You can get there from here.

New Orleans.

Bourbon Street? Lame. Streetcars that run in the grass? Haven't had the Desire. Cafe au lait and beignets? Don't be (stretch for it.........) du-monde-ing.

Okay, I'm lying. Don't care much for Bourbon Street, but I certainly intend to get to streetcars tomorrow and perhaps Preservation Hall later in the week. My students will be glad to know I graded their papers at Cafe du Monde, and the grades turned out better than usual.

I'm actually here for the American Physical Society March Meeting. The idea is to absorb (broadband, with a peak in the spectrum around the organic superconductors) as much physics as possible.

I overheard a discussion on quantum dots on Canal street during lunchtime today.