Ola Spjuth of Bioclipse
Creators & Contributors
From time to time people get presented with Blue Obelisks and the latest recipient is Ola Spjuth. Presentations – and the preparations for them – are rarely simple – they have included
- obelisk falling off the table on night of travel
- being sent a green obelisk (although to be fair this was an addition by the supplier)
- tramping the length and breadth of San Fancisco only to discover there seemed to be no blue obelisks in the whole city. The recipients at that stage got pseudo-blue pseudo-obelisks
and most recently the supply was late, so I resorted to a crystal healing shop in Uppsala – which also had no obelisks but did have a magic blue rock.
So Ola was presented with a blue "foo" for which he was promised a real obelisk next time we met. We hopefully have a photograph of the presentation, in which case it should be possible to

to do some Photoshopping or similar on the photo.
Fortunately I shall be in Uppsala again in June and Ola and I will be able to meet for a physical handover.
For the uninitiated – there is no formula for the award of the blue obelisk – it happens when it happens, but there has to be physical meeting – they are not delivered by post. There is no citation – if there were an inscription it would read:
"Si monumentum requiris, circumspice"
Additional details
Description
From time to time people get presented with Blue Obelisks and the latest recipient is Ola Spjuth. Presentations – and the preparations for them – are rarely simple – they have included obelisk falling off the table on night of travel being sent a green obelisk (although to be fair this was an addition by the supplier) tramping the length and breadth of San Fancisco only to discover there seemed to be no blue obelisks in the whole city.
Identifiers
- GUID
- https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=345
- URL
- https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2007/05/30/ola-spjuth-of-bioclipse/
Dates
- Issued
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2007-05-30T19:38:00Z
- Updated
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2007-05-30T19:38:00Z