Brian
My blogs
| Industry | Engineering |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Preventing jet engines from melting |
| Location | Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I was until recently a graduate student at Oxford, looking at heat transfer to turbine blades in jet engines. Following a brief stint in the fast world of Formula One, I'm back at my old lab looking at... heat transfer to turbine discs in jet engines. It's almost as if the last two years never happened! I drink rather a lot of tea and juggle badly... often while swearing at my computer. And they say men can't multitask.
I'm under no illusions that anyone actually reads my blogs, but frankly I don't care... |
| Favorite movies | Be Kind Rewind, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, Chocolate, Cidade de Deus (City of God), Cool Runnings, Dogma, Goodbye Lenin!, Hard Boiled, Hot Fuzz, In Bruges, Le Dîner De Cons, Paris Je T'Aime, Prête-moi Ta Main, Schindler's List, Sin City, Tampopo, The Blues Brothers, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Pianist, The Producers, Waitress |
| Favorite books | Calvin and Hobbes, Engineering Tables and Data (HLT), Fly By Night, Good Omens, Gullstruck Island, His Dark Materials, Mr Men, Notes From A Big Country, Round Ireland With A Fridge, Six (Not So) Easy Pieces, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman: Adventures Of A Curious Character, The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, The Book Thief, The Eyre Affair (and all the Thursday Next books), The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, The Importance of Being Earnest, Un Lun Dun, Verdigris Deep |
Please describe how you could take the peel off an apple all in one go:
Small controlled fires.