Reblog: White van man creates works of art on the side of his dirty vehicle
Isn’t that awesome?! 🙂
Pictures
On broken glass and freedom
Yesterday I cleared my workshop of almost every trace of my existence. I say ‘almost’, because I left my ex-colleague something to remember me by: This is a box of broken glass bigger and heavier than you can move around easily, and less substantial than it would need to be to pick up and pour […]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas all
On cheese, fairy lights and going out with a bang..
..or a fire alarm, depending on personal preference. I celebrated my leaving party on Monday. I invited everyone who’s worked with me, and who I’ve worked for, since being here (4 and a bit years). I even invited my soon-to-be-ex colleague – it WAS kind of held in his honour after all – but he […]
Kangaroo? Chicken?
Is it just me or does this molecule look a little startled?
On molecules and foreigners in the workshop
Earlier this week: My soon-be-ex-colleague is sitting at a table with 2 or 3 others drinking beer. I’m at my work bank, making prettifull molecules* for a couple of people who have just graduated/completed their PhDs. An Indian customer comes in with a box of glassware to be repaired. He officially ‘belongs’ to a different […]
On the days between Thanksgiving and Advent. ..
So that’s Thanksgiving and Advent sorted, but what are the 2 days in between for?
J’ai fini!!
2nd Pump’s done 🙂
On the birth of an oil/mercury diffusion pump
First one’s finished!!! 🙂
On cross pollination
Someone out there appears to have been meddling. I haven’t found out who they are, but I’ve found the result of their work. What exactly they were trying to achieve is a little bit unclear, and how they got there is beyond mind-boggling, but there you go. I present you…. …the leopard-slug! (or in this […]
On productivity and independence
Don’t you just love it when your project decides it wants to look like this?? Or this:
On overnight cake-baking
“A work colleague (a nice one) and I are going to visit a super-glassblower for a couple of days and be shown how to do clever things with glass. I want to bring him and his family a cake to thank him for his time and for organising the whole thing.” I did it! 🙂 […]
On ski-jumping
I’m learning to jump 🙂 🙂 And by jumping I mean riding over foot high snow ramps with a 5-10 metre glide up.. (Oh yeah, and the 2 foot snowpile on the slopiest part of the slope…) Didn’t break anything though 🙂 I even got half a second or so of air time on the […]