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There’s an article about Brian in today’s Sunday Times. We read it about an hour ago when we woke up here in San Francisco, I said, “It makes it sound like all you do is eat, drink wine and talk about physics.” There was a pause where he just looked at me and I realised how silly I sounded, “Oh yea… that is all you do.”

He’s currently in the bedroom on the phone with a journalist from Wired magazine. They’ve been talking for 45 minutes or so about CERN… though I did hear Brian say, ‘Yea, it was a bit Spinal Tap’ which must have been when he was talking about how his first band Dare broke up having a fist fight in a hotel bar in Germany. :)

Today, we are going to take it easy in order to get over the last of our jetlag and the cold we’ve both had this week (thank Christ we were in business class on the flight) then this evening we are going to meet up with a bunch of people including Mike and Jess who are over from London, as well as some Seesmic people, Jasmine, Maryam and Robert, hopefully a physicist from Berkley and several other people! If you’re in SF and want to pop in, we’ll be at Medjool from 8.30 for drinks and whatnot. Come say hi!

**EDIT** The Wired article is here.

Well, we’re having an odd day. I needed to call my bank twice to get my bank card working… but it’s working now so that’s all good. Macy’s department store was having a big sale and with the dollar so weak and the visitors’ card which gives 11% off, I got quite a lot of clothing today. Which was desperately needed cos, well, I didn’t really bring any clothes with me (couldn’t get the whole packing thing together). I’ve now got at least *something* halfway decent to wear at TED next week. Now, photos…

On the monorail from the airport to the car rental place.

On the corner of Haight-Ashbury.

An iPod vending machine in Macy’s department store.

I’m in bed in San Francisco, awake, 5am, crazy jetlag, Brian’s asleep next to me. I’m on my Nokia n810 so I don’t disturb him. I can’t type very quickly which is slightly crap.

My bank froze my card, clearly they thought a purchase in the UK, followed by one in Germany, followed by an attempt at one in the US was suspect.

Later: call my bank. :-/

First off, thanks to everyone at Walking With Robots for such a brilliant 3 days. You guys rule! Also, thanks to all of you blog friends for visiting the Walking with Robots blog and saying ‘hi’. We all really appreciated it. A super, special thanks to Jonathan Sanderson for asking me along. Nice to finally work with you after all these years!

Now, I am mental busy.

I’m heading off to San Francisco first thing tomorrow. Brian has been invited to speak at TED which is the initial reason for our trip. We are also going to meet up with friends and people from Seesmic (who are friends, too, but I wanted to give them a special link :).

Apart from the whole, boring ‘cleaning stuff from Bristol, cleaning stuff for SF, getting 12 days’ of stuff ready for my son who’s here while we’re away’ domestic rubbish, I also have a lot to do for Water Lilies (yes, that’s an invitation to check out the site!:). I suspect I might be ripping DVDs and putting clips up online from Business Class on the Munich to SF flight tomorrow… cos I don’t think I’ll have time today.

Broadband on planes is a life-saver.

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Sideblog

  • The BNP's Membership List -

    In case you've not already seen, the British Nationalist Party's membership list (*edited to add link to new source*) has been leaked online. For non-Brits, this is a White Supremacist "political" party in the UK. Everyone on that list stands for everything I stand against.

    - 2008-11-18 22:05:50
  • Brian Didn't Get Dawkins' Job -

    Phew! I can finally say something about this. Brian was up for Dawkins' job, down to the final three (or was it four?!), but didn't get it. And the winner is...

    - 2008-10-30 15:29:51
  • SciFoo Photos -

    I was looking for a photo of me on Flickr and stumbled across these pics of Brian and me at SciFoo.
    Brian
    Me
    Brian
    Me

    - 2008-10-15 20:30:39
  • Brian Cox For Dawkins' Job -

    A couple people in the comments have said they think Brian should take over from Richard Dawkins when he retires this year. If you're on Facebook, you can join the Brian Cox For Dawkins' Job group. Not started be me incidentally.

    - 2008-09-15 14:05:46
  • Observer Article -

    Honestly, this isn't a blog just about Brian. That would be really weird... but... indulge me just a bit longer.

    Some of you may have seen the article about Brian in the Observer today. Now, you guys are intelligent and realise that not everything you read in a newspaper is accurate. This was made absolutely clear to me this morning as I was sitting in my bathrobe, hair all over the place, barefoot, all coffee breath, unshowered and read, "he married his American wife, glamorous TV presenter Gia Milinovich, in secret." :-/

    Ah well...

    - 2008-09-14 10:26:58
  • Professor Brian Cox Gay? Answered -

    Questions I assume people want answered based on various searches.

    1. No, Brian is not gay. I'm his wife, not his beard. Amazing, eh?
    2. No, Brian has not had botox. :rollseyes: He's 40 years old and just has good skin.
    3. Yes, Brian was in D:Ream, but I wish the media would stop mentioning it. It's really boring now.
    4. No, Brian's not evil. He's really lovely actually. Literally, will not even kill a fly. I, however, take delight in destroying wasps and have been known to murder mice who came into my home.
    5. No, Brian does not have a belief in God or Gods.

    - 2008-09-13 00:57:42
  • Brian on 'Enough Rope' -

    Excellent interview with Brian by Andrew Denton on 'Enough Rope'. I'm not able to see video yet, but there's an mp3 of the whole interview and a transcript. w00t! for Star Wars toys!

    - 2008-09-08 22:05:45
  • Brian in the Indy -

    Mike Atherton aka Sizemore just told me about this article in the Independent about Brian and CERN and all that. woot!

    - 2008-09-03 18:38:08

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About


Gia Milinovich is an American ex-pat, a science groupie and professional dork.

Gia recently worked on The X Files: I Want To Believe. Previously, she wrote the Sunshine production blog, was involved in the Indy4/Seesmic online junket and originated the 28 Weeks Later QR Code DVD release.

Gia's a TV presenter, enjoys taking photos, is helping out with the CERN Podcast, is married to physicist Professor Brian Cox and thinks writing about herself in the third person is "cool".


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