On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:07 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Colin Rosenstiel
wrote:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

The Imperial branding people specified that it must not be called
ICL

In my day UCCA called it Limp. :-)



*laughs*


I still dunno what I'm going to do when Southside shuts. They had Old Tom
on tap today.

James Farrar wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:07:26 +0000, Dave Arquati wrote:

Dave Newt wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:20:14 +0000, Dave Newt
wrote:

It's hardly far though - about a 4 minute walk from IC's [1] main
entrance. I used to quite like walking there down the back of
Southside, along the mews, right to the end where you cut
through the archway in the wall, and then turn L-R-L-R down to
where the Hans Place (?) side of Harrods is.

Another nice walk is via the churchyard at the back of Brompton
Oratory.


I lived in Linstead for a year (lucky me) so that was my favoured
route out, of course.


I'll see your Linstead and raise you Fisher.


I lived in Fisher for a summer. That was bad enough... although it was
mostly the person I was sharing the room with that was the problem!

At least you didn't get your bed above the door.

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Ian Tindale wrote:
Richard J. wrote:

Quite right too. Some of us have fond memories of a company called
ICL, 1968-2002.

Didn't they bring out a computer based on the QL, called the "One
born every minute" or something?

The OPD (One Per Desk), vintage 1984.
Details at http://web.onetel.com/~rodritab/shed16.htm and other sites.
Screen shots at http://www.whimsy.demon.co.uk/opd/ .
My memories of the OPD are a bit sub-fond, though.

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"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
...

.ic.ac.uk

Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?

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It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

.ic.ac.uk
Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?

Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack
Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence "Hock
Dock Ick Ack Uck".

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John Rowland wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 13 Feb 2005:

"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
...

.ic.ac.uk

Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?

According to my daughter, yes! She almost wished she'd gone there just
to have such a lovely e-mail address, and envied her friend, who had.
Of course, when her father was there, e-mail hadn't been invented!
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(Aidan Stanger) wrote the following in:


Where is the spiral staircase in the GLA building?

Pretty clearly visible in this pictu
http://www.go-london.gov.uk/greater_...ges/night1.jpg

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Robin May wrote:

Dave Newt wrote the following in:


snip

Blimey, that all sounds a bit complicated. I wonder if the LSE has such
rules, I'm certainly not aware of them.

To be honest, I suspect the dropping of ST&M was mainly to raise
the profile of the Business School who just spunked 25 mil up
Norman Foster on a new building.

Someone kill that man, he is responsible for the atrocity that is the
central spiral staircase in the LSE library. He also designed the GLA
building which has a similar spiral staircase. Usually the purpose of a
staircase is for people to walk on it, but with the LSE one the main
purpose is so photos of it can be put in university publicity. I firmly
believe that the designer of these things has never tried to walk on
them.

Where is the spiral staircase in the GLA building?

In article , Robin May
writes
The steps on the stairs are set at a distance which is about 1.5 times
that of a normal person's stride. This seems to be true for people of
all heights and leg lengths.

A well-designed stairway has two verticals plus one horizontal adding to
61cm. That is, in:

------+ A
+-+ :
| :
| :
| C~~~~~~D :
+--------+ :
+-+ :
| :
| :
| :
+--------+ B
+-+
|
|

the vertical distance AB plus the horizontal distance CD should be 61cm.
This matches the leg articulation for the average adult.

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:45:30 +0000, Dave Arquati wrote:

James Farrar wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:07:26 +0000, Dave Arquati wrote:

Dave Newt wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:20:14 +0000, Dave Newt
wrote:

It's hardly far though - about a 4 minute walk from IC's [1] main
entrance. I used to quite like walking there down the back of
Southside, along the mews, right to the end where you cut
through the archway in the wall, and then turn L-R-L-R down to
where the Hans Place (?) side of Harrods is.

Another nice walk is via the churchyard at the back of Brompton
Oratory.


I lived in Linstead for a year (lucky me) so that was my favoured
route out, of course.


I'll see your Linstead and raise you Fisher.
I lived in Fisher for a summer. That was bad enough... although it
was mostly the person I was sharing the room with that was the problem!

At least you didn't get your bed above the door.


It's true; but on occasion, I did get woken up by the other two people in
the room (in a single bed, of course!)