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A couple weeks ago I got an embargoed preview of an upcoming research paper in Nature. I contacted the scientist involved as well as my press contact at CalTech and asked if I could come down and shoot the experiment at the Quantum Optics laboratory. On Monday morning I went and interviewed the lead author of the paper, a student and researcher named Kyung Soo Choi. He explained the experiment to me, as the Nature article is quite dense, and afterward I shot the lab. Here is the resulting gallery on WIRED News:

• Wolverines! First possible wolverine siting in nearly a century in California (tags: wolverine animal wildlife california)
• D&D As A Gateway To Nerdism This is a great flowchart! (tags: D&D flowchart gateway nerd)

• Unmanned Space Cargo Shop To Launch Will launch around 0400 GMT on Sunday, which is roughly 8:00 PM here in Los Angeles. It will carry over 7 tons of cargo to the International Space Station. I'd like to point out that we're still using a shuttle first flown over 30 years ago. (tags: space shuttle eu)
• Bush Says No to Anti-Torture Legislation Nothing like a president who can stand up against silly laws that would make torture illegal. Wait, isn't torture already illegal? (tags: bush cia torture veto)
• Your Caturday LOLCat Dance! (tags: lolcat caturday dance)
• Cool Story About the Tunnels Under The Downtown Los Angeles Civic Center I want to explore these! Can't believe they only have one photo with the article! (tags: latimes tunnels underground civic.center downtown.la downtownla)

I can't remember the last time I woke up at 6:00 AM on a Saturday morning when it didn't involve Search and Rescue. I didn't even set an alarm, but when I woke up and rolled over it was just a few minutes after six. I am really enjoying this early rising thing. I used to think I was more productive at night, but now that I'm getting up early I realize that I am actually a more effective worker in the morning.

As I mentioned the other day, I've been following the Zen Habits morning routine, although instead of fixing lunches for the kids, I feed the cats. I have also started getting ready for my day before I go to bed, again per Zen Habit's recommendations. I have really been enjoying the last point, reading myself to bed.

Today after breakfast I went for a brisk 45 minute walk around Downtown Los Angeles. I brought my camera along, and here are a few of the photos I shot:

You can check the rest of my Downtown LA Walkabout #4 photos here.

• LolCat of the Day oh noez! (tags: lol)

• Gary Gygax on xkcd Great tribute. (tags: d&d gary.gygax xkcd)
• WIRED News: ETech Photos I shot portraits of a bunch of ETech speakers / attendees. Here are the 11 that WIRED News ran. (tags: wired.news wired ETech portraits)

As you may have noticed, I've been walking around Downtown to get exercise and shooting photos along the way. I'm trying to doing this every day. I think I'm going to do it first thing tomorrow morning after I wake up and have my glass of water (I stopped drinking coffee). I like the Zen Habits morning routing idea, I'm going to give it a shot. Anyhow, here are a few of the photos I shot earlier today:

You can check out the rest of my Downtown LA Walkabout #3 photos here.

Toady I went for my second walkabout in Downtown Los Angeles, in what will be a series of many such walks. I shot a couple of photos of random interesting things that I saw. I really like the photo of the ~~flying rat~~ pigeon above an alley. These photos were shot with my Canon 5D and a 16-35 f/2.8 L II lens.

• LolCat of the Day haha oh noez... (tags: gas lolcat)

• LolCat of the Day Best lolcat ever? (tags: lolcat, milk.face)
• Another Great Gnarls Barkley Video "That was crazy fresh" (tags: gnarls.barkley crazy.fresh)
• Do people actually need Hybrid Gardening Multitools? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say no. (tags: hybrid.gardening.multitool inane silly wtf)
• Carbon Nanotube Cloth Sheets This is awesome, will change the world. Nanotech will change the world. (tags: carbon.nanotube, nantube, nanotech)