Claire's stories

19 novembre 2008

ze class

Did you know that the conservation of momentum is derived from the 2nd law of Newton?? And that the law of conservation of kinetic energy follows from this same 2nd law... amazing. Why do I not remember this from my school years?? Being a teacher is quite...

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4 novembre 2008

first class

Delft, foggy, not too cold timetable: 10:45-12:30 : first lesson of the course dynamics, 200 first-years (actually about 100 showed-up), and I was doing the show. Cool. Everything went fine. It just looked a bit stupid when the cord of my microphone got...

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24 octobre 2008

blue screen (on the tune of "blue moon")

My offfice, this morning, 11:00. Computer guy: oooOOOooooh, you have a blue screen. That's not good.He looks at me and looks concerned at the same time. Computer guy: do you have any important data on your C or D-drive?We look at each other and we both...

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27 septembre 2008

Sharpened almonds

The past two days, I was in Vannes, a nice old medieval city in Brittany, for a symposium. It was a small symposium (10 people), but extremely cozy and well organized. The person who was picking us (a belgian professor and myself) up from the station...

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11 septembre 2008

See you

I live close to a church, and around the corner there are some shops: an estate agent, a butcher that sells tasty sandwiches (according to the queue at noon), a hobby-shop where you find papers, pens, pencils, paint, plenty of things for handicraft, a...

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9 septembre 2008

Conference

I am just back from a conference (in Cracow, beautiful city, it's my 3rd time there and still I enjoy going there). It has been quite a long time I didn't attend a conference on my "old" topic (i.e. not mud). It was really nice to feel the atmosphere...

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22 août 2008

22-08-08

Delft, cloudy, cold Ok, ok, you are thinking "she is on holidays". Wrong. I WAS on holidays (10 days), but needed at least 10 days to recover... and I have to confess: no inspiration at all to write. I'm not saying that the inspiration came back, but...

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8 juillet 2008

Booking Slovenia

Today I completed the booking for our trip to Slovenia. I had a bit of fun too...I was mostly looking for Bed and Breakfasts at farms. The slovenian cuisine seems delicious, and the farms highly advertise for their meals (sort of...): "We provide a highly...

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28 juin 2008

brulshirt

I am not so concerned about football. Or any ball in general. But I like the new outfit of the Dutch supporter. Even the colour. ('t has a eye-approved shade of red in it) what to do when your team scores...

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23 juin 2008

The E conspiracy

It began in Norway. When I arrived, I got a computer and an email adress where my first name was misspelled "Clair" without the final e. I didn't bother for the computer name, but asked that my email was changed to avoid confusion. I didn't blame Norwegian...

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