Category Archives: Family business

I blame the parents

Posted on 10 May 2013 by Austin

From time to time, I am given to wondering why I have achieved so little in life generally. Answers suggested by my friends and family have included ‘laziness’ ‘not trying hard enough’ ‘lack of confidence’ ‘too unfocussed’ ‘too much procrastinating’ … Continue reading →

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Gerald Elliott 1931-2013

Posted on 26 April 2013 by Austin

       

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Bobby Fischer against the world

Posted on 10 September 2011 by Austin

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 →

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Not log tables [6]

Posted on 23 August 2011 by Austin

  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.

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The Dread Day Dawns [22]

Posted on 1 August 2011 by Austin

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).

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Not much more than a decade until the bus pass*

Posted on 14 July 2011 by Austin

*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

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More family business

Posted on 19 May 2011 by Austin

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 →

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