What do New Zealand and Switzerland Have In Common

Not only is most of the Swiss sailing team from New Zealand (they are suprisingly excited about sailing over here) but much more importantly let me introduce you to the village of Lauterbrunnen:


Does that look at all familiar to you? Think about a big stream flowing though the center, an elaborately carved caslte to the right, and a lot of elves running about. Still not quite there, wel let me give you a visual guide:


Welcome to Rivendell! Allow for Tolkien's fantasy and I would say that is about as close as it gets. So Switzerland has something else to offer than cheese and chocolate, although that is already pretty good :)

ATLAS Movies

Well it appears my workplace has decided to make a few movies about ATLAS and the LHC, hopefully to raise public awareness, and maybe to debunk some of the myths that have been building up during the lengthy construction of this new accelerator. Check out the videos on the ATLAS YouTube site. They are pretty cheesy (and some of the stuff they say is actually wrong) but either way the videos are awesomely geeky, or geekely awesome.