Recent content by michael

i've met a fair few people i knew through irc, pokemon lab, or showdown. most of them are fellow melbournians, plus a few who were visiting from interstate for other reasons. i actually ended up as a teaching assistant in one of Alter's classes which was pretty funny. honestly, if there's...

i guess i'm pretty lucky in that i live somewhere with a good availability of good drinks. i don't mind drinking the house lager or whatever's cheap if i'm just going out for a quick drink with colleagues or friends after work, but it's so easy to find places that sell great drinks nearby. at...

your hair is fucking great

i have no first hand experience + am not a expert but: the oral-digestive-shitting tract is classified as part of the "external" environment and is essentially sealed to the outside except for absorbing nutrients and water. the only time hiv would be able to cross into the bloodstream/internal...

well I'm doing a phd in physical chemistry (gas phase spectroscopy and theoretical chemistry) and my goal is to go into academia. I'm pretty cautious about getting my hopes up, of course, and I'm trying to set up a backup at the agilent (big scientific equipment and r&d company) centre nearby...

i too enjoy the taste of catfish

#: 1998 - Chet Faker A: All We Do - Oh Wonder B: Big Girls Cry (ODESZA Remix) - Sia C: Coeur de la Nuit (Worakls Remix) - Ferdinand Dressig & Marvin Hey D: Dancin' to the Sound of a Broken Heart - Galantis E: Elegiac - Tom Day & Monsoonsiren F: Flower Dance - DJ Okawari G: Ghosts - Crywolf H...

going to o-week next week?

one of my colleagues in the lab knew me exclusively by my surname for over six months until she had to introduce me to her partner and couldn't figure out my first name my girlfriend almost pretty much exclusively calls me by variations on my surname, as do pretty much all my friends and...

bye ryan!

melbourne's a beautiful campus, tons of parks and nice gardens around, a few good cafes and bars, and really close to the city and nice places to go out. i live at home so i can't really comment on accomodation. i really like it but i mostly chose the university because i used to live nearby...

oi what are you planning to study? i'll buy you a beer sometime

except that gimp is part of the gnu project and is by no means windows specific. audacity was written under the gnu philosophy as well. from the audacity website: i don't know what you mean by nitro, but from a google search of "nitro software free", it looks like the only hit is the pdf...

seriously though, i'm an os x user. i really dislike windows a) because i like my posix compliance without needing to rely on hacks like cygwin or using a git bash shell, and b) because i dislike the windows philosophy of non-free software being automatically superior to free software. that...

oi where's bsd :( no os x doesn't count