First half of last year I lost a load of weight. I'd come back from a trip to Australia having regained almost a third of what I'd been working hard to lose. On December 28th 2020 I was at 138kg. On May 30th 2021, just before another trip to Oz, I was down at 113.5kg.... Continue Reading →
Of professors, binge-writing, tortoises, hares, foxes and hedgehogs
So, there's an Aesopian fable to be re-written, perhaps? Not so much with tortoises and hares, but (Berlin's) foxes and hedgehogs. But actually, surely it's possible to both a fox and a tortoise? A fortoise? Is it possible to argue this a fortiori? Among university professors, for example, getting tenure is a major hurdle... Continue Reading →
Writing goals Week 2, 2015 (Jan 12th to Jan 18th)
Directly relevant to PhD a) 2500 words on the coming of climate change awareness in Australia (1987 to 1990) – who, how, why; and the response from coal interests. Indirectly relevant to PhD b) 10 “All Our Yesterdays” posts allouryesterdays.net “Don't get it write, get it written.” From week 1: 2500 words on “capsule biographies”... Continue Reading →
Writing goals Week 1, 2015 (Jan 5th to Jan 11th)
Directly relevant to PhD 2500 words on “capsule biographies” of lobby groups“proxies” in the (Australian) coal wars - BCA, MCA, ACA (defunct), IPA, CIS, Lavoisier, Galileo etc ACF, TWS, Green Party, Greenpeace, Australia Institute, Climate Institute etc Indirectly relevant to PhD 2500 words on “the Road to Toronto” - state, corporate and public responses to/awareness... Continue Reading →
Happy Days are here again (aka “don’t kick the Beckett)
I'm the “Potsie.” And I've got to figure out a way for happy days.... Potsie was the dweeb. Nice, but dim. And in the May 15, 1979 episode of Happy Days, he is about to flunk out of college, because he just can't get things right. He can't remember his anatomy. But his friends (including... Continue Reading →
Explicit writing goal, week 001 (Oct 5th 2014)
Reading through notes taken in induction week, there's a wonderful bit of advice - the people who do well tend to be the ones who work hard (that's easy) and who set explicit weekly goals (not easy). Here's my first weekly goal. Ask me how it went... I am going to write 3500 words which... Continue Reading →
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