A couple of weeks ago I moved out of a sharehouse and into a single-bedroom place in Mosman. I'd been nervous about moving out by myself for the duration of my PhD because I was worried that the isolation would send me insane ( Read more... )

... but wouldn't it be great to actually live in an ivory tower? You'd get a great view of your surroundings, be totally protected against orc attacks (but not against ent attacks), and you could save on electricity bills by making use of the heat differential between the top bit and the bottom bit.

After showering, I dry myself with a towel. In fact I've got several towels, of different sizes and colours ( Read more... )

When a possum dies among the shrubs its body falls onto a bed of leaves, face down, tail already stiffening. By the second day its fur is matted and tufted, and ants crawl over its body, and flies come. By the third day the fur is a carpet, slowly, silently, dissolving into the leaves -- and it's really a beautiful process, returning to the earth, ( Read more... )

This is pretty nerdy. Sorry, non-hardcore-nerd friends ( Read more... )

(I found this lying around - N ( Read more... )

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I recently discovered tumblr -- it's another one of those miniblogging sites. I loved the layout so I started a tumblr site at flonk.lardcave.net. Posts there are less edited, and more random, than posts here.

This is a post about open source Wii mod chips. They're pretty interesting, but ( the actual content is quite nerdy. )

After a conversation with liedra I've been trying to come up with rhyming food. Ideally each rhyme should describe a multiple-course meal. So far I've got:

• Cheese on rye, stir fry, rhubarb pie
  
• Cannelloni and panettone (with mascarpone -- OK, Italian is a bit of a cheat)
  
• Milk shake, steak, and cake (or a pasta bake)
  
• Bread rolls, sausage rolls, and ( Read more... )