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Author Archives: Austin
Dedication? Or lack of imagination?
Over in the comments at Athene Donald’s blog there is another of those extended discussions of UK science careers going on, prompted also by Jenny Rohn’s recent posts on fellowship schemes and the work of the Science is Vital campaign. … Continue reading
Posted in Annoyances, Getting old, Science policy, The Life Scientific, Universities
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Remembering
Ten years ago today, the World Trade Centre twin towers were attacked and fell, with terrible loss of life. Like most people, I guess, I can remember exactly where I was during the attacks – watching CNN in a high-rise … Continue reading
Posted in History
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Bobby Fischer against the world
In which I am reminded that once stuff is in your brain somewhere cluttering it up, it can be pretty hard to get it out. Random bits of chess knowledge included. It is probably another of those middle-aged things, but … Continue reading
Posted in chess, Family business, Getting old, History, Nerdishness, Procrastination
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Not log tables [6]
Room to spread out I come from a family of decidedly womble-ing tendencies. In other words, we tend to acquire objects, and do not tend to throw them away.
Posted in Family business, Getting old, History, The Life Scientific
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The Dread Day Dawns [22]
As a few people over on Facebook have noticed, today is my birthday. And as a few people around here will have worked out from an earlier post, this birthday is Officially A Biggie (people tell me).
Posted in Family business, Getting old, Grumbling
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Chess and the battle of the ages [9]
I’ve decided to separate the actual chess GAME I played last week, and that I was talking about in the last post, into a separate post here. The main reason for this is that specifically chess analysis-related comments can now … Continue reading
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Where to put the chess? [8]
In which I ponder where to hide my latest, and oldest, obsessive enthusiasm… I have another of my chess games, played last week, I thought I might post up… but as I was thinking about this, a question arose. Or … Continue reading
Posted in Blog-ology, chess, History, Nerdishness, Procrastination
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Not much more than a decade until the bus pass*
*assuming bus passes haven’t been abolished by then (see also a defence of bus passes here). ——————————————————————- In which, in a post-academic-year reverie, I decide not to look forward, and try some lo
Posted in chess, Family business, Nerdishness, Procrastination, The Life Scientific, Universities
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Job or vocation
I have recently been doing a bit of live on-line virtual commentating. Strange but true. I’m not sure exactly why. Perhaps it is another of my frustrated ambitions to be a sports commentator (of which more later).
Posted in chess, conferences, Nerdishness, The Interwebz, The Life Scientific
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More family business
Just a quick heads-up that my dad has posted an extended comment (or I’ve posted it for him) on the previous blogpost about his 7th decade of scientific publication. The comment has some links to more early 60s x-ray crystallography … Continue reading
Posted in Family business, History, Humour, Procrastination, The Life Scientific, Universities
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