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A Twitter Rant about Conditions in Research - The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist
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The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist. Now 7% more viral! A Twitter Rant about Conditions in Research. Fri 17 Jul 2015. Blog posts are hard. Here’s tweets. Posted by Jason Heeris. Fri 17 Jul 2015. Laquo; Qanda's Razor. Rubbish Review Debut: The Noontec N5 NAS ». Science Magazine Cover Generator. A Simple Time Machine. Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer. Tales from urban dilettantia. Field Notes from Fairyland. Orange Juice and Ryvita.
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A Letter to Vice-Chancellor Johnson - The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist
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The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist. Now 7% more viral! A Letter to Vice-Chancellor Johnson. Sun 3 May 2015. Last week I sent a letter to Prof. Paul Johnson. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia (the school what I went to). The letter concerned his recent decision to circumvent the usual decision making processes and just throw university resources. At a “consensus centre”. Set up for professional climate-change-water-muddier Dr Bjorn Lomborg at the bequest of our current government.
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Rubbish Review Debut: The Noontec N5 NAS - The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist
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The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist. Now 7% more viral! Rubbish Review Debut: The Noontec N5 NAS. Sun 19 Jul 2015. I recently became the proud owner of a Noontec N5 network attached storage (NAS) enclosure. I bought it because I needed:. Network access to the contents of a large hard drive. USB access to the contents of a large hard drive. The cockroaches could not be removed. It’d probably void the warranty anyway. And eventually even Wireshark. The N5 boasts USB 2.0 access, which is great for me bec...
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Qanda's Razor - The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist
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The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist. Now 7% more viral! Sat 13 Jun 2015. You come out of the event, ready to say this, but. Tells you first: “that was really one sided. They really set up my side to fail.”. Is it necessarily the case that one of you is right about the debate having an agenda, and one of you is wrong? Well, maybe, sometimes. But I think we often leap to this conclusion far more often than it actually applies. I think what’s also likely is something I call. Exactly the same problem. But as ...
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About Me - The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist
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The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist. Now 7% more viral! Sat 14 Feb 2009. I am a physicist. Currently working as a DSP engineer. I also used to be involved in politics, but now devote my spare time to my altruistic-yet-misunderstood scheme to destroy the sun. If you are reading this and are looking to give out a grant, call me — my last budget estimate was $14.7×10. If you would like to contact me, my email address is jason.heeris@gmail.com. And I'm on Twitter. Sat 14 Feb 2009. A Simple Time Machine.
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The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist
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The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist. Now 7% more viral! A Hybrid Kali/Debian Wheezy Live Distro. There are two things that I particularly love doing: security auditing, and tinkering with live distributions. It is very intriguing to see exactly how weak or strong your own electronic devices are against various attacks, and sometimes very contrary to expectations. Without the USB: it’s my old laptop again! This gets even better if you’re dealing with embedded systems, systems with no permanent storage, etc.
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Destroy the Sun! - The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist
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The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist. Now 7% more viral! Wed 1 Oct 2003. We must galvanise, and exercise our creative abilites to conceive a viable, practical solution: this fiery behemoth that dominates our solar system must be extinguished. The Sun - a sinister and destructive force. Image from SOHO website. The Sun is a star located at the centre of our solar system. It is classified as a G2 star, has a mass of about 2×10. From naturally occuring Thoron (actually an isotope of Radon -. Rn) and Radon (.
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Bite My Latte: August 2011
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Sunday, 28 August 2011. In this post, I'd like to formally apologise for reaching 43 summers before reading Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim. Christopher Hitchens is right, it is the finest comic novel of the 2nd half of the the 20th century; but not as right as some bloke called Toby Young, who chucks in the first half as well. Finally, oh fickle Lords of memory, please let the requisite time of forgetting pass quickly, so I can read it again. Labels: Ill-informed Lit Crit. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Bite My Latte: Grandfathers and War
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008. I don't know if anything particularly profound will emerge from writing this, but, inspired by Pavlov's Cat. I offer this reflection on my grandfathers. Seen here enlisting for service in 1941. On the left, my paternal grandfather, who I never met, though he survived the war. A sapper in the 9th Division, he was wounded in action at the 2nd Battle of El-Alamein. His occupation was listed as 'labourer' upon enlistment. He ended up life as a publican, however. According...No wo...
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Bite My Latte: Larvatus Prodeo: A four-cannon salute
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012. Larvatus Prodeo: A four-cannon salute. Sad news as the good ship Larvatus Prodeo. Hoists anchor and departs the waters immediately to our south. Fort Solor duly issues four-gun salute. Sargento da Costa. Dispara! In addition, Tenente Amilcar has already boarded our caravel A Infanta Beatriz,. To harrass any Holandes who may impede her path. (If you spot him, FFS tell him not to lose our ONLY breech-loading swivel gun, like last time I sent him to New Holland. Under the same names?
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