| Sunday, November 29th, 2009 |
| 12:37 am |
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| Saturday, November 28th, 2009 |
| 2:06 pm |
Traumatic Insemination Comics!
For my mind, Doom Patrol #54 is one of the most important alchemical texts of the last fifty years. But, people, we appear to have a new contender:
Also:  Current Music: The slap of leather on willow. GO Blackcaps! |
| Friday, November 27th, 2009 |
| 10:15 pm |
So there was this meme thing where people get to ask you questions if you comment on their journal, and then you post it on your journal, and if people reply, you ask them questions, and so on.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) basinbrat asked me these ones:
1) Do you have any interest in cricket at all?
A lot more than I used to, to be honest! I had the not-uncommon nerdly kneejerk hatred of sports when I was growing up. But then I grew up. I've obviously been exposed to a lot more cricket over the last few years than I ever was before, and it's growing on me. I've developed an appreciation of some of the subtleties and tactics of the game. I;ll happily have it on the tv these days, and who knows - I might even go to a match this summer!
2) Who's your favourite author then?
I'm going to cheat a bit here. ;)
Comics: Alan Moore (or Neil Gaiman or Warren Ellis)
Novels: Maybe Neil Gaiman? Or possibly Neal Stephenson. Or Christopher Brookmyre. Or Iain Banks. Or John Crowley,or Michael Chabon, or Jonathan Lethem, or...Too hard!
Non-fiction: Frances Yates, or Stephen Jay Gould, or Peter Ackroyd, or Norman Davies, or...
Essays: Nick Hornby, or Michael Chabon. Or Jon Ronson.
Ugh. too hard all round.
3) What TV show do you recommend I watch?
Bit tricky not knowing what you've seen! Some faves: Black Books, Spaced, Buffy, Battlestar Galactica etc. etc. Several series I'm hoping to catch up on this summer. I'm not very good at current tv! I always forget when things are on. I like How I Met your Mother... Oh! Grand Designs, if you're an architecture nerd.
4) Why the squid?
I always loved cephalopods of all sorts. Alien grace. I was totally stumped for an LJ name whan I was signing up, and what I had rolled off the tongue a lot better than mysteryoctopus or mysterycuttlefish - although mysterynautilus has a ring... 5) Do you get what people see in Aiden Blizzard?
Well, I saw his midriff every day for a few months, thanks to pluto_pup's chat icon, so I think I see where you're coming from.
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| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 |
| 6:53 pm |
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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 |
| 9:27 pm |
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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009 |
| 10:36 pm |
Birthday
Happy birthday sis. I can't imagine what the greeting you got from Luke was like after five years - he was excited enough when you'd been away for a day! Brodie's doing okay - wonky legs and a heart murmur, but she's happy. Ethan is doing well at school. You would've loved Millie and Ruby to bits. I wish you'd gotten to meet them. They all hear about you. Mum and dad... well. We all still miss you. I spent a big slab of the weekend trying to retrieve some old photos of Marla from mum's old computer. Ended up having to buy an external hard drive enclosure and dismember thebleeding thing. Mission accomplished, eventually. Today was the first time I've gone to school on Marla's birthday. Made it through, but it was hard. Snapped at some kids. Came down with a monster headache. Marla was a perpetual student, like her big brother. She started a nursing degree, but quit soon after dealing with her first body. Environmental science wasn't for her either -- pretty much all chemistry. She finally got through her nutrition degree. Just. The uni bent a few rules for her to make sure she graduated. She was about six weeks from the end of her course when she relapsed, but she was such a stellar student that they aggregated her scores and granted her her degree. There was a graduation ceremony in the faculty just for her. Without a doubt the most awesome thing I've ever seen a university do. She never got to use it though. Fucking waste. Current Mood:  sadCurrent Music: Tripod performing on Good News Week |
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
| 10:57 pm |
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| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 |
| 10:32 pm |
Linkage
Japan. Seriously, WTF? Moon Wiring Club. ‘For those amongst us who favour entertainment of a more ‘experimental’ nature, the Moon Wiring Club is as infamous and inevitable as cod-liver oil. One might say that no gentleman whose adventurous instincts have not been warmed and purged by what is on offer here, can hope for much future in the English-speaking world.’ Dame Priapus Fripps, 1936 |
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
| 11:09 pm |
So...
