Overall public reflections of trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to<\/em>. \u201c JRR Tolkien<\/p>\n\n\n\n I use work-terminology that is all grounded in the context of these places, \u201cSSL encryption\u201d, \u201cencryption keys\u201d, \u201cTuring complete language\u201d, \u201cTuring test for AI\u201d, \u201ccore dump\u201d,. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To walk in the city where my grandfather and father were born. To see a hint of the post-Industrial Revolution, war-torn, mass-unemployment\u00a0Britain they escaped to find an education and a life for their boys.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n What a wonderful opportunity to go outside my front door. <\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n What was the strangest thing I encountered? No shower taps. None.\u00a0 Just “thermostatic valve bars” or \u201celectric shower\u201d boxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n One more thing: I never will get used to pedestrian crossings that don\u2019t beep at you. In Sydney you are conditioned to going off into a dream whilst waiting for a crossing, but if you do that in London, you will find the crossing is flashing red and people are giving you an embarrassed smile as they cross.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overall public reflections of trip. \u201cIt’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. \u201c JRR Tolkien I use … Continue reading