My parents have spent the last month visiting Singapore, Australia and Thailand.
Guess where their last stop was...
Friday, 28 November 2008
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Imaginary fruit
So is it wrong to be teaching my daughter about imaginary numbers?
Mind you, the fact that e^iℼ = -1 still blows me away...
Mind you, the fact that e^iℼ = -1 still blows me away...
Saturday, 1 November 2008
Excited Arr!
Conveniently, this Thursday was not only the tenth (gosh!) anniversary of Herring and I getting together it was also the night Jonathan Coulton played in London.
Thus, having arranged for a small girl to stay with Grandma (Thanks!), we went off to London for some fun.
Firstly we managed a briefish look at the new (opened that day!) Westfield shopping centre. Boy, is it big! And then it was off to Shepherd's Bush Empire for our concert. We were very amused while queueing outside. People fell very quickly into two categories. One, the geeks (easily recognisable) who joined the back of the queue. Two the non geeks, who looked at the queue, and then at Jonathan Coulton's name with complete confusion!
JC was supported by Paul & Storm. If you've never heard of either of these - go look at their websites now (ok, read this first!). What a fantastic combination. It started well with a song - 'We are the opening Band'! And really got better and better. There was lots of audience participation, particular highlights being all of the audience being pirates - 'Arr', which became the cry at random points throughout the evening. All geeks being (naturally) pirates.
Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm shared the stage at several points, which worked brilliantly. The three of them making a great combination, and playing up to the (extremely!) geeky audience throughout.
Finally a chance to be zombies (All we want to do is eat your braiiins...), and more singing before it was time to go home (or in our case back to our hotel).
Wow! There really was too much great stuff to describe; but it was great to see so many geeks, and have such a good time (and how often do you get to sing about the Mandelbrot set?!).
*sings* 'Take a point called z in the complex plane...' ;-)
Thus, having arranged for a small girl to stay with Grandma (Thanks!), we went off to London for some fun.
Firstly we managed a briefish look at the new (opened that day!) Westfield shopping centre. Boy, is it big! And then it was off to Shepherd's Bush Empire for our concert. We were very amused while queueing outside. People fell very quickly into two categories. One, the geeks (easily recognisable) who joined the back of the queue. Two the non geeks, who looked at the queue, and then at Jonathan Coulton's name with complete confusion!
JC was supported by Paul & Storm. If you've never heard of either of these - go look at their websites now (ok, read this first!). What a fantastic combination. It started well with a song - 'We are the opening Band'! And really got better and better. There was lots of audience participation, particular highlights being all of the audience being pirates - 'Arr', which became the cry at random points throughout the evening. All geeks being (naturally) pirates.
Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm shared the stage at several points, which worked brilliantly. The three of them making a great combination, and playing up to the (extremely!) geeky audience throughout.
Finally a chance to be zombies (All we want to do is eat your braiiins...), and more singing before it was time to go home (or in our case back to our hotel).
Wow! There really was too much great stuff to describe; but it was great to see so many geeks, and have such a good time (and how often do you get to sing about the Mandelbrot set?!).
*sings* 'Take a point called z in the complex plane...' ;-)
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