Saturday:
Regent’s Recreation: Recording rhythmic revolutions.
I took photos of friends at the Alfresco dance event in Regent’s Park
Sunday:
Reading: Requesting / reacquiring requisite resource.
I gave the Dagenham Town Show a miss and went instead to an electronics fair in Reading
Mid July, wet weather? It must be town show time! 2007 sees the 56th running of this annual two-day event.
I’m planning to visit on Sunday. On Saturday I’ll be in Regent’s Park not learning to dance at the Broadwalk Ballroom.
The visitor turned out to be of the clueful-evil variety – a scientist turned administrative bean-counter. Luck had it that the lash-up experiment was buried under a pile of other equipment I’d just moved into the lab. I was honestly able to say I was working on sorting everything out.
There was a brief discussion regarding the future direction of the project and I showed him the results that had been emailed to me, deflecting his questions due to lack of knowledge of how the results were gained. The next (first?) milestone to hit is verified results by early September. I’m going to be very busy for a few weeks…
The new job is going reasonably well, I’m not sure that I’m over-keen at being introduced to people as the solution to all their troubles, but I hope I can be useful.
Tomorrow I have to entertain, persuade and divert some industrial partner visitors. Progress on the project they are coming to see is pretty much non-existent and the person working on it is, rather conveniently, away from looking after her sick child…
Tomorrow I’ll probably quickly set up a laser and some optics to launch some light into the sensor to at least make it look plausible (it might even work…), but explain I can’t show any results yet because I don’t have the samples (this is true, I don’t even know what the samples are).
Hopefully a spot of hand waving and illusion will send them off thinking they’ve seen something great, after all we are supposed to know more about this side of the project than they are.
Of course if they send someone possessed of a clue, I’ll just explain the situation and pick their brains for some ideas.
I started a new job today after discovering, applying for and being appointed to it in the space of five hours. I’m now designing water quality sensors based on optical waveguides.
I expect I shall have a busy few weeks while I get into the project. I shall try and write something about the work here as and when I can.
