I spent most of this afternoon attempting to attach two pieces of 0.25 micron Teflon tape to some larger Teflon blocks while wearing low-friction gloves.
It wasn’t easy.
A vist to the Tate: Shibboleth
A lucky find in the rubbish and junk fallen into the crack of Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth.
Fire
No pictures from the archives this week, mainly because I’ve misplaced the box full of photographs. Instead, here is a rather poor shot of the fire in Stratford earlier today.
As seen from about two miles away at Mile End about an hour after it started.
The Oldest Road
High Road follows the path of an old Roman road from Colchester in Essex to London and is one of the oldest in the UK. It has been in use for at least two thousand years. The junction is where Whalebone Lane South and North meet the High Road. The areas of fields and allotments along side the roads are all houses and shop now. The pond visible on the left of the image is now covered by industrial areas along Selina’s Lane.
Elegantly dressed Wednesday – Me
Lately, I spend much of my working day the cleanroom, well , either of two cleanrooms.
Room-A is a pretty basic cap and gown type affair – the room isn’t really clean (class 100,000 to 10,000 depending on how often used; more usually high than low), the kit is really there to control access (limited kit = limited number of users) to the room and provide nominal clean standards. Room-B, on the other hand, is a bit more serious; usually class 1000, sometimes approaching class 100 after a few weeks of no use, you need to get properly kitted up to enter this room.
Yesterday I found myself in the changing room for room B with a camera, so here is a self portrait showing me about to start work.
Elegance this Wednesday is yards of blue nylon and nitrile. Or something.