If I didn't tick 'honest'

what happens to the other answers?

stack overflow!

Debugging supervisor's code with supervisor over skype. beer me!

[Secondary side-post]

Having finished that last post, I start walking back to the kitchen muttering "bender-time", disappointed that good wine is finished and I'll have to engage vodka, worrying this is a pathetic new low now I'm on the cusp of a great academic coup (Yeltsin style, [pre-topper!]).

Then I find a quarter-full bottle of the outstanding Beaujolais-Villages! [Serious] problem [seriously] averted. If this bottle gets me through to the end of Kool Keith's 'Black Elvis', I'll be apples.

[Side post]

I found 4 letters from Google lying around at scarborough regarding the 'monetization' of wunibar; Helen's not been passing these puppies on. Turns out, I owe them money: they've seen the video from the Clarence...

If I'd got these two graphs to match on Sunday...

I'd be in Melbourne by now! Fuck!



Boys, though, my thesis will be the straight prettiest badboy on the block for quite some time. I got this baby in 3d!

Austerity measures

That espresso is only half Irish.

Latte art, dickhead

grovy chiefs and daiquiris!

That's the Berlin wall in the background

typing speed

oh, that thing when you realise precisely how slowly you've been typing when writing thesis stuff versus when you fire off a quick, oh I don't know 6-page email, to someone, all bashed out in less than a minute...

so cute!

not only is budding lesbian love charming to watch in the undergrads, but there is an adorable conversation between two arts students where the relative merits of stripping for textbook money is being debated earnestly (not in earnest). adorable!
UPDATE: So cute! I'm finishing my third pint and they're still half-way through their first!

Well, I've utterly failed to capture any if the majesty of that but I also don't know how to delete posts from the phone, so, eat it!

I'll never catch this in print

But the following lines were just delivered with the most exceptional of inneundo:

"you can hit whatever ball you like"
"the black balls bring you trouble"

After some hiatus

It's time to allow blogger.com on noscript on the macbook pro (risking horrible artist blogs, for you dear reader) and man up.

I'm glad it's Dicey Riley's. There are no midgets, no showbo'a commerce lecturers, but there are two women and a man that just passed me to the smoking room as the young lady reassured* the older man "there'll be plenty of time for dancing on the tables after we've had our smoke".

Stay tuned.

*That is: a second assurance.

I *love* my red vegetables!

Treviso radicchio with a Coonawarra shiraz (TM)*


*Thank you, IP law 323!

attention to detail

I completed all the tasks, attached a hard copy of my NYTimes article, wrote an essay that was basically a transcription of an earlier Planet Money episode, handed it in late, and got 14/14!

Apparently, my SE came to the attention of Eduardo himself; my tutor 'couldn't bring herself' to hit me with the 20% late fee and asked him for a waiver. He read it and agreed.

It is important to note that this all happened behind my back.

Probably for the best, though. I got 14/27 for the mid-session test (to be fair, I lost 4 marks because I started reading the questions on the second page but answering for the first. fucking multiple choice!)

Now, I know you're about to reach for a calculator to figure out how I'm going so far scaled to a final mark -- no need! Eduardo extends his principle of no-math economics to the course structure: the SE is weighted 14% and mid-session test 27%. Adios!

Oh my lord

Such sweet action at the Irish pub down here. On one pool table there
is a midget in a Hawaiian shirt and a 50 year-old woman with fake tits
that surely constitute 5 of her 50 kg. And I mean *on* the pool table.

Sheeit this is one thirst-making brewsky

commerce essay

AS IF being the webmaster of a successful blog was not enough of a distraction from my undergraduate duties, Señor Pol is making it especially hard to get started on this commerce essay due this afternoon. I would need to employ an entire army of dudes slapping their
foreheads to adequately express my rukidnao with parts of the guidelines.

Firstly, his obsession with a hard copy of the 'current article' reminds me of the elderly women that run the op-shop in 'League of Gentleman', with their plastic bags...[sicii his]:

"Each student is required to find a 'current article' related to topical material from the course textbook and write a Short Essay (SE).

• A 'current article' means an article published within the last 6 months, counted from the SE due date.
  
• You have to provide a legible photocopy of the 'current article' which includes the date of publication of your selected relevant 'current article'.
  
• If you do not attach a photocopy of the 'current article', your SE will be returned with a zero mark. If you resubmit your SE with a copy of the relevant 'current article', your SE will be marked out of 7 (not out of 14).
• Attach the 'current article' to avoid disappointment.
• You can use Internet resources, but you have to attach a hard copy of the article to your SE.
• Journal articles are not acceptable."

Then, there is matter of what the SE might be expected to contain. Not much guidance on content, I'm afraid, but the procedures are ramrod clear:

• "You have to make an 'original point' (see below Original Point).
  
• Finally, you have to make clear your 'original point' by writing in the text of your SE:

"My original point is this:..."

