Science: up to 11

So yesterday, we cranked science up so high that we blew a circuit breaker.

How?

With my computer.

So over the weekend geat went nutso, and on Tuesday while I was going to fix its configuration and get some things that didn't load running again, the master node decided it was time to go belly up and wouldn't reboot. At all. So I brought my old(er) computer up to the office and got it all set up to be able to run our calculations and things. Well, yesterday is when we hit critical mass. The combination of knowledge, bug fixes, debugging, and the sheer awesome that having me in a room generates was entirely too much for the machines. Early in the afternoon we blew one of the breakers in my office. Specifically it was the breaker that my computers were hooked up to.

The synergy of me, with two of my computers, in one space was simply too much for the universe and in an attempt to prevent space-time from curling back upon itself and collapsing into a singularity the hand of fate reached down and flipped a breaker, killing my two calculations and plunging the room into darkness.

We didn't let this stop us, of course. The awesome maintenance dude came up and we were rocking again about thirty minutes later. And what kind of rocking were we doing, you might ask?

I'm glad you did.

It was this rocking.



Thermonuclear burning. Fast. Easy. And without any bizarre crashes or bugs getting in the way of the calculation.

Later in the day Dr. Guidry basically reran Viktor's thesis, the director's cut, and it's awesome too. But I'm not putting that graph here. It might be worth a paper or something.

Blown breakers, blown up stars, and me.

Our science goes up to 11.