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While I move…

Wallaby — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:58:29 +0000

… posting has gotten a bit sparse… I’ll pause for a moment while you gasp in surprise… Why do I

Kill them

Wallaby — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:03:44 +0000

More from the Chronicle job-hunt forum, which I’m starting to like more and more – “I have shared this

Phone interview!

Wallaby — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:22:08 +0000

Apparently I’m already a “finalist” for the temp faculty position at “Hobart University”. I suspect that that means I just made it through the initial screening of “is breathing and apparently has a degree in chemistry.” But they did mail me the morning of the day they were to begin considering applications, so that’s encouraging [...]

A to C, or B

Wallaby — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:43:06 +0000

Job interview yesterday. It went well! They liked me! Woohoo! (Clearly they haven’t talked to my current boss yet. Although he supposedly has nothing but good things to say about his students, no matter what he really thinks about them. Which is nice, I guess, but kind of reinforces his image as a two-faced jerk. [...]

Civil neighbors to the north

Wallaby — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:34:58 +0000

Took a trip this weekend – delayed “summer vacation” to Toronto. Why Toronto? It was there and most of

When explaining isn’t helping

Wallaby — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:28:23 +0000

Been a bit frustrated at work this week – well, okay, for at least the last year now, but at least this is a

Ending the Roommate Wars

Wallaby — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:22:13 +0000

If I still had a roommate… I’d be pushing him to sign up for

Oddest Recruitment Bonus Ever

Wallaby — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:41:43 +0000

I was looking around for jobs as I was preparing to graduate, applied to GSK (GlaxoSmithKline). Never heard back from

“On the side of science”?

Wallaby — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:11:46 +0000

Although the authors are both on the side of science, they have not always agreed about the best ways to oppose religiously motivated threats to scientific practice or instruction…. In a dialogue they re-create here, the authors explained their respective tactics for engaging the enemy Scientific American, June 19 2007 “The authors” are Richard Dawkins [...]

Opportunity

Wallaby — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:42:32 +0000

We’ve got some high school students working in the lab with us for the summer. Sounds like fun, right? Great opportunity for experience that’ll jump start their interest in science – and their careers. Well, maybe I should say “working”… All three of them seem to have a great time with us – playing games [...]

Kodak’s sensitive sensors

Wallaby — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:43:34 +0000

One trouble with the Nikon CoolPix L12 that my sister got initially (see the last post) was that it was a little too quick to boost the CCD sensitivity to compensate for very low light. It only got into that mess because the lens is so small – I know, I know, you can’t put [...]

Photo Joy and Woe

Wallaby — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:01:40 +0000

My faithful companion has died. My Powershot A85 is no more. Actually, it’s just fallen once too many times, and now it can’t adjust the zoom. It *is* stuck on the wide end rather than the tele end, at least, so it’s not totally hopeless. And in particular it makes me far more open to [...]