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protest – your thoughts

for their upcoming feature issue on ‘protest’, the editors of m/c reviews have asked me to comment on the post-election venting on the csaa-forum email list that i run. some of the questions have me stumped, so i thought it would fit the spirit of an email interview about a listserver thread to post the [...]

dr mc

It’s been a little quiet on the blog lately, with lots of ends being tied up. classes finished in ccst 2220, and i learned that the course code will die at the end of this semester, so we’re gonna have to come up with a new slogan. but what rhymes with comu2003? eeew.
fiona and i [...]

The light

The motorola doesn’t do this justice…

MACS

The next MACS on November 19 is going to be fun. We’ll be talking about academic associations and networks – how they work, who’s in them, what they’re good for and why postgrads and early career researchers need to know about them.
Speakers will be:
* Alan McKee on CSAA *
* Mark McLelland on AsiaPacifiQueer *
* [...]

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New Farm Park

6 Feet Under = Genius

“Why are we buying the fake Windex when the real Windex is the only one that works?”
- David in cleaning zone
“Oh, I don’t know. I have to return some books to the library.”
- Ruth in response to husband George’s reluctant invitation to his annual fossil hunt
“I have a lot of sex and it’s really really [...]

best quote from the ARIAS

Having just rewritten the unlawful combatant paper with Glen on the weekend (it’s now drawing out the Right-eousness behind Bush administration policy even further) Jet’s antics last night were a welcome intrusion. Receiving what would be one of 6 ARIAS, this is guitarist Cameron Muncey: “I’d like to thank God but I can’t because [...]

Interdisciplinarity

Last Friday the Australian Studies Centre hosted a professional development day with the topic ‘Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity’. I took a bunch of notes that I thought worth sharing.
Martin Crotty introduced the session by saying ‘disciplines seem to have been out of fashion for some time’. This point seemed debatable, but then Mandy Thomas (Executive [...]

Presents for a professional woman

the comments section has me thinking of a potentially interesting exercise. i recently turned 26 and received the following gifts (in order):
1. a car registration
2. an (i presume) expensive bottle of perfume
3. an (i presume) inexpensive bottle of perfume, accompanied by a stone with the word “happiness” engraved underneath a kanji symbol which (i presume) [...]

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