Plenty to say and no time to say it all. Work is busy.

Hah, that's me, too.

In the past few weeks, we were told several times that we are to be taught about the recently revised rail traffic rules, but it was always called off. But, now we learnt that there'll be an exam anyway... tomorrow afternoon.

Yet, I surprised myself at getting through three quarters of 550 test questions since Sunday afternoon. Alas, now my head is full...

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

Spoke to her briefly this morning - it wasn't too near her, and downwind, but she new people who had lost homes and stuff.

Just because I'm tired of hearing about it let me remind everyone that "Los Angeles" is ENORMOUS and these fires are more than an hour's drive from LA itself.  There is always something burning in LA.  The TV news there own lots of helicopters and the big orange flames make for good print photos so it always gets covered far more than it should considering how often it occurs.  I also theorize that the TV people live in the outskirts areas that frequently burn.

If LA were actually to burn down, by the grace of god, it would take weeks.

Freelance illustrator Colleen Champ produced her own version of the scene using micrographs by photomicrographer Dennis Kunkel. The goal was to demonstrate the fantastic nature of reality by arranging the actual images in fanciful ways, Champ says: "You cannot create anything yourself that hasn't already been created in nature."

She used Photoshop to transform three beetles into the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and the sleepy Dormouse. They sip tea at a table made of butterfly wings, set in a field of crystallized vitamin C while aphids fly overhead. A key beneath the main illustration identifies the source of each image, including the mold spores that make up the vast underground.

Kunkel says the work is a fruitful partnership between science and art: "She's taken images from the minute world and put them together in such a way as to make them really compelling, exciting, and funny to look at." Kunkel plans to develop a series of children's books based on Champ's images.

The interplay between fact and fancy also impressed the judges, who used the words "innovative" and "delightful" to describe the piece.

Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

Visuals can communicate research results and scientific phenomena in ways that words cannot. That's why NSF cosponsors this international contest to recognize outstanding achievements in this area.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/index.jsp?id=win2008

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice. Blog - Nice Experience

just one of those days I guess.

keep to the Fen Causeway

It doens't help I've nothing to bring to the party after I wrote two diaries today. I'm confused as to why one isn't getting comments cos I actually thought it'd get loads. Just goes to show once you write 'em it's out of your hands.

keep to the Fen Causeway

While waiting for people to think what they still have to say - here's a little video. I just discovered a video version of my favourite song - one of the greatest ever ? - coincidentally titled: "The Green Fields of France" - which is not at all a celebration of them, and it's still topical just after Remembrance Day.

Ironically what I miss in London is the Irish Centre in Hammersmith, and Irish pubs with live music. I once got a Scottish folk-singer to sing it in the Caveau des Oubliettes in Paris.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice. Blog - Nice Experience

I'm off having an existential crisis in New Zealand. Third one I've had in two weeks. But hey, awesome scenery by day, and sometimes beers by night with interesting people, which generally leads to the next existential crisis the next day...

you are the media you consume.