Gah!

aaah. my taxes at 'werk' again 🙄

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TimC said:

This afternoon, in a meeting, I looked out the window to see the flag
flying very ferociously. And the clouds just whipping past the window
at a great rate of km/h (knots -- what a stupid unit of measurement.
But great rate of furlongs/fortnight doesn't have the same ring to
it).

At some point in time, we must have had the same lecturer.
C is an awful lot of furlongs ....

On 2005-08-30, Bleve (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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TimC said:

This afternoon, in a meeting, I looked out the window to see the flag
flying very ferociously. And the clouds just whipping past the window
at a great rate of km/h (knots -- what a stupid unit of measurement.
But great rate of furlongs/fortnight doesn't have the same ring to
it).

At some point in time, we must have had the same lecturer.
C is an awful lot of furlongs ....

My preffered unit of speed is attoparsecs/nano fortnight.

Have you noticed that a lecture or talk period is about a microcentury
(5 minutes at each end of the hour for setting up and packing up)?

--
TimC
Your fault (core dumped)

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So when I looked out the window at the dark clouds, tonight, I decided
to look at the radar to see whether I should go home yet:
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR023.loop.shtml

And wow, are those rain clouds flying. Indeed, normally, they are far
enough off such that I would be able to make it home with a shopping
stop. But tonight, I give it 30 minutes. And that is barely enough
time to get home if I was already changed into gear, and I didn't have
to go shopping. There looks to be plenty of rain behind the front.

That radar page is one of my favourites. As it approached time to
leave work, I found this lovely big gap between two fronts, with
plenty of time to ride home. The only problem was the northerly
wind. 20 minute fast ride to work in the morning. It's fun riding
along an almost flat road at the speed limit. Ok, it was a 40km/h
stretch past a school :-) 30 minute hard ride into a 50+km/h wind
on the way home, doing under 20km/h past the school :-(
The upright position of a hybrid is wrong on days like today.
However it was hybrid in two ways, wheel/bars and pedal/electric
assist. The assist is great for riding home into a strong headwind.

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I had a chat with co-supervisor tonight, about my future. And I
have been ordered to stop wasting time on frivolous things such as
USENET. So here I am 🙂

Good advice (says someone who has been given that type of advice).
Although I wouldn't be quite that strict. Put a limit on how long you
spend reading and replying to mail/usenet, then get on with the PhD
(or whatever) work.

On 2005-08-30, TimC (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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Tam: I've decided I may go back to Coonabarabran to stay at parents in
a month or so. Might see if the observatory can put up a spare desk
for me with interwebnet connection. Do not let yourself get into the
situation of having no funding. Finish your thesis!

I forgot to mention why I am looking forward to this prospect.

28km commute to the observatory.

Altitude, 1150m, (altitude of coona is 509m), with many undulations
between Coona and Siding Spring. Eek! I wonder if I can manage that?
Maybe only once a week. I'll have to try it one day though. Maybe
not in summer. Maybe with a mobile phone handy 🙂

--
TimC
21/06/01: * It's a solar eclipse.
* Mars is really close to the Earth.
* It's the winter solstice.
and * 42'nd death day of late Douglas Adams

TimC said:

On 2005-08-30, Bleve (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

TimC said:

This afternoon, in a meeting, I looked out the window to see the flag
flying very ferociously. And the clouds just whipping past the window
at a great rate of km/h (knots -- what a stupid unit of measurement.
But great rate of furlongs/fortnight doesn't have the same ring to
it).

At some point in time, we must have had the same lecturer.
C is an awful lot of furlongs ....

My preffered unit of speed is attoparsecs/nano fortnight.

Have you noticed that a lecture or talk period is about a microcentury
(5 minutes at each end of the hour for setting up and packing up)?

heh, I was a half-baked injunear, not a maths geek!

TimC said:

[snipping nasty weather talk]

This is by no means an invitation for all you suckers to distract me
tonight as I stay back at work getting bored waiting for the rain to
go. I had a chat with co-supervisor tonight, about my future. And I
have been ordered to stop wasting time on frivolous things such as
USENET. So here I am 🙂

No! You need to get a grant which allows you... even *demands*... that you spend time on usenet.

(Seriously, a colleague o/s has done this 🙂 )

cheers,
ali