WELSH RUGBY SCARF 2012 ... a travel log in pictures.

[Derek]

The Welsh Rugby Scarf is on its way again on a worldly adventure for 2012. Only I know who the first reciprient is. After that its up to you guys to communicate by pm or whatever and decide its course.
If the scarf can return to me by or on July 1st 2012 that will be fab. I can then take it to the festival we gigging at Tintern, and get some earthy pics of it around the ruined abbey at sunset. The log book from the previous adventure will accompany it if you want to say something in it. Also a sheet with all the volunteers. If you can cross the name off of the member you are sending it on to, that will make it easier as it goes along.
Thats it in a nutshell ... other than if you can give the scarf a quick turn around and take a few pics and post on this thread, we should be able to get everyone involved.
Here is the list of forthcoming hosts in no particular order.

Flyingshamrock
The Borderer
Herminator
Cruiser348
English Bloke
C T Buchanan
Boldhighlander
TxScotman
AK Scott
Cajunscot
Auld Argonian
2n5t2f7
Be Da Veva
Thomas H
Cryerelizabeth
AlanH
Kilted Rogue
NSPiper
The Kilted Hamster
Jock Scot
Chas
LitTrog
Cessna152towser
Downunder Kilt

Over to you

Iechyd Da
Derek

[Derek]

The Scarf has arrived safely at its first destination. So were off ....
Watch This Space ...
Iechyd Da
Derek

[Thomas H]

Logged on -to get updates -

[TurboKittie]

Looking forward to seeing photos!

[starbkjrus]

Looking forward to seeing photos!

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[Alan H]

ALERT, ALERT!!!

The Scarf has landed in California!
...and what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a package, with scarf, and a load of good cheer!

The not-so-mysterious package from Wales sits, ready to open on my kitchen table on Saturday. Here it is, resting at the site of so many kiltmaking adventures!



and inside......

[Alan H]

Today the scarf pays a visit to the Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, at Stanford University Medical Center... in the Beckman Center. Why, the scarf might get to experience a hard workout at the Arillaga Gymnasium, too.

Tomorrow, I'll be taking the scarf on a little noontime walking tour of Stanford University before it wings its way onward to its next stop.

[Alan H]

This morning I wore the scarf in to work at the Beckman Center, home of the group I work for as a system administrator for the Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine. The scarf made the rounds this morning, as you will see!

Heading in to work



Yours Truly, otherwise known as Our Hero the System Administrator , tackles a minor administrative issue in the server room.



Being the trained IT professional that he is, this is his calm reaction after discovering that he has eradicated 500 Terabytes of Human Genome Data.

[Alan H]

Piffle...a minor detail....

He's off to the microscope facility look after the task of transferring a few hundred gbytes of immunofluorescence microscope imaging data to the central RAID 5 repository. Here, some poor unsuspecting visiting scientist is roped into wearing the scarf.. You can see the pretty picture of the neuronal stem he is investigating in the background.



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and then off to one of the first floor labs, where Peggy and Katja... oh my GOD!!! STAND BACK! They're about to do science!



From there, I drop by the relatively quiet halls of the PAN facility, where Yen and Dick are busy running samples through the spectrophotometer.

[Alan H]

Finally, to round off the morning, I drop by our Emeritus Directors office. This is Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1980, wearing the Welsh Rugby Scarf.... It's not every day that the scarf decorates the shoulders of a Nobel Laureate.



WHAT a morning! It's off to the gym, and more pictures of your friend and the visiting scarf, in action at Stanford!