No, this isn't a real update. Because I suck. However, in a conversation this evening about spiders, such internet phenomenon as Clock Spider came up. And I remembered that we, too, have a photo of a huntsman, one that I think the internet might enjoy.

I can haz flyspray?


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So, you've graduated from your undergraduate degree. Well done! To get to this point, you've surpassed a great many others in your degree - those who started with you but soon decided that the degree wasn't for them, those who transferred to other fields or other universities or joined the work force with cadetships or apprenticeships or, heaven ( Read more... )

Well, that last attempt at posting in the journal regularly didn't last very long. I follow some people's journals who seem to post nearly daily, and yet always seem to have something interesting to post about, and i wonder how they do it. Much as I think my life's probably not that interesting, perhaps it's equally that I enjoy the moments but ( Read more... )

It starts like this:

Once upon a time...I've got your attention now, haven't I ( Read more... )

So, tonight we put the clocks back, and daylight savings comes to a finish. To me, in a way, this signifies the End of Summer. No more long sunny evenings and bbqs, no more scorching days and beach trips and thunderstorms. It's time for winter, the season of darkness and cold fronts... and of course, those beautiful high pressure systems that sit ( Read more... )

And so, another geat mind is lost to the world ( Read more... )

Good Morning, Livejournal. Although you may not have noticed, I haven't actuially been around this past week, as I spent the entirety of it in Brisbane, Queensland. Why? Well, I was there, as the start of my new life as a Serious Researcher, to observe/partake in a huge fieldwork project being run jointly by the BoM (The Australian Bureau of ( Read more... )

So, the other night I was looking at fstdt.com with a friend and laughing at the idiocy of it all, when I joked idly about whether someone could just kill them off, since the world is overpopulated anyway ( Read more... )

One of the interesting things about checking the interweb when you've been drinking is that you can only read things if you close one eye. In my case, the left, as it's my lazy eye anyway, and hence is the least useful in my daily endeavours ( Read more... )

A week or so ago, the UAC cutoffs were released. For those who aren't abiding in NSW and may happen across this entry, after the completion of High School and the statewide exams, everyone from that grade is issued a UAI based on their marks for different subjects, how those subjects scale, etc, which serves of a ranking of where they stand ( Read more... )