It's 7:16PM, and I'm scrawling out a handwritten LiveJournal entry while waiting for a bus in the rain. I'm staying at James Cook University for 2 weeks to run a mosquito experiment, but there isn't much experimentation to be done with two thousand pupae. So I took the afternoon off to go downtown and watch Wolverine ( Read more... )

This can only be good!

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I like going to the grocery store after work. The timing is just right. The sun is just starting to go down. Day eases into twilight ( Read more... )

(Example of a common conversation)
Australian: Looking forward to November 4th?

Me: I am! I voted absentee about 2 weeks ago, so all I have to do is sit tight and watch the news. I still can't wrap my ahead around the fact that the rest of the world probably realizes the weight of this thing more than the people in the U.S., you know? If only ( Read more... )

Honeybees: smarter than gully dwarves.

I keep meaning to put together a post of things about Brisbane/Australia that are different in ways that I hadn't originally anticipated, but today is not that day.

I will mention that we just tried out Hell Pizza. We ordered an "Underworld" and a "Pride". Both were tasty, and I admire how thoroughly the chain sticks to the theme when designing ( Read more... )

It's kind of sad what topics ultimately motivate me to update my LJ blog ( Read more... )

So now I live in Brisbane. We arrived last Friday. Google suggested that the trip would take 15 hours. What Google needs is a checkable box titled, “I am a moron.” That way the algorithm can account for the fact that the driver will miss no fewer than 6 exits along the trip, including the exit necessary to avoid driving straight through Sydney ( Read more... )

In two days, I've learned two things that woke me up a bit ( Read more... )

One reads/hears "drunk" used as a metaphor for various emotions: drunk with lust, drunk with rage, etc. I like to try to combine "drunk" with emotions that aren't particularly well-described by "drunk". The first one I came up with was, "drunk with respect". It amuses me, but I've never had an opportunity to use it on unsuspecting participants ( Read more... )