This morning they were filming a scene for Law & Order: Criminal Intent in our big shed. Diana, a woman I work with, told me that this is the third time they’ve filmed there in the past year or so. Of course, the coolest thing was that I met Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe. I chatted with D’Onofrio for a bit between scenes and gave him a poster on estuaries that he said his son would like. He seemed like a real nice guy.

Here are some of the better photos I took:

And I’m told the episode they were filming is named “Beast”.

I thought it was funny.

So anyway, people start to filter in and the group starts talking about Ken Jennings. One person brings up the recent New York Times article on him titled “O.K., Alex, Smart Nerds for $1 Million”. Another talks about the great service he is doing for nerds around the country. A really good conversation.

So the safety meeting starts and rolls along for a while. Every so often I check on Igor and his math. Clearly more interesting than “Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls”. Then the speaker starts talking about how he fell off of a ladder recently. He’s drawing a diagram on a big sketch pad, showing how he was leaning the wrong way. When he draws how he fell, somebody yells out, “Hey Mickey, how much force would that have been?” Now, Mickey had earlier made some quip to the speaker, so this might have been an attempt to put him on the spot. He’s sitting directly in front of me starts to laugh a little. Someone else to my left says, “Yeah, in pounds per feet!” Mickey responds, “Well, I’d have to calculate the potential energy, but I think it’s safe to say that for an impact with something the surface area of a wrist, I’d say it would probably break.”

Gosh I love nerds.

Also, three times this week on my way to and from work I’ve had to slow down because on animals on the road. One rooster and three deer. And for those of you who may not have noticed, this was my attempt at posting something more interesting. I’m thinking it didn’t go so well. Yeah.

I really have to start cleaning stuff up around the house. I’ve been far to lax of late.

I also might want to think up some better stuff to post. Like funny stuff. Stuff someone might want to read. Or I could just talk about what I do at work. Hmm… maybe funny stuff will happen to me at work. I can only hope.

I’m going to need more sleep though. I’ll get started on that soon…

So today I started my summer internship. It was great. So far. We’ll see about tomorrow. I have to be in the lab at 7:30 a.m. to start working. I suppose I might as well get a jump on being a morning person again.

Looks like I’m going to be spending some time tweaking stuff a bit more before I get some real content up. Or maybe I’m just lazy after a day at work. We’ll have to wait and see.