Very clear sky during the night with limited sunlight during the day, and we have one chilly morning š
Interestingly enough, my office only went as low as 20Ā°C overnight! I wonder the fortune the university is spending on heating bills…
Month: October 2013
They’re so eager to publish, no matter what…
… that they try to win me over by calling me “Dr”!! š Right…
Hm, could this one be “easing” the process of publishing, in a similar manner to what was described here? As long as you pay…
Brace yourselves, it is coming!
Here we go!… time to get out the warm stuff out of the wardrobe. And maybe get some weights inside my pannier bags, otherwise I think I might fly away! š
Anyway, I can’t really complain – last weekend I had an amazing outing on Sunday morning! No wind, and the temperature was such that I actually had to take out layers! We even had a BBQ in the evening here in the house (and this time we had proper coal! š ).
Speaking of Sunday, it is a wonder how I managed to do so much during that day having arrived quite late the night before (~ 3:30 AM), due to the combination of a dinner in Slough which ended up quite late (but went quite well! š ) and a closure of the M25 just before my exit (talk about luck…) which forced me to face a massive traffic jam on a A-class road running parallel to it at 2 AM (absolutely surreal!).
Anyway, to my astonishment I managed to wake up on my own at 7:30 AM, not feeling sleepy or anything! (not a chance of that happening during the week… š )
I hate you, insurance “milkers”!
Taking advantage of a system which is supposed to be used only when really necessary to make a easy profit… and increasing the premium for the rest of us in the process. You’re barking at the wrong tree!
Hello there, and welcome to my personal web page/blog!
My name is Manuel Marques, and Iām a lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kent (United Kingdom). I am also a researcher in the Applied Optics Group at the same institution. My work lies mostly in the area of Applied Optics, namely white light interferometry and its two/three-dimensional variant, optical coherence tomography.
Outside work I'm a keen runner/sculler/rower/cyclist, and I do enjoy being in the outdoors (photographing them is a bonus, too!). Other hobbies include tinkering with things, both big and small (not always with a positive outcome, I must say), travelling, reading, in no specific order.
