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Farewell Australia!
Well, its time ( Read more... ) -
The Lost Thing
Yesterday Shaun Tan was kind enough to give me an impromptu (and unauthorized) full screening of the The Lost Thing, which had only premiered in France the day before and has yet to be released in Australia. I was stunned... there was none of the antiseptic feeling one often finds in short CG movies. The film not only captures the essense of the ( Read more... ) -
Owensia chooi
Hey hey! Its not everyday you get immortalised by getting a zoological nomen named after you! For me, its a 380 million year old, Middle Devonian lobe-finned fish from Victoria.http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a916428817~db=all -
Back in Perth!
Woohoo ( Read more... ) -
I'm the "Top Creator Pick" Feature on Spore!
I'm this weeks "Top Creator" on Spore.
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/17851.page
Damn this game is addictive...although definately not the scientific marvel they were originally advertising it as. -
Thesis reeled, gaffed and bagged
My thesis entitled "Revision and description of the Actinopterygian fishes of Devonian Eastern Gondwana" is in the bag. Came out as a gargantuan 8 chapters, 320+ pages, 12 colour plates, c.70,000 words plus c20,000 word appendices. Took 48 hours to print 6 volumes - ran out of toner and found it was cheaper to throw away the old printer and buy a ( Read more... ) -
Back to Gogo!
Well...
Its off to WA for 2 weeks of fossil fun in the Gogo Formation. Given what a motherlode of dead fish greeted us in 2005, we have high hopes of squeezing a few more Nature papers out of the site! Be back on the 9th.
