Was at Irvine Th-Fri instrumenting a building so as they can build a new one just like it.
I do like me a good squigly line now and again. Nothing much interesting about the trip, exept the restaurant next to the hotel was a "Hooters". Very strange place. Why do the watresses come by and write there "names" on a napkin?
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Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell this story.
So, I took 2 geophones (kinda like what they use to measure earthquakes with) on the plane. Well these are very delicate and sensitive to orientation, so I took them carry on (Sensors, laptop, analyzer, I was very unhappy and almost had to send the analyzer down to check in cuz the flight was too crowded, it would not have survived on account of it not having the proper packaging, but I digress) anyway the gophones are two cylinders of metal about 4 inches tall by 3 inches diameter with a wire attached to the end. I don't even want to think about what they look like in the x-ray. So on the way home (not on the way there, go figure) was was sent to the bomb sniffing machine and they wiped it down and put it through the gizmo. Just as the swap was inserted in the machine looking for the smallest particles of explosive residue I had a horrible thought.
We use these things to monitor explosions.
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Instrumenting? I'm going to guess this means taking exacting measurements? And why the hell would they build a new building just like the old one? I mean, new building = opportunity to try something new. Yes?
Also, geophones ... sound really nifty and cool. But I shudder to think what would have happened if there'd actually been any residue!
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