My old flatmates in Zaandam are holding a BBQ Wednesday night, which I’m hijacking as a celebration of my graduation. (It’s also probably the last gasp of summer…) Anyone who knows the address is invited. Anyone who doesn’t know the address but thinks I might be convinced to tell them, give me a shout. (I [...]
The defence is over, I passed, I’m officially Tikitu de Jager, MSc. The Dutch equivalent, which I am also entitled to, is ‘Doctorandus’: Drs. Tikitu de Jager. (The possibilities for confusion with this one in New Zealand are evilly tempting…) Better still, I graduated ‘cum laude,’ which I find slightly surprising and wholly delightful. Geek [...]
Thursday, August 25, 2005
At very short notice, my thesis defence will be this coming Monday (August 29th), at 17.30. Floris Roelofsen is also defending, at 16.00 in the same room. The location is the Euclides building on Plantage Muidergracht, room P0.17. (Please contact me if you need directions.) The topics of the two defences are “Logical Perspectives on [...]
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
I’m really not sure what to think about this. A List Apart has just redesigned their website, and it looks really nice. They’re now offering a bunch of merchandise, including this slightly bizarre t-shirt. The disturbing thing is that the blurb doesn’t even hint at the weirdness, and so I’m left wondering, did they just [...]
I’m having some delays in the process of becoming a PhD student. It’s almost a catch 22 situation, but not quite. The original catch 22 was “You can only have this if you ask for it … but if you ask for it, you can’t have it any more.” (Know the phrase but don’t know [...]
I guess almost everybody who reads this blog also reads Boing Boing (Hi Mum!). But you might not have noticed the papercraft dragon they posted a week or so ago, or you might have thought “That’s kinda cool” and then moved on in your busy and exciting lives. If you skipped it, or missed it, [...]
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution points to this great Tuvan throat-singing punk band: Yat-kha. This is definitely going on the to-buy list. Not the most recent album, Re-Covers (they’re covering Led Zeppelin, Kraftwerk, Bob Marley! but the two tracks available as mp3 didn’t do much for me) but some of the older stuff such as [...]
Saturday, August 13, 2005
So much to tell… I have a happy review, a happy plug-for-upcoming-music, and some sad sad news. Summary: the Black Seeds were great, Fat Freddy’s Drop are coming soon, and Blijburg is closing down.
I promise not to go grammar-Nazi here, although I expect in the coming months I’ll be posting more often on language (it’s the topic of my upcoming PhD study, after all). But I’ve just seen yet another articulate, carefully written and obviously proofread article talk about “loosing” (in this case, “loosing who we are”). And [...]
I handed in my thesis today at 12. Actually, I handed it in at 12:55, making the person with an appointment at 1 wait. Why? Because while I left home this morning in plenty of time to print the required two copies of my thesis, I left behind the front pages, signed by my supervisor [...]