The second of the three I acquired of Joan Slonczewski last Friday, Daughter of Elysium follows on from A Door into …
February 6, 2012
Reading: Joan Slonczewski – A Door into Ocean
A special arrival on Friday: three books of Joan Slonczewski, who is now on my Illustrious List of Science Fiction …
December 30, 2011
Reading: Joan Slonszewski – Brain Plague
I’ve already finished it. Joan Slonczewski I discovered through Charles Stross, when she guest-blogged there, and her The Highest Frontier was my …
October 19, 2011
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year 2011 (Fiction): Joan Slonczewski — The Highest Frontier
Joan Slonczewski — The Highest Frontier
October 19, 2011
Reading … a 4th anniversary
Another year of books. Not as many as last year; I took a pause for some time, unable to find …
October 15, 2011
Reading: Joan Slonczewski — The highest Frontier
A new author for me. I heard of Joan Slonczewski for the first time only a couple of weeks ago when …
October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs
Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class …
August 12, 2011
Reading: Robert Temple – The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
Robert Temple – The Genius of China
August 4, 2011
Reading: Rosemary A. Joyce – Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives
Rosemary A. Joyce – Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives
February 9, 2011
The last free people on the planet
I started reading Neuroanthropology a couple of years ago at least, and it has been one of the first blogs …
October 16, 2010
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year (Fiction): China Miéville – Kraken
china miéville – kraken
October 16, 2010
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year (Non-Fiction): Jonathan Safran Foer – Eating Animals
jonathan safran foer – eating animals
October 16, 2010
Reading… a 3rd anniversary
Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …
September 12, 2010
(Some) Stuff I Read This Week
For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
August 27, 2010
reading: charles stross – the trade of queens
reading: charles stross – the trade of queens
August 25, 2010
hips hip knee knee
Somehow my hip has decided to fall apart. And my knee. Boring not to be able to dance, ride, yoga, …
August 22, 2010
Reading: Liane Simmel – Tanzmedizin in der Praxis: Anatomie, Prävention, Trainingstipps
Liane Simmel – Tanzmedizin in der Praxis
July 8, 2010
on science and ethics
Many of you who read my blog or know me personally know I am a bit of a lush for …
June 27, 2010
actually the whole purpose of this was…
actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this …
June 17, 2010
reading: charles stross – the revolution business
charles stross – the revolution business
May 11, 2010
bechdel’s law
A couple of days ago I was reading Thus Spake Zuska, one of the many science blogs I consume most …
March 15, 2010
reading: iain m. banks – consider phlebas (second time)
iain m. banks – consider phlebas
January 21, 2010
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
November 3, 2009
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
May 27, 2009
Reading: Barry Cunliffe – Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
europe between the oceans – barry cunliffe
April 6, 2009
blog stuff
I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …
February 25, 2009
double happiness
Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …
January 24, 2009
women in mac
I was watching Welcome to Macintosh a few nights ago, becoming engaged in a mindless indulgence in Apple, I do …
January 9, 2009
sakhalin arctic pirate lighthouse
In my long search for the perfect lighthouse to wage piracy from, I’ve stumbled across a chain of Soviet era …
November 30, 2008
reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
October 16, 2008
Reading… an anniversary
A year ago in the briefest of lines, I began keeping a list of the books I’ve digested… burp. What …
October 14, 2008
reading: iain m banks – feersum endjinn (5th time), the algebraist (2nd time)
iain m banks – the algebraist iain m banks – feersum endjinn
October 3, 2008
subatomic particle plushies
Oh I want these. Really, really, really… Julie Peasley makes particle plushies at the Particle Zoo. Quarks, Leptons, Theoretical particles …
September 18, 2008
englisch buchhandlungen aus berlin
(I was waiting until I’d visited a few more bookshops, but I’ve been distracted with writing applications, and know it …
September 7, 2008
reading: books from zürich…
Lacking new reading, and I am suffering, I have been opening my suitcase of books from my life in Zürich …
July 7, 2008
Juedisches Museum Berlin
I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today. juedisches museum berlin – 1 juedisches museum berlin – 2 juedisches museum …
June 28, 2008
monadologie – cosmos magazine
The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …
May 26, 2008
phoenix
Sometimes I get really deliriously happy about humans and what we occasionally do. Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic this …
May 10, 2008
pestilence last days
If I’m looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an …
April 20, 2008
Reading: Sidney Perkowitz – Universal Foam: The Story of Bubbles from Cappuccino to the Cosmos
sydney perkowitz – universal foam
April 1, 2008
sid eats mouse
Daniel fed Sid on Friday. I’ve never seen Sid eat before, it was quite beautiful. Also, Sid is ready to …
March 22, 2008
reading: business cards – the art of saying hello
business cards – the art of saying hello
March 21, 2008
monadologie … last days and finish
The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I’ve been trying to learn everything I can on absorption …
March 21, 2008
Reading: Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilisation
michel foucault – madness and civilisation
March 19, 2008
monadologie photos
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …
March 14, 2008
end … begin
Since mid-December I have been using one of the Centre for Astrophysics white MacBooks, which has been a joy. A …
March 4, 2008
avalanche!
