** Girl News **
Wednesday
22 March 2006
9:03am
Yes - everyone at the lab (Except Gill, one of the mentors) is male. Good news though - we can all stop telling rowdy jokes and scratching the unmentionables (When Gills not looking) because we have taken the bold step of INVITING A GIRL. Well, a woman actually.
She'll be joining our happy throng of two, working on the ideas (such as they are) and helping us pull the presentation together. Apparently she'll also be giving us a 'female perspective'.
** Girl news ends **
Activities so far...
Day 1
We're finding it really therapeutic doing mini-presentations to one another, especially then having your pitch explained by another person. It was interesting hearing Neil (Reading Room) present back our approach and make more sense of it then we had.
Day 2
Matt Marsh - we've only been told off by him twice but, damn it, he's right. He was working hard to get us us all to understand the users need(s) and motivation to use a particular service in a much more formal and detailed way than we'd otherwise do. It's actually giving us some great in-points. Which is a good thing as we only have an area, an opportunity, to try to fill at the moment - rather than a nice grippable idea...
Later that evening: Gareth tries to show off a card trick. Top Tip: Never play cards with Matt Locke.
Food
Don't believe all the news on the food - it really was very good last night, although I have started to find myself humming 'downtown' quite a bit recently. Can it really be looped on 8 track casette.
