Dramatis persona*

helenhead 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.
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12 of 12, December 2010

I can’t believe how rapidly the year has passed, and here we are, nearly half-way through December already (well, 2/5 or so if you want a slightly less scary fraction … but it is certainly half-way to Christmas). This month’s 12 of 12 record captures some aspects of the season.

With Christmas approaching rapidly I needed to […]

Two wheels better than four

One of my ex-Scouts who is now a Venturer (the next age group up) had organised a bike hike this weekend, and invited some of the older Scouts and me along for the ride.

Due to various circumstances (kids who were sick or away) there were only three of us on the trip, plus the Venturer leader […]

Londo Mo-llari

To cut a long story short, a few months ago I allowed myself a few side-tracking clicks on a web-page or two and ended up becoming aware of the virtual existence of Lee (whom I am sure also exists in real life). As he puts it, he’s a blogger, social media guy, artist, and pop culturalist […]

Tannenbaum

‘Tis the season to be putting up and decorating Christmas trees, or so I am told. Discussions during the last couple of days have revealed that work-place trees are appearing, and that families are enacting plans to fill a corner of their lounge-rooms with genuine pine trees or the rather more seasonal […]

200th post, 1000th sp*m

This entry marks the 200th post. Another small milestone in the blogosphere, yielding the statistic of one scintillating blog entry every 2.5 days or so since I started (okay, I’ll admit the bit about “scintillating” doesn’t fall out of that data as such … !).

On the other hand, shortly before writing this entry my spam detector […]

The slot of doom and catharsis

As you know, the great office clean up has begun.

There is a big blue, yellow-lidded “confidential waste” bin sitting in my office and whenever I need a break from marking (which is most of the time) I try to find a few more things to throw into it.

There is always a brief nervous moment just before […]

Letting go 1

The office clean up has begun. We are supposed to be moving at the end of January and my new office is going to be quite a bit smaller than my current one. This means that some stuff has to go. Some things are going to be easy to throw away (such as the 100+ reviews […]

Mutant undead worms

The worm farm that I was running in my little back yard came to an untimely heat-induced demise last summer. Where once were thriving workers became then a stinky lifeless morass. They fell off their collective perches, ceased pining for the fjords (or whatever it is that worms pine for), shuffled off their mortal coils, and […]

12 of 12, November 2010

This particular 12 of 12 has a food flavour. I knew there were going to be at least two food-related events during the day, in addition to the usual breakfast and lunch, and so I decided to use this as the theme. In fact, “food” had been on the “reserve list” for theme-hood for a while, […]

Coastal hike

After a week or two of wet and windy weather Saturday dawned gloriously sunny, which was good to see because a small Scout hike was planned (for a small number of our small Scouts). We headed off to Bushranger’s Bay, down on the Mornington Peninsula: two Scouts, one dad, my Assistant Scout Leader, the visiting German […]