Everyone needs to finish a day at the Supper Club, I’m glad you experienced our hidden treasure early!

Cheers,

Jnr

OK, I know I’ve been slacking on the blogging front recently, and thought I’d explain myself by way getting back into the swing of writing.
As you know if you’ve been reading Cosmic Variance, I recently spent three weeks in Australi…

Glad to hear Ray showed you a good time.

I also second Brett’s comments (that’s not Brett from the MARC group is it?) that Ray is one of the outstanding physics lecturers of the school, and few undergrads don’t come out of his 3rd year quantum course saying the same.

Ray’s students are also fond of taking note of his “Volkarisms” or quirky phrases he likes to use, such as:

“We take a garden variety set of vectors..”

“After the dust settles we see that the integral is now just…”

or one particular great line

“we look each other in the eye and say ‘we’re physicists’ and just pass the derivative through the integral sign” (mathematicians in the class nearly fainted…)

m

Uh oh, you’re going to be on some No Fly list soon, that’s for sure.

I now have bits of the Monty Python sketch about Australian table wines going through my head…..did you sample any Perth Pink?

I have to say, I never understood the general obsession the department seems to have for Thresherman’s (or Brunetti’s for that matter). Much prefer Universita or Papa Gino’s. Then again I was never a very good physicist so there might be something in that

JoAnne. I think it was a Bobby Burns Shiraz, but don’t have any other info at hand. It turned out to be fine, but nothing special, and in particular, not as good as one that, back in the U.S., I spend far less on and is highly-rated.