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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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. ;)
