Strange New World

I currently sit in a lab on the second floor where I will be learning how to work with FPGAs such that I can start doing my Master's project. The muon decay experiment is coming along. I need to modify my code such that I can access both the QDC and TDC simultaneously, which may be trickier than it seems. I've got a pretty good idea as to how to do it the lazy way. 

They've all got really pretty screens in here. I'm so jealous. 

Also, I just downloaded a 900MB file in less than 20 minutes over wifi.

More to come as things develop.

Today will be a day to remember... My main goals: set up the muon counter and not break anything.
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I swear, one day I'll prove that time passes slower on the train than it does in the rest of the word.
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Beneath me.

Considering the heat today, and how humid it is on the train, I've decided that it's no longer beneath me to sit down cross legged on the train rather than standing in the midst of flamboyant blouses and black ties.Also, my back is in contact with this big aluminium sheet which acts as a very nice heatsink. 

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It is bloody hot in the lab today.
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Wierdest Wikipedia crawl ever.

Yesterday, I was looking at the Wikipedia page about the toys coming out for the new Transformers movie (pretty decent action flik, by the way). About an hour later I realized that I had somehow made my way to the page corresponding to 'The Land Before Time V" and somewhere in the middle I had stopped to read about the Terminator franchise. How did this happen!

CAEN Documentation

An except from a documentation file I'm reading:

Writes the specified value to the specified threshold register. If
threshold_id is CVT_V792_THRESHOLD_ALL every threshold will be setted
to the same value.
Parameters:
p_data Pointer to board data
threshold_id The threshold to set. It must be a
cvt_V792_threshold_id valid id.
value The value to set : Threshold value and Kill
bit (CVT_V792_THRESHOLD_KILL_MSK) If the kill bit be isn't setted the
channel will be disabled

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What does "If the kill bit be isn't setted the channel will be
disabled" mean? Also, how hard is it to either punctuate or not
punctuate your sentences?