Nick Jackson

As you may of may not know, next year I’m living in a place called The Junxion with a few friends. We’ve decided to go a bit above and beyond the usual student flat with printed photographs Blu-Tacked to the wall by heading to everyone’s favourite Swedish store, IKEA.

The trouble is all the cool stuff we really want to get, like better lighting, shelves, artwork, hanging rods for kitchenware and so on rely on us drilling holes into the wall, which will probably upset accommodation.

We’ll just try make the flat look so good they don’t care.

It is with great pleasure that I announce that I’ve finally gotten around to recreating The Drama Society’s logo in glorious vector format, meaning that we can scale it up indefinitely for great victory!

I took the original, small and somewhat low quality JPEG we had (Since the original creator of the logo either didn’t leave us a high quality version, or it has become misplaced somewhere) and then ramped up the scale, despeckled, sharpened it and converted it to PNG in The GIMP. I then had a marginally better quality version to load into Inkscape and use the ‘trace bitmap’ feature on. Sadly this left behind some very wobbly edges due to scaling, so it was out with the path editing tool and some heavy-handed deleting of spline points. I think the result is quite good.

No, I am not going to tell you how to do this.

I have recently discovered that the library security at Lincoln can be easily defeated using nothing more than a simple, freely available online tool. This allows you to enter the library simply by knowing a valid Student ID number (All undergraduate student email addresses begin with these), and check books back in which aren’t actually there.

This is not good.

I’ve got too much data. 460GB isn’t enough to store it all, I need a bigger hard disk.

Bring on the 2TB external drive!

Well, my last assessment is handed in. I have one demonstration of my website to go, and one exam.

I also have to find a job.

A bee has found refuge from the rain in my kitchen, and is currently sitting on the microwave.

So, Teechers is finally over. We can all now sit back, relax, and reflect on just how awesome a job we all actually did in spite of a very not-easy road to get there involving some of us (aka Nick the Awesome Stage Manager Person) fighting wind, rain, hail, snow, B&Q, ScrewFix, the SU, the AU, the Lincoln traffic light control centre, flat batteries and just about everything else in order to build the sets.

Which, because I’m the Awesome Stage Manager Person, actually look almost exactly the same as the design drawings. They fold down into easily moveable packs which fit at least two to a small car, and with a bit of simple assembly and some bolting together turn into 80cm wide, 2.4m high wheeled flats with Velcro tags suitable for attaching all manner of pre-printed scenery to.

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For once I’m not going to complain about something! I love the way that children are still inspired and made to go “wow” by the rail network.