Jen - Portable computing

iPad iPad iPad.
It's good. Money well spent.

Eurotravesty

Dear False Dan,

Lithuania was goddamn ripped off! What the hell, man?! Please use your Euro-connections to fix this Euro-tragedy.

Joe

PS: Hi, how are you? I am fine.

falsedan - eurovision approaches

I am doing the hard yards and watching the semis this year... dangerously low on beverages but I feel that Milan Stanković is the man to watch

Ben - I made a paper windmill

I no longer require orphaned dolls to power my model workhouse.

Shoshe - one free tag

I got some free LaserFest luggage tags at a geophysics conference in December, which I promptly attached to my suitcases. A few weeks later, one of my (Aussie) friends saw the tag and asked me about it. It turns out that she's a presenter on Triple J, and because of the free luggage tag, she did an episode about the 50th anniversary of the laser! She asked to interview me, but a friend of mine works on Mars Science Lab's rock-shooting laser instrument, so I turned her over to him.

http://matsailing.blogspot.com/

I own a boat!
http://matsailing.blogspot.com/

Shoshe - lost

For the past few weeks, I've been looking at tons of images of one of my field sites, Cumberland Ridge, which encompasses three neighboring outcrops in the Columbia Hills (in Gusev Crater on Mars). I'm trying to correlate the locations of the outcrops by identifying the same rocks from several viewpoints. I know these outcrops and the small rocks around them REALLY well*. Now I'm looking at some images from a nearby site, and I don't know any of the rocks. It feels like I'm lost -- Tennessee Valley is just to the side like it should be, but I'm in this sea of rocks and I don't recognize any of them. It's really weird. Kind of...alien.


*By name, actually. Cadge is my favorite, but Buoy has really grown on me. It's easy to identify from just about any angle.

YL - gargh

Feeling overwhelmed here over work/career choices.

falsedan - cripes

Beers bought on a Friday can be claimed on expenses. Today I have a Cooper's Green (amazingly), but it doesn't taste as I remember because it's sodding room temperature aaa

Shoshe - mouses!

Yesterday we caught two little mice in our humane mousetrap! We released them several miles away, far from other houses (by a creek at uni).

falsedan - slow day at work

Current work challenge: write FizzBuzz. Befunge is the obvious choice of language to me...

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Jen - Bespectacled

Age is catching up with me. That plus too many hours in front of a computer screen and a tiny, tiny iPod screen (where's my iPad?!). Just for reading and computer work, mind you.
Pics to come when Dan wakes up and can take them.

Kit - the pink floyd car

I taut I saw a Pink Floyd car, I did! I did!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40260071@N05/3704529626/

(Much better than my photo in the dark, just as the traffic started moving)

Tancred - BCMSN w00t!

After three months of rather solid study I’m very happy to say I passed the Building Converged Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks exam this morning. Two more exams to go to the CCNP :) Then one more for the CCDP :)

Jen - Long weekend

There used to be a time when long weekends were cherished, especially ones that coincided with the end of daylight savings! Sleep-in heaven! Not any more. Now it's four whole days at home with munchkins. Four very long days.

Thanks for a wonderful diversion and an excellent evening at your wedding, Red Bec. It was such a happy occasion and I'm glad it all went well. It was fabulously organised and ran super smoothly (from my view, anyway)!

Jen - Nine years

On this day around this time, nine years ago, the Hive was meeting Dante for the very first time. How time flies.

Friday afternoon special kit

I find out today that the paper I'm going to give at an Industry conference isn't in May, it's on next week. oops!

Dan: can has fever

Felt crappy and lethargic all day, and was assuming it was just general under-caffeination. Got home to discover I had a light fever (as does Jen).

I don't think you can get fevers from not enough caffeine, but I don't plan on risking it.

Jen - students are back

Today I was horrified to find that the new student cards double up as VISA debit cards.

Shoshe - I'd tap that

On Monday we started collecting sap from the first of our maple trees. We've got about 4 liters already, and that's just from a few days and that one tree! Three trees and 4-6 weeks to go. We'll probably make the first batch of syrup in a few weeks.