Fuddland
There’s been a flurry of activity around the building in which I [sometimes] work lately — cleaning, polishing, putting up monitors displaying impressive-looking but generally meaningless simulations, getting everything all nice and finished-off before the official opening in a couple of weeks. [Yes, this is the building that we moved to over a year ago.]
Out the front has appeared a nice plinth and new bushes and trees. Rumour has it that a statue of Sir Isaac Newton is to adorn the plinth, in honour of the fact that, as far as I can tell, Newton has no connection whatsoever with the University, the city of Leicester or even Leicestershire, but was a dab hand with a slide-rule by all accounts so why not put up a statue of him outside the Space Research Centre?
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Newton is a sundial [Fuddland]. Excerpt:
Comments
Brown | 2004 / 10 / 13 – 10:01
dvd, do you share the desire I have each time I walk by the empty plith to climb up on to it?
David | 2004 / 10 / 13 – 10:33
Re #2: Absolutely. Frustratingly, my boy-like desire to leap onto the plinth conflicts with my adult concern that the cement may not be fully set.
Brown | 2004 / 10 / 13 – 14:41
I can’t fight it anymore! I want a picture of me on the plinth. It’s got to be the Bruce Forsythe generation game pose ain’t it? Can you oblige tomorrow dvd?
Also, it’s not a couple of weeks it is exactly one week. We had better get the crayons out and finish our posters!
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David | 2004 / 10 / 13 – 14:58
Re #3: You’re too late! Sir Isaac is in place as of today. There would be photographic evidence if it wasn’t tipping down — perhaps tomorrow.
Although if the cement isn’t set yet, he might be easily toppled… ;)
Brown | 2004 / 10 / 13 – 15:33
:(
What about a picture of me hugging Sir Isaac?
David | 2004 / 10 / 13 – 16:15
Re #5: Whatever floats your boat. ;)
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