eard the sad news this morning that Terry Pratchett has died. I’m sure I won’t be the only fan feeling slightly guilty that my first thought was the selfish “but I want more books!” Even though I’ve known every book since his diagnosis in 2007 could potentially be his last, there’s always been that irrational…
hursday afternoons are geek-out time for the CEISMIC team. That’s when we have what we call our “Wizard Club” (because programming seems very much like magic when you’re learning it) – a combination of staff training and R&D time, which we use for things like building handy apps and tools to improve our workflow, sharing…
t was definitely a weekend for social activism. I spent yesterday afternoon with Harvestbird at a seminar titled “How to be a Feminist”. The first hour of the seminar was live-streamed from Sydney, where a panel of notable feminist figures such as Anita Sarkeesian, Roxane Gay and Germaine Greer were talking about what feminism means…
Parsnips is currently sitting in the laundry basket. I’m not sure that’s where she intended to be (I suspect she jumped up thinking she’d land on top of the lid (one of her preferred places to sit and watch the world go by), not realising I’d just taken everything out of the basket to put…
(I really did post this yesterday, it’s just DD was playing up again so wouldn’t let me post, so I had to put it on LiveJournal instead.) other, looks like DD is down again 🙁 So another daily post that I’ll have to post on LJ instead, and re-post to DD in the morning once…
The sky was doing overly dramatic things this morning. Unfortunately, it was doing most of its drama in a direction that I couldn’t get a decent view of from the back yard, and I wasn’t sufficiently dressed yet to walk up the street in search of a better viewing spot, so that was the best…
n all my star-struckedness (yeah, not really) yesterday, I forgot to tell you about the speech I gave at Toastmasters on Tuesday night. My seventh official speech, so I’m creeping ever closer to ten and finishing the first qualification. As with everything else in my life at the moment, the race is on to complete…
just had lunch with Sam Neill. Ok, not really, but I did have lunch in his vicinity, at the same event he was at. That totally counts, right? 🙂 I was at one of those “free pizza for everyone!” welcome events for new students being given by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts (which…
I promised you a photo of Harvestbird and I receiving our Meritorious Service awards from the union. Thanks to local organiser Paul Corliss, who gave me a copy of the photo he took (and permission to post it here), I can finally fulfil that promise: I think I’ve mentioned before that the union offices are…
etzirah commented the other day that in crafts, “The journey is as important as the destination”. That is so true. In fact, for me, it’s all about the journey – the destination often bores me by the time I actually reach it. Which explains why I have a trunk full of “finished” projects, mostly cross-stitch…