A small city in Southern Scotland just north of L[Edinburgh]. These panoramic pictures were taken by my co-worker L[David Martin] from the really high hill in the middle of the town (W[Law, Dundee|The Law]). I can’t offer much on the history or general information that’s not already in the amazingly extensive W[Dundee|WikiPedia entry on Dundee].
Living in Dundee was a vast change from my years growing up in the heart of L[Vancouver] and the sedate lifestyle provided a much needed haven. Though Dundee has it’s faults, I honestly enjoyed my years living there.
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dundee life-in-the-uk scotland Posted on: August 16th, 2002 under lifelines with 1 comments .
Our two cats! Aren't they cute?
I've added a video of Shiva and Oliver getting high on Catnip..
This is an amazing photograph of that little street in Carlisle with the quaint teahouse you, Elizabeth and I visited last year. I had it blown up to 36 x 24 inches and framed with a wonderful green textured wood. The perspective is such that it looks like the wall extends into the street from the bricks by our fireplace. I have had many comments on this photo – it is truly lovely.
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english life-in-the-uk teashop tourism Posted on: June 30th, 2002 under lifelines.
I started working at the University of Dundee after I moved to the UK to be with Elizabeth. It was, in retrospect, fated to be. I was spending all my time in Elizabeth’s lab learning everything I could about molecular biology (thanks Elizabeth!) and invariably ended up bumping into the only other people on campus that had an interest in large scale computing. After a very short and informal interview I started in the Computational Biology Dept. with a larger role overseeing all the high-performance computing in the faculty. This doesn’t sound terribly interesting until you consider the research powerhouse that the Life Sciences Faculty contained — to me, it meant being involved in projects with a huge range of research and some incredibly interesting problems to solve.
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For weeks in July 2002 we debated getting a kitten for Oliver. Would he get along with it? Would he feel threatened? In the end we decided to get a female kitten for Oliver as a playmate. On August the 3rd we picked up Shiva from an excellent cat shelter near Dundee (after a bad experience with the local cat shelters…). Shiva is aptly named and more of her exploits will follow.