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phillip found us. we did not find him. he's such a savvy pup, that he actually started his own blog right here.
from someone who is a die hard "cat person," i think i'm in love. of course, my heart is not that easy to get into. i only said, "think" phil, but if you keep us all of this cheerful licking of my face, i just might cave.
Monday, April 12, 2010
meet phillip
Posted by jen gotch at 9:24 PM
77 comments:
- Katherine said...
CUTE!!! Thanks for giving that sweet boy a home! :)
- April 13, 2010 at 6:34 AM
- jwbkny said...
i think they call that "serendipity". :)
- April 13, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- vanessa joie said...
Yes, become a dog person! Harlow looked at Phil's pics and she did a little tail wag of love.
Wait does this mean doggie ban.do's are to come???
- April 13, 2010 at 8:23 PM
so cute!!
- April 15, 2010 at 6:30 PM
- rebekka said...
I want one of those to find ME!
- April 19, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- Olga Fabila said...
He's so cute!
- April 20, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Eleanor said...
oh so so sweet! im a total dog person... but i really want a cat!! one day i hope to have a dog and a cat who are best of friends.. i dunno why! i really want a st.bernard! they're almost human sized!! haha
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- April 20, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- the purcells said...
oh my gosh, he is adorable!!!!
- April 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM
- Sarah said...
OH, he's the sweetest thing! So lucky to have a new home! xx
- April 21, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- E said...
I love people names for dogs! They're the best. Our dog is a Ted. Phillip is a cutie.
- April 25, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Walter Helena Photography said...
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- April 27, 2010 at 10:49 PM
- Signe said...
Oh he's so cute!
I don't know if it is just me, who's got this problem, but one day the link I have to your blog on my sidebar began "sending" me to a completely different blog. I've tried deleting the link and going to this blog via google and then make a new link, but the same thing happens again. Do you know why? And is it just me who have this problem? I don't mean to bother you with this, because maybe it's just me this happens to, but it's a little annoying to have to go via google to get to your great blog :)
- Signe
- April 28, 2010 at 12:01 PM
your mind looks so very beautiful from words you wrote and the story of phil :)
- April 29, 2010 at 4:41 AM
- Lola said...
Someone stole your blog URL or something like that? I'm suscribed to you and now i receive updates from a weird blog about the law of attraction!
- April 29, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- jen gotch said...
hmmmmm. i am confused about this blog url stealing business. can anyone offer up any advice??
- April 29, 2010 at 5:52 PM
- Jocy said...
He's adorable and quite clever too. I think his blog has even more insight than mine. He's lucky to have a nice home.
- May 1, 2010 at 2:51 PM
- Annie said...
I hope this helps:
It's Blogger's help forum about stolen blogs. There is probably some strange entry in your template that was entered vis malware.
Good Luck!
- May 2, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- vanessa joie said...
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- May 3, 2010 at 9:25 PM
- Gant Trousers said...
Unbelievably cute!
- May 4, 2010 at 3:03 AM
- Laura Mullins said...
i'm the same way! i generally like cats a lot more, but every once in awhile, a select few dogs have taken hold of my heart! i don't mind (:
anyway, cute pictures!
- May 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- Museling said...
I just discovered your blog and I have to say that I'm tickled pink. Your blog brings out the sybarite in me because it's so sensual. I wish you had it set up for people to follow through blogger. It's really fabulous and I look forward to more.
- May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- Two fit and fun gals said...
i really love all of your polaroids! makes me wanna take mine out & start using it again.. xx
- May 24, 2010 at 5:50 AM
- Annie White said...
what a sweet pup! i hope he's a cuddler <3
- May 26, 2010 at 5:21 PM
- Suzanne said...
Phillip is totally adorable!
- June 2, 2010 at 7:41 PM
- N.B said...
Really cute, love it!!
nice blog
see you soon
- June 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM
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- June 6, 2010 at 6:37 AM
Sweetie...I'd fall in love too! Great pix.
- June 16, 2010 at 5:13 AM
- jenniferashley said...
I've been browsing through your blog, and I am really digging your photos. Great work! You should check my food blog out, even though my artsy-fartsy photographs aren't posted on there, but my food-porn photographs are! Haha http://renaissancekitchen.blogspot.com
- June 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- Marco Crupi said...
Hi, I am the owner of the blog of photography http://photographymc.blogspot.com/
I have added in the favorite, I would like an exchange links with you.
- June 22, 2010 at 5:31 AM
- bri. said...
i miss this blog :(
- June 23, 2010 at 2:18 PM
what a cute dog!!!!!!
- June 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- Briana Dawn said...
keep him! we rescued my dog from a shelter after he had been found on the street and it's been the best decision my family has ever made :)
- July 8, 2010 at 8:32 PM
- Unknown said...
Lucky pup and great site!
- July 10, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- Lisa said...
Its destiny that you and phillip are together! Such a cute lil guy!
- July 11, 2010 at 8:57 PM
- Jessica said...
What a sweet boy! It's amazing how they can worm their way into your heart, isn't it?
- July 13, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- Miles Of Style said...
how cute!
just passing by your blog and i have to say its FABULOUS! do drop by mine too when you have some time. perhaps we can follow each other =)
- July 16, 2010 at 11:57 PM
- alvaro sanz said...
oh... this week we found a dog too and he's living with us, but we are looking for a new house too many dogs here.
- July 18, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- iamronel.com said...
he's cute..love him too
- July 22, 2010 at 11:57 PM
- ronelmarin.net said...
you kinda sweet to adopt him..:))
- July 22, 2010 at 11:59 PM
- Trudy said...
So cute! :)
- July 24, 2010 at 7:35 AM
- barb ziemer said...
stumbled across your blog; love phillip. we have three "phillips"; huge appreciation for "phillips"... enjoy him. so cute.
barb ziemer
- August 11, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- Ms. Pink said...
he is sooooooo cute, and I love that he has his own blog! <3
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- August 17, 2010 at 8:34 PM
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- Ma Belle Paris said...
what a cutie, am usually a cat person myself... but he is lovely
- September 26, 2010 at 4:42 AM
- Beth said...
He's adorable...he might just convince you to knit him a sweater this winter! :-)
- October 11, 2010 at 4:23 PM
hehe, cutie :)
- October 15, 2010 at 11:48 PM
- vanessa joie said...
Happy birthday Jen! I agree with Bri's idea that you should start posting again. She's very wise.
- October 21, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- MaybeThisDoor said...
Where are you?
- October 25, 2010 at 6:19 PM
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- December 3, 2010 at 11:30 PM
- Polaroid said...
Loving the pictures with the polaroids, but you've not posted in a while...... :(
We'd love to use some of your pictures at Polaroid Images
- December 11, 2010 at 1:00 AM
- thea said...
ooooooo cute!!!!!!! hello there phillip!
- December 20, 2010 at 10:50 PM
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Buna Ziua!
Eu sunt Vlad, unul dintre membri Radio Whisper - un radio antimanele dedicat bloggerilor şi nu numai.
Am găsit întâmplător blogul tău, am citit câteva articole şi nu am vrut să ies înainte să te felicit – mi-a plăcut mult ce am găsit aici. Am fost atras de subiectele interesante si de originalitatea articolelor. Felicitari ! Noi promovăm la radio diferite articole ale bloggerilor, iar azi am promovat un articol de-al tău; am specificat sursa articolului şi am deschis şi un subiect pe baza acestuia. Dacă doresti, poţi să ne recomanzi orice articol, iar noi îl vom promova.
Ne-ar face plăcere să ştim că ai dori să ne susţii în acest proiect de radio şi să accepţi o eventuală colaborare.
