Strangest Warning Ever
Nov 12th 2008Wallabynerd alert
“No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
Feline Behavior
Nov 4th 2008Wallabynerd alert
I’ve been hosting a cat for just about 2 months exactly. “Hosting”, since he is emphatically not mine -
Getting rid of “home”
Oct 9th 2008Wallabynerd alert
Finally saying good-bye to my first car this weekend. It’s about time, since I found a replacement for it a good six weeks ago and it’s been sitting in the parking lot ever since.
(Oddly, it cost more to insure as a second car than it did when it was my only one. Weird.)
I’d had it for nearly 7 years, all through grad school and my postdoc up in the cold frozen North. The cold frozen North had not been kind to it, but it’d been pretty reliable even so…. Until I moved it down to the warm sunny southlands. Was it angry about leaving “home”? The shocks sounded bad, it clearly needed work… and then I found the first patch of rust on the body. Straight into the shop! Ooh, that’s rather a lot of money right now. And there’d still be that rust. You’re - you’re not serious, that’s more than the car’s supposed to be worth…
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Bad Grades
Oct 2nd 2008Wallabynerd alert
I gave my students their first big exam on Monday. Finishing up grading it tonight, so this is both a reflection and
Economy, Explained
Sep 27th 2008Wallabynerd alert
Very nice explanation of the whole mess - simple terms, but it seems pretty comprehensive and does a nice job of tracing
Some trust in elephants and donkeys…
Sep 25th 2008Wallabynerd alert
Yay politics. It still won’t be a usual topic Not that I’ve had *any* ‘usual topics’