The Blog - The Archive
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Those Wacky Mexicans...Mexican men who display extreme jealousy or avoid sex with their wives could be tried in court and punished under a new law, the special prosecutor for crimes against women says.
Special prosecutor Alicia Elena Perez Duarte has told Excelsior newspaper that men who phone their wives every half hour to check up on them, constantly suspect them of infidelity or try to control the way they dress are committing the crime of jealousy.
Those who stop talking to their wives, avoid sex or try to convince suspicious spouses they are "crazy" even if the men are caught red-handed having an affair are guilty of indifference, she said.
Men found guilty of jealousy or indifference could face up to five years in prison, the newspaper said.
- ABC News
I love it, I really do. In some ways, yes this law is crazy, but on the other hand, if you have to legislate "it's nice to be nice" policies, this is probably a good one to start with.
Labels: Beto, crazy mexicans, hiding it all behind a smile
posted by Catherine, 11:27 AM | permanent link | (4) comments
I want my sleep cycle back, you son of a bitch...Dear PhD,
I'm so fucking sick of the nightmares. Make them go away again, and I promise I will finish this year. Please?
Just let me have one good night's sleep, and I'll even finish that chapter for you.
Stop making things harder than they already are.
No love,
Me.
Labels: hating myself, Inigo Montoya, losing sleep, phd, so I dreamed about my supervisor as Darth Mark - what does that mean?, the Harry Potter / Domus Prime crossover seems more likely every day
posted by Catherine, 7:34 AM | permanent link | (0) comments
Monday, February 26, 2007
I try so hard to be original...So this morning I realised that the greatest idea in the history of the universe would be a transformers-logo hypercolor tshirt. And then I looked online and realised that someone else had already thought of it.
Labels: hypercolor, more than meets the eye, why yes I am a child of the 80s
posted by Catherine, 4:05 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Overheard at Central Station Last Night...Hello passengers and welcome back to Central Station.
It's wicked Wednesday and all trains are travelling approximately on time.
Have a great evening and thank you for travelling with cityrail.
Labels: nice people are nice, odd smells in my office, public transport, reaffirming my faith in humanity, trains
posted by Catherine, 9:08 AM | permanent link | (0) comments
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
A minor point...Don't pronounce "SQL" as "sequel".
Just don't.
I'm told it's a standard pronounciation. It still bugs me to no end.
Labels: accent issues, americans hurt my brain, computer camp, stupid pronounciation
posted by Catherine, 9:36 AM | permanent link | (5) comments
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Yes, I know my brain is fried...Okay, so Obi-Wan and Anakin fight a bunch of droids in an elevator, and for an instant I wonder about the close quarters and whether or not they should damage the walls more, but then my brain decides that's not nearly as important as what happens if they cross the streams.
Labels: crossing the streams, I would make a cool Jedi, star wars
posted by Catherine, 7:42 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
Friday, February 16, 2007
It is amazing, isn't it?...An Eyre Peninsula man is the talk of the town after catching a bronze whaler shark in his hands and wrestling it up onto a jetty.
Phillip Kerkhof from Louth Bay was at the local jetty when the 1.3-metre shark began chasing squid lures.
He says he climbed down a ladder and began to follow the shark in shallow water.
"I just snuck up behind him and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," he said.
"He's just thrashing around in the water but then he was starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'."
The only damage from the dangerous species was a bite mark to his jeans.
"It's not something I'd recommend to do. When I sobered up I thought about it and I said, 'I'm a bit of an idiot doing it'," Mr Kerkhof said.
- ABC news
Labels: jumping the shark, stupid people, yay vodka
posted by Catherine, 10:49 AM | permanent link | (1) comments
Thursday, February 15, 2007
*sniggers*...If all you have in your "music" collection is porn, don't share your music on iTunes.
Especially not under your real name.
Especially not if you name is rare enough that googling it takes me directly to your profile on a social networking site with photos.
And most especially not if after finding those photos I'll be able to recognise you down in the foyer of E6A.
Labels: names omitted to protect the guilty, stupid people, the internet is for porn, uni
posted by Catherine, 3:10 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
An Actual Conversation...Q: So, when's the website going to go live?
Me: Probably early next week.
Q: Excellent, excellent. You are getting paid for this, right?
Me: Not a cent.
Q: Good, because this is meant to be volunteer work.
*sweetdrops*
I get that a lot.
Labels: conferences, still poor, uni, wasting my life, web stuff
posted by Catherine, 12:40 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
J'ai de la chance..."I'm feeling lucky" on french wikipedia...
Click it and scroll down to check out that photo!
Labels: Beto, feeling lucky, french stuff, google
posted by Catherine, 8:15 PM | permanent link | (2) comments
Friday, February 09, 2007
So, at the end of three years...I have:
- 1.5 (draft) chapters of my thesis written;
- no real results to speak of (though I have duplicated the results of others, which I'm told is a good place to start);
- only 1 year left in which to get this bitch done.
Labels: astronomy, freakshow, hating myself, latex ftw (but not the fun sort of latex), never going to graduate, phd, thesis ftl, wasting my life
posted by Catherine, 10:54 PM | permanent link | (1) comments
Distractions for the win...So, life sucks, and I hate my PhD. Fortunately, here's a picture of Wikipe-tan to cheer us up!
Labels: this was before tags
posted by Catherine, 5:04 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Yes, I am putting our conversation online for discussion...You: And when I link to an outside web page I use target="_blank" to open a separate window. This could apply on the location page too where you have the link to the hotel.
Me: We don't do target=_blank/_new. It's considered very bad manners to presume that you know better than the user how their browser should behave.
You: Yeah, but for those who haven't got a clue how their browser is meant to behave .... see above point (where it was brought up that using headings as links meant that the links weren't underlined as normal). I just don't like relying on the "back" button once I've moved away from the page I need to be able to get back to.
Me: ...
And at this point, I just want to yell at you. This is a conference for astrophysics students (and sure, you made me put 'astronomy' on the front page, but it was always astrophysics). And yet you believe them too stupid to know how to drive a browser, just because this newfangled technology is too much for you?
It's very much getting to the point where I'm going to start issuing ultimatums, and I hate ultimatums. Fuck you, and the long horse you rode in on.
(And yes, I know I used to do the same thing (and that I still do in the link bar because I'm too lazy to edit it - as evidenced by just how long those links have been there). But back when I started this blog, I was using internet explorer, and so was everyone else. Things were different, and it made sense back then...)
Labels: this was before tags
posted by Catherine, 3:32 PM | permanent link | (4) comments
Just because I'm not confused enough...The terms ante meridiem (before noon) and post meridiem (after noon) do not literally apply to noon and midnight. Although the term meridies (literally midday) properly applies to noon, its abbreviation m. is not commonly used.
However, it has become common practice in countries that use the system (such as the United States) to designate 12:00 p.m. as noon and 12:00 a.m. as midnight at the beginning of the day (this is the de facto convention).
Nevertheless, this usage... is contrary to the U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of Style, which recommends the use of 12:00 p.m. for midnight and 12:00 m. for noon (not 12:00 a.m.).
Thanks, wikipedia, for not at all helping with the am/a.m./AM dilemma. Well, ok, you helped a little, but I'm not going to forgive you for the 12:00m. thing any time soon (even if I can't wait for Lesa to complain to me about that).
Labels: this was before tags
posted by Catherine, 12:49 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
Everyone, let's be sensationalist!...
*sweatdrops*
It's just going to be that kind of year, I think. Let's make the flag three dimensional while we're at it.
Labels: this was before tags
posted by Catherine, 11:32 AM | permanent link | (2) comments