23
Mar
2010
smart geometry 2010 – in progress
It is all in full swing, but here are some amazing pictures from SG this year!
20
Mar
2010
thou shall not passport
The first day of Smart Geometry is more or less over now, last night’s tutors’ dinner is now just a memory and a crumpled receipt in someone’s pocket.
I’m sat in Oxford, in my house, Winnie-the-Pooh-ing about and putting things in the dishwasher.
This doesn’t seem like very responsible behaviour for a tutor, especially for one of such an exciting cluster as the “Rapid R&D to Rapid Assembly – snap fit, push on….” group. Surely I should be solving wicked problems and grinding out slick moves to make snap fit shuttering carpentry late into the night.
No. If you don’t have a passport – but you do want to travel – then, in a slightly twisted version the words of the great John Nash, “Fuck you buddy“. Read the rest of this entry »
3
Jul
2009
Christchurch to Auckland
ROAD TRIP!!!
3
Jul
2009
Yosemite photos
Here are the photos from my yosemite trip this march in glorious high res technicolour.
23
Mar
2009
yosemite trip
Due to the the australian government’s spectacular kindness in allowing me into their fine country for the past year coming to an end, I had a window of a few days to kill in California before Smart Geometry (more on that in the next few days).
While zooming out on the San Francisco map, I spotted Yosemite National Park 200 miles to the east, and knew in seconds what I’d be doing for those free days!
After a less than inspiring flight, and Lloyds thoughtfully putting a stop on my card in SF because I might be getting scammed, I eventually got on the train to Merced, where if I’d had less drama buying food I’d have caught the bus to Yosemite, but as it was, I ended up sleeping at the train station in a luggage cart!
Yosemite doesn’t mess about, there are incredible falls in the valley floor, and about a kilometer into the trail you come across Vernal Falls
the water falls so far that by the time it gets to the bottom it’s just a very fast mist that hits a rock and flys out horizontally!
