Category Archives: Uncategorized

The Dread Day Dawns

Posted on August 1, 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). It is also … Continue reading →

Posted in Family business, Getting old, Grumbling, Uncategorized | 22 Comments

Where to put the chess?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Austin

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, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Job or vocation

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Austin

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). Or an online … Continue reading →

Posted in Chess, Conferences, Nerdishness, The Interwebz, The Life Scientific, Uncategorized | 9 Comments

More family business

Posted on May 19, 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 →

Posted in Family business, History, Humour, Procrastination, The Life Scientific, Uncategorized, Universities | 1 Comment

Some family business

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Austin

Readers of this blog will know that I am not the only scientist in the Elliott family, nor the best one. My father Gerald, who pops up occasionally on this blog in the comments, or even from my mentioning him … Continue reading →

Posted in History, The Life Scientific, Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Board of the Kings

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Austin

In which I take stock, and decide to move on… The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. …Though that last smell could be me, … Continue reading →

Posted in Chess, Getting old, Uncategorized, Universities | 15 Comments