So, this was a thing that happened: Sydney breaks temperature record

I imagine this is true in all manner of professions, but in academia, conferences are the networking event par excellence. It's certainly not ironic then, that I was presenting paper based to a non-trivial degree on network theory. It did elicit an internal chuckle though ( Read more... )

I initially found it surprising, but through repetition came to expect, that when I mentioned my attendance at a conference on religious dining, the interlocutor would repeat back "religious dining" with surprise, then ask what "they" ate ( Read more... )

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