Posted on June 26th, 2010 by Mobyseven
The internet institution Rate Your Students has closed its tubes for the last time. No, I wasn’t the target audience. Yes, someone on the site could well have been ranting about me. But dammit, it was funny. That’s why I’m pleased to see that another spleen-venting location has popped up, likely to attract the old RYS [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2010 by Mobyseven
It’s that time again! For those of you who haven’t played this game before, I collect up the search terms people have used to find my site and present them in all of their (occasionally bizarre) glory: on august 22, 1999, tony martin of emnet (…was caught in a compromising position with a sea otter, [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2010 by Mobyseven
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by Mobyseven
…I go back in time to see The Who:
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Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by Mobyseven
Yesterday was a bad, bad day to be a Crazy Domains customer — everything went down for pretty much the whole day, including their phone lines and email (so they completely out of contact. I had a minor freak out when I was worried I might have lost data, but everything is alright now. If [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by Mobyseven
Of the six subjects I studied this past semester — thermal physics, classical physics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, complex analysis and algebra — thermal physics was by far my least favourite. It’s difficult to go into the various reasons for this, though to be fair to the subject it was up against some stiff competition. [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Mobyseven
Thank the great and benevolent ghost of Cory Bernardi (he’s been dead inside for ages, after all) — exams are finally over! This past — month, I suppose? — has been an orgiastic clustershag of textbooks, past papers and worked examples; the necessary evil of exams making students sweat anxiety and crap fear.
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Posted on June 15th, 2010 by Mobyseven
After all this time, I’ve only just now remembered to post a link to the Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistics Society under associated groups! Aside from anything else, if anybody is in need of private maths tutoring (at high school or university level) the MUMS site has a contact list you can use to make life [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2010 by Mobyseven
In case you thought that writing an article for The Rationalist, joining the MUMS committee and preparing for exams just wasn’t a good enough excuse for my recent sparse blogging efforts, here’s something else you can check out that proves I haven’t been sitting around on a deckchair with a spiced tequila Old Fashioned and a [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2010 by Mobyseven
Luke Weston has posted his thoughts on the current ticketing flare up on Twitter about The Amazing Meeting on the Young Australian Skeptics site. It sums up my thoughts pretty well too — there are a whole bunch of young people out there who are excited about TAM, who may even want to volunteer their [...]
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