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 the floor above the arch. I don’t know if I will do any good work here, but it won’t be for lack of tradition. I can even deal with the carillon exercises immediately above my head each day. Administrative
Administrative My present work 10 Oct 2010 Life can be … interesting, for Chinese values thereof. No, I don’t mean the Nobel Prize, although good choice. I mean that I’m presently undergoing some kind of curse. I think it’s called “work” . Work!? So what I’m doing doesn’t translate to meaningful blog posts. Not always (but eventually,… Read More
Administrative Are you a HPS scholar? 30 Apr 2011 If so I invite you to join our group blog Whewell’s Ghost, even if you already blog. You can either write for WG directly or repost some or all of your blog’s posts with alink back to your home blog, thereby increasing your readership. Contact me or the other WG… Read More
Administrative 106 books of pretension meme 26 Apr 2008 Like Lynch, here is “the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users.” So what I’ve read is in italics, what I never finished is struck through: Read More
If it does, my lateral aphasia prevents me from noticing. [This is turning out to be Medical Revelations, isn’t it?]
If it does, my lateral aphasia prevents me from noticing. [This is turning out to be Medical Revelations, isn’t it?]
If it does, my lateral aphasia prevents me from noticing. [This is turning out to be Medical Revelations, isn’t it?]
Hey! I thought everything in Australia was upside down, but here it appears to be only tilted about 5 degrees. I hope that you have velcro for your Mac Book so that it doesn’t slide down your desk….
Two windows? TWO!? I thought philosophers were stored in the basement, to be dragged out on special occasions.
Two windows? TWO!? I thought philosophers were stored in the basement, to be dragged out on special occasions.
Two windows? TWO!? I thought philosophers were stored in the basement, to be dragged out on special occasions.
So if there are no internal toilets, what do you do? Go outside. There are toilets accessible from the quadrangle…
So if there are no internal toilets, what do you do? Go outside. There are toilets accessible from the quadrangle…
So if there are no internal toilets, what do you do? Go outside. There are toilets accessible from the quadrangle…
Oooh! I wonder if the Skeptic Zone podcast might meet up with you one day to talk about Science blogging? That’d be cool! 🙂