Blake finished his soccer season with a great match against Milton, winning, and with a nice team lunch…
Arlington Piranhas have finished the season
Siena
Hanging with our little whirl wind after a relaxing Veteran’s Day linner. We are sharing a chewing gum and talk about family stuff.
Voted
First game
Siena plays her first game today. She is normally on the white team but since they have a bye she gets to guestplay on black. Number 4…. Bobby Orr?
Sunday morning pleasures
Burrying Siena alive in plushies. Knox is in charge.
Come on slowpoke
No boot… but Ana is still moving slowly. It will take a while to get back to 100%. Hang in there honey!
Second Summer
Let the Second Summer (Indian Summer is considered offensive!) continue. After the first frost and after November 1st a weekend of 25/24 C is coming up… amazing.
And by the way, hockey was amazing, I have the feeling I am getting faster…. but also tired more quickly.
Dabbing monkey in the house
Getting ready for the hockey practice with a quick dab and … Siena is ready to go to her first hockey session this season.
Impressions from MIT in the morning
From Sean for some context on the big radome:
Dear Junior Lab folks, and friends,
Those of you who’ve been around the lab for a while know that we’ve had an association since 2018 with the rehabilitation of the original Doppler radar system on the roof of Bldg 54 (aka “the Big Radome”, or “the giant golf ball on the Green Building”) into a modernized instrument for radio astronomy, satellite communication, amateur radio, and related activities; an effort spearheaded by MIT’s student Radio Society. It had appeared to be a near-certainty that the facility would be lost to the demolition phase of the EAPS Dept’s ongoing Bldg 54 renovations in 2020, but with support from many directions, including key contributions from several of you here, the Big Radome was saved, and indeed major repairs to its physical structure — including a complete replacement of the radome itself — have been rolled into the overall renovation coordination.
So, I was very excited to hear yesterday that “the big day” is finally scheduled: the radome is planned to be crane-lifted to the ground on October 14 and re-raised to the highest spot in Cambridge on November 3. We could very realistically be back online for Spring 2023, and almost certainly for 8.14 projects in the second half of the semester. So exciting! In the linked construction coordination plan below, the Gantt chart on page 24 and the rigging drawings starting on page 27 give me a particular thrill.
Into the future, the expectation is that radome will be managed by an oversight committee including Physics Dept representation, ensuring equitable use of dish time between education and research applications, with a priority for student use, specifically including Junior Lab’s radio astronomy efforts.
Cheers!
++Sean
Atumn style
