Archive for May, 2007



I’ve been trying to call the Polish consulate to organise my passport today but the line is constantly busy. I can’t imagine it being that popular. Maybe they’re busy watching Teletubbies and they’ve taken the phone off the hook. Or maybe they no longer have a phone. I imagine the Polish consulate in Brisbane to […]

Glasshouse Mountains

Mt Beerwah

The steep ascent

At the top!

The other two: Mt Coonowrin (left) and Mt Tibrogargan (right)

The ridge

Moondust

Mooncaves

Pipeorgan cliffs

The perilous journey down

Why are the First European Young Scientists Conference on Quantum Information and the Quantum Foundations Summer School both held on 27-31 August 2007?

Peter is leaving me soon, so I am now in “looking for a housemate” mode. If you know of someone who is looking for somewhere to live, send ‘em to me and I will evaluate their suitability. Here is a list of criteria that the potential candidate should fulfill (this list will grow as I […]

This was sent to me today. It’s very awesome!

Starting today, I’m going to be a vegetarian…for 2 weeks. Followed by being a vegan…for 2 weeks. I have no profound ideological reasons to offer - except maybe a desire to experience something new. Well, I already know what it is like to be a vegetarian - I was one for a couple of […]

What fish is this?

Because I haven’t had enough holidays yet, I spent the long weekend camping on the beach on South Stradbroke Island (no pickies ’cause we forgot to charge the batteries). On the way back, we stopped off in Coombabah (for one last fish to use up the yabbies) and cought this thing:

We thought it would be […]