Monday, November 26, 2007

Wedding

Congratulations to Stuart and Pamela who emailed yesterday saying that they'd snuck off to St. Andrews and got married on Saturday!

Fractal



I've spent the last few days taking lots of photos of lots of people. But while I was over at Morag's last night (taking lots of photos of her and Colin) she gave me this weird, fancy broccoli. It's Romanesco broccoli and I expect it would be the perfect thing to cook for a dinner party of mathematicians: with any luck they'd be so fascinated with its fractal-Fibonacci-ness that they wouldn't care if the rest of the cooking was bad...

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Hunterian Rocks

After yesterday's casual rock photography Morag let me loose to take photos of some of the other exhibits in the Hunterian (which is looking very flash after its recent renovation).

Triceratops (currently missing lower jaw after the over-enthusiastic appreciation of one visitor, but should be fixed soon).

The main gallery.

Danse Macabre.

A very fancy amethyst.

Some sort of crystal porcupine (this is probably not a technically accurate description).

A truly terrifying sculpture. It was meant to be spinning round, but luckily wasn't.

Small statues.

James Watt and the small statues.

Elephant skeleton.

Giant ammonite (which you are allowed to pat).

A plesiosaur tries to catch itself.

Three small statues marked "Burmese Image of Guadama".