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2001
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Weeks 14-20

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With our location problems solved, this week was dedicated to constructing the remaining panels. That took up the majority of the days Monday to Friday. We industrialised the process using all available power tools. This sped up things, and we had all side and back panels ready by the end of week.

The table and front panels still remained unsolved. We decided that the angle factor of the front panel was small compared to the power it consumed, due to the distance to the subject. This caused us to conclude that it would be advantageous to build the table panel in such a way, that we didn’t have to use the front panel. We build a prototype, which proved satisfactory.

Tuesday Kiril and George left the office. They had been good company. We exchanged email adresses.

We had discussed the experimental plan with Henrik Spliid last week, and he had agreed that it was good. We created the poster we needed for the recruitment, and also a website, since we planned to use the internet for recruitment as much as possible. Later we talked to Spliid again. He now suggested that it would be a good idea to arrange to groups of subjects, so that subjects came both afternoons and evenings, instead of one time of day only. We gave this some thought, but decided to have a final discussion with Spliid before publishing our posters.

Wednesday we decided to have a short talk to Svend Svendsen, a Professor at the Department of Buildings and Energy whom we had previously considered having as supervisor for our project. We wanted to inform of us of our project. He was particularly interested in the practical applications, something he found the Centre often neglected. We had a long discussion of this, and other subjects.

On a quiet Sunday morning we observed the wildlife in the yard outside our office window. It was a mild day, and thus a lot of animals were out in search of nuts and other foods. Firstly, we noticed a large squirrel in the larger of the trees. It stayed there for a while, and its presence attracted a rarer guest; the Australian Dear. We feeded both of them nuts, and actually believed that we were able to communicate with the Dear, in its own language. A very fascinating experience.

On the occasion of Christmas, we added some decorations to the office. 2 kg of clay was transformed into a Christmas Pakistani and a Christmas Fish. These home-made items were accompanied by a calendar from Ingeniøren, a counting candle and various obscenely ugly Christmas objects from Netto. We placed these items in the lounge section of the office.