Postgrad Welcome Party

These folks won the quiz.

Tonight it was time for the Postgraduate welcome party. We did pretty much the same thing, with Rock Band, Wii Sports and of course the massive car racing track. We also nearly had exactly the same quiz questions, thanks to SkyDrive not updating the files correctly. Anyhoo, fun was had; once I’d shot back to my office and emailed the Powerpoint deck through to myself….

These folks came second. In spite of because of Simon being on the team.

These were in third. An still look pretty pleased.

I'm not convinced that these folks actually did the questions. Perhaps we need bigger prizes…

Hall Road Roundabout Rainbow

Not a bad rainbow. Well worth stopping the car and jumping out with the camera.

Rather Useful Seminars

I'm organising a sequence of "Rather Useful Seminars" for this Semester. These will be for any students in the department who want to come along and learn stuff that might be rather useful. You can find more about the seminars here:

 http://www.robmiles.com/rather-useful-seminars

The first one is this Wednesday at 1:15 pm in Lecture Theatre D (LTD) in the Robert Blackburn Building. It is about participation in the Microsoft Imagine Cup. This is a student competition in which Hull has had a lot of success, and I'd like to have some more.

Captain Scarlet at the Movie Buff’s Fair

After the Open Day yesterday I went into town (which was an adventure in itself) and dropped in at the Movie Buff’s Collectors Fair that they were having in the Prospect Centre. Lots of people dressed as Storm Troopers and other Star Wars characters were in attendance. I wonder if they ever have a situation where two Darth Vaders show up at the same time. Surely that would cause great disturbance in the force, among other things…

Anyhoo, they also had lots of stalls selling “collectables”. Including this pair, in very good condition, although they were minus their guns (which I plan to have a go at printing). Just as a pop quiz, which of the two do you think is the baddie? And no, they are not holding hands.

Saturday Open Day

Today we had our first University Saturday Open Day of the Semester. We had it on a Saturday, what are the chances eh? Anyhoo, we had good turnout, and I did two talks which seemed to go OK (at least from my point of view). Thanks for being a good audience folks.

 

I took the pictures at the very start, apologies to those who arrived after the snaps. There was an hour gap between the two talks, so I went out with the big camera and took some pictures that I could play around with later. I’m very into the “Painterly 2” tone map from Photomatix at the moment…

This the library looking cool.

Marketing in the flowerbeds..

This is “The Great White Way” that runs down the campus.

Thanks to everyone who came along, hope you found the experience worth the journey. For those of you that fancy coming to see us in the future, we’ll be doing exactly the same thing (even down to the jokes) on Saturday the 13th of October. Drop me a line if you fancy coming along and I’ll ensure you get a “Red Carpet Welcome” which might even involve a small piece of red carpet.