foolfillment: the blog

Last night was an enjoyable visit to the southside pub the Clockwork Beer co and then back to stu’s flat to watch The Descent. That’s exactly what caving’s like. If you haven’t seen it you should go an watch it if you;re a little unsure about coming along on a GUPA meet. Today was rubbish. Finished off an essay that’s been hanging over me, then spent far too long trying to find a schematic of a digital radio, and prices of different lathe tools.

Five weeks at uni, then four weeks at school, three weeks on Easter vacation, four weeks back at uni, before two weeks of exams, three weeks of working, all of which leads up to the time we…

Fly out to Malasia and New Zealand for five weeks!!!

I’ve just got in from town. Town being in this case the centre of Glasgow, but you can use it for any city centre with the same rough meaning – a horrible, built-up, seething mass of people with no awareness of what’s going on around them and laden down with bags. Going to town is such a tiring, distressing thing to have to do but there comes a time at Christmas when it is just about unavoidable. If I had been more organised I could have got away with not going.

I went in search of: a lemming, a tiny table and chair, and things that symbolise cheerfulness and enthusiasm. How many of them did I manage to find? One, almost.

I’m tired now and am very glad that tonight is a pub night. I need to vent some anger about people who can’t walk.

…is that it’s full of things that aren’t relevant to what I’m, supposed to be doing.
Except for this calendar but I can’t afford it. And it’s three months old, maybe next year. (it is on my wishlist though if you’re feeloing generous)

Anybody have information about Eero Aarnio and Mies van der Rohe’s choice of materials that they’d like to share with me, google scholar’s a bit useless because everything requires membership, and nothing so far accepts athens logins.

or

Compare and contrast the approach to design in terms of form/function of Eero Aarnio and Mies van der Rohe

It would seem my design lecturer has stumbled upon this site (presumably while he was busy researching quality design) it’s just as well I’ve always bitten my tongue when it came to writing about him (not that there’s anything bad to say), he always was the most likely to find it.

no more distractions please, I have some reading to do.

The official election for the post of Rector for the University will take place today, I urge every student at Glasgow Uni to make that oh-so-long walk to the nearest polling booth to vote and make sure we get a rector this time around, having been with a student voice on the senate for about a year. You can see the candidate list here.

I can’t remember who it was but some big company gave the university money to build their nice shiny new medical building.

One of the conditions for this was that any research that the university, it’s staff, or it’s students carry out must comply with the company’s own ethical standards, which is all well and good. Until you realise what it involves and what it covers. For instance, on my course we have to do some group design projects, one of which includes asking people what they like/don’t like about their toothbrush. Before we do this though we have to hand in a 7 page application form to the Ethics Committee, prepare a plain language statement for all the respondants to read, and a consent form for them to sign. If we carry out questionnaires without this procedure then we’re supposed to not use the information.

So I have decided to put our questionnaire on the internet so that you can ignore it and not put any of your answers in the comments box.
You may also like to not add in your thoughts on what makes you decide what toothbrush to buy or how long you spend considering the options before picking one.
It would also help if you didn’t tell us what innovations you want in your toothbrush.
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John Beattie is, I think, a fantastic choice in his own right, and alongside the other nominees he is miles ahead. Of course this election should have happenned last year but a failure by all the relevant uni bodies to publicise the deadline for nominations meant the students were left without a voice on the Senate for the first time in around 100 years.

The University of Glasgow :: Newsdesk – News and Events – Nominations for Rector 2004

Jenni Keenan Green
Plays ‘Heather’ in the popular Scottish BBC TV soap opera River City.

The University of Glasgow :: Newsdesk – News and Source: Events – Nominations for Rector 2004

Come one! I’m all for a bit of humour in politics but there’s a real chance that students might actually vote for this woman, whoever she is.
And, doesn’t popular mean someone has to have been watching it and like it?