I am looking forward to a long-overdue holiday over the next fortnight. It's been a long and busy 15 months since the last one.

After some thought, internet shenanigans, and the kindness of some people in the US who can't go, I am now joining tooticky at uber Nerdfest. For all my LJ fiends who will also be there, below the cut are the options I'm thinking ( Read more... )

I may be about to buy two attending memberships for a slightly reduced rate in Australian terms. Given that the prices go up on the first of May, is anyone interested in coming?

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I caught the afternoon repeat of the Health Report yesterday after dropping a patient back at a country hospital. The episode is well worth a listen if you want to hear a discussion of the clash between egos, marketing, science, politics, and common sense. The inventor does not come off well...

The Heimlich Manoeuvre

In the early 1970s a new ( Read more... )

So I've been to another nerdfest sci-fi convention: the national one this time. I had mixed feelings prior to going, but thought that both tooticky and I badly needed a break, and I was curious to meet whichever of Tooticky's fellow Clarionites may assemble there. (After all, I'd been hearing about them a great deal ever since she got back from Queensland ( Read more... )

Long day yesterday. I'd originally signed up for twelve hours of being on call at my vollie branch. There's noting quite like getting up at 05:45 on your first day off to go and and bum around an ambulance station hoping simultaneously to have a quiet day and that something interesting will happen ( Read more... )

A while back australian_joe linked to a very... special Youtube clip of Miss Piggy lip syncing to a Peaches song. While, after doing some research, I can say I'm not much of a fan of Peaches work, it did ultimately lead tooticky and I discovering this! She should have posted the link ages ago, but I've gotten tired of waiting, so...

Touga's Bringing Sexy Back

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Since tooticky has been busy skiting about my cooking skills, I feel I should do the same. I've just finished off the last of the seafood chowder (which was an excellent first attempt), and now I'm listening to a combination of her cooking laksa and this morning's Health Report. Mmmm... laksa and virology. Does it get any better ( Read more... )

Amazing how profound moronic statements can be. With the one I'm borrowing from, I suspect that poor old Ronnie was telegraphing his later diagnosis, but it does just fine in tooticky's and my context.

Outside, the mornings are getting warmer (no longer waking up and turning on the news to hear that it's -2o every morning), the black ice on the roads is ( Read more... )

Sigur Ros's Hoppipolla has a rippling piano riff that leaves me smiling without effort. Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis is perfectly described by one reviewer as "a cathedral made of music", and a superb choice for the Master and Commander soundtrack, with invocations of big, open seas. And the Screaming Jets cover of The Eve of ( Read more... )

Work has cut off LJ access. On protesting that I actually use mine for professional stuff, as well as for play, the cryptic reply was "some people have had their access to the site removed". I assume by extension I must be one of the people. I don't think I've given away any trade secrets or said anything especially nasty in the last year or three ( Read more... )