I still haven’t had time to make all the release notes on the books I released in Dunedin, but at least I’ve managed to journal the ones I caught: The Years with Laura Díaz by Carlos FuentesWhy Can’t a Man Be More Like a Cat by Linda Konner and Antonia van der MeerI Capture the…
The convention is getting excitingly close now. Bookcrossers are arriving in the country in droves (well, small droves), and everywhere there are signs that Bookcrossing is about to hit Dunedin in a big way. The ODT had a teaser today for a big spread on How to Bookcross that they’re running tomorrow, and I spotted…
A possible solution to allimom’s maths problem: It’s a while since I’ve done matrices, so I may have forgotten some of the symbolic conventions, but I think what you’re being asked to prove is that is true for all values of n. n=0 and n=1 are trivial, of course. For n=2, Proof by induction involves…
When we got up this morning and looked across the street, we saw another crashed car, sitting in the remains of a tree! I’d been woken up several times in the night by squealing brakes, but squealing brakes aren’t an unusual sound in our street (there’s a few boy racer types who live in the…
Well, I got my picture in the newspaper, anyway. We had a protest yesterday about the redundancies in the College of Arts, and I somehow ended up in the photo that got in the paper (I was trying my best to hide whenever I saw the photographer, but he was popping up all over the…
Well that was an interesting day. Perhaps I should let the pictures speak for themselves: [album 128913 140206crash1.jpg] [album 128913 140206crash2.jpg] [album 128913 140206crash3.jpg] [album 128913 140206crash4.jpg] [album 128913 140206crash5.jpg] And that’s what happens when a car plows through three gardens, bouncing off the side of our house in the process! I suppose I’d better…
I had a very constructive day yesterday. After finishing as much of my patchwork project as I was able to, I took advantage of the fact that the sewing machine was out to patch a couple of favourite pairs of jeans. One pair had just a small hole, so I was able to patch it…
As predicted, the temptation of my new craft project got the better of me last night, and I decided to have a go at laying out the pieces on the grid. I thought it would probably take me several goes before I got it looking ok, but once I got the hang of seeing the…
Progress report on the patchwork, which I spent today working on instead of all the other things I could/should be doing. The point of no return – starting to sew the first seam (actually, the point of no return was really when I ironed the patches onto the backing stuff, but somehow starting sewing seems…
No, it’s not a political rant 🙂 The first overseas guests for the NZ Bookcrossing Convention have just arrived – KimKerry and ds3233, two bookcrossers from Arizona, flew in to Christchurch today. So of course we had to arrange a meetup (if only to make boreal and rarsberry jealous because we got to meet them…