Geraldton was fun and geeky. Here are some of the highlights:
I was on TV! Well, I was in a 10 second shot on GWN news, and I’m sure most people were looking at the guy with the liquid nitrogen, but nonetheless I was on TV… I’ve never been on TV before.
Liquid nitrogen! We went a […]
It’s 11:05pm of the night before the marking is due, and I have to be at uni and working by 8am, so it needs to be finished tonight. I’m getting near the end, but also slowing down - I’ve got 11.5 lots of Question 5 to go, then adding and data-entry. And I have to […]
Tomorrow I’m off to Geraldton for a two-day science fair. I’ve been all excited about it for weeks, and now that my little yucky patch of assignments, marking and rent inspections is over, I’m starting to get excited all over again. I’ve just finished packing my stuff, and tomorrow I’ve gotta buy snacks and pack […]
My throat hurts. I’ve just spend an hour and a half explaining file systems, inodes, indirection and fragmentation to a class full of first years who haven’t had the corresponding lecture yet. But at least that means that the roomful of blank looks weren’t because of my teaching skills! Yay! Or at least, weren’t entirely […]
Today was the first day in three weeks where I did not have some urgent task to do - no outreach work, open day stuff, assessments or more outreach work. I celebrated this occasion by sleeping in till 10:30. It was gooood… And, despite a brief downer between getting the post in and going to […]
Yesterday I went to a forum about mentoring, organised by the uni’s retention people (their proper name is Student Transition and Retention Team, or START - well done, whoever came up with that acronym :p). I was there to talk about Computing’s mentoring scheme, but also to pick up whatever tips I could. Here are […]
I’ve just gotten back from a local primary school, where I was running an activity for National Science Week, to teach the kids a bit about computer science. Today was years 1 to 3. Yup, teaching computer science to 6, 7 and 8 year-olds. It was really interesting watching the year 1s have all sorts […]
On my way home from uni today, in the rain, I discovered three ways that umbrellas are a hazard to cyclists:
People huddle under their umbrellas and lean in to the rain, obscuring their view of what’s around them.
Umbrellas are wider than people, filling up the paths and the spaces between people.
Several people huddling under one […]
