How do I miss these things? It seems that seven people hold the keys to the internet – chosen to restart it if something breaks the domain name system and, I don’t know, stops phishing phraudsters pretending to be your bank account. Apparently a restart requires five of the seven key holders to bring their [...]
In a massive victory for science, Australia is in the midst of its first quantum election in over 70 years. Just as Schrödinger’s cat was famously caught in a state of being neither alive nor dead but somehow both, the Australian government is now in a superposition of Labor and Liberal, with somehow no one [...]
Not related to gastroenteritis… …although you may change your mind after reading this. You see, last weekend, I attended one of those increasingly popular surprise housewarming parties. My contribution to the festivities? Lolly cake. Every nation has its proud culinary traditions. But then there are those tastes that are acquired through the sort of forgiving [...]
So, you couldn’t make it to Boston either (see the last post)? Where else can you see my work, preferably in the comfort of your own home? Well, a story I wrote and drew appears in the recently released 9th edition of Tango, Bernard Caleo’s awesomely enormous Australian comics anthology. Each issue has a romance-based [...]
Long-time readers – those hypothetical, long-time readers – may remember Destination Day, my short film about a man who travels back in time to change his past, only to run into the woman who made him want to change his past in the first place. (And no, it’s not possible to talk about time travel [...]
Is this meant to be ironic: Spotted being worn by a hip young Twilight actor at the recent Armageddon nerdfest in Melbourne. Yes, there were lots of people in costumes from Batman, Stargate, Yu-Gi-Yoh, whatever, but these shoes are what really amazed me. I honestly can’t tell whether they’re serious. Or how you’d operate them. [...]
Apparently, a good thing to do with blogs is rant about things that annoy you. And I’m all in favour of doing good things with blogs… By the way, today’s theme is – vaguely – science. The other night NASA smashed a space probe into the Moon. Liking both astronomy and large explosions, I naturally [...]
Or at least so claimed the graffiti I saw on the way to work this morning. But is that really true? My first guess would be “of course not!” But I’m having trouble thinking of txtspk that rhymes better than “C U L8TR L E G8TR”. Can anyone suggest a better one? A mobile limerick, [...]
Dear diary, Sorry it’s taken me so long to write – my stars, you wouldn’t believe the things I’ve been doing. Actually, I remember back in the days of snail mail (not that they called it that then, but you young kids wouldn’t know anything about it) that I used to start all my letters [...]
So I recently checked out the Melbourne Solar System, a nifty scale model of our little corner of the galaxy. The sun is down near the St Kilda Marina (itself pretty cool, what with the whole boats on shelves thing) and Pluto is 5.9 km away in Port Melbourne. Overall, an excellently nerdy and highly [...]
