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I know some people will understand this particular anguish
Feeling slightly wrong
There’s something mildly obscene about running an Gnome application through an X-window server in a Windows VM running on a Mac…
Updated 1-page CV for 2014 – Take 2
Following some constructive criticism, I’ve come up with V2 of my one page CV. It’s lost some colour, but I think it’s gained some more meaning.
Updated 1-page CV for 2014
As part of a Scientific Advisory Board review at work, we needed to produce a one-page CV. It was a good opportunity to spruce up the old CV while I was updating the content. I had to shave a lot of detail out, to bring it down from 4 pages down to 1, but I think it works. Comments?
How to get people’s attentoin
Update:Saw this, couldn’t resist :)
A friend at the bus stop
The sparrows in Switzerland are like pigeons anywhere else. Completely unfazed by humans, as long as there is the possibility of food. This guy was almost on my foot at one point.
Physics conundrum
Why is it that anything put in a tumble dryer along with a duvet cover will end up inside the duvet cover, but that doesn’t happen in the washing machine?
Doctorate in Chocolate
Scientists and chocolate fans are being given the chance to indulge their sweet tooth by becoming a doctor of chocolate at Cambridge University.
A researcher is being sought for a PhD on chocolate by the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
The challenge is to stop chocolate melting in warm climates by studying the “fundamentals of heat-stable chocolate”.
Candidates wishing to study chocolate need to apply by 29 August.
The would-be doctor of chocolate will be expected “investigate the factors which allow chocolate, which has a melting point close to that of the human body, to remain solid and retain qualities sought by consumers when it is stored and sold in warm climates”.
The research project is “mainly experimental”, but will require good mathematical skills, the advertisement says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-28787676
An introvert’s heart
