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quizcustodietLiving in Headington can be vaguely annoying - or at least, is a major change from living in John's, right in the center of Oxford. I'm still not quite used to leaving the house at 9 am and not returning until 12 or 13 hours later every time I want to go and do an activity after a day in the lab.
It does lead to some genuine Oxford-style randomness, though. Last night I was staying in Oxford for the OTC and my first session of Sul-Ki-Do, a composite of various Korean martial arts and self-defence techniques. Both of these were entertaining, but after helping to move a howitzer by hand at one and spending an hour and a half exercising in the other, when I reached Headington Hill on the way home I decided it was time to walk. So as I'm about half way up the hill, a cyclist overtakes me.
"Better you than me, mate," I offer.
"Is that you, Ben?" says.... my supervisor!
Cue 10 minutes or so of awkward conversation - we've only known each other properly for a week or two and, hell, we're both physicists - as we trudge to the top of the hill then cycle into Headington. The whole thing was more than slightly surreal.
In news to date, I've spent most of today trying to align a very small hole with an invisible laser. If the Greek Gods had known more science, they'd have gone straight for this in Hades and skipped out on rolling rocks up hills.
It does lead to some genuine Oxford-style randomness, though. Last night I was staying in Oxford for the OTC and my first session of Sul-Ki-Do, a composite of various Korean martial arts and self-defence techniques. Both of these were entertaining, but after helping to move a howitzer by hand at one and spending an hour and a half exercising in the other, when I reached Headington Hill on the way home I decided it was time to walk. So as I'm about half way up the hill, a cyclist overtakes me.
"Better you than me, mate," I offer.
"Is that you, Ben?" says.... my supervisor!
Cue 10 minutes or so of awkward conversation - we've only known each other properly for a week or two and, hell, we're both physicists - as we trudge to the top of the hill then cycle into Headington. The whole thing was more than slightly surreal.
In news to date, I've spent most of today trying to align a very small hole with an invisible laser. If the Greek Gods had known more science, they'd have gone straight for this in Hades and skipped out on rolling rocks up hills.
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Date: 2004-10-13 05:16 pm (UTC)Forgive the silly question, but how do you go about aligning a hole with an invisible laser?
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Date: 2004-10-14 12:36 am (UTC)That's our method - you can also get cameras that operate on a slightly different principle. Amusingly enough, one of my friends has discovered that the camera on his mobile phone can see lasers in the infra-red!
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Date: 2004-10-14 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-30 03:40 pm (UTC)"Bwhuaha, now as part of my master plan. I will align this invisible laz-yer (on the head of a shark) with a very, very small hole. Now... where did I put the lay-zer?"
Hi, btw, Borogove told me about your LJ. :)