Death Star time

Received a lovely invite to "join my peers" at a conference this week.
Nothing unusual in that, but it's not really my field: Directed
Energy Weapons are soon to provide a revolution in military
capability... potential for unlimited "ammunition" and the ability to
fight at the speed of light... Yup, it's high energy lasers!
Clearly lots of advances to report in this area; it does look quite a
varied programme.

The organisation running the event is called Defence IQ. I'm mildly
worried that they have an accurate version of my snail mail address.

Eye open for water traffic

This week's activities brought to you by CITB, encouraging young people to consider careers in construction, and were organised and run by ExSciTe / the Cambridge SETPoint.

Gateshead Millennium bridge

The "blinking eye"

The Lowry Bridge (Salford)

Bridges so far...

QE2 bridge

Stupidly I forgot to take a pic of it in place on the river! Too distracted trying not to fall in.

Bridge building

For National Construction Week, we are building a new bridge each day
in St John's College. So far we've managed to get them installed over
water in time both days, but today it was a close thing. Suspension
bridges are hard.

Tomorrow it is the QE2 bridge from Dartford...

Humber bridge

Tyne bridge

time wasting online

The hardest puzzle on the internet? Possibly.

I still like the Stone (although haven't played for ages); PerplexCity is too diverse for me somehow, and buying cards is just tedious.

In terms of games, I played Kingdom of Loathing for a while and then dropped it, but will probably return to it sometime. More recently I had a short spell in the spooky world where text adventure meets classic text, playing Hamlet, which I luckily found before the site died - can't say I did very well, despite knowing the plot details pretty well...

Off roading

This year, some vehicles actually completed the DARPA grand challenge! Wow.

frist psot

Tradition prevails...