Prometheus dreams

I had a superb week­end last week­end. On Friday, Dean and I went to the Mel­bourne Plan­et­arium at Sci­ence­works. I’d never been there, des­pite having lived here for five years. It was lots of fun, although very dif­fer­ent from what I’d expec­ted. I’d...

Ah, the world…

My par­ents rock. Thank you so much for the pressies, guys! Item number one: I’m going to Mel­bourne Film Fest with a gold pass thanks to cashola. Item number two: Heeb the new Jew review, cul­tural item extraordin­aire, from the States. It’s Vice magazine for...

Good news… and bad news…

I have the res­ults for my thesis. The good news is that I got an HD. 80%. Scraped into an HD.  The bad news is that as I’ve never been a huge fan of com­pet­i­tion or grad­ing like that because I am hyper-com­pet­it­ive and I don’t like...

Maus in the Haus

I’ve been mean­ing to go and see the rather excel­lent exhib­i­tion of Art Spieg­le­man’s “Maus” on at the Jewish Museum ever since I fin­ished my thesis. The exhib­i­tion fin­ishes in another two weeks. mirelle21 has pro­posed brunch and a visit to the...

from the archives

I was eleven when I first played with pro­gram­ming, hidden away in lib­rar­ies where the boys played space invaders and I dis­covered the secret codes that would make you sing to me in elec­tronic beeps, that would cause loops of words to scroll down...