Look, a butterfly!

Last week was spent visiting friends in Melbourne. It was super-mega-rad. Here are some pickies for you to enjoy.
Tram lines

A flower in a garden in Coburg

Inner-city buildings: The old meets the new. Cliche, I know, but I couldn’t help myself

St Kilda

Luna Park

Driving on Sydney St in Coburg

The port at Geelong

The famous Bell’s Beach

Aireys Inlet

Split […]

After hearing about China’s plans to control the weather for the 2008 olympics, I did some wi-search on cloud seeding. Apparently, this is a reasonably successful and widely-used method for “making it rain”.
This inspired me to conceive the idea of a Raindance Festival in QLD. The plan is to get together a la Woodford Folk […]

When I started my undergraduate at UQ, the Great Court looked like this.

Now, 6 years later, the drought has really taken it’s toll on our once lush retreat. I used to lie on the green grass under a shady tree with a coffee and a text book. Now the only thing I get is dust […]

This is pretty much how I’ve been feeling since last week. Except maybe change the words “5 years” to “one year”.

I’ve been using Mathematica for almost three years now, and I’ve gotten by pretty decently with the “help” tab and the not so occasional querie to my collegues/supervisors. Using these tools, it hasn’t been often that I couldn’t figure out how to do the things that I wanted to do.
During these three years, it didn’t […]

A woman of African-American descent recently ordered a couch to be delivered to her house in Toronto (full story here). Upon arrival, she noticed that the name of the colour of her couch was “nigger brown”. It turns out that a translation program made by Kingsoft Corp., a Chinese software company, is at fault.

….when the […]

If you are/have been/plan to be a participant of the Woodford Folk Festival, then you may be interested in The Planting, which will be held this Labour Day long weekend.
My favourite bit is this:
This Planting weekend everyone will be given a Bunya seedling to nuture and return to Woodford in 2010 to begin to our […]

This is my favourite story from my childhood.

From PhD comics.