Georgia Lee 19 Apr 2009 I don’t know if I’ll be able to post while I’m en route, so here’s a song to listen to while I’m gone, by the great Tom Waits. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUCaUBwqCM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] Administrative
Administrative My office 12 Feb 200918 Sep 2017 The University of Sydney is covered with modern buildings, but it also has a few that date back to the 1850s. As it happens I’m located in one. It has no heating, cooling, or internal toilets, but look at it: My office is the two windows to the right, on… Read More
Administrative A meaningless numerical coincidence, w00t! 9 May 2008 Sometime over tonight, this blog will pass the half a million visits mark. Say it out loud with me: half…a…million! Now I know this is because the six regular readers routinely and obsessively visit me every fifteen seconds, and there are drugs being developed to cure that, but… half… a…… Read More
Administrative More of me in Spanish, and information again 4 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 A blog post by the incredibly multilingual John Wilkins (who knew he spoke French, Portuguese and Spanish? OK, it’s by proxy, but it’s nearly as good as actually speaking it) is now available in Spanish. Gee but he looks like he knows whereof he speaks… Thanks to Eduardo Zugasti for… Read More
I got into Tom Waits about the same time as I got into Kate Bush (lost interest in her later). A friend of mine couldn’t get into Tom. I explained it thus: Kate is all about “Isn’t the light refracting through the beveled glass in the breakfast nook in the morning a sign of how beautiful life is?” Tom is more “Life is beautiful, as seen in the rainbows that appear in the oily water in the gutter as you wake up from passing out the night before”. Either way, life IS beautiful.
I got into Tom Waits about the same time as I got into Kate Bush (lost interest in her later). A friend of mine couldn’t get into Tom. I explained it thus: Kate is all about “Isn’t the light refracting through the beveled glass in the breakfast nook in the morning a sign of how beautiful life is?” Tom is more “Life is beautiful, as seen in the rainbows that appear in the oily water in the gutter as you wake up from passing out the night before”. Either way, life IS beautiful.