Archive for March, 2007

A poem - or - 3 months in 16 frames

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

This afternoon I had to literally scrape a cyclist off Alison Road in Randwick. He hit a car that failed to give way to him at 30-35km/h, launched into the air above the car and came down heavily on his head. I was the first on the scene and had the miserable task of lifting [...]

ADSL Poo, and T wee wee can bite by bum

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

my ADSL 2 is down and my job have taken a serious swandive into crapdom, rapidly becoming unbearable, not to mention hearbreaking, as over four years of hard work and so many looong hours of sweat and tears and pushing things through, all starts to disintegrate before our eyes.
that sounds so dramatic, doesn’t it?! [...]

Stress free commuting? Yeah, right!

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

A change is as good as a holiday, or so they say. I’m now in Sydney, having started my postdoc. Things are going swimmingly and (apart from missing Zoe) I’ve quickly fallen into the postdoc work habit of writing funding proposals and papers.
Timtim and I have been bike commuting into the city from Hornsby for [...]

Flash flooding

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Here’s some pretty impressive flash flooding. Shows how volatile Australian streams can be!

From youtube.com

Dive

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Another day at the office… this time surveying seahorse populations for Dave’s PhD.