I’ve been feeling a little bit blah lately, not really sure why. It might be a delayed come-down after my holiday, it might be the fact that I have to start working again now that semester’s started, or that I’ve got much less money in my bank account than I’m comfortable with, and I won’t […]
Just found this on icanhascheezburger… This was me last week:
Isn’t it awesome when the sewing-blog lady says things like:
Remember, sewing is like perl: There’s More Than One Way To Do It.
(in a post about learning to sew)
I was searching for pictures of velociraptors (don’t ask), and I came across an xkcd blag post which I had somehow missed before… It’s a fan letter with some advice about deterring velociraptors, with citations! It’s hilarious, go read:
Velocilaptor Safety
(And if you don’t know what it’s going on about, see here, here and here)
“A New Zealand inventor has been forced to defend the use of worms in a composting toilet he has developed after officials became concerned that the creatures might become traumatised by the procedure.”
According to ABC News
Oh dear….
I’ve been having trouble putting words around my thoughts about the election and its outcome. But this morning I was drifting through the Internets and found a couple of commentary/opinion articles that seem to express similar thoughts to mine…
Howard’s end - Guardian, UK
Divisive Leader who squandered Australia’s hopes - Sydney Morning Herald
As you can guess […]
On friday I handed in my last assessment of the semester. This semester has been a particularly crazy one - the first half packed full of outreach stuff, and the second half packed full of catching-up. The last month has been particularly bad, because it was all of the biggest and most important assignments, and […]
assignments imminent -> procrastinating -> joined facebook -> timesink!
In related news, I’m going to try (re)learning afrikaans from facebook. Here is a joke that I just read and understood from the “Ek probeer om Afrikaans te praat…” facebook group:
Die polisie stop vir Mike met ‘n kombi vol pikkewyne. “En waar dink jy gaan jy met […]
