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  1. Oh, so primitive, one big boom. No, I'm talking about starting with basic media-based fear tactics. So many physicists tried to assuage the fears that an LHC-created singularity could pose no threat to the earth -- and I think this is precisely the wrong response to hand to the public. It should be more "bow and obey or we shall release the doom particle!" Failing that, I could prove the strange matter hypothesis and thereby threaten to create a chain reaction which converts the entire mass of the earth into a big dense blob of quark matter. Or find a quick way to irradiate the atmosphere...or...well, you see where I'm getting at here. Bombs are so 20th century.
  2. Now, don't get me wrong here, but I feel that if I can get my PhD in Physics and then get a fellowship and thereby have someone fund my research....I'm pretty sure I can manage to figure out how to take over the world. I've got some ideas in the pipeline, but I just need a couple million dollars to start it up... Yeah, you may chuckle, but you just wait. You'll see. YOU'LL ALL SEE :twisted:
  3. Unless you plan on gaming, I wouldn't invest too much on buying BOTH a desktop and a laptop. My suggestion is this: 1 Laptop 1 Monitor 1 Ext. Hard Drive 1 USB/Bluetooth Keyboard and mouse And that should be all you'll ever need. For your laptop, I'd personally push for a good quality netbook. Asus ones are widely reputed to be the best of the netbooks (btw, I'm not interested in getting into any netbook flame wars). These will run XP and likely Windows 7 when it comes out, they'll play videos very nicely, they perform very efficiently, have great battery life and portability, and for the times you gotta hunker down at home and chug out some code, just plug in the monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and you have your desktop. Of course, with netbooks, hard drive space is an issue, so get a simple cheap external for your storage. I don't know about the rest of you, but if I were starting from nothing and getting an all-purpose setup, I'd do something along these lines. Oh, I'd also like to put in a plug for tablet pc's. I loved mine in undergrad -- never had to ever ever use a notebook to take notes. The Asus T91 netbook tablet is coming out soon, but I don't know when. Won't that be the best of both worlds, eh?
  4. UIUC Nuclear Physics for me (for the next 6 years :roll: ). Awesome faculty, and I love the town. Born and raised in Chicago, but I've been schooling everywhere from New Mexico to Ireland to Hawaii, so it's about time to squat down somewhere a bit closer to home, methinks. With the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer comin? Oh hells yeah (if supercomputing is your thang). The tenant union is the best resource. I recommend lookin for something close by campus on the Urbana side (less undergrad infestation). Check the City Guide section of the forums for more on people's housing advice and opinions. Time to move back to college, woot.
  5. I'm not insinuating much about New Haven, but when I went there just to visit for a couple of days, I definitely did not get the very safe cozy feeling that the residents seem to claim (though I might have been just unlucky). Cutting through the crap, when I arrived, I had a very short distance to walk to the hotel (very close to campus), and I just about got mugged. I say "just about" because he only got out to give him my money and credit cards before a cop trolled down the street and he scrammed. Oh, and then when I toured the physics building, I talked to some professor about New Haven, and he joked about how a lot of people living off the west side of campus had been "dying of lead poisoning", if you get his meaning. Yes, I know, I was walking alone that night, and it's one thing to joke about crime near by and another to have to worry about it. Still though, it really detracted from the attractiveness of the locale as opposed to a place with good restaurants and night life sans the thrill of danger. I could do without that thrill. That being said, I'm from South Chicago, and if you like it in places like that and get by well enough, then you'll do plenty fine in New Haven. It's no better, no worse. Good lord though, the campus itself is beautiful, and of course, you feel quite safe when there.
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