Wishes and propositions for 2008 January 3, 2008
Posted by dorigo in personal, physics.trackback
I wish 2008 will indeed be the starting year of LHC, and I wish I will be able to run an analysis job on real CMS DATA!, possibly without segmentation faults and core dumps…
I wish Marco’s graduation will be smooth and I wish we will produce a CMS document describing a full-fledged analysis of the tth search in the missing Et + multijet channel.
I wish this blog will continue to be read and appreciated by whomever wants to keep up to date with recent results in experimental particle physics, and I wish I will continue to have a sufficient amount of 
I wish Ezio and I will do a good job as coordinators of the physics meetings of the CMS-Padova group, and I wish I will see many good analyses starting within our group.
I wish I will attend more marriages in 2008 than in 2007, and I wish I will attend fewer funerals. I wish I won’t be a protagonist in any of those occasions.
And now, a few propositions.
I am going to lose those ten pounds I have put up last year.
I am going to use ten seconds more than I would think necessary on each slide I show, whatever the content.
I am going to drive ten miles per hour slower than I would find acceptable, wherever I am going.
I am going to spend ten minutes less in front of the computer at home every day.
I am going to wake up ten minutes earlier on weekdays, and ten minutes later on weekends.
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Good luck with the resolutions! I never make resolutions.
Hah Kea… Me neither! In fact, they are propositions, not resolutions. I don’t suppose you mistrust my English that much, do you ?
A proposition is a long way from becoming a resolution…
Cheers,
T.
” I am going to drive ten miles per hour slower than I would find acceptable, wherever I am going”
That’s un-Italian.
Luckily, you know it isn’t going to happen…..
Hi Who,
true, however my “acceptable” speed is usually 20 miles per hour faster than what others find normal… So this is in the direction of a partial reduction of the gap with the rest of the world…
… And I think I will try to make it happen in fact. Two weeks ago I lost a 24-years-old friend in a car accident. These things make one reconsider one’s behavior.
Cheers,
T.