On Stuff
A nice new review blog for the list: http://kinnareads.wordpress.com/
The placement is great but very tiring. I seem to spend all day making mistakes and working up a sweat merely by staring at a computer screen for hours on end, only to write a line of code that might be around 45% successful *laughs*. Me and the MATLAB compiler, great friends we are not. I thought I found a nifty way of finding motor protein stepping patterns but then the next day I ran the same code and I had an error in the third line.
Interesting times to be sure.
Speaking of review blogs, Newsnight Review is back! Of course they're covering the Edinburgh Festival, which I'm definitely going to go to next year. I found the brief interview between Khorsandi and Tsiolkas (author of 'The Slap') really weird though. There was a bit where they discussed how ethnic minorities reclaim offensive terms (for him as an Australian writer, words such as 'wog') and said how that isn't/doesn't seem to be particularly common in the UK, which just made me wonder which immigrant community they'd been hanging out with, because it certainly didn't sound like any I'd had anything to do with, and that's me the distinctly middle-class second generation Nigerian from South London. Weird.
The placement is great but very tiring. I seem to spend all day making mistakes and working up a sweat merely by staring at a computer screen for hours on end, only to write a line of code that might be around 45% successful *laughs*. Me and the MATLAB compiler, great friends we are not. I thought I found a nifty way of finding motor protein stepping patterns but then the next day I ran the same code and I had an error in the third line.
Interesting times to be sure.
Speaking of review blogs, Newsnight Review is back! Of course they're covering the Edinburgh Festival, which I'm definitely going to go to next year. I found the brief interview between Khorsandi and Tsiolkas (author of 'The Slap') really weird though. There was a bit where they discussed how ethnic minorities reclaim offensive terms (for him as an Australian writer, words such as 'wog') and said how that isn't/doesn't seem to be particularly common in the UK, which just made me wonder which immigrant community they'd been hanging out with, because it certainly didn't sound like any I'd had anything to do with, and that's me the distinctly middle-class second generation Nigerian from South London. Weird.