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By: Tales From The Industry, V | Cosmic Variance

Tales From The Industry, V | Cosmic Variance — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:17:29 +0000

[...] You’ll recall that it has scientists as characters, and aspects of scientist’s lives are on display. There’s particle physics and cosmology (the areas within which the scientists work)….. the non-scientist is in the music industry, and there are lots of intermeshings of these careers, and approaches to life. There’s jealousy, love, hatred, suspicion, all that good stuff…. Oh, and there’s Disco…which probably has something to do with an earlier party I told you about. [...]

By: Tales From The Industry, II | Cosmic Variance

Tales From The Industry, II | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:49:16 +0000

[...] It was in the lovely Hollywood Hills home of….. Actually, I don’t know if I should say, as I don’ t know if it is appropriate to do so. So I won’t as it does not matter. I’ll start again. It was in the lovely Hollywood Hills home of a patron of the Arts, specializing in Theatre, who has produced rather a lot of interesting work in the city, I learned. Gathered together for the evening was a very interesting collection of people. (It would have been even more interesting had the Hollywood Christmas parade traffic not nixed a couple of others… It made me 40 minutes late and I only live 20 minutes away….). First and foremost among the present were my friends Oliver Mayer, the playwright and USC School of Theatre professor, and the actress Marlene Forte . Marlene was going to do a 15 minute excerpt from a new play by Oliver. There to watch was our host, along with another actor and writer Marco Greco, another actor or two (can’t recall the names), and some other friends of the host (who I think have also produced plays and films). The last group was the owner of a well known Hollywood nightclub and his assistant. I’ve forgotten their names too. (This is is why I’m not in that business. I’d offend so many people at networking parties by not remembering their names……) [...]

By: Dissident

Dissident — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:06:11 +0000

…and that’s when you tell your most attractive interlocutor/tress that the two of you “should get physical”, resulting in decoupling.

Just kidding. Any similarities with the Dissident’s own past experiences of parties are purely coincidental. No, really!

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:24:34 +0000

“Even so, confusing the non-physicists might have been entertaining.”

Actually, I find it much more entertaining to try to engage non-physicists. Confusing people with jargon from one’s own field (whatever it is) is far too easy and rapidly loses its entertainment value. Perhaps I’m just getting old and boring.

If I thought that showing up as a physics joke (or whatever) would get people interested in finding out more, I’d be in that costume in a flash, and serially visiting costume parties the whole night. But no… it does not seem to work that way. People just trot out the “I was no good at physics in high school”, and your conversation’s dead.

Cheers,

-cvj

By: Dissident

Dissident — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:19:40 +0000

Could a Paulis-style exclusion principle be at work here? “Two physicists can not occupy the same Halloween party”…

Even so, confusing the non-physicists migh have been entertaining. You know, make their head spin by insisting that you refuse to commute, such being the nature of your algebra. Granted, after a few remarks of that nature, you may find yourself turned into a soliton…

By: Clifford

Clifford — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:12:30 +0000

Dissident… that would have been great…. but nobody would have got the joke. I did not get invited to any physicist Hallowe’en parties.

-cvj

By: Dissident

Dissident — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:46:47 +0000

Interesting (and yes, comfortable) choice of outfit, but I really think you should have dressed as a Faddeev-Popov ghost.

By: euan

euan — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:31:15 +0000

You mean you weren’t drinking Bloody Marys?