emphatically static
and so was she. For she’s a real life pastry chef you see—the cutest one there ever be. Perky, vibrant and giggling with glee, it’s not surprising everyone was her arrestee. Why then did she gaze into me—melancholic, morose and moody me?
I don’t think I’ll ever know, nor do I care if I do, but I am glad that she did. It was a magical couple of weeks and I wish she didn’t have to return to the States.
I nearly burnt my power adapter’s wire on the stove. How it got there is not a particularly amusing story.
If I had my home-studio set up by now, I’d surely have requested her to model for me. That, and if I had the nerve.
I couldn’t help but gawk at the most perfect face I’ve ever seen on my way home from work.
You know your nails have grown a little too long when they begin to impede your typing.
I haven’t once needed to turn on the heat in my apartment this winter season. Will the wonders of modern insulation technology ever cease?
A couple of weeks ago, I sat down to chop up a couple of chapters of my PhD thesis into bite-size chunks so they could work their way into scientific journals. I ended up making this instead:
A sampling of the 150 most-frequently occurring uncommon words in my PhD thesis.
I finally figured out a concrete goal for my Postdoc: To learn how to implement everything I used a proprietary tool for during my PhD.
I received my first telemarketing call today. It appears there are some perks to not understanding the local language.
(Can you taste the delicious irony?)
From flamewars defending one’s favourite publishing platform, to worrying too much about specific versions of obscure software plug-ins, to constantly tweaking the appearance of blogs, there’s an unfortunate tendency in the blogosphere to focus incessantly on the technical aspects of blogging to the detriment of everything else. In an attempt to buck the trend a little and bring into focus what’s really important—high-quality content—here are ten quick tips to improve your writing on-line:
I know I said I’d share ten blogging tips but only ended up presenting nine. Would you like to help me complete the list above?
This is so that I can work on my brother’s CV, cover letters etc. when he gets the urge to apply for a new job every few years.
No matter what computing platform I move to, I need to keep a copy of MS Word handy.
If you’re still here to read this after my long hiatus, I have to commend you for being a loyal reader. So hello and welcome back, loyal reader! I hope you had a reasonably pleasant transition to the new year—amidst the higgledy-piggledy sky-is-falling-isms brought about by the crumbling ponziconomy.
I know it’s been a while, but I haven’t had very much to bitch and moan about recently. It turns out I only seem to be able to write of my own accord when I’m seriously depressed, and unfortunately, life of late has been pretty good. Also, without consciously realising it, I seem to have enacted some sort of unofficial policy across the journals. Entries over ~250 words wind up on a.l. Entries under 140 characters get posted to µ.a.l. Everything else (the vast majority of the content) ends up in limbo—unless they’re greatly condensed or expanded upon (which never happens). I realise I have to break this non-rule and find a better way of integrating both these streams into a unified consumption experience.™
While I am on the topic of not writing, I might as well point something else out. During the relaxing weeks of downtime around the new year, I started working on a very dark book. I was able to concoct a basic storyline and envision the primary characters, but since I wasn’t in a very dark place emotionally, I didn’t make much progress. At the beginning of the holidays, I tried to artificially force myself into that state by contemplating the merits of suicide. I didn’t get very far on that front either. Damn.
Anyway, the purpose of this entry isn’t to convey any real news, but to (vaguely explain-away and) proclaim that the hiatus has officially ended, and you can look forward to regular updates over the days and weeks ahead. Stay tuned.