The Prime Meridian of the WORLD!
Two days until my last exam, and four days until I leave London for good. How the year has gone by. I've spent the past few days with a friend who was visiting from Germany. It was a good opportunity to do some final sightseeing. On Friday morning we went to Greenwich, where we visited the Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory, outside of which the Prime Meridian of the World was labeled. That was very cool. Inside the observatory there were lots of cool clocks, information about clocks, and other time-related facts. It also chronicled the quest to find the technology for ships to be able to determine their position in the ocean (in those primitive, pre-GPS days...). It was all incredibly interesting, and now I want to make a cool clock. I'm not sure if that's really plausible, but it's at least worth looking into. I'd like a 'different' sort of clock; for example, one that measures days, or even years, rather than minutes and hours (or some combination thereof).
My friend and I also visited Tate Modern, which I have been to numerous times. Afterwards, we went next-door to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and saw a production of The Winter's Tale, which was wonderfully entertaining. I hope to get back to The Globe to see Pericles, Prince of Tyre, this week before I leave, but I'm not positive that I will have time. On Saturday we went to Camden Market, and did some other random London sightseeing, including both obvious landmarks such as Big Ben and surrounding Westminster, as well as some less-visited but just-as-worthwhile parks and gardens that make London such a wonderful city.
This German friend left this morning, and now I'm back in the library studying for Tuesday's exam.
On a somewhat unrelated front, while surfing the web today I found two things that I want: a voice-recorder attachment for my iPod (Belkin iPod Voice Recorder), and a subscription to Make, a relatively new magazine (Make). I'd be interested to hear opinions about either of these things if anyone knows anything about them, so let me know!
That's about it.
Here lies David St. Hubbins... and why not?
My friend and I also visited Tate Modern, which I have been to numerous times. Afterwards, we went next-door to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and saw a production of The Winter's Tale, which was wonderfully entertaining. I hope to get back to The Globe to see Pericles, Prince of Tyre, this week before I leave, but I'm not positive that I will have time. On Saturday we went to Camden Market, and did some other random London sightseeing, including both obvious landmarks such as Big Ben and surrounding Westminster, as well as some less-visited but just-as-worthwhile parks and gardens that make London such a wonderful city.
This German friend left this morning, and now I'm back in the library studying for Tuesday's exam.
On a somewhat unrelated front, while surfing the web today I found two things that I want: a voice-recorder attachment for my iPod (Belkin iPod Voice Recorder), and a subscription to Make, a relatively new magazine (Make). I'd be interested to hear opinions about either of these things if anyone knows anything about them, so let me know!
That's about it.
Here lies David St. Hubbins... and why not?
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