Alan's blog » aberavon http://www.alandix.com/blog just starting ... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:53:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Been to London to visit the Queen http://www.alandix.com/blog/2010/02/03/been-to-london-to-visit-the-queen/ http://www.alandix.com/blog/2010/02/03/been-to-london-to-visit-the-queen/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:21:40 +0000 alan http://www.alandix.com/blog/?p=232 … well Queen Mary, University of London anyway. Giving a talk on “The New Media of Digital Light”1. While there I was given interesting tours of various research groups in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at QML including music that plays along with the drums, maps for the blind, and red dots on the heads of crowds at Covent Garden.

On the tube I noticed that if you are standing and look at the reflections in the curved tube train windows, all the seated passengers become Siamese twins joined at the head. Also looking down standing people tend to stand with their toes pointing outwards, whereas for seated people only the men do that. I feel there must be a social psychology paper in that, but it has probably already been written.

At the hotel neo-classical statues line the way down to an underground car park, and while seated at a WiFi sweet spot, was overhearing a dissident group planning a protest.

A typical day out in London.

A reminder of Wales, Aberavon Road, near QML


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