Screen vs. Paper ~ Bookworm vs. Social butterfly November 30, 2009
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Blogging, Etcetera, Pretty!, Technobabble, The Ether, Words.Tags: books, Hitchhiker's Guide, Holidays, Nerdgasm, New Scientist, Reading, Scientifica American, Study
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{ Evelin Kasikov, via FFFFOUND! }
Now that I have broken free from the manacles of full-time study (and settled into full-time desk work, for the nonce) I am readily able to indulge my desire to read Readables Of My Own Ready Choosing. No more Textbooks Which I Cannot Afford To Purchase and Do Not Wish To Read Anyway. And, hopefully — depending on my willpower — more printed matter, fewer blogs. I want to touch what I read (and not just on the eyePhone* screen).
Exhibit A:
Hyde Park.
Eoin Colfer (who is NOT Douglas Adams, but is trying VERY hard).
2 minutes later, a ladybird landed on me.
Then I had a nap.
Exhibit B:
Dotingly aware of my studious predicament, (LECTURES! THESIS! ASSESSMENTS! EXAMS!) Father saved a 3-month cache of my favourite nerd magazines.
I took delivery last week.
Nerdgasm.
Now, if only I could find the time to sit and read! [Not looking likely]
Maybe the outside world could stop being so remarkably interesting? [No thanks].
Oh, my library for a quantum life! Or alternatively, it may be time to start reading as a social activity. A bookworm with wings? Sounds nice.
* Secret tweeter‘s tip: Never tweet about “iPhone” lest you suffer an instant inundation of DMing, @-replying macspambots. Choose an appropriate pseudonym, and tweet away.
Large Hadron Collider now actually colliding protons! November 24, 2009
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Etcetera, Pretty!, Technobabble, The News, Words.Tags: Acronym, CERN, Higgs Boson, Language, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Neologism
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LARGE HADRON COLLIDER PRODUCES FIRST PROTON COLLISIONS IN BIG BANG MISSION
I can’t explain why, but this news makes me extraordinarily excited, proud, humble, thrilled, wonderstruck, optimistic… [insert further relevant emotions here].
Our Universe is a miraculous event.
Won’t it be fun to try and find out just what makes it so?
{ image from Boston Big Picture [I strongly recommend you click-thru for yet another must-see LHC collection]. This particular portrait features a “Compact Muon Solenoid”, a particle detector much like ALICE and ATLAS. I love lyrical jargon and acronyms the meanings of which fly stratospherically — nay, sub-orbitally — far above my head. }
DEFINITELY RELATED:
LHC too cool/broken for its own good; helium-based hilarity ensues
Chess Letters, Book Letters, [Bachelor of] Legal Letters. November 9, 2009
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Blogging, Design, Etcetera, School, Typography.Tags: Bookshelves, Chess, Exams, Law School, Letters, Stress, Study, University
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No time to blog.
Too busy studying.
Would rather be playing
{ Type Chess Set by Wary Meyers via The Jailbreak }
Or maybe choosing a Book That I Actually Want To Read, from
{ Letters Bookshelf by Pieter de Leeuw via Design Milk }
Instead, there are only four letters on my mind right now:
B. LLB.*
*…Okay, technically it’s B. Comms/LLB. But in the final 5 days of 5 years’ study — having secured the “Comms” bit last semester, and now with only 2 exams to go — those 2 Ls and Bs are my only (very significant) academic concern right now.**
** If I had more free time I’d throw something in here about blubbing, study lbs, and curious palindromes. But I haven’t, so I shan’t.
