Got in today and all Yvonne's stuff had gone and all of Rose's stuff too. The lab feels far more empty than it ever has, almost forlorn.
On the plus side I can play music full blast.
On the down side the key to the valuables cabinet is missing - I wonder what was left?
Showing posts with label lowpoints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lowpoints. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Yvonne Rogers to leave OU and move to interaction group at UCL!
See this link for all the gory details http://bit.ly/mc5pmy
Thursday, June 17, 2010
A fairly rubbish day
There isn't any one I can talk to about things at work so I'm going to moan into the blog instead.
Not a hot couple of days at the moment. Firstly I lost the EPSRC application which I can take. Today got to be a low moment I sat in a course meeting and had all my questions rejected outright.
Basically I try to make the questions interesting and informative open out the rather dull matter of the course and nod towards some of the more interesting digital stuff. The stuff that rather excited me when I was learning about computing. I have this great book called the Armchair Universe
which was A collection of A.K. Dewdney's columns from "Scientific American" which was my inspiration. So I have questions about cellular automata. When I was learning about computing I had great building magazines like Byte which we are now long gone.
Any way I was told that having questions with Steve Wolfram in the preamble was scaring the potential students into thinking the question was harder than they actually where. Basically the pre-amble was putting the course team off and I was told I should make the questions less 'computery'
Yeah I found it ironic too.
I know this is all for the best but I keep working and getting the work thrown away. It doesn't play well to the dyslexic in me.
Still what doesn't kill you only makes me stronger ( I don't hear anyone trying to kick me off the course).
Not a hot couple of days at the moment. Firstly I lost the EPSRC application which I can take. Today got to be a low moment I sat in a course meeting and had all my questions rejected outright.
Basically I try to make the questions interesting and informative open out the rather dull matter of the course and nod towards some of the more interesting digital stuff. The stuff that rather excited me when I was learning about computing. I have this great book called the Armchair Universe
which was A collection of A.K. Dewdney's columns from "Scientific American" which was my inspiration. So I have questions about cellular automata. When I was learning about computing I had great building magazines like Byte which we are now long gone.Any way I was told that having questions with Steve Wolfram in the preamble was scaring the potential students into thinking the question was harder than they actually where. Basically the pre-amble was putting the course team off and I was told I should make the questions less 'computery'
Yeah I found it ironic too.
I know this is all for the best but I keep working and getting the work thrown away. It doesn't play well to the dyslexic in me.
Still what doesn't kill you only makes me stronger ( I don't hear anyone trying to kick me off the course).
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Low day
Very low today ( long story) I have noticed that the sensor net had collapsed over the weekend.
This was due to memmory allocation problems in java/processing. Need to restart the server at intervals to cure this.
I've got the last of the balls that came off after the crash back on. 5 are not working. I was hoping to work on the solution at home over Xmas but it looks like the motor controller is dead. I can't even get the PIR sensor to work ( you need a bread board and I am now at home ).
The pressure is really on now. I've got to get a small grant application in, reformat the CHI paper as a work in progress then do the other grant application in , put the cloud up and run the experiment not to mention do this couple of days of 'extream' exam writing for M255 and atten to full days of a sand pit event. January is going to be such a crap month + I'm not looking forward to two weeks of child care with out a break over the next couple of weeks.
This was due to memmory allocation problems in java/processing. Need to restart the server at intervals to cure this.
I've got the last of the balls that came off after the crash back on. 5 are not working. I was hoping to work on the solution at home over Xmas but it looks like the motor controller is dead. I can't even get the PIR sensor to work ( you need a bread board and I am now at home ).
The pressure is really on now. I've got to get a small grant application in, reformat the CHI paper as a work in progress then do the other grant application in , put the cloud up and run the experiment not to mention do this couple of days of 'extream' exam writing for M255 and atten to full days of a sand pit event. January is going to be such a crap month + I'm not looking forward to two weeks of child care with out a break over the next couple of weeks.
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