Huh. Quite a name to emphasize for a shipping group.

Got some lovely optics going on this afternoon.

And just like that, it is lovely again!

Here is radar of more of the lake effect band. Pretty cool. Also a little scary.

We just passed through an impressive band of lake effect snow. This is the lighter side of it. It was snow squall conditions in the centre of the band.

These are some EXCELLENT snow banks along the highway.

@matthewfeickert Thanks! This was a first serious foray into gingerbread construction. I learned a lot of lessons. Mainly: jello leaks. It looks cool but it’s traitorous.

Enjoying a peaceful Sunday. #fortunate

A cold region chiller (which makes one of the gingerbread dark matter hunters sad) is built from Graham crackers, icing, and twizzlers that serve as the connection to the cooling loop. Graham crackers, gumdrops, and chocolate are used to make a computer rack. A cookie makes the pressure vessel dome and another gingerbread disc the tank lid. Blue jello represents water in the neutron shield.

A small version of a real poster for PICO completes the display. 5/5

Four gum drops are cut to make the 4 camera ports. Clear jello is placed in the pressure vessel and represents mineral oil, the hydraulic fluid used to push the inner jar into the outer jar and maintain (or relax) pressure on the target fluid.

Gingerbread panels are iced inside to represent the white liner of the water tank. Panels are assembled to form a partial wall for the water tank.

A cutaway of the pressure vessel is made from panels of gingerbread. The white retroreflector inside is achieved using icing. Twizzler is wrapped around the base area and represents the cooling loop that keeps the bottom region of the detector cold to prevent bubble formation other than in the target fluid. 3/N

The larger and a small test tube were cut to scale size (about 7cm tall) and set the size scale for everything else. The small test tube is inserted into the large test tube and presses on the target fluid, mimicking the inner jar. Gingerbread is used for the donut-shaped heating plate, which keeps the real target at 13C. The base flange is another disc of gingerbread and forms the base of the detector. A large gingerbread disc sits underneath as the floor of the water tank. 2/N

My entry in the @SNOLAB gingerbread contest: a scale cross-sectional model of the PICO-40L detector made from two test tubes, gingerbread, jello, icing, twizzlers, gumdrops, and graham crackers. Oh, and a poster board and poster describing the experiment! I started by putting clear jello mixed with fizzy soda in a larger test tube. This is the outer jars and target fluid model. 1/N

Working on a gingerbread project for @SNOLAB this weekend. Phase I is done. The build is tomorrow.

@fla I wonder how many of us are left running Diaspora servers? I still have mine up, but I keep toying with taking it down to save myself the maintenance and the security hassles.

The festival at lights at #ScienceNorth is always lovely, mostly for the walking in the freezing cold by Lake Ramsey. Oh, and the animated meteor (Sudbury formed from a meteor impact 1.9 billion years ago) was broken, but still cool, frozen in its descent to Sudbury.

Hot chocolates from Tim's and then off to the #ScienceNorth holiday lights display! w/ @sparky and @jodi.

As usual, @jodi outdoes herself for #Turkenfunken.

... and now we are on to prosecco and "Good Beef Hunting Adventure", the "Great North" #thanksgiving episode.

@Ruth_Mottram oh, and I suppose if you wanted to have fun with it, Poiq au vin. Poiq doesn't mean anything in French, as far as I know, so we have ourselves a Frenglish pun.