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Rainbows and Riches

2007-09-17T12:00:00Z

Armed with half a dozen roughly-cut wooden stakes, a pottle of screws, and a wooden sign covered in still-wet paint, we’re heading towards the College of Education. I’m wedged in the back of the recently-completed Undie 500 van, between the sign and poorly-secured couch. They’re not doing any lecture-speaking or notice-board posters, their campaign style is a “big, wooden, fuck-off” sign to pull in the votes of the future educators.

I'm Back

2008-01-28T19:21:53Z

After almost two years of stagnant space and a few hopeful promises about the state of this site. I’ve finally resurrected partylemon.

Cutting Arts to the Core

2008-02-27T12:00:00Z

Following a year-long review of the College of Arts and its Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, the university has unveiled its vision for the future of the embattled college. Released at the end of January, the proposed future is a radical transformation of the college and, if approved, would see the loss of 21 full-time staff, a merger of several schools, and the closure of two entire departments—American Studies, and Theatre and Film Studies.

Pen Computing

2008-04-08T06:48:43Z

While doing a bit of digging in the annex next to my office after getting bored with

Last year, during honours, we played ...

2008-04-14T11:17:12Z

Last year, during honours, we played a lot of Quake 3 Arena and kept all of the stats (more important to some than others). In total, we played 794 games (over 200 hours), an average of 2.8 per day; here’s how they were distributed over the year:

Where the blue areas indicate when we had lectures, green during exams, and red when we had no other work but our honours (“It is intended to give you an uninterrupted stretch of time dedicated to project work. The due date for all major pieces of work associated with Honours papers will be scheduled to avoid this period.”).

Update: more.

Mad Quake Stats

2008-04-17T06:17:20Z

An interesting thing about Direct Con...

2008-04-17T11:18:03Z

An interesting thing about Direct Connect is that everybody’s searches are broadcast to every other user. So for a few weeks, I’ve been sitting on the local university hub 24/7 collecting search data.

Unsurprisingly, the data follows Zipf’s law pretty tightly—maybe I can get a paper out of this…

Public holidays, like weekends, have ...

2008-04-25T11:18:26Z

Public holidays, like weekends, have become days where I just work from home and give myself the illusion that I’m on holiday.

Im marking a first-year engineering a...

2008-05-05T11:18:50Z

I’m marking a first-year engineering assignment where students had to design a device to separate egg yolks from their whites and shells.

At least a quarter of the students have cited their mother in their references.

I also worry about the guy who cited a tape ruler, a ruler, soft drink bottles, a soap container, solder, plastic boxes, and a spoon knife.

Dear People-who-write-in-library-book...

2008-05-09T11:19:43Z

Dear People-who-write-in-library-books,

What the fuck?

Love,
Phil