I missed out on the Scienceworks job. But funnily enough, there's a new job going - at Scienceworks! I have meetings tomorrow with both the head of senior school and the principal, so we might see some role changes anyway... Current Mood:  tired |
| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
| 12:10 am |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
| 10:05 pm |
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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
| 11:07 pm |
Who is this?
 And what's his story? Serious or frivolous answers gleefully accepted! Current Mood:  curious |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
| 11:01 pm |
Me again...
I just wanted to point to this. The Boston Globe have a weekly feature called The Big Picture, which spotlights stunning large-format images from around the world. Always worth a look. This week, they featured thirty-five jaw dropping images of Mars from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
GO. Current Mood: awestruck |
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| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
| 7:34 pm |
Stuff and things.
Not so good - didn't get the middle school job. I'm going to talk to some senior staff on Monday about next year and my workload. Feeling reasonably positive all things considered. Good - My xkcd and Hijinks Ensue books arrived, along with my t-shirt. Awesome. Odd - this: Yeah. There's a series of those. You're welcome. Current Music: Concrete Blonde - Walking in London |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
| 10:42 pm |
Christopher Plummer rocks my world
We saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus today. Then we saw Up. Cos we felt like it. Both were great. Liked Dr P. very much. Lily Cole can act, in addition to her proven looking ethereal abilities. Best Gilliam film in quite a long time. Cried at Up. More than once. Lovely film. Current Mood:  good |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 |
| 10:32 pm |
Another nice day - rambling around the city while the girl was at work. Saw far too many albums at Polyester Records -- maybe next time. :P I'm really enjoying these outings. I've literally found my stride again. I used to do this all the time in my teens and early twenties - long long urban walks with no real destination. It's great exercise and good fun too. I plan to take more photos and write about these walks at more length in future. So hold on to your hats for that one. Can I just say, I really do not like gambling. At all. Dad with a gambling addiction and all. But I do like that a horse race gets us a public holiday! I like even more that my school gives us the Monday off too, in simple recognition of the fact that no kids come that day anyway. I stumbled across a part of the internet I knew nothing about the other day. I followed a link from I don't remember what to a "demotivational" poster. Remember those? All the rage a few years ago. Caption an image to look like a "motivational" poster. Like this one:
There's a website for making them. They seem to have a bit of a troll problem. A lot of the current posters are pretty cretinous. Thing is, one of the things you can make a demotivational of is another demotivational. So people comment on the posters by making posters out of them. The original image gets smaller and smaller as the "thread" grows, and gets pushed further up, as the captions slot in below.
Like that.
Eventually, it can disappear completely. They're a bit like a flamewar, but they call them "Tunnel Wars".
So - that's a thing.
Current Music: VH1 Hits of the 90s |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
| 5:09 pm |
Aww!
Happy Halloween for those as mark it. Or Beltane, for those as mark it. OR Samhain, if any of my Northern Hemisphere friends are pagans...? All too confusing. :P Current Mood: chipper |
| Friday, October 30th, 2009 |
| 11:09 pm |
Interview
I had my interview for the Middle School position today. I took along a unit of work I'm halfway through developing called "Cracking the Code" inspired by Simon Singh's book, and they LOVED it. They wanted me to give some professional development on codes and ciphers to the ESL teachers! We talked teaching philosophies, curriculum directions, papercraft Enigma machines, reconciliation, Julius Caesar, learning styles, Alan Turing, histrorical empathy, and my weird academic history. A quote from the head of Middle School: "Thanks for that - that was a really interesting half hour. It made my day." ...so that sounds positive. Final answer next week. Current Mood: hopeful |
