For anyone who cares, the author in question is Carol Berg. I'd just read an excerpt from one of her novels after Zhe told me that he borrowed a book of hers from the library. The following conversation ensued.

me: there was far too much exposition in it though, and i really hate it when authors come up with arbitrary units of measurement to make ( Read more... )

* Dear paper authors: You are writing in English for an English-speaking audience. As such, I really wish that you wouldn't liberally fill your papers with random French and Latin phrases. It doesn't make your arguments any better and in fact only makes you look like a pretentious snob who only wants their paper to be comprehensible to other ( Read more... )

The more I learn about how society works the more I think that most laws/rules that are put in place aren't actually intended to be followed to the letter, but are there to ensure that people only break them infrequently and in relatively safe ways ( Read more... )

So I just go to check my Unimail to see if the provisional exam results were out (they weren't), and the blurb thingy on the Firefox tab caught my attention:

UniMail :: UNSW E-Mail Via the Web.

Which leads me to wonder how one is meant to check one's email without using the web.

People like to say that if aliens exist they most likely do it in a form that is in no way similar to ours, and to believe otherwise is grossly anthropocentric. But then what if we have contact with aliens and they *are* humanoid? Will it in fact prove that humanity/humanoids really are the superior race? And then there'll be another race that was ( Read more... )

You know you've been working at Coles too long when ( Read more... )