M-am gândit aşadar să vin cu o propunere:
Pe Radio Whisper se difuzează toate genurile de muzică, exceptând manele şi piese necenzurate. Avem şi câteva emisiuni, ştiri etc. Ne-am propus să realizăm un proiect mare, iar pentru asta avem nevoie de susţinerea şi ajutorul tău şi al celorlalţi colegi bloggeri. Dorim să creăm o echipă cât mai complexă de oameni cu un talent aparte şi m-am gândit că poate ai vrea sa ni te alături şi să colaborăm (binenţeles, pe unul dintre domeniile care îţi place). Dorim de asemenea să îţi acordăm un scurt interviu. Pentru noi sunt importante ideile şi modul de a gândi al bloggerilor şi al ascultatorilor noştri.
Îti multumesc pentru timpul acordat, iar acum îti propun sa adaugi linkul sau bannerul nostru pe blogul tău şi să ne dai add la id-ul asculta.whisper sau un e-mail, tot la email@example.com, pentru a discuta mai multe.
Cu stimă Vlad!
- December 23, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- Carla said...
Divine.. Love your blog your pics are so poetic. Carla
- January 8, 2011 at 7:12 AM
- alexandra grecco said...
He's so cute. How lucky you both are!
- January 15, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Hey Mister. said...
<333 awwh.!!
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- February 6, 2011 at 8:15 AM
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such a cutie.. :)
- February 14, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Christina @ Simple and Delish said...
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- March 31, 2011 at 4:52 PM
- Tim said...
Cool stuff.
- April 5, 2011 at 8:26 AM
- Bre said...
Oh my goodness! I'm so jealous HE found YOU! I've been wanting a dog for some time now - enjoy phillip, he's a cutie!
- April 17, 2011 at 8:39 AM
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I follow you ...
- April 28, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- Mônica said...
ooown my god! I love this blog!
- May 22, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Erica said...
He is adorable and sweet!
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- June 16, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- Admin said...
This is painful (sorry, no offence meant!). I adopted a terrier mongrel in White Russia, named him Schneider and he was such a *good* dog (by the way, mongrels do have the best characters, I'm sure).
We had a wonderful year there, until I had to return home. I wanted to get Schneider within a couple of months, left him at a collegue's home... everything seemed to be ok, I frequently got according messages from there. But when I finally had provided best "Schneider circumstances" at home and was ready to get all the documents and vaccinations and called my fellows in Belarus to arrange everything - they told me Schneider had been shot a month ago by some drunken militsioner. I must admit, that I even now haven't overcome this at 100%, and when I accidently see a photograph of dogs akin to Schneider, it still hurts. But nevertheless: Enjoy your time with Phil - all the best for you, it's great to have a dog as a friend!!
- June 28, 2011 at 3:01 AM
your blog is supeeerr, think i might be in love with your dog!
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- June 28, 2011 at 5:26 PM
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- Unknown said...
oh .. what a doll!
- December 9, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- Unknown said...
How cute is Phillip and his innocent look is just amazing.
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- January 19, 2012 at 3:43 AM
- Jessica said...
When I was a kid our dog found us. Showed up on our doorstep and we had him for the next 15 years. <3
- October 9, 2012 at 10:52 PM
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I love Phil. He is the cutest dog around. Does Phil like to go for walks? I bet you he does.
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2nd. An adiabatic (i.e. slow) or partially adiabatic neutrino conversion (mixing).
In the presence of matter, the neutrino experiences scattering and absorption. This last phenomenon is always negligible (or almost in most cases). At very low energies, coherent elastic forward scattering is the most important process. Similarly to optics, the net effect is the appearance of a phase difference, a refractive index or, equivalently, a neutrino effective mass.
The neutrino effective mass can cause an important change in the neutrino oscillation pattern, depending on the densities and composition of the medium. It also depends on the nature of the neutrino (its energy, its type and its oscillation length). In the neutrino case, the medium is "flavor-dispersive": the matter is usually non-symmetric with respect to the lepton numbers! Then, the effective neutrino mass is different for the different weak eigenstates!
I will try to explain it as simple as possible here. For instance, take the solar electron plasma. The electrons in the solar medium have charged current interactions with but not with . Thus, the resulting interaction energy is given by a interaction hamiltonian
where the numerical prefactor is conventional, is the Fermi constant and is the electron density. The corresponding neutral current interactions are identical fo al the neutrino species and, therefore, we have no net effect on their propagation. Hypothetical sterile neutrinos would have no interaction at all either. The effective global hamiltonian in flacor space is now the sum of two terms, the vacuum hamiltonian and the interaction part. We can write them together
The consequence of this new effective hamiltonian is that the oscillation probabilities of the neutrino in matter can be largely increased due to a resonance with matter. In matter, for the simplest case with 2 flavors and 2 dimensions, we can define an effective oscillation/mixing angle as
The presence of the term proportional to the electron density can produce "a resonance" nullifying the denominator. there is a critical density such as
for which the matter mixing angle becomes maximal and , irrespectively of the value of the mixing angle in vacuum . The probability that oscillates or mixes into a weak eigenstate after traveling a distance in this medium is give by the vacuum oscillation formula modified as follows:
2nd. The kinematical factor differs by the replacement of with . Hence, it follows that, at the critical density, we have the oscillation probability in matter (2 flavor and 2 dimensions):
This equation tells us that we can get a full conversion of electron neutrino weak eigenstates into muon weak eigenstates, provided that the length and energy of the neutrino satisfy the condition
There is a second interesting limit that is mentioned often. This limit happens whenever the electron density is so large such that , or equivalently, . In this (dense matter) limit, there are NO oscillation in matter (they are "density suppresed") because vanishes and we have
Therefore, the lesson here is that a big density can spoil the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations!
In summary, we have learned here that:
1st. There are neutrino oscillations "triggered" by matter. Matter can enhance or enlarge neutrino mixing by "resonance".
2nd. A high enough matter density can spoil the neutrino mixing (the complementary effect to the previous one).
The MSW effect is particularly important in the field of geoneutrinos and when the neutrinos pass through the Earth core or mantle, as much as it also matters inside the stars or in collapsing stars that will become into supernovae. The flavor of neutrino states follows changes in the matter density!
See you in my next neutrinological post!
LOG#126. Basic Neutrinology(XI).Posted: 2013/07/22 Filed under: Basic Neutrinology, Physmatics, The Standard Model: Basics | Tags: IceCube, LBE, long baseline experiments, neutrino beam experiments, neutrino masses and lepton asymmetry, neutrino mixing, neutrino oscillation experiments, neutrino oscillations, neutrino oscillations in matter, neutrino oscillations in vacuum, neutrino telescopes, neutrinology, NOCILLA, NOSEX, reactor experiments, right-handed neutrinos, SBE, short baseline experiments, sterile neutrinos Leave a comment
Why is the case of massive neutrinos so relevant in contemporary physics? The full answer to this question would be very long. In fact, I am making this long thread about neutrinology in order you understand it a little bit. If neutrinos do have nonzero masses, then, due to the basic postulates of the quantum theory there will be in a "linear combination" or "mixing" among all the possible "states". It also happens with quarks! This mixing will be observable even at macroscopic distances from the production point or source and it has very important practical consequences ONLY if the difference of the neutrino masses squared are very small. Mathematically speaking . Typically, , but some "subtle details" can increae this upper bound up to the keV scale (in the case of sterile or right-handed neutrinos, undetected till now).
In the presence of neutrino masses, the so-called "weak eigenstates" are different to "mass eigenstates". There is a "transformation" or "mixing"/"oscillation" between them. This phenomenon is described by some unitary matrix U. The idea is:
If neutrinos can only be created and detected as a result of weak processes, at origin (or any arbitrary point) we have a weak eigenstate as a "rotation" of a mass eigenstate through the mixing matrix U:
In this post, I am only to introduce the elementary theory of neutrino oscillations (NO or NOCILLA)/neutrino mixing (NOMIX) from a purely heuristic viewpoint. I will be using natural units with .
