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Imperial College (was 02-28-2005 at Moorgate)
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:07 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Colin Rosenstiel
wrote: In article , (Richard J.) wrote: The Imperial branding people specified that it must not be called ICL In my day UCCA called it Limp. :-) *laughs* I still dunno what I'm going to do when Southside shuts. They had Old Tom on tap today. |
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James Farrar wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:07:26 +0000, Dave Arquati wrote: Dave Newt wrote: James Farrar wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:20:14 +0000, Dave Newt wrote: It's hardly far though - about a 4 minute walk from IC's [1] main entrance. I used to quite like walking there down the back of Southside, along the mews, right to the end where you cut through the archway in the wall, and then turn L-R-L-R down to where the Hans Place (?) side of Harrods is. Another nice walk is via the churchyard at the back of Brompton Oratory. I lived in Linstead for a year (lucky me) so that was my favoured route out, of course. I'll see your Linstead and raise you Fisher. I lived in Fisher for a summer. That was bad enough... although it was mostly the person I was sharing the room with that was the problem! At least you didn't get your bed above the door. -- Dave Arquati Imperial College, SW7 www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London |
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Ian Tindale wrote:
Richard J. wrote: Quite right too. Some of us have fond memories of a company called ICL, 1968-2002. Didn't they bring out a computer based on the QL, called the "One born every minute" or something? The OPD (One Per Desk), vintage 1984. Details at http://web.onetel.com/~rodritab/shed16.htm and other sites. Screen shots at http://www.whimsy.demon.co.uk/opd/ . My memories of the OPD are a bit sub-fond, though. -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
... .ic.ac.uk Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"? -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
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.ic.ac.uk
Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"? Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence "Hock Dock Ick Ack Uck". -- Ashley |
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John Rowland wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 13 Feb 2005:
"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message ... .ic.ac.uk Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"? According to my daughter, yes! She almost wished she'd gone there just to have such a lovely e-mail address, and envied her friend, who had. Of course, when her father was there, e-mail hadn't been invented! -- "Mrs Redboots" http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/ Website updated 23 January 2005 with new photos |
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(Aidan Stanger) wrote the following in:
Where is the spiral staircase in the GLA building? Pretty clearly visible in this pictu http://www.go-london.gov.uk/greater_...ges/night1.jpg -- message by Robin May. Drinking Special Brew will get you drunk in much the same way that going to prison will give you a roof over your head and free meals. http://robinmay.fotopic.net |
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Robin May wrote:
Dave Newt wrote the following in: snip Blimey, that all sounds a bit complicated. I wonder if the LSE has such rules, I'm certainly not aware of them. To be honest, I suspect the dropping of ST&M was mainly to raise the profile of the Business School who just spunked 25 mil up Norman Foster on a new building. Someone kill that man, he is responsible for the atrocity that is the central spiral staircase in the LSE library. He also designed the GLA building which has a similar spiral staircase. Usually the purpose of a staircase is for people to walk on it, but with the LSE one the main purpose is so photos of it can be put in university publicity. I firmly believe that the designer of these things has never tried to walk on them. Where is the spiral staircase in the GLA building? |
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In article , Robin May
writes The steps on the stairs are set at a distance which is about 1.5 times that of a normal person's stride. This seems to be true for people of all heights and leg lengths. A well-designed stairway has two verticals plus one horizontal adding to 61cm. That is, in: ------+ A +-+ : | : | : | C~~~~~~D : +--------+ : +-+ : | : | : | : +--------+ B +-+ | | the vertical distance AB plus the horizontal distance CD should be 61cm. This matches the leg articulation for the average adult. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 (work) | Web: http://www.davros.org Fax: +44 870 051 9937 | Work: Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: |
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:45:30 +0000, Dave Arquati wrote:
