Archive for March, 2006

The Lion King

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Young Simba: Wow…
Mufasa: A king’s time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king.
Young Simba: And this’ll all be mine?
Mufasa: Everything…
Young Simba: Everything the light touches…

Strategies for effective thesis writing I

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Part I - The Hermit-eske Approach
Although the heat has been turned down in Townsville over the last few weeks, the pressure has been on the up-and-up. PhD students are freaking out left, right, and centre. Fortunately, I’ve managed to avoid most of the carnage by adopting The Hermit-eske Approach. Dictionary.com defines a hermit thus:
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Ooops, I did it again.

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

It could be time to quit science and take up my true calling as a professional poker player As you may know from my previous posts, each week it’s a $10 buy-in at 8pm. This gets you $1100 worth of chips. If you lose all your chips before 9:30pm, you’re able to re-buy - [...]

Rock on top - like a tupee!

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Phildo called me at 8am this morning, ranting about how good Ugly Ducking are. He and Nic had just seen them live in London at the Jazz Cafe. I’m sure it’ll be added to his post on Africa. Maybe he could call it Safaris and Camparis, or something…

Holy disability Batman!

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

I think it could be time to stop complaining.
But I need to do something right? Maybe I should be concentrating on writing more entertaining posts. This month the hits are down below 20 thousand, which is a pretty piss poor effort.
Oh, well. I’ll just have to start having adventures then