If we ignore the effects of the neutrino spin, after some time the system will evolve into the next state (recall we use elementary hamiltonian evolution from quantum mechanics here):
and where is the free hamiltonian of the system, i.e., in vacuum. It will be characterized by certain eigenvalues
and here, using special relativity, we write
In most of the interesting cases (when and ), this relativistic dispersion relationship can be approximated by the next expression (it is the celebrated "ultra-relativistic" approximation):
The effective neutrino hamiltonian can be written as
In this last equation, we write
We can perform this derivation in a more rigorous mathematical structure, but I am not going to do it here today. The resulting theory of neutrino mixing and neutrino oscillations (NO) has a beautiful corresponded with Neutrino OScillation EXperiments (NOSEX). These experiments are usually analyzed under the simplest assumption of two flavor mixing, or equivalently, under the perspective of neutrino oscillations with 2 simple neutrino species we can understand this process better. In such a case, the neutrino mixing matrix U becomes a simple 2-dimensional orthogonal rotation matrix depending on a single parameter , the oscillation angle. If we repeat all the computations above in this simple case, we find that the probability that a weak interaction eigenstate neutrino has oscillated to other weak interaction eigenstate, say when the neutrino travels some distance (remember we are supposing the neutrino are "almost" massless, so they move very close to the speed of light) is, taking and ,
This important formula describes the probability of NO in the 2-flavor case. It is a very important and useful result! There, we have defined the oscillation length as
with . In practical units, we have
As you can observe, the probabilities depend on two factors: the mixing (oscillation) angle and the kinematical factor as a function of the traveled distance, the momentum of the neutrinos and the mass difference between the two species. If this mass difference were probed to be non-existent, the phenomenon of the neutrino oscillation would not be possible (it would have 0 probability!). To observe the neutrino oscillation, we have to make (observe) neutrinos in which some of this parameters are "big", so the probability is significant. Interestingly, we can have different kind of neutrino oscillation experiments according to how large are these parameters. Namely:
–Long baseline experiments (LBE). This class of NOSEX happen whenever you have an oscillation length of order or bigger. Even, the neutrino oscillations of solar neutrinos (neutrinos emitted by the sun) and other astrophysical sources can also be understood as one of this. Neutrino beam experiments belong to this category as well.
-Short baseline experiments (SBE). This class of NOSEX happen whenever the distances than neutrino travel are lesser than hundreds of kilometers, perhaps some. Of course, the issue is conventional. Reactor experiments like KamLAND in Japan (Daya Bay in China, or RENO in South Korea) are experiments of this type.
Moreover, beyond reactor experiments, you also have neutrino beam experiments (T2K, , OPERA,…). Neutrino telescopes or detectors like IceCube are the next generation of neutrino "observers" after SuperKamiokande (SuperKamiokande will become HyperKamiokande in the near future, stay tuned!).
In summary, the phenomenon of neutrino mixing/neutrino oscillations/changing neutrino flavor transforms the neutrino in a very special particle under quantum and relativistic theories. Neutrinos are one of the best tools or probes to study matter since they only interact under weak interactions and gravity! Therefore, neutrinos are a powerful "laboratory" in which we can test or search for new physics (The fact that neutrinos are massive is, said this, a proof of new physics beyond the SM since the SM neutrinos are massless!). Indeed, the phenomenon is purely quantum and (special) relativist since the neutrinos are tiny particles and "very fast". We have seen what are the main ideas behind this phenomenon and the main classes of neutrino experiments (long baseline and shortbaseline experiments). Moreover, we also have "passive" neutrino detectors like SuperKamiokande, IceCube and many others I will not quote here. They study the neutrino oscillations detecting atmospheric neutrinos (the result of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere), solar neutrinos and other astrophysical sources of neutrinos (like supernovae!). I have talked you about cosmic relic neutrinos too in the previous post. Aren't you convinced that neutrinos are cool? They are "metamorphic", they have flavor, they are everywhere!
See you in my next neutrinological post!
LOG#125. Basic Neutrinology(X).Posted: 2013/07/17 Filed under: Basic Neutrinology, Physmatics, The Standard Model: Basics | Tags: 5 sigma, CMB, CNB, cosmic ray, cosmic rays and physics, cross-section, delta particle, delta resonance, Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit, GZK cut-off, GZK effect, H-burst, H-dip, neutrino astronomy, neutrino cosmology, neutrino spectroscopy, neutrinology, resonance, X-burst, X-dip, Z-burst, Z-dip, Zetta-electron-volt, ZeV, Zevatron Leave a comment
The topic today is a fascinant subject in Neutrino Astronomy/Astrophysics/Cosmology. I have talked you in this thread about the cosmic neutrino background () and that the young neutrino Astronomy or neutrino telescopes will become more and more important in the future. The reasons are simple:
1st. If we want to study the early Universe, we need some "new" tool to overcome the last scattering surface as a consequence of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Neutrinos are such a new tool/probe! They only interact weakly with matter and we suspect that there are some important pieces of information related to the quark and lepton "complementarity" hidden in their mixing parameters.
2nd. Due to the GZK effect, we expect that the flux of cosmic rays will suffer a sudden cut-off at about , or about 8 joules. This Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit (GZK limit) is a theoretical upper limit on the energy of cosmic rays, since at some high energy, that can be computed, they would interact with the CMB photons producing a delta particle () which would spoil the observed cosmic rays flux as its decays would not be detected after "a long trip". Then, it can only be approached when the cosmic rays travel very long distances (hundreds of million light-years or more). Here you are a typical picture of SuperKamiokande cosmic ray detection:
The limit is at the same order of magnitude as the upper limit for energy at which cosmic rays have experimentally been detected. There are some current experiments that "claim" to have observed this GZK effect, but evidence is not conclusive yet as far as I know. Some experiments claim (circa 2013, July) to have observed it, other experiments claim to have observed events well above the GZK limit. The next generation of cosmic ray experiments will confirm this limit from SM physics or they will show us interesting new physics events!
Inspired by the GZK effect, some people have suggested an indirect way to detect the existence of the cosmic relic neutrinos. Remember, cosmic neutrinos have a temperature about if the SM is right, and their associated neutrino density now is about per cubic centimeter per species (neutrino plus antineutrino), or per cubic centimeter including the 3 flavors! Relic neutrinos are almost everywhere, but they are very, very feeble (neutral and weakly interacting) particles. While detecting the temperature is one of the most challenging tests of the standard cosmological model, we can try to detect the existence of these phantom neutrinos using a similar (quantum) trick than the one used in the GZK limit (there the delta particle resonance). If some ultra high energy cosmic ray (likely a neutrino coming from some astrophysical source) hits a "relic neutrino" with energy high enough to produce, say, a Z boson (neutral particle as the neutrino himself), then we should observe a "dip" in the cosmic ray spectrum corresponding to this "Z-burst" event! This mechanism is also called the ZeVatron or the Z-dip. It also shows the deep links between particle physics and Cosmology or Astrophysics. When an ultra-high energy cosmic neutrino collides with a relic anti-neutrino in our galaxy and annihilates to hadrons, this process proceeds via a (virtual) Z-boson:
The cross section for this process becomes large if the center of mass energy of the neutrino-antineutrino pair is equal to the Z-boson mass (such a peak in the cross section is what we call "resonance" in High Energy physics). Assuming that the relic anti-neutrino is at rest, the energy of the incident cosmic neutrino has to be the quantity:
In fact, this mechanism based on "neutral resonances" is completely "universal"! Nothing (except some hidden symmetry or similar) can allow the production of (neutral) particles using this cosmic method. For instance, if this argument is true, beyond the Z-burst, we should be able to detect Higgs-dips (Higgs-bursts) or H-dips, since, similarely we could have
or more generally, with some (likely) "dark" particle, we should also expect that
In the H-dip case, taking the measured Higgs mass from the last LHC run (about 126GeV), we get
In the arbitrary "dark" or "weakly interacting" particle, we have (in general, with ) the formulae:
Therefore, cosmic ray neutrino spectroscopy is a very interesting subject yet to come! It can provide:
1st. Evidences for relic neutrinos we expect from the standard cosmological model.
