“Deep Thought”, the computer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that comes up with the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything (42, for those of you who have been asleep for the last 30 years or who were born after 1990), was reported to have been so smart that it […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
The backyard of my parents’ place was a hive of noisy activity yesterday afternoon when the Hobart nieces and nephews came around. The cubby house of my own childhood is still in use (Dad has refurbished it), although I don’t fit inside quite so easily any more! However, it is just the right size for the […] Tonight, as I reassembled my partially dismantled PDA, the screen lit up … immediately followed by my face! Yep, the old Palm was back from its near-fatal extended bath in the crystal-clear coolth of a Mt Wellington creek. I think one of the secrets was that I didn’t attempt to turn it on. It also had about 48 […] Saturday 12 September: This is definitely one of those days where the headline doesn’t tell the entire story. It is accurate though, so far as it goes: only one cache was found, and my PDA (handheld diary/mini computer) is almost certainly a goner. However, there were also waterfalls, wildflowers, glorious spring sunshine, dozens of great photo opportunities, […] One of the nice things about being on sabbatical is having a bit of time to do some professional reading. In my “normal” job, most of the work-related reading of research papers that I do is in my role as a reviewer … which means that sometimes (often?!) the papers I’m reading aren’t particularly useful or […] While there’s a pleasant sense of “the thrill of the hunt” associated with going caching, there’s an added tingliness associated with hiding caches for other people to find. Over the last few days I’ve put together my ninth cache hide, and it’s a fun process. There are decisions to be made about its purpose (a scenic view? […] I had a bit of a wander on Mt Wellington today. I didn’t get up to the summit, as I had other plans and I wanted to avoid the teeming hordes, but I’m hoping to get there (a) before I leave and (b) before all the snow melts. Meanwhile, for today, I was content to go for […] Back in Melbourne today they would have been having “Friday morning tea”. This is a tradition that I will lay claim to starting nearly 11 years ago, not long after I started working there. However, the tradition began much longer ago, in the mathematics department of the University of Tasmania. It was started there by Michael […] [This should really be a “Quirk”, but the title was too good to waste.] I am fortunate in that I generally sleep well and soundly. It is rare, though, that I am aware that I dream. As far as my consciousness is concerned my brain doesn’t do much at all until the morning alarm goes off. I […] Okay, who else of the female persuasion finds father’s day catalogues far more interesting than mother’s day catalogues? |
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