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Margaux Rhymes with Fargo

mostly entertaining stories about my life

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Slacker of the month

Or should I say SLAC-er? Anyways, the gym here on SLAC's campus is ARCAS, or the Arrillaga Recreation Center at SLAC, and I got interviewed as the member of the month for May 2017, so I figured I'd share it... Continue Reading →

Breakroom Etiquette

The breakroom in my office at SLAC is a place fraught with spilled coffee, the CERN Courier (the magazine of our over-shadowing and vastly superior big-brother of an accelerator), and conversations with people who don’t want to go back to... Continue Reading →

(Double) Rainbows

Because they're pretty and because it doesn't rain super often in California.  All of these were taken at SLAC: grassy field, soccer field, and office window view.

Just slackin’ about

I interrupt your regularly scheduled weekly programming (i.e. Flying Cows) with an exciting announcement: I'm gonna be a slacker!  Well, SLAC-er.  As in, working for SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).  On the biggest camera in the world.  I'm super excited!... Continue Reading →

Wisdom from an 8-year-old

Checklist for success from one of my students in a Wizbots class.  This student was trying to solve the "Maze Bowling" challenge: the robot must navigate a simple maze in order to knock down a stack of cups at the... Continue Reading →

One of “those” people

My job at Wizbots is now in half-swing, and I am loving the sleeping in and relatively free mornings. (I say "half" instead of "full" because I'm still an assistant; I won't be a lab leader until the end of... Continue Reading →

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