2nd. Evidence for the Higgs boson in astrophysical scenarios from cosmological neutrinos. Now, we know that the Higgs field and the Higgs particle do exist, so it is natural to seek out this H-dips as well!
3rd. Evidence for the additional neutral weakly interacting (and/or "dark") particles from "unexpected" dips at ZeV (1ZeV=1Zetta electron-volt) or even higher energies! Of course, this is the most interesting part from the viewpoint of new physics searches!
Neutrino telescopes and their associated Astronomy is just rising now! IceCube is its most prominent example…
Moreover, following one of the most interesting things in any research (expect the unexpected and try to explain it!) from the scientific viewpoint, I am quite sure the neutrino astronomy and its interplay with cosmic rays or this class of "neutrino spectroscopy" in the flux of cosmic rays open a very interesting window for the upcoming new physics. Are we ready for it? Maybe…After all, the neutrino mixing parameters are very different ("complementary"?) to the quark mixing parameters. You can observe it in this mass-flavor content plot:
Neutrino oscillations are a purely quantum effect, and thus, they open a really interesting "new channel" in which we can observe the whole Universe. Yes, neutrinos are cool!!! The coolest particles in all over the world! We can not imagine yet what neutrino will show and teach us about the current, past and future of the cosmological evolution.
Remark: When I saw the Fermi line and the claim of the Dark Matter particle "evidence" at about 130 GeV, I wondered if it could be, indeed, a hint of a similar "resonant" process in gamma rays, something like
since the line "peaked" close to the known Higgs-like particle mass (). Anyway, this line is controversial and its presence has yet to be proved with enough statistical confidence (5 sigmas are usually required in the particle physics community). Of course, the issue with this resonant hypothesis would be that we should expect that this particle would decay into hadrons leaving some indirect clues of those events. The Fermi line can indeed have more explanations and/or be a fluke in the data due to a bad modeling or a bad substraction of the background. Time will tell us if the Fermi line is really here as well.
Final (geek) remark: I wonder if the Doctor Who fans remember that the reality bomb of Davros and the Daleks used "Z-neutrinos"!!! I presently do not know if the people who wrote those scripts and imagined the Z-neutrino were aware of the Z-bursts…Or not… LOL The Z-neutrino powered crucible was really interesting…
And the reality bomb concept was really scaring…
However, neutrinos are pretty weakly interacting particles, at least when they have low energy, so we should have not fear them. After all, their future applications will surprise us much more. I am quite sure of it!
See you in my next neutrinological post!
May the Z(X)-burst induced superGZK neutrinos be with you!
LOG#124. Basic Neutrinology(IX).Posted: 2013/07/15 Filed under: Basic Neutrinology, Physmatics, The Standard Model: Basics | Tags: baryogenesis, baryon to entropy density ratio, baryon-antibaryon asymmetry, entropy ratio, hybrid inflation, inflationary phase, inflationary scenarios, inflaton, left-handed neutrinos, leptogenesis, lepton-antilepton asymmetry, LR models, neutrino masses, neutrinology, non-perturbative effects, Pati-Salam group, reheating, right-handed neutrinos, solar neutrino problem, sphaleron, superfields, SUSY Leave a comment
In supersymmetric LR models, inflation, baryogenesis (and/or leptogenesis) and neutrino oscillations can be closely related to each other. Baryosynthesis in GUTs is, in general, inconsistent with inflationary scenarios. The exponential expansion during the inflationary phase will wash out any baryon asymmetry generated previously by any GUT scale in your theory. One argument against this feature is the next idea: you can indeed generate the baryon or lepton asymmetry during the process of reheating at the end of inflation. This is a quite non-trivial mechanism. In this case, the physics of the "fundamental" scalar field that drives inflation, the so-called inflaton, would have to violate the CP symmetry, just as we know that weak interactions do! The challenge of any baryosynthesis model is to predict the observed asymmetry. It is generally written as a baryon to photon (in fact, a number of entropy) ratio. Tha baryon asymmetry is defined as
At present time, there is only matter and only a very tiny (if any) amount of antimatter, and then . The entropy density s is completely dominated by the contribution of relativistic particles so it is proportional to the photon number density. This number is calculated from CMBR measurements, and it shows to be about . Thus,
From BBN, we know that
This value allows to obtain the observed lepton asymmetry ratio with analogue reasoning.
By the other hand, it has been shown that the "hybrid inflation" scenarios can be successfully realized in certain SUSY LR models with gauge groups
after SUSY symmetry breaking. This group is sometimes called the Pati-Salam group. The inflaton sector of this model is formed by two complex scalar fields . At the end of the inflation do oscillate close to the SUSY minimum and respectively, they decay into a part of right-handed sneutrinos and neutrinos. Moreover, a primordial lepton asymmetry is generated by the decay of the superfield emerging as the decay product of the inflaton field. The superfield also decays into electroweak Higgs particles and (anti)lepton superfields. This lepton asymmetry is partially converted into baryon asymmetry by some non-perturbative sphalerons!
Remark: (Sphalerons). From the wikipedia entry we read that a sphaleron (Greek: σφαλερός "weak, dangerous") is a static (time independent) solution to the electroweak field equations of the SM of particle physics, and it is involved in processes that violate baryon and lepton number.Such processes cannot be represented by Feynman graphs, and are therefore called non-perturbative effects in the electroweak theory (untested prediction right now). Geometrically, a sphaleron is simply a saddle point of the electroweak potential energy (in the infinite dimensional field space), much like the saddle point of the surface in three dimensional analytic geometry. In the standard model, processes violating baryon number convert three baryons to three antileptons, and related processes. This violates conservation of baryon number and lepton number, but the difference B-L is conserved. In fact, a sphaleron may convert baryons to anti-leptons and anti-baryons to leptons, and hence a quark may be converted to 2 anti-quarks and an anti-lepton, and an anti-quark may be converted to 2 quarks and a lepton. A sphaleron is similar to the midpoint() of the instanton , so it is non-perturbative . This means that under normal conditions sphalerons are unobservably rare. However, they would have been more common at the higher temperatures of the early Universe.
The resulting lepton asymmetry can be written as a function of a number of parameters among them the neutrino masses and the mixing angles, and finally, this result can be compared with the observational constraints above in baryon asymmetry. However, this topic is highly non-trivial. It is not trivial that solutions satisfying the constraints above and other physical requirements can be found with natural values of the model parameters. In particular, it is shown that the value of the neutrino masses and the neutrino mixing angles which predict sensible values for the baryon or lepton asymmetry turn out to be also consistent with values require to solve the solar neutrino problem we have mentioned in this thread.
LOG#123. Basic Neutrinology(VIII).Posted: 2013/07/15 Filed under: Basic Neutrinology, Physmatics, The Standard Model: Basics | Tags: CDM, CMB, CNB, cold dark matter, cosmic neutrino background, cosmological constant, critical density, HDM, hot dark matter, matter density, neutrino astronomy, neutrino comoslogy, neutrino decoupling, neutrino mass bounds from cosmology, neutrinology, number of effective neutrino species, PLANCK, total matter density, Tremaine-Gunn limit, WMAP Leave a comment
There are some indirect constraints/bounds on neutrino masses provided by Cosmology. The most important is the one coming from the demand that the energy density of the neutrinos should not be too high, otherwise the Universe would collapse and it does not happen, apparently…
Firstly, stable neutrinos with low masses (about ) make a contribution to the total energy density of the Universe given by:
and where the total mass is defined to be the quantity
Here, the number of degrees of freedom for Dirac (Majorana) neutrinos in the framework of the Standard Model. The number density of the neutrino sea is revealed to be related to the photon number density by entropy conservation (entropy conservation is the key of this important cosmological result!) in the adiabatic expansion of the Universe:
From this, we can derive the relationship of the cosmic relic neutrino background (neutrinos coming from the Big Bang radiation when they lost the thermal equilibrium with photons!) or and the cosmic microwave background (CMB):
From the CMB radiation measurements we can obtain the value
for a perfect Planck blackbody spectrum with temperature
This CMB temperature implies that the temperature should be about
Remark: if you do change the number of neutrino degrees of freedom you also change the temperature of the and the quantity of neutrino "hot dark matter" present in the Universe!
