22nd March, 2007
It's been brought to my attention that quite a lot of people look at this page but there's not currently a lot to see, so I guess I should write some more... I don't spend my whole time in, on and around boats, but I've got lots of pictures of boats. Below are a couple taken last weekend of the Churchill women's crew rowing in the Head of the River Race on the Thames.
I've mostly been preparing for Science Week and my life has been invaded by rather petulant giant soap bubbles. I keep trying to do some proper physics but it's been getting a bit lost. Today I came up with a little mathematical theory about the difference between spherical and pyramidal indenters when they poke into metals... I was happy but perhaps bubbles have more popular appeal. An example of the sort of pretty picture I've been producing is on the right here, for the terminally enthusiastic.
Kari, Kristen, Heather, Ulrike, me, Liz, Sarah, Kat and Kenny
18th April, 2007
One happy week of exercise in the sunshine on the Thames and then a diving competition in Southampton is a fantastic recipe for showing off really bad tan marks. The photo on the left (not the tidiest pike shape ever, apologies to my coaches) is actually from a competition a couple of years ago, so it doesn't show it, but I think I was doing a fair impression of a vertical zebra crossing this weekend. Well, a spinning zebra crossing in freefall, perhaps. And after this week in the lab, I've got geometric nightmares... I'm being chased by a giant angle A and being stared at by a sobbing angle B, upset because I can't tell it where it belongs in life. Such is the heavy burden that scientists carry, responsible for the mental well-being of purely hypothetical objects. Hmmm.
