CERN Love » 2010 http://www.cernlove.org/blog where physics and life collide Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:53:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Winter shutdown http://www.cernlove.org/blog/2009/12/winter-shutdown/ http://www.cernlove.org/blog/2009/12/winter-shutdown/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:00:49 +0000 lots-o-love http://www.cernlove.org/blog/?p=1198 A frosted Globe of Science and Innovation
A quiet Christmas

A quiet Christmas

The winter shutdown has begun. CERN closes its doors, turns off the heat, and stops doing physics for two full weeks, starting today. And CERN Love will do the same.

It’s time to say good-bye to 2009 — an epic year — and prepare ourselves for the next stage of CERN craziness.  We here at CERN Love have appreciated all your support and willingness to laugh a bit at a place which we are truly lucky to be associated with, but one which is pretty fucking weird.  We’ll be on holidays ourselves, trying to party as hard as our colleagues… and it appears we won’t be missing much here at the lab →

The LHC is expected to come back to life near Valentine’s Day/Chinese New Year, 2010 (that is 14 February for those of you who are neither consumers of greeting cards printed in China nor printers of greeting cards printed in China).  Don’t worry, CERN Love is expected to come back to life much sooner, around 6 January, shortly after work begins again at CERN.

CERN Love would like to extend our heartfelt season’s greetings to you and yours.  As a small gift to you, we attach a gallery of pictures from current and past winters in Geneva (including Fête de l’Escalade) and CERN.

Love,

CERN Love

Christmas tree in Geneva Lights decorate a fountain in Geneva Icy-blue lighted windows in Geneva Christmas tree in Geneva Elaborate chocolate cauldrons for l'Escalade, celebrating the defence of the city in 1602 Embers of a bonfire in front of the cathedral during l'Escalade, the firemen were cooking sausages Candles arrayed in a star in one of Geneva's squares Candles decorate a Geneva square, where permanent lighted tiles express greetings in many languages Chess pieces snowed under in the Parc des Bastions An unconventional Christmas tree with clustered lights CERN fence at sunset Snowy vineyards from the terrace of Restaurant 2 View toward the Jura Mountains from Building 30 Patterns in snowy parking lots The official CERN vehicles are white, blending with the snow Traveling from the Prevessin site to the Meyrin site Frozen slope inside the ISR area. Snow collects on parts stored along a CERN road Dancing Shiva doesn't dance fast enough to keep the snow off. Building 40 will see a lot of action next year A frosted Globe of Science and Innovation Celebrate your last coffee of the year with a little panettone ]]> http://www.cernlove.org/blog/2009/12/winter-shutdown/feed/ 0