Moreover, the neutrino density is related to the total neutrino density and the critical density as follows:
and where the critical density is about
When neutrinos "decouple" from the primordial plasma and they loose the thermal equilibrium, we have , and then we get
with the reduced Hubble constant. Recent analysis provide (PLANCK/WMAP).
There is another useful requirement for the neutrino density in Cosmology. It comes from the requirements of the BBN (Big Bang Nucleosynthesis). I talked about this in my Cosmology thread. Galactic structure and large scale observations also increase evidence that the matter density is:
These values are obtained through the use of the luminosity-density relations, galactic rotation curves and the observation of large scale flows. Here, the is the total mass density of the Universe as a fraction of the critical density . This includes radiation (photons), bayrons and non-baryonic "cold dark matter" (CDM) and "hot dark matter" (HDM). The two first components in the decomposition of
are rather well known. The photon density is
The deuterium abundance can be extracted from the BBN predictions and compared with the deuterium abundances in the stellar medium (i.e. at stars!). It shows that:
The HDM component is formed by relativistic long-lived particles with masses less than about . In the SM framework, the only HDM component are the neutrinos!
The simulations of structure formation made with (super)computers fit the observations ONLY when one has about 20% of HDM plus 80% of CDM. A stunning surprise certainly! Some of the best fits correspond to neutrinos with a total mass about 4.7eV, well above the current limit of neutrino mass bounds. We can evade this apparent contradiction if we suppose that there are some sterile neutrinos out there. However, the last cosmological data by PLANCK have decreased the enthusiasm by this alternative. The apparent conflict between theoretical cosmology and observational cosmology can be caused by both unprecise measurements or our misunderstanding of fundamental particle physics. Anyway observations of distant objects (with high redshift) favor a large cosmological constant instead of Hot Dark Matter hypothesis. Therefore, we are forced to conclude that the HDM of does not exceed even . Requiring that , we get that . Using the relationship with the total mass density, we can deduce that the total neutrino mass (or HDM in the SM) is about
or less!
Mass limits, in this case lower limits, for heavy or superheavy neutrinos ( or higher) can also be obtained along the same reasoning. The puzzle gets very different if the neutrinos were "unstable" particles. One gets then joint bounds on mass and timelife, and from them, we deduce limits that can overcome the previously seen limits (above).
There is another interesting limit to the density of neutrinos (or weakly interacting dark matter in general) that comes from the amount of accumulated "density" in the halos of astronomical objects. This is called the Tremaine-Gunn limit. Up to numerical prefactors, and with the simplest case where the halo is a singular isothermal sphere with , the reader can easily check that
Imposing the phase space bound at radius r then gives the lower bound
This bound yields . This is the Tremaine-Gunn bound. It is based on the idea that neutrinos form an important part of the galactic bulges and it uses the phase-space restriction from the Fermi-Dirac distribution to get the lower limit on the neutrino mass. I urge you to consult the literature or google to gather more information about this tool and its reliability.
Remark: The singular isothermal sphere is probably a good model where the rotation curve produced by the dark matter halo is flat, but certainly breaks down at small radius. Because the neutrino mass bound is stronger for smaller , the uncertainty in the halo core radius (interior to which the mass density saturates) limits the reliability of this neutrino mass bound. However, some authors take it seriously! As Feynman used to say, everything depends on the prejudges you have!
The abundance of additional weakly interacting light particles, such as a light sterile neutrino or additional relativistic degrees of freedom uncharged under the Standard Model can change the number of relativistic degrees of freedom . Sometimes you will hear about the number . Planck data, recently released, have decreased the hopes than we would be finding some additional relativistic degree of freedom that could mimic neutrinos. It is also constrained by the BBN and the deuterium abundances we measured from astrophysical objects. Any sterile neutrino or extra relativistic degree of freedom would enter into equilibrium with the active neutrinos via neutrino oscillations! A limit on the mass differences and mixing angle with another active neutrino of the type
should be accomplished in principle. From here, it can be deduced that the effective number of neutrino species allowed by neutrino oscillations is in fact a litle higher the the 3 light neutrinos we know from the Z-width bound:
PLANCK data suggest indeed that . However, systematical uncertainties in the derivation of the BBN make it too unreliable to be taken too seriously and it can eventually be avoided with care.
LOG#122. Basic Neutrinology(VII).Posted: 2013/07/15 Filed under: Basic Neutrinology, Physmatics, The Standard Model: Basics | Tags: anomalies, anomalous terms, beyond SM, BSM, Cabibble angle, family symmetry, Froggatt, gauge anomalies, mass hierarchy, neutrino mass from family symmetry, neutrinology, New Physics, particle physics, quark and lepton complementarity, seesaw mechanism, spontaneous symmetry breaking, SSB, U(1) hidden symmetry, vev Leave a comment
The observed mass and mixing both in the neutrino and quark cases could be evidence for some interfamily hierarchy hinting that the lepton and quark sectors were, indeed, a result of the existence of a new quantum number related to "family". We could name this family symmetry as . It was speculated by people like Froggatt long ago. The actual intrafamily hierarchy, i.e., the fact that in the quark sector, seem to require one of these symmetries to be anomalous.
A simple model with one family dependent anomalous U(1) beyond the SM was first proposed long ago to produce the given Yukawa coupling and their hierarchies, and the anomalies could be canceled by the Green-Schwarz mechanism which as by-product is able to fix the Weinberg angle as well. Several developments include the models inspired by the GUT or the heterotic superstring theory. The gauge structure of the model is that of the SM but enlarged by 3 abelian U(1) symmetries and their respective fields, sometimes denoted by . The first one is anomalous and family independent. Two of these fields, the non-anomalous, have specific dependencies on the 3 chiral families designed to reproduce the Yukawa hierarchies. There are right-handed neutrinos which "trigger" neutrino masses by some special types of seesaw mechanisms.
The 3 symmetries and their fields are usually spontaneously broken at some high energy scale by stringy effects. It is assumed that 3 fields, , with , develop a non-null vev. These fields are singlets under the SM gauge group but not under the abelian symmetries carried by . Thus, the Yukawa couplings appear as some effective operators after the spontaneous symmetry breaking. In the case of neutrinos, we have the mass lagrangian (at effective level):
and where . The parameters determine the mass and mixing hierarchy with the aid of some simple relationships:
and where is the Cabibblo angle. The are the charges assigned to the left handed leptons L and the right handed neutrinos N. These couplings generate the following mass matrices for neutrinos:
From these matrices, the associated seesaw mechanism gives the formula for light neutrinos:
The neutrino mass mixing matrix depends only on the charges we assign to the LH neutrinos due to cancelation of RH neutrino charges and the seesaw mechanism. There is freedom in the assignment of the charges . If the charges of the second and the third generation of leptos are equal (i.e., if ), then one is lead to a mass matrix with the following structure (or "texture"):
and where . This matrix can be diagonalized in a straightforward fashion by a large rotation. It is consistent (more or less), with a large mixing. In this theory or model, the explanation of the large neutrino mixing angles is reduced to a theory of prefactors in front of powers of the parameters , related with the vev after the family group spontaneous symmetry breaking!


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1. Cockroaches and scrunchies. When the world is over and the rest of us have been nuked to smithereens, there will still be cockroaches and scrunchies.
