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2009: a review of my year...
Hmm, I know this is a bit late but given my flying back to the UK for Christmas and then coming into a busy work schedule of just not had time. I thought that I probably should write a few...
-40C, yikes!
I now know what it is like to be at the same temperature on both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scale... yep a lovely -40C/F. Yikes. I decided to go for a walk... that was a bad idea.. but I got...
How things change in a week...
The beach in Arecibo (around +35C)... The tundra that is Calgary (around -20C with wind chill anyway)... Oh the life of an astronomer......
A trip to the baseball...
My first trip to some North American sports was quite fun. I went to watch some baseball. The Calgary Vipers were playing the Victoria Seals. The final score was Vipers 5 - 9 Seals, but it was good fun at...
Banff and some lakes...
I've been a bit busy since I moved to Calgary and found it a bit difficult to get around to posting here... the other week we went down to Banff, Lake Louise and Lake Moraine... here are a couple of...
First post from Calgary
Some of you are probably already aware that I recently moved to Calgary to take up a post at the University of Calgary. I'm far from settled but thought I'd put a few pics of my explorations so far... Oh...
Messier night at the observatory
The last observing session that I'll run for the foreseeable future at the University of Birmingham Observatory (Wast Hills) was last Wednesday and turned into a bit of a Messier object only night with a couple of us trying to...
PhD Graduation...
My PhD graduation ceremony was yesterday so I'm now officially able to use the title Dr... so you are now reading the posts of Dr Samuel George, I'm obviously fairly happy.. now I get to move onto the University of...
Barcelona 2009
Last week we took a week off to explore fantastic Barcelona... I'll get round to putting together a proper post about this later in the week (after [Download]..) but for now here are some pictures that can be found on...
Its so hot... or am I lame?
I took a short walk earlier, well I was going to take a longer walk but it was too hot! As I approached the first antenna realizing that I realistically couldn't stand being in the Sun for too much longer...
Highlights from my trip to Plymouth
A couple of weeks ago I went on a much needed holiday... to Plymouth . Yep I didn't need the shades as the rain that has blighted the british summer continued, oh well. I still had lots of fun, plus...
Astrosoc Camping Trip
Last weekend [Astrosoc] went camping... lots of fun! We headed down to Maz's house near Bristol for some clear and dark skies. It was nice and clear but the blasted Moon stopped it from being too dark. We knew this...
University of Birmingham Guild Awards 2007
Last night was the University of Birmingham Guild Awards 2007. These took place in the decked out Deb hall (it had a massive star cloth which looked well cool!). It was a good night (once a few sillness' at the...
BBC WM: Is there anyone out there?
Oh yes I was on the radio again yesterday! This time to do some promotion for the talk we had at the University of Birmingham last night. Oh out of interest this was a talk by Prof Ian Morison of...
A trip to Liverpool
On Friday I travelled up to Liverpool to give a talk to Liverpool Astronomical Society. I spoke about extrasolar planets (full title being "Extrasolar Planets and their Aurora"). I have to say I very much enjoyed it and it was...
BBC Asian Network: Lunar Eclipse
The otherday, well Friday, I was on the BBC Asian Network Breakfast show to talk about the Lunar Eclipse that was going to happen at the weekend (It happened last night see my pics [here]). I was only on for...
Bowling For Soup Gig
Last Night I had the pleasure of watching Bowling for Soup rock the Birmingham Carling Academy. The gig was great and just as I expect Bowling for Soup definitely put on a show. Sometimes a little too much show and...
Flowers for Lizzie
For valentines day I bought Lizzie some roses.......
Angry pose...
Do you like my new pose... I think it shows off my angry side / possibly going grey, quite well......
Oceana
We went to Oceana in Brum on Monday, this was my first time there. Though it did have an interesting range of rooms it wasn't the greatest as it didn't seem to have much atmosphere - maybe its the rocker...
Astrosoc: a new committee
On Thursday I stepped down as Chair of Astrosoc. Being my second time of doing this I am slightly pleased to know that I have put in lots of hard work for the society. I have now been on the...
I do the job of being an introducer (is that a word?)
I introduce the audience to our guest speaker, Prof John Brown, back in December (photo by Scott Porter)...
Birthday celebrations, including cake
It was my birthday yesterday, . I got cake, ... I didn't eat too much so no, . I might have even worked off a few calories on the dance machine: Then I probably did some more on the airhockey,...
My birthday, wooh!
Today is my birthday... I am looking forward to some cake! I'm now 24... argh....
2006 - a great year with a few disappointing points
Highlights of my year, in a sort of chronological order with relevant posts below Birthday, Jan 9th (hint to you all who normally celebrate this with me!): curry + a rather drunken night at snobs, I am blaming Tom for...
my new toy
For christmas lizzie has bought me a rather cool new toy. Since we are both with our respective families tommorrow and we both wanted to see each others reactions we had christmas today. For her present i bought her a...
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