Woo, won a (board) game. Brown is win. (Race for the galaxy, or some such thing ( Read more... )

Well, the second attempt went well. Got to phase 5.

Tanks borked phase 2 every other time though, of the 19 attempts we got in in 4 hours.

/sigh

We were not prepared. :(

To begin with, a Pratchett quote, which appeals deeply - from a 'live chat' here -

Random chat person: Terry, Thank you for works that delight and inspire! My question is what delights and inspires YOU?

Terry Pratchett: Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.

Also of note - someone mentioning that they preserved his signature on their arm for ( Read more... )

Disclaimers: a) Uni has finished, so I have time up my sleeve :D

b) I may have signed up for NaBloPoMo (blog every day for november), because I'm not up to writing a novel but I want to get back into the habit of actually communicating with people.

I have a remarkably open week ahead of me. Except for perhaps re-contacting my placement coordinator ( Read more... )

These are cool, in a supernerdy way. One of my lecturers turned up to the year-end GDIM party at RMIT with halloween earrings and necklaces, gummi body parts and this Dewey Decimal System tattoo on her arm.

I had fun and sausages and chatted, and then went off to to a ROCS-based Halloween party, whcih was fun. I had pumpkin pie. It was disturbingly ( Read more... )

3am ( Read more... )

Thought some of you might be interested in this latest from the ABS blog, Statistically speaking - http://abs4libraries.blogspot.com/2008/10/mental-health-wellbeing.htmlRead more... )

Well, after spending all day on job-app-related stuff, and ignoring the rising panic about Friday's massive assignment, I interrupt your usually scheduled lack of programming to share this webcomic, which fairly accurately portrays the kinds of reasons I quit ARL - and sols_light too I imagine ( Read more... )

My towel is green and fluffy and quite large.

Merry Christmas everyone!

We're up in Qld for this one, with H apparently quite happily visiting ironicshell and Calico. The weather is rather phhhhht though, in that it makes me want to go phhhht and lie flat on the tiles like a dog, if we had tiles. Anyway, that's what the pool is for I guess (large wading pool essentially ( Read more... )