2. Not everyone can be good at geography.
3. I am in Texas, right? I thought you could carry a gun to Kindergarten in Texas.
4. Cowboy boots are cool (and so am I).
Text exchange between me & Biggie…
Peeved: I'm in Texas, what kind of souvenir do you want?
Biggie: Cool Texas. Bring me back either a v-neck t-shirt or some other cool thing
Peeved: Cowgirl hat?
Biggie: Nooooooo. I have one. ummmm a cool back pack or something.
Biggie: No… I want a cute pair of heels!
Peeved: How about a bright yellow pair of cowgirl boots?
Biggie: Yes please.
Peeved: Would you really wear them?
Biggie: Heck Yes.
Biggie: Amazing! I would so wear them.
Peeved: You know I picked them out, right? And that I think they're cool, right? Biggie… This is MY daughter, Biggie, right?…
5. Yep, everything is bigger in Texas all right.
6. No, they are not paying you enough to wear that outfit.
7. These people are one degree and five steps away from going rabid and ripping each others carotids out.
A) It's 100 degrees outside
B) They have no stroller
C) They are wearing blue jeans
D) They are on a "family" vacation
I would have hung around for the show, but I didn't want to get blood on my good shoes.
8. It is actually possible to get sick of Mexican food.
9. Even the most comfortable shoes suck after an hour of walking.
10. Hot goose poop rivals two-day dead skunk for most offensive odor on the planet.
For those of you who have been worried about me – thank you. Smalls' starts Kindergarten in a month, Biggie got a Facebook page and God finally gave us a puppy. I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot of me in the near future. 😉
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Have you ever wondered what people did before Google? Rough morning today. Forgot my phone. Oh! The horror! How will I ever survive without the ability to Google (at the red lights) the answers to the all the random questions Smalls has? Think I'm being a baby? Take this test… how many of these questions do you know the answers to – WITHOUT looking them up?
What is the difference between a porcupine and a hedgehog?
Do bees poop?
Why do viking hats have horns on them?
Do hedgehogs have tails?
Do airplanes have batteries?
Why is the sky blue?
Why do girls have to wear high heels to work?
Do we come from dinosaurs?
Why won't God make you give me a puppy?
Hmm…. so, that's what encyclopedias are for.
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Everyone knows Smalls has a little body and a big personality. So, what pisses off a 4 year old? You'd be surprised.
Say what you mean, already!
Smalls' pre-K class is gathered around for circle time and they start off the activities by playing the alphabet song on the CD player.
Smalls: (sticking fingers in her ears) I am so over this song.
Teacher: Smalls, what's the matter? Why are you sticking your fingers in your ears?
Smalls: Because, Ms. Teacher, I just don't get it!
Teacher: What do you mean "you don't get it," Smalls?
Smalls: Well, I just don't get it. Is LMNOP one letter?
Teacher: No, it's 5 letters. (writing on board) See… L… M… N… O… P. Five letters.
Smalls: Then why do they say it LMNOP, like it's one letter?
Teacher: Because it goes with the music of the song.
Smalls: (sticking fingers back in her ears) Well, that's just silly. If it's five letters, they should have made the music fit five letters!
Never underestimate a four-year-old.
Smalls and my sister-in-law are were walking to the ice cream shop in town the other night.
BabySister: Smalls, you have to hold my hand.
Smalls: Why, Aunt BabySister?
BabySister: Because, you know, there are cars on the road and there are strangers…
Smalls: If I see a stranger, I know what to do.
BabySister: You do? What's your plan?
Smalls: Well, I would run away as fast I can and I would climb a tree and I would hang upside down like a sloth and then they wouldn't even know what to do!
BabySister: Hmm… good plan.
Don't try to label me.
Driving home from work on our nightly commute together, I usually ask Smalls about her day…
Peeved: So, what did you do today?
Smalls: We learned about animal doctors.
Peeved: Oh, that's fun. Would you like to be an animal doctor when you grow up?
Smalls: No, when I grow up, I'm going to be Smalls.
Peeved: No, I mean, what do you want to do as your job when you get older, Smalls?
Smalls: Job? I don't want to WORK!
Peeved: Well, most people have to work. If you have to work, what would you want to do.
Smalls: I want to be a colorer and a painter… NOT an "artist"!
Peeved: Well, good. Because being an artist isn't a job anyway.
Are you there God? It's me, Smalls.
Smalls: Mommy… God makes everything, right?
Peeved: Yes, honey, God made everything in the world.
Smalls: Then, why did God make me a human?
Peeved: Because, you were a gift to mommy and daddy and we are humans.
Smalls: But, I really wanted to be a cheetah! I didn't ask to be a human!
Peeved: Well, I'm sorry honey. That's how God made you.
(silence for about 3 minutes…)
Smalls: Mommy… God is in heaven, right?
Peeved: Right.
Smalls: And when you say prayers, they go up to heaven, right?
Peeved: Yes.
Smalls: And God is supposed to hear your prayers and answer them, right?
Peeved: Yes.
Smalls: (tearing up and whining) Well, then, how come every night I pray that I will wake up as a cheetah and every morning I'm still a stinky human!??
Peeved: Um… (stifling laughter)
Filed under: General Peevery, Media | Tags: annoying, brainwashed, Burlesque, department of torture, douche, drive me up the wall, Golden globes, grating, Movies, nervous breakdown, peeve, pet peeves, sarcastic, Vanilla ice, vent, wtf
I don't usually pay much mind to the Golden Globe nominations, but earlier today someone posted a prediction poll. Out of curiosity, I checked it out. Of all the movies nominated, I had seen three. Inception, Despicable Me, and… Burlesque. Yes, Burlesque. Here's something to vote on: what is worse? A) the fact that I saw Burlesque in the theater, or B) the fact that the Golden Globes nominated it without even the excuse of an adamant sister and the bribe of a few beers?
Grease? Yes. Chicago? Yes. Moulin Rouge? Hell yes. Burlesque? Bob Fosse just sashayed in his grave.
Tonight, having been ousted from my room by a Care Bear Movie infatuated four-year-old and booted off the computer by a boy infatuated twelve-year-old, I decided to indulge in a little guilty pleasure: House Hunters International. Don't judge. At least I don't yell at the TV like my mom does when the idiots pick the wrong house. Besides, it could be worse… last night it was Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Oy vey! Anywho… I'm minding my own business and out of nowhere – BAM! – exactly how low we as Americans have stooped slaps me in the face. Vanilla Ice has his own show. No, wait. Vanilla Ice has his own home improvement show. Bob Villa just turned over in his grave.
What? He's not dead yet? Did you hear that? (dun dun dun dun na na na…) That's him putting the finishing touches on his custom coffin and getting the table saw ready.
Lord help us all.
Filed under: General Peevery | Tags: annoying, christmas, drive me up the wall, grating, mother, nervous breakdown, parenthood, parenting, peeve, pet peeve, pet peeves, regift, regifting, sarcastic, vent
Christmas is over, the goose done got fat, and you can tell which presents weren't such a big hit by the fact that they're still under the tree. Yes, all of my decorations are still up. Let's just blame that on an unfortunate series of events and not my overactive lazy gland.
I learned how to re-gift from my mother. She'll recycle just about anything. When Biggie was a baby, she pulled out the clothes from the late 70s… um, thanks mom. Another time, I was eating ravioli in what I thought was a brown sauce…
Stepbrother (let's call him Stepdoucher – more on that another time): What are you eating?
Peeved: Ravioli in brown sauce. Mom made it for me.
Stepdoucher: Ew. I bet it tasted better last week when it was ravioli with red sauce.
Peeved: [spit, cough, choke] What??
Mom: Oh, stop. It's fine. I re-worked it.
