Writing about Sunset over the Norfolk coast from Paul’s blog
So I thought I’d share too – this one isn’t posed, believe it or not
This is a shot on the sea wall of the island of Baltrum, which I took when I was there just after christmas. The wind turbines are back on the German coast.
F80/velvia 50/probably 18–35mm lens at 35mm/f11
http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/ has more, if you’re interested.
So. The campus is crawling with police. There’s a metal detector installed in the WMG building. There’s a mobile control centre parked by the gatehouse, Scarman house seems to be sealed off (by police also), and the top floors of both car parks overlooking the WMG building are suddenly sealed off for “essential maintenence.”
WTF is going on?
Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3912205.stm
UK Independance Party MEP Godfrey Bloom joined the European Parliament’s women’s rights committee, and promptly said:
“No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age… I am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home. I am going to promote men’s rights.”
God Help Us.
On the plus side, hopefully their MEPs will all have been locked up for this kind of discrimination or for fraud before too long.
So, I got an interesting email yesterday, from someone I’d met at a conference last year (edited to protect the innocent):
I hear from my supervisor, ..., (just as I have almost finished a poster on my fantastic new catalyst…) that you’ve made the exact same one! (Noooooooooooooo! My only decent result in three years!) Most upsetting, all that work and now I’ve got to present the damn phenoxyimine stuff again. He could have said BEFORE I spent 2 hours typing!
All very exciting. Plan is now to publish a joint paper with her, to save on AcademicBitchFights later. Seems like I’ve made a lot more progress on these systems than she has, I’ve been working on it for longer, and I’ve pushed it further. We’re interested what they’ll bring to the party.
But on the plus side, that does mean that I’m now starting to write my very own paper, which I’m quite excited about. I enjoy writing stuff, and with this topic, I’ve actually got some stuff to say, which is nice :-)