{"id":614,"date":"2007-08-06T00:34:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T05:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=614"},"modified":"2007-08-06T00:34:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T05:34:40","slug":"were-off-to-see-the-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/08\/06\/were-off-to-see-the-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re off to see the wizard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/1023734587\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1169\/1023734587_97e7e43d42.jpg?resize=387%2C500\" width=\"387\" height=\"500\" alt=\"We're off to see the wizard!\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTomorrow we leave on our grand adventure in the UK!  The house is mostly packed up and we&#8217;re pretty much ready to go.  We&#8217;ll be spending some cool time with <a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\/\">WeatherGirl<\/a>&#8216;s mum for a few days, and then head down to Colchester to find a place to live and school for <a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/SubEvilBoy\/\">Sub-Evil Boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;m sure I&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s excellent <em>Understanding comics<\/em> this summer, but it was <em>fun<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/photography\/\" title=\"Photography\">Photography<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/18\/wonderful-little-film-about-paul-rand\/\" title=\"Wonderful little film about Paul Rand (18 Nov 07)\">Wonderful little film about Paul Rand<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/with-joy-shall-ye-draw-water\/\" title=\"With joy shall ye draw water (20 Nov 07)\">With joy shall ye draw water<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow we leave on our grand adventure in the UK! The house is mostly packed up and we&#8217;re pretty much ready to go. We&#8217;ll be spending some cool time with WeatherGirl&#8216;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/08\/06\/were-off-to-see-the-wizard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#8217;re off to see the wizard!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,11,25,12,27,19],"tags":[869],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-9U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":722,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/26\/short-cut-road\/","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":0},"title":"Short Cut Road","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"26 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Gotta love cool street names. This is in an area just north of the Colchester City Centre called the Dutch Quarter (see map).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photography","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":819,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/03\/23\/no-snow-for-xmas-but-we-got-a-white-easter\/","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":1},"title":"No snow for Xmas, but we got a white Easter!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"23 Mar 08","format":false,"excerpt":"We've dodged a fairly serious winter back in Minnesota while on sabbatical this year, and we've had no snow and very little cold weather over here in Colchester. In a fit of weird timing, however, we had something like an inch of big Bing Crosby stuff today. I've not actually\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":706,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/with-joy-shall-ye-draw-water\/","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":2},"title":"With joy shall ye draw water","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"20 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a detail of an old public water fountain set in the wall of a \"great house\" here in Colchester. Apparently something like 9 houses were destroyed to make room for this monster, so perhaps the fountain was an attempt to assuage some guilt? For those who would like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photography","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":717,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/25\/stepping-into-the-unknown\/","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":3},"title":"Stepping into the unknown","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"25 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"The tour of Colchester Castle not only took us down to the Dungeon, but we also got to climb up onto the roof. My pictures from up there aren't terribly interesting, but I liked the staircase on the way up :-).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Family","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/family\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":694,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/17\/unrelenting-the-seasons-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":4},"title":"Unrelenting, the seasons change","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"17 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently they've had snow back in Morris, but we're not likely to see any of the white stuff here in Colchester. The leaves are turning with enthusiasm, however, and it's definitely crisp when Sub-Evil and I walk in together in the mornings. We've even seen a little frost. Hats and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Family","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/family\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":688,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/14\/a-very-old-joke\/","url_meta":{"origin":614,"position":5},"title":"A very old joke","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"14 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Something from the Colchester Castle that's a bit more light hearted than Rendition. I loved this face on an old Roman pot. 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