The hot makes my brain melty (my excuse. and I'm sticking to it)
I'm not sure what temperature it got to here in Sydney today; fluffworld said it was supposed to hit 40C. Which is quite a lot, although not the highest I've been in; according to the digital temperature gauge on the lifeguard's hut at the Dead Sea, it was 49C while we were there.
It's funny being back in Australia. Melbourne hasn't changed (weather included) since I left it in June '08; bear in mind that was the middle of winter, and I landed last week in the middle of summer, and you come close to understanding the weather in that city. Although I do think everyone seems to be happier this time around, which is great. Caught up with a load of the Cammies at the pub on Friday - cue much confusion about the fact that I have hair. Specifically, I have a lot more hair - the increase in length since June '08 was frequently used as an excuse for not recognising me. I must be spending more time this trip in Melbourne than I am anywhere else, but I still seem to have very little time there - I've seen some people I wanted to, but not all of them. Great to see artbroken, emrhyck and damien_wise again; all looking very well, too.
Aside from the Australia thing, I've not been up to much. Reading, I guess; I'm currently struggling through A Brief History of Time. He lost me slightly when he said "...one has to have a collection of gluons whose colours add up to white. Such a collection forms an unstable particle called a glueball." They're taking the piss, right? I mean, you can just picture a gang of white-coated physicists bent double with laughter in labs going "Let's say that invisible things have invisible colours, but that they can't have invisible colours because they have to be invisibly white, and then let's tell them that invisible white thing is called a glueball!! Hahahaha!! And no-one will ever challenge us because everyone's too afraid of making it obvious they're not understanding the invisible colour schemes hohohoho!!" Bloody physicists. They're in it with the mathematicians, I know they are. I should get together with the English graduates and write metaphorical and allegorical books about them. That'd show 'em.
Words of the day: astroturfing; half-bakery and, of course, quarks.
It's funny being back in Australia. Melbourne hasn't changed (weather included) since I left it in June '08; bear in mind that was the middle of winter, and I landed last week in the middle of summer, and you come close to understanding the weather in that city. Although I do think everyone seems to be happier this time around, which is great. Caught up with a load of the Cammies at the pub on Friday - cue much confusion about the fact that I have hair. Specifically, I have a lot more hair - the increase in length since June '08 was frequently used as an excuse for not recognising me. I must be spending more time this trip in Melbourne than I am anywhere else, but I still seem to have very little time there - I've seen some people I wanted to, but not all of them. Great to see artbroken, emrhyck and damien_wise again; all looking very well, too.
Aside from the Australia thing, I've not been up to much. Reading, I guess; I'm currently struggling through A Brief History of Time. He lost me slightly when he said "...one has to have a collection of gluons whose colours add up to white. Such a collection forms an unstable particle called a glueball." They're taking the piss, right? I mean, you can just picture a gang of white-coated physicists bent double with laughter in labs going "Let's say that invisible things have invisible colours, but that they can't have invisible colours because they have to be invisibly white, and then let's tell them that invisible white thing is called a glueball!! Hahahaha!! And no-one will ever challenge us because everyone's too afraid of making it obvious they're not understanding the invisible colour schemes hohohoho!!" Bloody physicists. They're in it with the mathematicians, I know they are. I should get together with the English graduates and write metaphorical and allegorical books about them. That'd show 'em.
Words of the day: astroturfing; half-bakery and, of course, quarks.