Planet Myrkur
November 06, 2009
I can't see the screen anymore...
Well, it's Friday and so I'd better update on progress. I think the introduction of the paper is closer to being properly first-drafted now, though I haven't really gotten the overarching narrative together yet because I can't quite find the story I want to tell. But there are words talking about the book the story resides in which has to count for something. As you might be able to tell it's time to move away and let it percolate in my brain for a bit and figure out what needs to go in the other sections.
Thesis words: 2058 / 10000
November 06, 2009 10:22 AM
November 04, 2009
My Philosophy...
"That we are all small, and the world so big. No matter how much we grow, there is always something bigger than ourselves, and our lives collect the detritus and clutter of our past to shape our future. Ever present is a clock, ticking away our seconds and pressuring us to move forward with our lives, too fast sometimes to even notice the destruction we've become.
"A hug becomes a kiss and becomes too clingy, and soon another person is swallowed in the ever growing katamari of our life."
-- The Book of Leon
November 04, 2009 12:21 PM
November 03, 2009
Joy... Rapture...
Spent much of today seeing dentists and x-ray peoples and all the rest. Haven't got the specialist's opinion yet, but it's very likely that I'm to have my wisdom teeth out as soon as I can get an appointment. Because they're so nestled, I'll need to get a general anaesthetic, which terrifies me to pieces. The only good thing is it can all be done in my Mum's building, so she'll be able to look after me when it's over. Naturally I'll try and see if I can keep them as a souvenir.
This will bring my total of professionally removed teeth to 20.
Thesis words: 745 / 10000
November 03, 2009 09:04 PM
ally. posted a photo:
Love this guy. Has the biggest paws I think I've ever seen on a cat.
November 03, 2009 06:30 PM
ally. posted a photo:
Coolest cat ever. Super laid back and happy. I want to keep him.
Flickr pro account expired and I'm still unemployed and have no money to renew it... so that's a bummer.
November 03, 2009 06:29 AM
November 02, 2009
Okay then...
So, while most everyone I stalk online is either participating in NaNoWriMo (one of these years they're going to fix the name) or moping that they don't have time for it, I've realised that I need bullying and encouragement to make it even a little bit of the way through writing my thesis. After much procrastination I decided that I'll be unofficially participating in InaDWriMo instead, with a goal of 10,000 words of thesis and my paper written.
This does mean I'm going to be boring and not posting much aside from word counts for a month, but you can deal with that. You are all clever people, after all. And this will hopefully keep my mind of other crap in my life at present.
Thesis words: 585 / 10000
So, bring on the encouragement. Nag me if I'm slacking on posting (I'll try and do it every four days), and I'll admit my many flaws. I'll also try and figure out a good way to include equations in the count, since my thesis is full of them.
November 02, 2009 11:01 PM
October 27, 2009
my big blue gorilla posted a photo:
New roof on the Queen Victoria Building, quite awesome!
October 27, 2009 12:10 PM
my big blue gorilla posted a photo:
Our neighbour on Willougbhy street has one of the geekest mailboxes ever!
October 27, 2009 12:10 PM
my big blue gorilla posted a photo:
A stunning design part of the Sydney Living Colour 2009. This one is in front of St. Mary's Cathedral.
October 27, 2009 12:10 PM
my big blue gorilla posted a photo:
Taken from my room in Epping. I liked that there was sunny and light on one side and the heavy clouds were coming from the other side. I guess such is life!
October 27, 2009 12:10 PM
October 25, 2009
Got me a new set of coloured pencils (Faber Castell 24’s) for my birthday (thanks, girlf), so I don’t need to scab them off my housemate any more. Been keeping up with the drawing, which is great.
Here are my new pencils in a recycled pasta-sauce jar:
Here’s a zombie I drew and coloured in at the behest of my girlf, who was tired of me using one colour for each drawing:
Here’s a detail so you can take in all the good pencil-on-paperiness:
A monkey:
And here’s Christopher Walken:
Later!
October 25, 2009 01:03 PM
October 24, 2009
October 22, 2009
ally. posted a photo:
Taken with film. So happy that they were actually out and about and not hidden like usual.
October 22, 2009 09:54 PM
This blog moved out of California to live in Michigan under a new hosting. I was about to hire the new virtual servers in A2, but I don’t have enough time at the moment to set all services up in Linux for myself and under 128MB of RAM, perhaps in a few months. Anyway, I’m happy that now I have SSH access (yay! managing files under FTP is brain-damaging), RoR, Python and InnoDB with MySQL, now I can have all kind of orgiastic fun.
I moved DNS records as well, if you can’t see this blog let me know 
October 22, 2009 05:08 AM
October 20, 2009
And off we go...
With just enough time to walk to town and buy myself some fudge and a hoodie, I think I'm done in Cambridge. It's been great, England, I'll miss you.
October 20, 2009 11:28 AM
October 17, 2009
ally. posted a photo:
6/2002-10/14/2009
this was my baby. i had owned him since the day he was born (well, technically i didn't get to take him home until 8 weeks after he was born... but he was still mine). went downstairs to get some shoes wednesday morning and noticed he didn't jump up to see me like usual. found him lying in the bottom of his cage. i knew as soon as i saw him that he was dying, but for an animal that's supposed to live 15-20 years, only 7 years and an unexpected death made it even harder. i held him in the last half hour of his life while he slowly died. i am still haunted and feeling an enormous amount of guilt about it, is there something i should have done? could have done? why didn't i go downstairs sooner? lewis buried him the next day, in a shoebox with his box of raisins, banana chips, and his stuffed animal friend he had since he was little. i get really sad everytime i see the empty cage now, thinking about giving it to another chinchilla owner, or donating it to an animal shelter. i get even more sad when i'm sitting on my computer at night and he's not snuggling under my chin. i am thankful that tuesday night i held him until we went to bed, and lewis did as well. but it's still too soon, and it's been really hard.
October 17, 2009 06:23 PM
October 15, 2009
At the behest of my girlfriend, I’ve drawn a picture of Michael Jackson. I was in the middle of drawing pictures of NBA stars Magic Johnson and Scottie Pippin when she suggested I draw something more “controversial”.
It’s not perfect, but if we’ve learnt anything from Michael Jackson over the past couple of decades, it’s that nobody’s perfect. Not even an alien.
October 15, 2009 02:06 PM
And another thing...
I got a new book:
Eoin Colfer was charming and funny and very Irish, and I liked that he was just as appalled at the thought of writing this book as the rest of us were at the announcement that someone else was writing a Hitchhiker's book. He's only doing the one (because damnit he has to write more Artemis Fowl right now), and he kinda hopes that someone else will pick up the mantle, so that it's not just him and DA to compare. I have to say I kinda agree. They did it for Sherlock Holmes, why not for Arthur Dent? Oh, and Eoin is a mac. *grins*
Of course, now I need to find a way to fit this thing in my suitcase.
ETA: I had completely forgotten I already had a HHGTTG tag on my blog. This makes me inordinately happy.
October 15, 2009 09:48 AM
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