Being More Like Collingwood

Daughter is now known as Emily Strange at school. Not having heard of the name before, I thought it might be some sly insult but after a brief bit of searching, daughter is quite happy to be labelled as such. The picture over there is just like her - scowl and all - so now you know what she looks like. Likes maths and science! She sure does.

What else? Oh yes! I've been meaning to mention something about a colleague's workstation in this office. The desk has an angled laptop stand and a separate, rimless, black keyboard attached over the standard laptop keyboard. The chair is a special one with various extra levers and special counter weighted arm rests which makes the whole area look like a control console from the bridge of The Nostromo. What with our line of work, this is very cool indeed. All of which reminds me - ah yes - the standard blogging phrase of the moment - of last nights design version of The Apprentice - Design For Life with Phillipe Starck - a man who could not be any more French without a beret and onions. The trouble with this show, is that the designers in competition seem unhappy at being in such a position - apart from the standard bad boy of such contests, they all seem to want to work together and given the airy-fairy briefs about helping humanity that Starck gives them , they naturally want to assist each other - so much so that on the rejection of one of the nice guys, the others protested and had his rejection overturned - which was nice.

And now for advance notice of a film. You might guess that this is the one shown shown below and of course you would be right.



The trailer looks a bit sentimental but the film concentrates on Darwin's life rather than his theory. Apparently some of it was filmed in Malvern which will be fun.