Over the course of nearly 5 years certain things accumulate...


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My thesis feels like trying to explain a hypercube (a 4 (or more) dimensional extrusion of a cube). You can draw a projection into 2D space but it doesn't really mean much ( Read more... )

In the office happily tapping away at 5am, I was afraid I might have some regrets. Not so, according to my text editor!

Search string 'regret' not found!

...unfortunately I found them in a different chapter. :'(

(An algorithm with the acronym REGRET, which I prefer to another which is "AWESOME")

The letter "D".

Medieval merchant guilds.
Obesity in rats.
Bread making machines.
Rehabilitation of psychopaths.
Vietnamese tea houses.
The 1973 Group Facilitators Guide.
The United States power grid.
Astronauts.
The sexual habits of bonobos.

Waves of gold and amber strewn across the sky.

So the thesis continues to come along in fits and spurts, a page here and there, ideas for further work there and here, all that sort of thing ( Read more... )

Mmmmmh, if I'm going to be staying late at uni on a Friday night, having The World's Best Camembert to keep me company is definitely the way to do it.

Update: This has backfired a little with some serious contentment setting in, which has a downright negative effect on output.

Update 2: A cup of tea will wake me up again, right? Wrong, the ( Read more... )

Spent essentially the whole weekend at uni endeavouring to describe some thought processes in a paper. I'm sort of pleased to have not been doing it out of a sense of obligation but more as a challenge. Just making some final corrections and while I'm not really satisfied with many aspects of it I think (hope) I've gotten a point across even if ( Read more... )

Sometimes when everything keeps crashing (and taking a portion of work with it each time...) one just has to slow down and remember that it's marvelous and magnificent that one lives in a time where any of this technology exists at all, and the fact that from time to rare time it does work is nothing short of a miracle.

...*sigh*

If a job doesn't seem like it should be impossible, it isn't worth doing. Doing something that's obviously feasible would just be going through the motions, right?

I'm sure I could make certain aspects of my life easier if I didn't insist on seeing things that way, but I do so like a challenge at times. ;)