Last year, her and AJenda had a ridiculous re-gift exchange that went something like this: AJenda buys overpriced bowl set from one of Mom's hairbrained catalog schemes. AJenda is pissed that she paid so much money for what she thought was a set of stacking serving bowls big enough to hold chips. Turns out, they are big enough to hold about two handfuls of peanuts and a couple of MnMs. AJenda regifts the bowls to Mom for her birthday – "I thought they would look nice in your house." Mom, in turn, regifts the bowls to AJenda for her birthday 10 months later – "I felt bad, you ordered them and they go so nice with your house – I hardly used them." You can imagine, this did not fly with AJenda. Come Christmas, there was a familiar looking package under the tree with Mom's name on it. My mother, who is the queen of Christmas shopping at Big Lots and Kroger but expects her own gifts to come in small packages and sparkle, just says, "this better not be those damn bowls."
Alas, this year, there was no reappearance of the damnbowls and Mom did a great job of picking presents.
Mom: You girls really liked your presents?
AJenda: Absolutely, the scarf is lovely.
Peeved: Yep! I liked mine, too. My favorite was the little change purse that looked like a vintage purse.
NotBonJovi: My favorite was the sweatpants! Thanks Ma!
Mom: Ha! I just want to let you know that out of all the gifts, only two are regifts… the scarf and the little purse!
Peeved: Well, your regift skills are improving! Thanks Ma!
Later that night NotBonJovi went to put on his sweatpants. They were a little short. They were a ladies XL.
For those of you that care where I've been for the last three weeks, it went something like this:
Dec 17 – 22: Last minute Christmas shopping and decorating the house.
Dec 23: Bieber! Smalls gets the gift of a stomach bug that keeps on giving.
Dec 25: Blessed temporary reprieve from illness and a white Christmas in the South – thank you Santa.
Dec 26: Peeved gets the gift of a stomach bug that keeps on giving. Mr. Peeved gets it, too. You know, just to keep things fun.
Dec 27 – 29: Netflix! There is a reason some movies go straight to video.
Dec 30: Sickie remnants, but must clean house and go food shopping for company coming over.
Dec 31 – Jan 2: House guests!
Jan 3 – 4: Actual work in the office. (How do I do this again?)
Jan 5 – 8: Trip to NY for Grandpa's funeral. (Even stuffing my face with pizza and bagels couldn't make me feel better – believe me, I tried.)
And, now, I'm home and work was cancelled today because we have a blizzard (READ: 3 inches of snow). I'm about to improvise some sleds, but thought before I do, I better take a moment to check in and give all of you your Christmas presents. It's a regift, of course:
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Filed under: Consumer / Retail, General Peevery, Parenting | Tags: annoying, cereal for dinner, children, christmas, drive me up the wall, elves, grating, nervous breakdown, parenthood, parenting, peeve, pet peeve, pet peeves, pre-teen, sarcastic, shopping, vent
I've been trying to wrap up all my Christmas shopping by the end of this week. I plan on spending the time off I have doing fun things around town with the kids, not last-minute running around in crowds. I HATE crowds. LOATHE crowds, actually. I also can't stand shopping unless it involves margaritas or shoes for me. So, I've been doing a lot of lunch-hour power shopping and stopping in to a single store between picking up the kids and heading home. The other day, I needed to run into Macy's for three very specific things: handbags for Smalls' teachers. I knew exactly what I wanted. I was a woman with a coupon and a mission.
Peeved: Okay, girls, Mommy has to run into Macy's real quick and pick up some presents for Smalls' teachers.
Smalls: Are we getting them Zhu Zhu Pets?
Peeved: No, Smalls, I think they'd like purses better.
Smalls: Oh. Can we stick a Zhu Zhu Pet in the purse?
Peeved: No. Let's just get them purses and then you can make a nice card for them.
Biggie: Where are we going?
Peeved: Macy's.
Biggie: Oh, cool. I totally need skinny jeans. Macy's has the best skinny jeans.
Peeved: We are not shopping for skinny jeans. We are going to get out of the car, go directly to the purses, select three purses, pay for them and leave. Understood?
Biggie: But the skinny jeans are right next to the door closest to the purses. I could just…
Peeved: Here's the deal. Ready? I just need to grab these things real quick. You all need to behave because Santa is watching and if you don't behave you'll get coal in your stocking. Smalls, you're in the stroller. Biggie, you're pushing the stroller. You both stay right next to me and offer your opinions if and only when asked. I need you to be my elves tonight. We are not shopping for ourselves, we are shopping for gifts for others. Got it? Elves. Helpers.
Biggie: Fine!
Smalls: Fine!
A condensed version of the events that took place inside Macy's on December 13th at approximately 7:03 p.m.: touch, touch, touch, drop, yell, whine, whine, whine, yell, disappear, reappear, yell, skootch, skootch, skootch the stroller, heart attack – where the hell did Smalls go?, yell, cheer/dance, cheer/dance, cheer/dance, yell, stroller derby, near fatal collision with purse rack, yell, don't touch your sister-stand right there and don't move-Smalls get your feet off of the stroller wheels, purchase of the closest three purses, step routine, step routine, step routine, yell, time out in the corner, whine, whine, whine, yell, touch, touch, touch…
[In the car on the way home]
Peeved: I don't want to hear a word – A WORD! – from either one of you. Biggie, that was embarrassing and disrespectful. You are twelve years old and I had to put you in time out in the corner of Macy's. You should be ashamed of yourself. How hard is it to stick your hands in your pockets and behave yourself for five freaking minutes? I asked you to help me. You did exactly the opposite. You think it's okay to misbehave now because I've already done my shopping for you? Well, you have another thing coming. Santa doesn't bring trampolines to kids that don't behave. Get my drift? You need to learn to listen. I told you not to touch anything and I don't think there was one item in that store that you didn't leave a fingerprint on.
Smalls: Yeah, and she…
Peeved: I don't want to hear anything from the Peanut Gallery!
Smalls: Yeah, well I don't want to hear anything from the Peanut Butter Jelly Gallery!
Peeved: Oh no you don't. I'm mad at you too. You were not wearing your listening ears. Mommy told you to sit in the stroller and what did you do? You skootched halfway across the store. I look away for one second and you're over in Petites walking around with the stroller hanging off your butt. When we get home, it's dinner and bed for you. No show tonight. Biggie, it's homework and bed for you, too. Give me any lip and I'll take away your electronics for a week.
Peeved: Here, eat your dinner.
Smalls: That's not dinner. That's cereal. I want dinner.
Peeved: Well, we don't have anything in the house. And, after the way you acted in the store, I'm certainly not going food shopping with you.
Smalls: I want dinner. [lip quiver] Cereal is not dinner. [start of cry] You need to have something with bread for dinner. [full on crying, now]
Peeved: Fine! I'll go make something out of nothing.
[in the kitchen]
Smalls: [sobbing in the other room – then… silence]
Peeved: Smalls… what are you doing?
Smalls: [in the most pathetic four-year-old voice you can imagine] Looking at a picture of you [stifled sob] … when you were happy.
Peeved: What?
Smalls: You're with daddy… [stifled sob]... and … you're smiling [full on crying again]
Dear Future Therapist of Biggie & Smalls,
It is all exaggerations and half-truths, I swear.
Filed under: General Peevery | Tags: 40-year-old-virgin, annoying, drive me up the wall, dumbass, grating, half-assed, nervous breakdown, peeve, pet peeve, pet peeves, sarcastic, sunburn, vent, waxing
- never take your contacts out after eating a handful of wasabi almonds
- don't drink a dry martini immediately after brushing your teeth
- you can't trust a man to throw out a potholder with a hole in it
- before you leave the bathroom it's always a good idea to check and make sure your skirt isn't stuck in your pantyhose
- don't assume that bar toilets don't have lids
- you probably shouldn't buy sunblock that comes with a free bottle of aloe vera lotion
I learned that last one back when I first met Mr. Peeved (you know, when I was skinny and cute and fun) and we went to a friend's wedding in Charleston. I also learned that you should never try to pee in a public restroom while drunk and wearing a pair of roller skates. Alas, that is a story for another time. Despite the fact that we had remembered every last thing, including the gin, the tonic, the limes and the roller skates, we somehow forgot to pack sunblock. So, we did what any self-respecting beach partiers would do… we picked some up at the local gas station.