James Farrar wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:07:26 +0000, Dave Arquati wrote: Dave Newt wrote: James Farrar wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:20:14 +0000, Dave Newt wrote: It's hardly far though - about a 4 minute walk from IC's [1] main entrance. I used to quite like walking there down the back of Southside, along the mews, right to the end where you cut through the archway in the wall, and then turn L-R-L-R down to where the Hans Place (?) side of Harrods is. Another nice walk is via the churchyard at the back of Brompton Oratory. I lived in Linstead for a year (lucky me) so that was my favoured route out, of course. I'll see your Linstead and raise you Fisher. I lived in Fisher for a summer. That was bad enough... although it was mostly the person I was sharing the room with that was the problem! At least you didn't get your bed above the door. It's true; but on occasion, I did get woken up by the other two people in the room (in a single bed, of course!) |
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:39:23 +0000, Ashley Brown
wrote: .ic.ac.uk Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"? Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence "Hock Dock Ick Ack Uck". I believe at one point the Computing departmental society (DoCSoc) had an email address of Dock Sock at Dock Ick Ack Uck. |
02-28-2005 at Moorgate
Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack
Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence "Hock Dock Ick Ack Uck". I believe at one point the Computing departmental society (DoCSoc) had an email address of Dock Sock at Dock Ick Ack Uck. And they still do! |
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:58:01 +0000, Ashley Brown
wrote: Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence "Hock Dock Ick Ack Uck". I believe at one point the Computing departmental society (DoCSoc) had an email address of Dock Sock at Dock Ick Ack Uck. And they still do! I presumed they would, but thank you for confirming it. I've had no dealings with DoCSoc since 1999... |
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Robin May wrote the following in:
Dave Newt wrote the following in: Robin May wrote: Dave Newt wrote the following in: To be honest, I suspect the dropping of ST&M was mainly to raise the profile of the Business School who just spunked 25 mil up Norman Foster on a new building. Someone kill that man, he is responsible for the atrocity that is the central spiral staircase in the LSE library. Oh, I quite liked it, but then I was shown around it a few days before it, and that was more for the purposes of "look at our new cool thing" rather than actually trying to get any books. It looks very nice... This photo might clear things up. As you can see, it looks nice but the steps are very strangely designed, they're very long and not very tall. http://images.fotopic.net/y5i839.jpg -- message by Robin May. Drinking Special Brew will get you drunk in much the same way that going to prison will give you a roof over your head and free meals. http://robinmay.fotopic.net |
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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , Robin May writes The steps on the stairs are set at a distance which is about 1.5 times that of a normal person's stride. This seems to be true for people of all heights and leg lengths. A well-designed stairway has two verticals plus one horizontal adding to 61cm. That is, in: ------+ A +-+ : | : | : | C~~~~~~D : +--------+ : +-+ : | : | : | : +--------+ B +-+ | | the vertical distance AB plus the horizontal distance CD should be 61cm. This matches the leg articulation for the average adult. Really? When exactly was this average leg articulation determined? Or did someone make a rough guess of 2 ft some years ago, which sounds so much more accurate when expressed to the nearest centimetre. Excuse my cynicism; after writing the above, I measured both the original Victorian staircase in my house and the newer one to our 6-year-old loft conversion. The old one, which doesn't feel quite right, has AB+CD = 54cm, whereas the new one, which feels noticeably better, measures .... 61cm!! -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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Mrs Redboots wrote:
John Rowland wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 13 Feb 2005: "Dr John Stockton" wrote in message ... .ic.ac.uk Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"? According to my daughter, yes! She almost wished she'd gone there just to have such a lovely e-mail address, and envied her friend, who had. Of course, when her father was there, e-mail hadn't been invented! Exactly! I spent about twelve years thinking how it would be cool to have one and then when I finally got one, they rebranded it out of existence! (They do still work though.) |
02-28-2005 at Moorgate
Dave Newt wrote:
Mrs Redboots wrote: John Rowland wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 13 Feb 2005: "Dr John Stockton" wrote in message ... .ic.ac.uk Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"? According to my daughter, yes! She almost wished she'd gone there just to have such a lovely e-mail address, and envied her friend, who had. Of course, when her father was there, e-mail hadn't been invented! Exactly! I spent about twelve years thinking how it would be cool to have one and then when I finally got one, they rebranded it out of existence! (They do still work though.) But if you actually tell someone your email address as "at ick ack uck" then they have no idea what you mean by "ick" unless they're at Imperial too (and some people don't know what you mean by "ack" either!). -- Dave Arquati Imperial College, SW7 www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London |
02-28-2005 at Moorgate
Dave Arquati wrote:
Dave Newt wrote: Mrs Redboots wrote: John Rowland wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 13 Feb 2005: "Dr John Stockton" wrote in message ... .ic.ac.uk Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"? According to my daughter, yes! She almost wished she'd gone there just to have such a lovely e-mail address, and envied her friend, who had. Of course, when her father was there, e-mail hadn't been invented! Exactly! I spent about twelve years thinking how it would be cool to have one and then when I finally got one, they rebranded it out of existence! (They do still work though.) But if you actually tell someone your email address as "at ick ack uck" then they have no idea what you mean by "ick" unless they're at Imperial too (and some people don't know what you mean by "ack" either!). Anyone who matters knows! :-) Actually, I *hate* saying ick ack uck, I just like the visuals (maaaaan). It's a darn site easier to make a typo when typing "imperial" than "ic" too. |
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On 12 Feb 2005, Robin May wrote:
Dave Newt wrote the following in: spunked 25 mil up Norman Foster Someone kill that man, he is responsible for the atrocity that is the central spiral staircase in the LSE library. Oh, don't worry, he's in the line for gunishment - right behind Daniel Libeskind. tom -- Restate my assumptions |
Imperial College (was 02-28-2005 at Moorgate)
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Dave Newt wrote:
Richard J. wrote: Dave Newt wrote: Richard J. wrote: Some of us care deeply about commas, and are trying to work out where this comma is supposed to go, or not go. How about an explanation for the uninitiated? It used to be called Imperial College, and was referred to as IC. [...] However, this creates a false analogy with University College, London, which has a comma in it and is commonly referred to as UCL. On UCL's site www.ucl.ac.uk, they use UCL as the name almost exclusively, even in the history ("175 years ago ... UCL was founded"). Where the name is given in full, I haven't seen one instance on their site where the comma is included. You're right - they *must* have changed it. It always was with a comma. There was a consultation about the name a few months ago: everyone got a questionnaire with things like "How do refer to UCL to other people inside it?", "Ditto but for people outside?", "What qualities do you associate with the name?" and other inane marketroid nonsense. This was clearly intended to provide input into some brand-sharpening exercise, so perhaps that's when the comma was disappeared. tom -- Restate my assumptions |
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:52:17 +0000, Tom Anderson wrote:
"How do refer to UCL to other people inside it?", "Ditto but for people outside?", "What qualities do you associate with the name?" I suppose they'd have been annoyed if you said they were ucly qualities... -- Sometimes you get a different and unexpected result... http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9633055.html (50 005 moving off part way through a night exposure in 1978) |
02-28-2005 at Moorgate
In article , Richard
J. writes A well-designed stairway has two verticals plus one horizontal adding to 61cm. That is, in: Really? When exactly was this average leg articulation determined? Or did someone make a rough guess of 2 ft some years ago, which sounds so much more accurate when expressed to the nearest centimetre. I read about it in Scientific American at least 25 years ago, possibly more. So you'll have to do your own research beyond that. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 (work) | Web: http://www.davros.org Fax: +44 870 051 9937 | Work: Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: |
02-28-2005 at Moorgate
In message , Thomas
Crame writes The "memorial", if you want one, is in daily use all over the system. It's know as "Moorgate Control". It's actually called TETS Protection (Trains Entering Terminal Stations). Good God, LU using 4 letter acronyms? That will never catch on ;-) -- Steve Fitzgerald has now left the building. You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK (please use the reply to address for email) |
02-28-2005 at Moorgate
In article , ] (Steve
Fitzgerald) wrote: It's actually called TETS Protection (Trains Entering Terminal Stations). Good God, LU using 4 letter acronyms? That will never catch on ;-) ETLAs, you mean? -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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In message , Clive D. W. Feather
writes This matches the leg articulation for the average adult. So what's the average adult? Male? Female? Stride length? -- Clive. |
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In message , Dave Newt
writes Exactly! I spent about twelve years thinking how it would be cool to have one and then when I finally got one, they rebranded it out of existence! (They do still work though.) Cool. Now there's a word that means you're either over 60 when it was first used or under 25 now. What goes around, comes around. -- Clive. |
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In message , Dave Arquati
writes (and some people don't know what you mean by "ack" either!). It means you're about to be sick. -- Clive. |
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Clive Coleman wrote:
In message , Dave Newt writes Exactly! I spent about twelve years thinking how it would be cool to have one and then when I finally got one, they rebranded it out of existence! (They do still work though.) Cool. Now there's a word that means you're either over 60 when it was first used or under 25 now. What goes around, comes around. Neither, actually. Should I have said "groovy"? Dude... |
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