I don’t like the content of the movie “Adaptaton” (written by Charlie Kaufmann) much, but I certainly like the concept. A writer is tasked to adapt a novel to a screenplay. He finds it impossible, so instead he writes a screenplay about his trouble adapting the novel. And we are watching the screenplay now in [...]
A very minor incident this afternoon: I was taking a coffee break downstairs and heard a bang outside. Not near my own place, but somewhere close. I took a look outside and at first noticed nothing. Then I saw who I thought was one of the gardening crew that cuts the grass at our little [...]
Just because his birthday has passed, doesn’t mean we should stop talking about Darwin. This whole year will be a celebration, at least until November when the 150 years anniversary of Origin of Species comes along. I was listening to one of my favourite radio shows, To the best of or knowledge, over the weekend. [...]
The cruel hands of the clock have moved past this weekend and are racing towards the next. In my mind, the week has roughly the shape of a bicycle chain stretched around your hands held out, with Sunday at the top, and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday sloping away to Friday where the slow climb to Sunday [...]
The third of three auspicious days, and for me the least so of the three. Valentine’s day is perhaps the most modern of “holidays”, by which I mean marketing ploys. It is also the most ironic, being the most unromantic. If you love someone, it is necessary for a special day to remind you to [...]
I have more to say about (my) teaching. I may have sounded negative the other day; perhaps I’m a better teacher than I believe. A part of the problem is that I that I do not feel like a good teacher. Software Engineering is a hard course to teach for many reasons: It requires experience of [...]
Today of course is the birthday of Lincoln and Darwin. Born on the same day and the same year two hundred years ago! It is an interesting coincidence, impossible to ignore. And it is interesting to ask what these two great men thought of each other. Unfortunately, Darwin does not mention Lincoln by name in [...]
La causa de lo que hacemos es lo que creemos y tambièn lo que buscamos. Armando Rugarcia What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in arousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly [...]
I don’t like to multi-post, but I have just scanned the news before I go to bed, and there are two items that are too good to risk forgetting about. The first is just a headline that is too sensationalistically politically incorrect: Mum’s tribute to son murdered and cooked by Mr Gay UK. It’s a [...]
About two months ago I finished recording my CDs on ilves the MacBook. (Well, almost, I have about 22 “difficult” cases for which the internet is unable to conjure up the track titles. Manual labour required.) [All of this music is legally bought over many years. I don't listen to stolen music.] In any case, [...]