Matt and Marc do some paper prototyping at Taptu
Science Park Demolition, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Taptu/Qualcomm Miscellany, Cambridge - 29th April 2007
It's not every day that an entire building is removed from the Science Park, but apparently this particular office/laboratory building has to make way for a terminal to service the controversial "guided bus" that is being built into North Cambridge. Nosher's office is a few hundred metres away, and the earthquake-like rumbles of destruction could be clearly felt in our building. Elsewhere, there's a round up of randomness: Taptu and Qualcomm meet up a few times, once at the Green Dragon in Chesterton and again at the Golden Curry on Mill Road, Marc gets a slug in his Tesco salad, which we watch oozing around for a bit before Nosher grosses everyone out and eats what's left of the salad, then Nosher's off to a nerd-fest lecture by Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the computer language C++, at the Department of Pharmacology off Lensfield Road in Cambridge, after that there's a barbeque round at Matt and Emma's, and finally Isobel is in the garden of the Ward Road flat.
next album: Visiting Dave Dood at Sanger - The Sequel, Hinxton, Cambridge - 3rd May 2007
previous album: A Walk up Sheepstor and Visiting Sis and Matt, Dartmoor and Chagford, Devon - 9th April 2007
Marc and Matt around a table
A nicely-lit tree
A sunset near Wetherden
Sophie's got her frizz on in the back field
The building is mostly destroyed after a day
The digger gets stuck in
A pile of rubble
Big skips are filled up with scrap metal
Big piles of ironwork are lying around
Air-conditioning conduit hangs from the roof
The digger tidies up a bit
Two diggers in action
The scene after day one
A few days later there has been a tidy up
Marc gets a slug in his salad
There's now nothing left of the building
Stef, Nick and Ben at the Green Dragon in Cambridge
Nick ketchups his chips
There's a Qualcomm/Taptu meetup at the Green Dragon
Back at the Science Park, the site is almost clear
In the Kingston Arms, on Kingston Street
The White Horse at Finningham gets its walls repaired
Later that day, the White Horse is all covered up
There are some baffling skid marks near Wetherden
Improbable skid marks at Wetherden
Bob Last poses for a photo
Bjarne Stroustrup checks his slides
Bjarne Stroustrup waits to present
Bjarne gives a lecture
Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++
Bjarne and a screen-full of new C++ features
In the university lecture theatre
The Department of Pharmacology on Tennis Court Road
At Taptu, Hani spins up a new cluster of storage
A pile of 1U servers at Taptu
Sophie the cat
We meet up with Qualcomm at the Golden Curry
Pietro looks over
Andrew looks uncertain
A table full of food
One of the Ukranian dudes waves in the Taptu office
The Taptu office is slowly filling up
Taptu's wide open spaces
A view of Marc, and Nosher's desk on the very left
Graffiti wall in Diss
A huge pike looms out of the Mere in Diss
Isobel reaches for Pringles
Matt sits outside the house
Emma grabs a bottle of Rosé
Isobel uncorks a bottle of red wine
Barbeque action in the back yard
Isobel plants a cucumber in the garden of the flat
Isobel in the Ward Road flat's garden
Isobel assembles a barbeque
Isobel flakes out with Soph-bags the cat
We go for a walk somewhere
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Matt and Marc do some paper prototyping at Taptu
Matt and Marc do some paper prototyping at Taptu
Marc and Matt around a table
A nicely-lit tree
A sunset near Wetherden
Sophie's got her frizz on in the back field
The building is mostly destroyed after a day
The digger gets stuck in
A pile of rubble
Big skips are filled up with scrap metal
Big piles of ironwork are lying around
Air-conditioning conduit hangs from the roof
The digger tidies up a bit
Two diggers in action
The scene after day one
A few days later there has been a tidy up
Marc gets a slug in his salad
There's now nothing left of the building
Stef, Nick and Ben at the Green Dragon in Cambridge
Nick ketchups his chips
There's a Qualcomm/Taptu meetup at the Green Dragon
Back at the Science Park, the site is almost clear
In the Kingston Arms, on Kingston Street
The White Horse at Finningham gets its walls repaired
Later that day, the White Horse is all covered up
There are some baffling skid marks near Wetherden
Improbable skid marks at Wetherden
Bob Last poses for a photo
Bjarne Stroustrup checks his slides
Bjarne Stroustrup waits to present
Bjarne gives a lecture
Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++
Bjarne and a screen-full of new C++ features
In the university lecture theatre
The Department of Pharmacology on Tennis Court Road
At Taptu, Hani spins up a new cluster of storage
A pile of 1U servers at Taptu
Sophie the cat
We meet up with Qualcomm at the Golden Curry
Pietro looks over
Andrew looks uncertain
A table full of food
One of the Ukranian dudes waves in the Taptu office
The Taptu office is slowly filling up
Taptu's wide open spaces
A view of Marc, and Nosher's desk on the very left
Graffiti wall in Diss
A huge pike looms out of the Mere in Diss
Isobel reaches for Pringles
Matt sits outside the house
Emma grabs a bottle of Rosé
Isobel uncorks a bottle of red wine
Barbeque action in the back yard
Isobel plants a cucumber in the garden of the flat
Isobel in the Ward Road flat's garden
Isobel assembles a barbeque
Isobel flakes out with Soph-bags the cat
We go for a walk somewhere