On the third day, as we're getting ready for the wedding:
Mr. Peeved: Baby, you look beautiful.
Peeved: Thanks. Can you zip me up?
Mr. Peeved: Sure. Hey, you look a little pink – did you wear sunblock yesterday?
Peeved: Yeah. Does it look bad with the green dress?
Mr. Peeved: No… well… it's just…
Peeved: Oh my God! What?
Mr. Peeved: Did you put it on yourself?
Peeved: Yes! What???
Mr. Peeved: It's, um, a little streaky is all…
Peeved: What? What do you mean? [running over to the mirror]
Mr. Peeved: It's not bad…
Peeved: Holy shit! I look like a freak! I have to meet all of your friends for the first time and I look like…
Mr. Peeved: Like a one-armed retard put on your sunblock?
Peeved: Where's my gin & tonic?
Since then, anytime something is done half-assed around the house, we blame it on the one-armed retard. Not politically correct, I know, but as an inside joke, pretty damned funny.
A few months ago, there must have been an eclipse of a blue moon, because I found myself home alone with a bottle of wine and nothing to do. Bored, I went to the "bathroom closet" to get things out to paint my nails. I just so happened to come across a box of Sally Hanson Hair Remover Wax Strips. I don't know what these were doing in my closet, as I have never waxed anything but poetic in my entire life. Well, two glasses of pinot and I'm all about trying out a little bikini wax.
Have you ever seen 40-Year-Old Virgin? Steve Carell was not acting. That shit HURTS! I tried the first strip… after pulling myself up off the floor and wiping away my tears, I decided two glasses of pinot wasn't going to cut it. I sobered up faster than a 13-year-old when the cops start knocking on the door. One more glass and I went in for the second and third strip… JESUSF'INGCHRISTONACOWBOY'SHORSE!!!!!! That was it. I was done. I didn't care that there was only a few patches of smooth skin, I would rather give birth again than to try to make it work. The next night, Mr. Peeved and I went out to dinner for his birthday.
Peeved: Okay, I have to tell you something.
Mr. Peeved: What did you do now?
Peeved: Why did I have to do something?
Mr. Peeved: Because, you're always doing something.
Peeved: What's that supposed to mean?
Mr. Peeved: Oh, just go ahead, c'mon… what'd you do?
Peeved: Okay, well… I had a few glasses of wine last night and I…
Mr. Peeved: Are you serious? What is wrong with you?
Peeved: I don't know, I thought it was a good idea at the time!
Mr. Peeved: You are unbelievable. I leave you alone for an hour…
Peeved: I know, I need help.
Mr. Peeved: Well, at least now we can say we know who the one-armed retard is.
(A footnote: before you get all pissed off at me for using the big, bad "R" word, read my About page. I don't care what you think, so don't bother telling me all about it in the comments. Further, a note for my loyal readers: sorry I've been MIA. Work and holidays has me in a tizzy. I'll try to be better, but everything is okay. Thanks for your concern and for keeping up the peeve in my absence. )


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The new iPhone 5 will have voice control and speech-to-text integration, allowing users to simply tell its iPhone what to do, according to a report.
Apple bought Siri, a speech-to-text company, last year. Its most memorable project was a "virtual assistant" on your smartphone that responded to voice commands like, "Find a romantic restaurant," and the software will look up a romantic restaurant and pick one with the best reviews, according to 9to5 Mac.
"Assistant" does not work only based on a user's voice inputs, but Apple will take information – securely – from user's devices like location, contact's information, and music metadata to formulate the best information to serve a user's request. Since Apple will be taking information such as phone contacts and location, we truly think that "Assistant" will work just like the Siri iPhone application does; but fully integrated into the operating system.
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We think it's a massive change to how people will use their iPhones, but will it make users a little more lazy and reliant on their smartphone? That's probably the idea. However, remember that speech-to-text and voice navigation means that now a slip of the tongue can have disastrous results.


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Dear Editor:
The doctors and staff of Montezuma Veterinary Clinic would like to thank all who have taken the time to call or come by and offer kind condolences, as well as to drop off many cards and other tokens in sympathy of Dr. Shane Cote's passing. He was a compassionate and caring man who went out of his way to help others in every way. He will be missed greatly by all who knew him and we will honor his memory by carrying on with the same great care and service to every client and animal who comes through our doors.
Dr. Cote and all of us here at MVC have always strived to provide the very best care to each of our patients, and we look forward to being able to continue to serve the Four Corners region well in the months and years to come. Thank you for your continued support and kind remembrance of Dr. Cote.
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The 2011 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade route will once again bypass Broadway on it's way to Macy's flagship store on 34th Street.
The Parade will begin at the traditional 77th Street and Central Park West kick off, it will travel down Central Park West to Columbus Circle, where it will veer towards 7th Avenue and march down 7th through Times Square. It will then turn onto 42nd Street to 6th Avenue marching down the Avenue of the Americas to 34th Street where it will turn and end at 34th Street and 7th Avenue. (Parade Route Map)
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A lot has changed since Robbie Rogers last donned the Black & Gold in October 2011.
Since the winger left Columbus for English Championship side Leeds United in the following offseason, Rogers never quite gained his footing in England as he battled injuries, sparse playing time and a loan spell with third-division Stevenage.
Then in February, everything changed as Rogers briefly retired from soccer after he announced he was gay -- something he had held inside throughout his life. Three months later, Rogers signed with his hometown LA Galaxy on a monumental day in American sports history.
Now a pioneer as the first openly gay male athlete to play in a major American sports league, Rogers will face his former club for the first time. Ironically, the reunion will occur on the same turf Rogers helped deliver Columbus' first pro sports championship in the 2008 MLS Cup Final at what was then known as the Home Depot Center.
Though facing former teammates is commonplace in MLS, Chad Marshall and Danny O'Rourke are looking forward to facing their friend and fellow MLS Cup champion on Thursday.
"[Rogers] has been away from the Crew for a while now and I think the longer you play in this League, the more you play against former teammates," Marshall said. "It'll be just another game, but it'll be nice to see him. I haven't seen him in a long time. I'm glad he's back on the field and it'll be fun to play against him."
O'Rourke added: "That's just the nature of the beast. People get traded or end up with different teams. Those people are still friends off the field, but when it comes to the field, it's all business.
"We're still good buddies."
Though his time with the Black & Gold has been over for almost two years, the memory of Rogers' influence on the 2008 squad still lingers in the minds of his former teammates.
"I just remember some of the goals he scored for us and how big he was for us in that 2008 season, I'll always remember the bomb he hit against New York," Marshall recalled. "Just his ability to read Guillermo [Barros Schelotto] -- they seemed to have a good relationship of knowing where each other would be -- so it was fun to watch. It was an exciting time for the Crew.
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Everyone has had this experience. You're enjoying a movie, but there's that one character that drives you nuts. Even in movies you don't like that much there can be characters that annoy more than others! Whatever kind of experience you're having with the film, that one character just gets under your skin!
When a character is widely reviled such as Jar Jar Binks and "Jill" from "Jack and Jill", they often take on a life of their own beyond the film, with pop culture carrying the spite for them personally long after the movie fades.
Which character will you pick? Who annoys you?
Can we get some
love hate for Mutt from "Crystal Skull"? Will anyone bring up Stiffler? How about someone from a classic movie, such as Mickey Rooney's Mr Yunioshi from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"? Maybe something current like "The Hangover"'s Chow or Alan? Does anyone remember Sofia Coppola's Mary Corleone?
These are the characters you just want to punch. Who will you choose? Which characters drive you crazy?
Let's hear it! Who are YOUR most annoying Movie Characters?


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