{"id":712,"date":"2006-10-15T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/15\/jetset-nerds\/"},"modified":"2006-10-15T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T09:13:46","slug":"jetset-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/15\/jetset-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet-Set Nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Symmetry<\/cite> magazine has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/cms\/?pid=1000378\">travel tips for physicists<\/a>, from other physicists. There are two scary things about this:<\/p>\n<p>1) The degree to which the picture that emerges from the different tips aligns with unflattering stereotypes of physicists. Some of the items are funny travel stories, but the tips are all about keeping your laptop running, and how to live out of a single back for two weeks, and how to avoid actually talking to anyone during your travels.<\/p>\n<p>2) The fact that I think most of the advice is excellent. God, I&#8217;m a dork.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re absolutely right when they say &#8220;if you must check a bag, it should never contain work-related items,&#8221; by the way. Unless you&#8217;re on your way <strong>home<\/strong> from a conference, the absolute most important thing you have with you is whatever you need for your presentation. You have to treat that material as if it contained nuclear secrets. Actually, given the track record of the people who actually <strong>have<\/strong> nuclear secrets, that&#8217;s probably not secure enough&#8211; treat it the way you <strong>wish<\/strong>  they would treat nuclear secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, now, they held DAMOP at the University of Connecticut. The restaurant situation in Storrs is, um, not that great, so most of the attendees ate in the dining hall. The first day of the meeting, they attempted to ban shoulder bags in the dining hall, and it nearly led to a revolt&#8211; everybody there was basically handcuffed to the bag containing their laptop or talk slides, and they got very twitchy when the food service people tried to take those bags away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After at least a dozen arguments (that I heard, and I was only halfway back in the line), they relented, and for the rest of the meeting, everyone at the salad bar had a little physics-meeting shoulder bag with them. And they were all perfectly happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symmetry magazine has an article on travel tips for physicists, from other physicists. There are two scary things about this: 1) The degree to which the picture that emerges from the different tips aligns with unflattering stereotypes of physicists. Some of the items are funny travel stories, but the tips are all about keeping your&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/15\/jetset-nerds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jet-Set Nerds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}