Happy new year 31 Dec 2007 It is midnight on January 1 here in Australia. There’s a loud party next door (young folks, heh). So I hope you all have a good year and thanks for reading me in 2007. Administrative
Administrative Academic genealogies 29 Oct 2010 Wasting time usefully with my friend and co-student of Gareth Nelson, Malte Ebach, we wondered what our academic genealogies were. My thesis advisors were Gareth J. Nelson and Neil Thomason. Gary was advised by William A. Gosline (1915-2002), who was advised by George Sprague Myers (1905-1985), who was a student… Read More
Administrative Travel diary 1 3 Oct 2009 I suppose that I ought to be documenting the World Tour, so while I am on the train to München, I’ll briefly cover the past few days. This train travels so fast that light is bent on the way to the iPhone… Read More
Administrative Ugly old guy 27 Oct 2008 Readers: if you haven’t eaten lately, hover your mouse over the Snowflake avatar to the left. Give it a bit of time and you will see what I look like when I shave. Clicking on it merely takes you to Barcelona Zoo’s page on my avatar. Read More
Go bang on the neighbor’s door and tell them to quiet down! If you do it right and you’re lucky, they’ll invite you in! Happy New Year!
Go bang on the neighbor’s door and tell them to quiet down! If you do it right and you’re lucky, they’ll invite you in! Happy New Year!
As a strict adherent of the natural astronomical calendar my New Year started on the 22nd of December so I’m way ahead of you but Happy New Year all the same and keep up the good blogging. Remember you have a hungry audience out there waiting to be educated, enlightened and entertained by your Evolving Thoughts!
Well a couple of hours to go till New Year arrives here. John, look forward to reading your musings in 2008. Have a happy year
Well a couple of hours to go till New Year arrives here. John, look forward to reading your musings in 2008. Have a happy year
Well a couple of hours to go till New Year arrives here. John, look forward to reading your musings in 2008. Have a happy year
Well a couple of hours to go till New Year arrives here. John, look forward to reading your musings in 2008. Have a happy year
Well a couple of hours to go till New Year arrives here. John, look forward to reading your musings in 2008. Have a happy year
So, if I understand you correctly, I am currently living in two years simultaneously, thanks to you and some kind of quantum weirdo unreality thing. My favorite movie line _is_ “I’m a quantum mechanic”. A hundred quatloos to anyone who knows what that’s from (no looking it up).
“I’m a quantum mechanic”. A hundred quatloos to anyone who knows what that’s from (no looking it up). At first I thought it was Heisenberg now I’m not certain. Was it maybe Schrödinger’s cat?
My favorite movie line _is_ “I’m a quantum mechanic”. GRIMY PERSON (looking under hood of ageing starship) “Sorry, guv’nor, but yer Singularity Drive is totally knackered. It’s leakin’ ‘Awking radiation all over the bleedin’ shop. I can’t be certain without strippin’ it down but yer ‘Eisenberg Compensator looks like it’s on its last legs. As for that Schrodinger Catalytic Converter, there’s no way of tellin’ if it’s still ‘olding superposed states without openin’ it up and yer lookin’ at a good ‘alf days work just for that. Other thing is they ‘aven’t made quanta of that size since they went metric so I’ll ‘ave to see what I can get from scrap. All in all, I’d say you’re lookin’ at a good five ‘undred quatloos for the whole job and that’s assumin’ I can get the parts.”
Virtual fake disappointed look, science fiction movie fans. “I’m a quantum mechanic” is from _Forbidden Planet_.
Yes indeed, happy new year to Wilkins and all his admirers (I am of course one myself). I look forward to many more fascinating posts from our favourite biological philosopher (philosophical biologist?) Goodbye 2007 – you did one good thing at least – you got rid of John Howard.
“As for that Schrodinger Catalytic Converter, there’s no way of tellin’ if it’s still ‘olding superposed states without openin’ it up and yer lookin’ at a good ‘alf days work just for that.” Open it up? Surely you jest! You open up one of those babies and look inside, and it collapses.
Happy (belated) new year, John. I’m a new reader in 2007, but I sure am enjoying the heck out of your blog. Looking forward to the coming year.