On Mars! Quite the most spectacular photograph I’ve seen this year. Look out below! HiRISE caught an avalanche in action! …
March 3, 2008
monadologie day 46
For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing …
February 25, 2008
MEL-ADL … again … again … something like home …
A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the …
February 20, 2008
monadologie day 40, 41 & 42
Oh, so close now and … mmm nervousness and so on. A peculiar week. I haven’t been too intent on …
February 17, 2008
monadologie day 37 & 38 & 39
This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I’m clever enough could …
February 17, 2008
Reading: Anne Fausto-Sterling – Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
anne fausto-sterling- sexing the body
February 14, 2008
monadologie
Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. “In so far as the concatenation …
February 13, 2008
monadologie day 36
Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the …
February 12, 2008
monadologie – self-referentiality
Just because I’ve continually forgotten to do this… I’m blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New …
February 12, 2008
monadologie day 30 – 33, 34 & 35
So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now …
February 1, 2008
monadologie day 28 & 29
This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was …
February 1, 2008
reading: william gibson & bruce sterling – the difference engine
william gibson + bruce sterling – the difference engine
January 30, 2008
monadologie day 27
Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn’t sure how useful me being in a studio on …
January 29, 2008
monadologie day 25 & 26
The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly …
January 27, 2008
more feeds and things … and blogrolls
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …
January 25, 2008
monadologie day 23 & 24
I’m losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material …
January 22, 2008
monadologie day (21 &) 22
Some hecticness, I’ll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45 …
January 17, 2008
monadologie day 20
Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the …
January 16, 2008
monadologie day 18 & 19
The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow …
January 14, 2008
monadologie day 16 & 17
Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and …
January 13, 2008
reading: julia serano – whipping girl – a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity
julia serano – whipping girl
January 13, 2008
reading: lois may – transgenders and intersexuals – everything you ever wanted to know but couldn’t think of the question
lois may – transgenders and intersexuals
January 12, 2008
monadologie day 14 & 15
Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being …
January 9, 2008
monadologie day 12 & 13
I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up …
January 7, 2008
monadologie day 11
We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also …
December 21, 2007
monadologie – week 2
A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie’s sister coming into the …
December 14, 2007
monadologie days 4 & 5
I’ve been reading Leibniz’s 1714 text Monadologie again. It’s sometimes like a vortex, or … how things turn and spiral …
December 12, 2007
monadologie days 1, 2, & 3
I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It’s half way to the first floor (or second if you’re counting …
December 12, 2007
monadologie – a start
I’m now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I’ll be for much of summer working …
December 8, 2007
a small break and things…
No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of …
November 29, 2007
AIR
While I’m about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy …
November 17, 2007
reading: terry pratchett…
terry pratchett – mort terry pratchett – the colour of magic terry pratchett – equal rites terry pratchett – thief …
October 29, 2007
reading: kerstin finger – tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
August 28, 2007
a swollen bloody orb
Everyone seems to know! How excellent! Science! Astronomy! Eclipses! Shame Adelaide has decided to pull a murky layer of cloud …
August 20, 2007
science is the new black metal
I was sitting at Cibo around lunchtime, getting ready to visit some sex shops around Hindley St looking for instruction …