{"id":510,"date":"2012-02-28T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2012\/02\/28\/some_good_news\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:52:13","slug":"some-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2012\/02\/28\/some-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Some good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the strange things about blogging is that you are carrying out a (usually) one-way conversation with unknown people. Now, I know there are several people who read this blog regularly who will comment regularly, and although I have never met many of them I feel I am &#8216;getting to know them&#8217;. I also know there must be many people who read the blog regularly and don&#8217;t comment at all &#8211; or very sparingly. It was very curious to meet a couple at the NZ Institute of Physics conference last year &#8211; they read my name tag and instantly knew who I was, and let me know that they are PhysicsStop followers, though I didn&#8217;t know them from Adam. &nbsp; It was hard to know how to react!<\/p>\n<p>So, then, its kind of strange to put this on a blog, but for those who don&#8217;t know, the next big event in my life is penciled-in for the third week in June, when I become a father for the first time. Very exciting stuff, and I&#8217;m sure the child will be a source of great blog-fodder in the years to come (and a source of other stuff too, some no-doubt pretty yukky), as he or she develops into a physicist. (I wish.) 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