Well. It's time for another one of my sporadic, "I'm actually going to start writing in this LJ again, no really!" type posts. I'm just about to head off to Tasmania for my lovely girlfriend's grandfather's 90th birthday, and, at least in theory, though I don't think I'll actually get to see him, to give my brother moral support for his move to ( Read more... )

Well... after a very stressful and sleepless week, proudly brought to me by Procrastination and its subsidiary company Disorganization, I'm now ready to go to SFN tomorrow! So... plane flight for Washington DC at 12:10. I hope I don't sleep through my alarm. (Yes... I'm going to need an alarm to get up for a midday flight. I'm tired ( Read more... )

Heh heh.... I've just become president of the UQ Romance Languages club.... that's rather entertaining, considering I've never actually studied any Romance Languages.... :)

Maybe I'll get back into Spanish and French again now!

Do you ever get really pissed off at people for no apparent reason? Hmm... well, I'm sure everyone does. But I still hate it when it happens. Grr.

That being said, fractional derivatives officially get my stamp of approval.

What a silly update.

Here's a rather poignant item I found through stumbleupon.

Not really all that much to say today... I'm just updating to try to build the habit... My parents and girlfriend and I headed up to Flaxton (a town North of Brisbane) today to see one of my mum's cousins, who she hasn't seen since I was 2. That was very nice --- their house is on the edge of (what passes in Australia for) a mountain, with great ( Read more... )

I'm really, really proud of me. This morning, I rode my bike to uni from home and it only took me an hour! Given my level of fitness, the distance(about 18 km, I think) and number of hills (I don't want to count...) between my house and here, and the crappiness of my bike (well... my dad's bike actually...), that's quite an achievement! And I ( Read more... )

I'm feeling sleepy, and I have sand in my socks. Just got back from the Queensland Brain Institute retreat, which saw a busload of neuroscientists congregating in a (rather spiffy...) hotel at Kingscliff, with the aim of keeping other hotel guests awake until all hours of the night... It was a pretty interesting meeting; the main purpose was to ( Read more... )

Right. I'm going to start writing in my LiveJournal again. If the prophet Houdini can keep one up-to-date, being both a stuffed animal and having hooves, it behooves me to do so myself. That being said, I need to think of what to write... So I'll tell you what's going on here. I'm listening to Xavier Rudd, and the sound of someone sharpening a ( Read more... )

Check out the third comment on this page. It never ceases to amaze me that people talk about "oil production". We don't produce oil, we consume it. Clever bit of language use there... :(