Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Bank Holiday Monday and the culture vultures made their way quite early to the Natural History Museum, the choice of thewife who has always wanted to see a model of a huge blue whale ever since she were little. The first thing we came across was a fabulous, massive, outdoor photograph exhibition of the earth from the air. This was absolutely brilliant and successfuly managed to convey the fragility of the planet, the interdependence of our world and has given me much scope for an envigorated Pioneer programme, once our group re-opens.

The Natural History Museum itself was quite impressive too, even if the big whale wisnae.

After the Natural History Museum it was my turn, for The Science Museum just along the road and that was brilliant, exceeded all expectations, could have spent more hours than we had quite easily, even lost thewife, she was at the lunar landing site while I was admiring the Cray Supercomputer, it didn't impress her at all but the �8m price tag did. I was most amused by the quote from Seymour Cray, who apparently liked pencil and paper himself when he was told that Apple had bought one of his Super Computers to design their new machine, he remarked that that was funny, he was using one of their's to design his new machine.

We were all knowledged out so we decided to leave some for another day and go home before Sainsbury's closed.
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