Grumpy Gamer LHC

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Mar 18, 2010 quarter to eleven pm

If you're like me, you probably worry about the temperature of the superfluid helium cooled superconducting magnets that line the 27 kilometer Large Hadron Collider located somewhere in the country of Europe.

But you can stop worrying, as I have, and just go to the new Cooldown Status Page to get up to the minute live temperature readings. If you notice any anomalies I'm sure there is number to call, but I feel pretty safe knowing that Alice is on duty in sector 12. That is until that backstaber Atlas from sector 81 decides he wants her job and start spreading rumors. Atlas is a jerk.

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Why should we bother about the LHC? We will recognize serious problems without the status page ;).
But maybe we can get some information about Atlas. It seems like he doesn't even work there: http://hcc.web.cern.ch/HCC/team.php

Hey,

eveybody worries about the cooldown. If you want to see what's going inside:
http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.php?usr=LHC3

Greetings from a physicist (working for ATLAS (-; )

I notice there's a "BRAN count" reading. Can I use this info to plan my diet?

Is "country of Europe" meant to be ironic?

Pretty sure that it's not ironic, he's from the US after all ;-P
Anyways, gotta get back into my leather trouser before I leave my beer-tent ...

I just hope my wooden shoes will be able to carry me quickly across the tulip fields when the black hole has swallowed Switzerland and started devouring the Netherlands!

Perhaps I'll find refuge in a windmill.

don't forget to bring along some gouda cheese, it would be silly to starve to death before the black hole ends

Yes... I hate rumors too ¬¬

The correct spelling and pronunciation of Europe for Americans is Yurp. Anything more complicated can overheat their brains and prevent them thinking of new places to invade.

Hey, Ron, why don't you just make a game using this plot. Something like Monkey Island 7: LHC Meltdown... Starring: Dr. Fred Edison, Guybrush Threepwood and Ricky Martin as Mr. Dead, who wants to take over the world! Ha, ha, ha. @_@

Ron, you'd think that people would realize the hints you're giving out about the REAL secret of monkey island. After all, if they don't connect this to the reactor underneath Maniac Mansion, they won't notice the... oh, wait, is this a public forum?

No, Ron, what I worry about is that you don't have the balls to confirm the existence (or inexistence) of a PC version for Deathspank. Who's the real jerk?.

(not me)

Maybe he can't say anything because EA or Hothead told him not to. He has been very quiet about this.

(now who is the jerk)

The jerk is definitely Steve Martin.

Like most of his films it starts well enough but then dies a horrible and protracted death about three quarters of the way through. Those of his films which escape this fate do so only by dying a horrible and protracted death during production, saving those innocents who might otherwise have ruined an evening out by going to watch them.

You call it lack-of-nuts, I call it NDA ;).

Europe is not a country, Ron. And the LHC is located in Switzerland. Where the real scientists work, the ones who use their skills to do something useful, not just program games.

Interesting; when I read the 'country of Europe', I laughed out loud, because it's a funny joke, and Ron is a funny guy.

You, Johnny Seedwalker, did not get the joke.

orlly? I just hope Europeans don't share your same sense of humor.

I heard Alice likes to do it with three-headed monkeys.

Im pretty sure the whole LHC thing is just a marketing move from Valve.

You know, they are gonna say there was a problem, that everything is gonna be destroyed and such, big tremble, humming sound, and then a huge hologram announcing Episode 3.
And fire-works.

Maybe Switzerland gets destroyed in the procces, but you know, everyone will be talking about Episode 3.

ROFLMFAO!!!

After working on the Superconducting Super Collider, I came to understand that the odds of the accelerator causing a cataclysmic event are infinitesimal...about the same odds as an official Lucasfilm Zak McKracken sequel.

In (un)related news...I think about you every time I pass a Chevron station and see signage announcing "Cars Love TechRon" !

It gets colder than space! That just blows my mind.

I'm also a fan of this tracking page: http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

I'm a physicist working at CERN, and I grew up with Monkey Island. Looking forward to DeathSpank.

Dilbert developed this week a funny device that looks like coming from Guybrush world. You can take a look at the strip here:
http://dilbert.com/strips/
is the one of march 22

Make another total annihilation kingdoms ^^

No. Just no.

Tomorrow will LHC will attempt the first collisions at 7 TeV, another benchmark for the highest energy yet achieved.

But some of us have the theory that the collider is sabotaging itself from the future!

Europe is not a country. That is all.

You are right.

Where's your traditional April Fool's joke, Ron? This is very uncharacteristic of you.

Take a moment to view the nude artwork displayed by Nina Meixner of Hinsdale, Illinois on her web site. She is a very original artist who uses a mirror and other reflective devices to capture her own body parts. Some of her work is quite graphic, but it is all so original that I was delighted. I feel it is done tastefully and with a sense of Joie de Vive!

I love her work -- especially the totally nude self-portraits. She is a highly original and daring artist.

Hinsdale, Illinois "artist" Nina Meixner is a self-promoting cunt who is a nude model. I actually painted her in my studio and she demanded three times the money I offered to pay her. She has now decided "she" is an artist so is painting nude portraits of herself in the most lewd and disgusting positions. Nina, get your head out from between your legs! Nina Meixner's gallery should be x-rated and banned!

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