog, bitches!’”. I mean how can you not like a woman like that?
 
Anyway, we’re in the the midst [...]

I owe you guys a story from my trip to Savannah.
 
On the first day we got there, my friend and I went out for dinner. Well it turns out that Saturday night we stepped right in the middle of the Savannah version of Oktoberfest or some festival involving beer, live music, funnel cake and Riverside [...]

When we were in Paris, at Trocadero, admiring the Eiffel Tower, eating a chocolate crepe (for this part “we” means “I”) and taking lots of pictures, I got the urge to buy one of those brass mini towers sold by every street merchant on a 10-mile radius.
I went up to a souvenir booth and asked [...]

There’s a problem with one of the (many) servers which reside, camouflaged under a desk, in our living room.
So the blog may be down again.
 
In the meantime, if by some miracle the servers hold their positions, let me tell you how much I love this Indian summer thing. Oh boy! A lot. I love it [...]

A few weeks ago, the weekend after I took this picture,
 

 
we went to Ottawa to meet a friend. Luckily the snow stopped but was replaced by rain and fog. Perfect time to go to a drive-through park! And I do mean this in a non-ironic way, we couldn’t have picked a better time.
The park [...]

Or better said, the assembly of an awesome lamp.
 
We bought it from Venice, for 10 euros. Quite expensive when you realize it’s just some pieces of plastic AND that you have to figure out how to put it together. On the other hand, you might consider that part of the fun, and then, for the [...]

I am so so tired these days… I was telling myself I should go to bed early, but yesterday I wasted an hour or so reading about whether or not going to Times Square for New Year’s Eve is a good idea. Turns out it isn’t mainly because of the cold and lack of places [...]

Did I tell you about my trip to Savannah? It was my first taste of Southern US. And it wasn’t sweet at all.
I had heard such wonderful things about it. The nice trees, the Forsyth fountain, I couldn’t wait to walk around, enjoy the food, maybe buy some souvenirs…
 
But what can I tell you, it [...]

What lead me to read about Schrodinger, parallel universes and such was this piece of writing in The Science Creative Quarterly.
To me it was a delight reading it.
 
Erwin loved the cat that Niels had given him. Such a lovely cat. He would play records for his cat while he thought and studied deep into the [...]