Sarahmade

no way!

scaur \Scaur\, n. A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.

I seem to remember Emily, sitting on a massive protruding rock while we waited for the bus at the correct bus stop.

Happy birthday to Pete from work who is celebrating only his 7th or 8th 10th birthday even though he is in his 30s 40. (I got the wrong Pete).

Feb 29th only falls on a sunday every 28 years so the last time I experienced one I was only 19 days old. Had to make this one special then so I went on a walk with Tom Smith, Paul, Emily and a new person called Yvonne. I think she is Irish/Greek/German but couldn’t quite work out which. We walked The Strawberry Line, a disused railway from Cheddar to Yatton.

Got on the Chew Valley Explorer bus to Cheddar which took 90mins and took us through proper countryside and little quaint villages…..(wow…..Tom, look at this cool website I just found about buses……)

Lovely walk, great picnic, Yatton was a bit rough and all the boys drive their cars to the Somerfield car park to chat and wheel spin. Haven’t they heard of car sharing?

We thought Yatton had it’s own language when we saw this bus information:

Actually I still think Yatton has it’s own language. Apparently Top Scaur means ‘from the bus stop on the opposite site of the road and up about a mile to the T junction’. Silly us thought it meant ‘from the bus stop opposite this one’. Which is why we waited there an hour and missed the bus a couple of times.

Fun. Couldn’t have done all that when I was 19 days old. Mum – what was I doing?

Being a bit fed up with working today we decided a good way to pass the time would be to take pictures of the man with the ladylike bum:

having just researched image law and permissions for photographs published on websites, the rules are that you can publish a photo if the subject cannot be identified – without their permission. I should be safe as i think if he tried to sue I really could argue this was actually a woman.

mmmmm creme brulee

Wow….0905 on a saturday morning in my office. My computer is so fast it is almost doing things before I ask it to. Usually there are 2500 staff and 26000 students here (obviously not all at once) draining power to my machine. Now it is all mine…..

strange that on weekday mornings I find it a real hassle to get up, have breakfast and get the bus on time but today – on a saturday – when I have to leave for work at the same time I can get up, have coffee, a bacon sandwich, surf the internet for what seems like half an hour and still have time left to post.

“Sarah, the Right Job for you will allow you to be:

All in all, you make it hard for people to pigeon hole you. That is why you, more than others, need a job that allows you to play to your strengths, break out of the mold, and truly excel. ”

I just took the right job/wrong job test on tickle. I also did the IQ one and it said I was quite clever but I’m not going to say what score I got because Tom will blatantly beat me and make my score look little.

I am researching the technicalities of creating digital image archives and catalogues and my favourite word from this subject area is metadata.

I found out about an amazing group/organisation/research centre tasi who supply resourses and help to people who work with digital images, particularly in higher eduation I think.

I found this particularly useful.

oh no! I’m having a cake frenzy. A friend at work whispered to me that she had some really nice cake but just for the 3 of us in our section – then a friend in another section whispered to me that she had some really nice cake but just for the 2 of us.

oooh sounds the start of a really bad comedy.

update: I feel really sick

ok…so it’s snowing. My bus from work doesn’t take the motorway because it’s gridlocked so we go a crazy route and end up stranded in St Pauls. I get off and walk, only because all the studes on the bus start whispering and saying “oh my god, we’re in St Pauls, don’t get out man it’s rough”. Listen to Radio Bristol and they say the centre is shut. I walk home on the ice which takes me about 90 mins. I get home and Aldi dosn’t have what I want so I go to my door and I have left my keys at work. Tom Smith, Paul and Gemma come to my rescue and give me food and a bed. I even get to watch 24 on the satellite tv. I might to pretend to forget my keys every night it’s really nice here. They have broadband AND tea and biscuits after dinner.

I was trying to arrange to take a photo of an academic today so I emailed him to find out when he was available etc (he is researching diarrhoea – it’s going to be an interesting picture). He replied:

“Actually someone said could we add pictures or offer them in our press releases-because although the evening post article was good, for insatnce, would it have attracted more attention with a pike…?”

hehe

At my bus stop the kids are so considerate they graffiti with post it notes.

I have Just realised that 50% of my posts so far begin with I have. It’s all me me me…I must be more imaginative

People in the tubes…..

can anyone see this image? It’s still not working!

Thanks Tom

I have just been to see the electric tube art with Tom Smith, Gemma and Paul. I expect Paul will be putting some pictures of it on his site.

I will post a pic here once I can sort out a more stable place to store my photos. My photos were ok tonight considering I didn’t have a tripod and it was the coldest wind ever on a hill above Bristol. Our hands stopped moving until we got excited and started doing the old long exposure spelling words with your torch trick…..so much easier with a digital camera.

Maybe Paul will let me display the results here?

I have just found out about this guy Richard Box who is the artist in residance at the Physics Department of the University of Bristol

He is currently showing a piece called Field:

“FIELD is a major undertaking which will include the installation of several thousand ready- made glass fluorescent tubes. The bulbs will be ‘planted’ across the site at the foot of an electricity pylon, and will pick up the waste emission from the overhead power line. The piece is simple yet spectacular, making visible what would otherwise go unnoticed. The FIELD of tubes will flicker into life across the hillside as the early evening light fades. ”

fantastic idea and I will try very hard to go and see it.

I have booked a day trip to london for £2.50 (£1 each way and 50p booking fee) with megabus.

apparently:

“Stagecoach has shipped over the secondhand buses from Hong Kong where they have spent the past decade plying local routes. ”

I kind of thought they would be budget….but I just found a picture….

I feel some travel sickness coming on….