I’m traveling and moving… again. 6 Dec 2009 So for the next week or so I will be either in New Zealand at a conference or moving to Queensland. I cannot say how much internet I will have at my disposal in that time, so the best I can do is follow the example of Granny Weatherwax: I ATEN’T DEAD See you on the other side… Administrative
Administrative Stuck in rural Queensland 27 Dec 201022 Jun 2018 So, here I am, marooned in Warwick, southeast of Brisbane, about one and a half hours drive. Stuck here by this: We missed getting through by half an hour or so. We may be stranded for two days… And no Internet! Read More
Administrative For the past week, I’ve actually been in Germany 15 Oct 2009 You know those stories about absent minded professors? I just showed that you don’t actually need a professorial appointment. I was meeting Steve Clarke, a leading philosopher who is at Oxford, at 12.45. I turned up on the dot at St Cross College (they have such great names here!), but… Read More
Academe The end of a dream… for now 21 Dec 20109 Jan 2023 A while back I declared that my career was over as an academic because things were going to hell. Instead, things went on to get better, and I got a postdoctoral research fellowship at Sydney. So I looked like a real putz. Then I got an associate professorship at a… Read More
Ah, from the sublime to the ridiculous… (I won’t say which is which). Good luck with all that. Even the Gold Coast seems attractive from the depths of freezing Berkeley right now.
I will be either in New Zealand at a conference or moving to Queensland Is this sort of a Schroedinger’s Cat puzzle? Is this some sort of weird Australian seasonal superposition? Tune in next week, when Dr. John Wilkins will either be writing his latest book… or not… or possibly even both!!!!
As is usual in these cases, I either know where I am or how fast I am going, so I know that I am in Palmerston North, New Zealand, ergo I have no discernible velocity. This may be due to last night’s drinking session.