John Jacobsen

Cuba Street Fair, Wellington At the end of a few days here in Wellington, I am flying home today.

Monday morning and Jan, Timo and I are on the Northbound train from Christchurch to Picton.

Just a quick one-liner to let everyone know I’m safely in New Zealand enjoying oxygen- and moisture-rich air.

South Pole Telescope Less than 30 hours to go before we leave, and time is whipping by so fast my ears are starting to ring.

Station as seen through the window of IceCube's Ford "Gran Neutrino" truck Almost exactly one week to go, for me.

There is a short list of adventures one can have in the US Antarctic program.

Timo and Jan arrived from Mainz today — the last arrivals for IceCube this season.

Followup to yesterday’s post: then there are the times when you are quietly pedaling the stationary bike in the gym while your iPod plays your favorite audiobook, and a couple of lily-white guys (did I mention it’s mostly lily-white guys here?)

I’ve had some of my most intense music experiences in this place, often while working out.

Despite the morning’s wind and low visibility, colleague Joanna just arrived from Berkeley hand-carrying some cables and a special surprise from Jerry at LBNL, carefully packaged in anti-static plastic and bubble wrap.

It’s 10:05 AM and getting close to bed time.

In the next few days, the last few 'Cubers are arriving on Station to help us with end-of-season commissioning of the new strings.

My room in the A4 wing of the Elevated Station Been here about 58 hours so far and the reason I am counting in hours instead of days is that my sense of days is pretty shot.

10:07 PM New Zealand Daylight Time and I am well-socketed into my room in the station at the South Pole, watching videos, napping when I can, drinking as much water as I can stomach and waiting for my body’s chemistry to adjust to a physiological altitude…

Here’s my new system for conquering the world.

Been here a bit more than 24 hours, and I'm settling in.

John and Dave on the Anaconda MTB Path Photo courtesy and © Kael Hanson With a day to kill yesterday, Dave, Kael and I put our heads together with Sandy, our proprietress at the Devon, and decided to rent bicycles for a trip to the ocean.

Since its swing through perihelion a few days ago, we should be able to see Comet McNaught from here.

In case I don't get to it any time soon, Keith has done a decent enough job explaining the big picture of Icecube on his blog.

Under way at last.

Just got back from a tasty lunch at the Dux De Lux followed by a visit to the Christchurch Art Gallery, an attractive little museum a block from the Devon.

Dawn over the Pacific Dawn over the Pacific, and 30 minutes left in the Big Flight from LA to Auckland.

This year I will be posting directly to the blog, rather than sending out e-mails to everyone like I've done in previous years.

On my sixth trip to the South Pole, I will try to publish at least one drawing or photo each day, possibly including some text.

Europe in Miniature 09:00h Made it back to the Midwest of the South Pacific, where the most threatening thing is the drug dog that will point you out to Customs if you have had any fruit (or drugs) in your backpack at any time in the last 10,000 years.

Halfway Around the World 09:14h I'm still stuck in LA but feel as if I'm already halfway around the world.

GPS: N40d00.000' W88d35.625' (but, bad signal in O'Hare) 13:01h Well, I'm underway, waiting for my flight to LAX.

Last latched GPS: N41d59.099' W87d39.934' T minus 2 days.