It’s another year since your too early birth, already gone from me, already lost. Your younger sister and brother visited your grave recently. Your sister said “I stayed with my big sister for a whole”, and it took me a moment she didn’t mean hers – and yours, and yours – big sisters that are [...]
Go to post pageIt is that clear in my mind, how excited I was for a dose of Star Wars after the breathtaking first movie. Oh, I had such a crush on Harrison Ford. And confusingly, on Carrie Fisher. Life is complex, and I knew it already. I was a scifi nerdette, a proto geek girl, into Asimov [...]
Go to post pageLet’s Talk About Kasandra Perkins for a Change. The man who abused her and killed her was a sports star, so she gets to be a bit player in her own death – a mere cipher to discuss him. It is not the same as he put her through – but it certainly is analogous. [...]
Go to post pageWe have a ridiculous set of rules, no, IMPOSSIBLE set of rules for women to follow. Of you are single and facing pregnancy – slut (if due to rape, was it rape rape?). If married, oh what a blessing. Unless too soon after marriage. Or you have x other children, x being the number some [...]
Go to post pageBut who cares? This boy ends 2 years saving every last dollar he manages to earn, (kudos to his parents for that btw, good life lessons there), only to find the dream model of Lego is now a collectors edition well put of his league. At first Lego says how sorry it is that it [...]
Go to post pageWhat happens to survivors of tragedies? I was the only one seriously injured in my accident – what about the other people, I have often wondered. The man who admitted the momentary distraction arguing with his teenager that caused it. The other woman, innocently driving and having my car flung into hers. All three cars [...]
Go to post pageClive James is dying. my heart is full of sorrow. this man is such a formative influence on me. his books (i adore his poetry), his writing, and his broadcasting (my ‘gateway’ to his work) are a huge part of my life. i listen to his reading of his own (audio based) books (again, the [...]
Go to post pageAs of yesterday: 1) doing PhD over next few years 2) frantically coding for May release for the Serval Project 3) now working for the next two years at Flinders University as an academic – a lecturer in two Comp Sci/Eng topics 4) after two years, if all going well with PhD, get employed by [...]
Go to post pageBesides being my amazing co-founder and brains trust inspiration at The Serval Project, Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen does a regular science spot on local radio. This episode involved an experiment that he roped my bloke, aka our Hardware and Systems guru, Lyn Stephens, into assisting with. Here is the video – you get to hear Dr [...]
Go to post pageMany of you may have noticed that today’s Google Doodle honors famed physicist and chemist Marie Curie, in celebration of her birthday. But this year also marks the centennial of her second Nobel Prize. (It bears mentioning that Curie was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she is also the only [...]
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