Chemo. Fatigue. Broke. Blah, blah, blah. Although I had a fairly nice weekend away from the house, which I think I need more often.
I just wanted to pop up, say hi, and send this on to my brainiac friends out there...
The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game.
I just wanted to pop up, say hi, and send this on to my brainiac friends out there...
The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game.
The rules are simple. Take a drink of your favorite beverage whenever one of the following occurs:
- A proton crosses the border between Switzerland and France.
- A magnet quench in a superconducting magnet causes all the liquid helium to boil away.
- A Higgs boson is detected (2 drinks).
- Scientists learn the secrets of the universe and go insane (2 drinks).
- A miniature black hole forms (2 drinks if it absorbs Switzerland).
- Strange matter is created (weird, unusual or eccentric matter doesn't count).
- A petabyte of data is generated.
- Someone sings the chorus of the LHC Rap.
- The Super Proton Synchrotron reaches 300 gigavolts (2 drinks if it hits 400 GeV).
- The Compact Muon Solenoid finds something that completely alters our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
- Flight 19 suddenly appears over Geneva.
- Particle superpartners are found to have natural supersymmetry.
- An intern confuses muons with gluons.
- The experiment goes awry and someone ends up with superpowers.
- Aliens show up and make us turn off the LHC before we implode reality.
- Scientists go back in time (2 drinks if they create a paradox).
- Someone says "Big Bang."
- Particles crash into each other (2 drinks if there are Batman-tyle visual sound effects, like "Pow!" and "Zap!" when it happens; feel free to construct your own).
- Someone says, "What's a hadron?"
- Scientists access another dimension (2 drinks if that dimension is occupied entirely by Donna Summer impersonators; 3 drinks if denizens of said dimension eat the scientists; note that these two conditions are not mutually exclusive).
- Someone on TV questions the amount of money spent to build the LHC.
- Someone on TV worries that the LHC will destroy the world.
- The world ends (drink whatever you have left).
- Scientists prove string theory (3 drinks because we'll all pretty much have to take their word for it).
- Someone uses the term "beam pipe" in a pickup line.
- Mood:tired


Comments
If you want to crawl over here some weekday and lie on the sofa and read our books and comics and wireless internets, you're always welcome. (well, unless I get the flu or something. You know what I mean.) I'm not exactly scintillating company either, but this is why Paletz and I came up with the concept of "nap dates".
Male Scientist: "Well, follow me into this broom closet and I'll show you..."
Also, SUCK.
Also, does this mean you will get a brand new hair color?
(Not meaning to offend--I've known a number of people to go through chemo, and it was often the one thing they would hold on to as a tangible positive: "well, maybe I'll end up a redhead..." and in one case, that's exactly what happened.)
As to my hair...the only sign that the chemo is affecting it is that it;s thinning out, and we think that it's growing a bit lighter. The last time I went through this, I lost all the gray in my hair, so I'm hoping that trend continues ;-)