In State in First Class
There’s just me in First Class on this late Virgin train.
But do I care? Of course not, as I can really spread out.
Incidentally, Standard Class up to Liverpool and First Class back, cost just under £46 in total.
So I can’t complain.
The Indiscrete Celebrity
The First Class Lounge at Lime Street was empty, when someone I thought familiar entered.
Immediately, they sat down, their phone rang and they proceeded to give their e-mail address to someone at the other end of the call.
It was then obvious, who they were.
Perhaps, they thought I was engrossed in my computer and it didn’t matter. But I heard the e-mail address and it might be something they’d have preferred to keep secret.
I have found the person on the web and I now know that I heard it correctly. So my hearing isn’t as bad as I have been thinking!
In this case it didn’t really matter, as the serious thinker doesn’t hide their identity on the web. But how many Z-List Celebrities have complained about harrassment because they’ve inadvertently given their e-mail address or mobile phone number to all and sundry?
Back To The Sixties
In 1965 when I went to Liverpool University, the Electrical Engineering and Electronics building was brand new.
It appears to have worn reasonably well and is just how I remember it all those years ago. So bits have been replaced and it’s been redecorated, but it is a real credit to its creators, which you can’t say for many of the buildings of the time.
It’s still contains all the original prints too. Some of which I seem to remember.
However the infamous legend by one painting has been removed. It had been beautifully typed and framed and said something like. “Unfortunately, we were unable to afford a painting by this artist. ut he was kind enough to sell us the rag on which he wiped his brushes!”
After the lecture, we retired to one of the staff’s room and I was pleased to see that he still had a genuine blackboard with real chalk on the wall.
How civilised!
The Lecture
I wouldn’t really think it would be a good idea to judge myself on how my lecture went this lunchtime.
I did however enjoy it and I was able to do it direct from this blog. I think that it would have been better with a more presentation oriented theme.
In some ways though it was strange to be lecturing in a theatre, were I’d perhaps listened to upwards of a couple of hundred lectures. And to the biggest audience, I ever have!
Punk Finance
This term caught my eye on the business pages of The Times.
Apparently it’s all about getting people and communities to take over businesses. The best example is FC United.
Apparently, the man begind this successful venture, Kevin Jaquiss, has been asked to help with solving the problem of the Royal Mail.
The Anonymous Widower 