Tomorrow we leave on our grand adventure in the UK! The house is mostly packed up and we’re pretty much ready to go. We’ll be spending some cool time with WeatherGirl‘s mum for a few days, and then head down to Colchester to find a place to live and school for Sub-Evil Boy.
The official purpose of the sabbatical is to do computer science research in evolutionary computation with cool people at the University of Essex in Colchester. I’m sure I’ll also be working on my blogging and photography quite a bit as well, and hopefully being a better on-line citizen (more time for comments and such).
This is the poster I made to hang by my office door for the year away to remind people why I never seem to answer when they knock. I wrestled quite a while with this because I kept trying to make a text document with a few pictures added. Lying in bed the other night it finally flipped and I realized that I wanted to make a document that was mostly pictures with a little text added, and voila! Probably comes from reading Scott McCloud’s excellent Understanding comics this summer, but it was fun!
Have a good trip! I like the poster. Good sense of humor but with the relevant information included. I will be posting a picture to flickr soon about our upcoming trip to the UK, and it will have an agenda link in it. Perhaps we could still meet for lunch one day while there. Who knows?
I think you should plaster that poster on your office door, in the Dungeon and on your UMM Web page.
Have a good time over there, and watch out for lions and tigers and bears (oh, my!). I’ve never been to the UK, so I’m looking forward to reading about your adventures here.
CoryQ: Lunch would definitely be way cool. Not sure about the time and money on our end, but I’ll send you our mobile # and we can try to connect when you get here.
ToolboxY2K: The Dungeon! Damn – I didn’t think of that. Maybe I’ll see if someone there can do that for me. I’m not expecting lots of wild animals of the carnivorous variety, but you never know. Stay tuned!