Ash Court
Ash Court at Girton. I should get more pictures of my college… someday.
Ash Court at Girton. I should get more pictures of my college… someday.
outside university library
If you walk into my department, one of the first things you may notice is that some of the tiles on the floor are a black and there’s no particular pattern to it. These tiles actually encode a message. The curious amongst us are supposed to decode this but despite having spent 3 years in the department, I could never get the time until last Friday. The decoding should be pretty simple if you want to try your skills. The last 6 letters of the first word can be read off this picture. If you are too lazy, just click here for the explanation. (Anyone who has taken an Introduction to Computer Science course should at least try for ONE minute before clicking) ...
The trending topic on twitter is #replaceawordinafamousquotewithduck. Here’s a quick script which does the same automatically. You can write your own quote and press the “Duck it!” button to …. duckofy it :) Or you can press the get new quote button and it will choose from a collection of 40 random quotes and 100 movie quote. ...
O shell-izen! just stay inside you’re safe… and blind.
As the local myth goes, this tree outside Trinity College is a descendant of the tree which threw an apple at Newton and asked him, indirectly, and rather rudely, to come to his senses and discover gravity. Newton is also said to reside in the room directly above this tree, the window of which can be seen in this picture. But as some wise man once said, سانوں کی ! Also, despite being highly probable, it can NOT be logically inferred that Newton used windows before he used an apple . ...