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on Feb 24, 2009 in getting all meta on your ass academia macademia parrots I've decided to stop updating this blog. There's a whole bunch of reasons why. In no particular order:1. I feel like this was a record of my time as a grad student, and that period in my life has been over for a while now.2. I actually have a job t...
Too much Maori used in NBL commentary!
on Feb 21, 2009 in linguistics things that make me smile new zealand Okay, this is weird. And kind of cool. Not only is the only free-to-air coverage of the NBL semi-final on Wednesday in Maori only, but usually when someone is "not happy with the amount of Maori language content" on TV, they mean there isn't enough...
A 11:30pm sort of thought
on Feb 20, 2009 in teaching academia macademia things that make me want to bite someone Of course, if I had been teaching this semester, one advantage would be that I could yell out the window at the first-year students having the world's loudest party across the courtyard from our apartment to "Get off my lawn" "Cut out the noise or wh...
Bring out the drama llamas. Oh wait, they already did
on Feb 18, 2009 in teaching academia macademia My department is full of the kind of insanity right now where it would probably be a really bad idea to blog about the specifics. Let's just say that it's the kind of insanity that involves spontaneous resignations, un-resignations, rumours of lawsu...
Brief question
on Feb 16, 2009 in academia macademia In a grant application (Geekman's): "The significance of the proposed research cannot be overstated."Yea or nay?
At least I'm not teaching. (Now with bonus jellyfish).
on Feb 16, 2009 in australia things that make me smile academia macademia photos Things are weird around here. The students are back. It's orientation week.Today that meant llamas.I have no idea. But there were llamas outside our building.Also, undergraduates.The llamas looked like they were more heavily into personal hygiene.
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