Comments on: Preparations have begun!

By: Moshe

Moshe — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:13:11 +0000

Oh boy, sincere apologies JoAnne for hijacking the thread, it was meant to be a straightforward little comment, clearly something went terribly wrong there…

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:35:21 +0000

Ok – I give up. The comments on my straight post about the SLAC Summer Institute is centering around nude beaches. So I might as well join in:

I’ve been to that beach (avec clothes) and it’s not much. What I will never tell, is precisely which male physicist I came across….it wasn’t pretty.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:24:06 +0000

Back off Johnson – I’m next in line for Vancouver!

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:49:31 +0000

Amanda. That’s funny!

(Desperately trying to drag this comment thread out of the gutter I helped take it into…..): Ah, I see, you mean like a professional dancer? Have a look at physics meets dance in this post I just uploaded.

Cheers!

-cvj

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:22:16 +0000

“a bit of a stretch, unless you have professional equipment…”

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:25:19 +0000

Hmmmm….perhaps it’s the Hawaiian gear in the photo that got people thinking about beaches while reading a post on summer schools…

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:49:52 +0000

Moshe…. in case you’re wondering… having a view of a nudist beach is not a requirement of my coming to lecture again, if you see fit to ask one day in the future!

cheers, and good luck with organising it.

-cvj

By: Moshe

Moshe — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:45:22 +0000

Sorry Clifford, will work on it… it is a bit like the ITP in SB (plus the forest).

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:00:40 +0000

Oh. I thought you meant there was a view from the lecture theatre! That would have been a very amusing story to dine out on….

-cvj

By: Moshe

Moshe — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:32:56 +0000

You did, but were not told the secret… to be honest, though the beach is extremely close to where you lectured, it is quite a steep climb down, and there is an impressive old forest there, so “overlooking” is a bit of a stretch, unless you have professional equipment… but I like the promotional angle emerging here: other schools (like SLAC’s) may have the brain trust, the budget and the tradition, but do they have a nude beach?