There is more, but I'll just provide this screen shot of the marking scheme (below). By the way, the essay is limited to 800 words.

enough to drive one to wunibar

am in the creative arts post-grad lab for the first time in months; only took 2 minutes before someone started telling me about their upcoming 'data collection' trip to the bush to take photos of the indigenous.

Wedding gift

Defendant says crash trawler unmanned

The Hammer remembered the fishing Trawler being lit up like a Christmas tree on Scarborough Geborenhaus heads. By the time he saw it, heading straight towards the work conference he was driving, the vessels were seconds from colliding.

Mr Hammer told the Supreme Court yesterday he thought the Trawler had been abandoned. "I didn't see a soul in that boat," he said. "It was plain there was nobody in the wheelhouse."

He tried to avoid the looming Trawler but the vessels crashed. Five comrades on the work boat died about 2.30am on December 28, 2009.

Commerce update

Just had my second tutorial for Business Innovation, Technology and Policy (BINNOVPOOP). The tutor could be a host for morning FM radio; a discussion on Romer someone's writings on the limits of future growth because of under-educated future generations became a 5 minute riff on 'kids not allowed to be kids these days'. There was a lot of 'is it just me or...', which I know was the title of an atrocious summer 702 bit with Wendy Harmer and Angela Catterns so I'm mixing A/FM but cut me some slack: the textbook for this subject is actually written by the lecturer of previous post fame.

Speaking of which, he gets himself another latte in his bio for the textbook:

"Eduardo is Senior Lecturer in economics where he teaches several subjects including COMM327. This subject is his own creation.

Eduardo also enjoys: Group exercise and Latin American Dancing."

very good laksa instant noodles

I'm pleased to endorse Nissin brand instant Laksa noodle, seen below:

didn't take too long

but I've dogged my first class, law tutorial this afternoon. and, yes, I'm writing this from wunibar.

Cute enough by half much, maat, Erskineville?

premature

well, gentleman/women. hope you enjoyed that! turns out part of his innovative teaching strategy is to quit 1 hour into a 2hr lecture. see you cheumps later!

satellite and helicopter views

he is demonstrating the concepts of different-level views of something by drawing a satellite looking at a helicopter!

dp/ds just hit -10

change in population versus change in slide. we're up to slide 18 but at least 80 people have now left. He busted out some schematic charts to explain the 3s model and people really flew out.

He is literally still talking about his teaching methodology one hour into the first lecture.

redemption?

but the very next slide: "The Innovator's Curse: That success is transitory."

the last slide before I might be force to leave

He is discussing 'My Innovations'. In this list is:
the creation of this subject;
two books; and
the 3s model.

As he was talking these through, he says "I consider myself an innovator. I innovate inside this faculty, I created this course, COMM 327 last year. I should say that it won't be available after 2011."

That might have broken me.

his english isn't great

and that is behind a few excellent phrases so far:

"Student learning: Surface or Deep?"

"Surface learners find learning a pesky activity."

"Student Engagement in the Initial Sense"

And, my favourite so far:

"The 3S Model:
* Signalize human capital
* Show relevance
* Stimulate innovation
"

(He paused to apologise for forgetting to italicise 'show' in the slide.)

the revolving jigsaw

the mixing of metaphors!

"Business innovation involves a jigsaw puzzle because it revolves in 3 dimensions around a few important areas."

still not started

so check out one of the wave equations I've been solving whilst waiting:

I'd rather be writing about the content of this class

but this is still unbelievable! he went down to the podium, people started to quieten down, he bent down and grabbed some keys out of his bag, then walked out of the theatre!

I might use the opportunity to describe the lecturer. I went to his website just now to grab a photo of him because I wanted to describe his ridiculous outfit, but it turns out it's the same one he's wearing in the photo!



This striking shirt is coupled with quite tight navy-blue cargo shorts, and knee-high yellow socks with Dr. Martin flats. Striking.

Hmm, he's still not returned, and we are 3 minutes away from the lecture's 1/4-way mark.

p.s.

I wonder if talking about commerce will increase the quality of my google ads on this blog?

while we're waiting

and the lecturer is still handing out documents (20 min. down), I'll transcribe the rest of that first slide for you.

"One of the striking features of the contemporary economy is the rapid creation, adoption and diffusion of innovation."

the efficiency

for a lecture on business innovation, technology and policy, the distribution of subject outlines is surprisingly web 1.0. the lecturer is single-handedly passing out documents to the well over 250 people in this massive lecture theatre. lecture 15 min. late to start and counting...

the folk

the mixture of students is exactly what you'd expect in here. I'll comment more but the most striking thing first-off is the number of surf stickers on netbooks...

sweet!

the lecture hasn't really started, but since that last post -- and the slide it described came up on the projector -- about 20 people have walked out!

this is going to be a test of wills

well, internal wills. sitting down for my first commerce lecture which is in a fucking huge theatre so can sit well back and work on thesis. but, I could also keep you all informed about the current state of pedagogical art in commerce. woops, first slide!
"Welcome to COMM 327! Why This Subject is Important".

woah, oh...

Toasty hash madness