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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote2010-03-19 02:58 pm

Academia, Home Issues

Received results this week from Chifley; a Distinction for Marketing (401); Distinction and a High Distinction for Managing Information Systems (403). This are remarkable results considering the somewhat average grades I received for the assignments and how difficult the exam was. The completion of these two units I also have a Graduate Certificate in Management (Technology) to add to my expanding list of academic qualifications. Another academic highlight of the week was seeing Craig Venter give the Graeme Clark Oration at the Melbourne Convention Centre, along with about 2,500 others. It was an outstanding presentation, describing the visionary work he has conducted since completing the human genome sequence, and included such tasty morsels of information on microbe biomass calculations, oceanic genetic diversity, artificial chromosones, automated synthesis, genome transplatation for speciation, biofuels and so forth.

We've been having Internet issues at home; or rather a lack of Internet connectivity. The previous owners of our house still haven't disconnected their 'phone, which means Internet provider can't provide us a connection (naked or otherwise). My evil side says plug in a 'phone, call the talking clock in Brazil and leave the 'phone off the hook. In a different sort of home issue, I have taken up cycling again. Having dragged my poor old bike out of storage where it has sat for the past eight years, I've been taking the deadly treadly along the 9km journey to work. Which wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't 30kg heavier than I was eight years ago and that the first four kilometers (along the winding Yarra Blvd) weren't so damn hilly. Ugh, I'm sure it'll all be better in a month or two.

[identity profile] seedy-girl.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
I'll give their lawyers a call about it.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Well, since then there's been an update. The real-estate agent has been contact with the former owners who swear that they disconnected the old line.

Sure is all a bit strange...
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[identity profile] kremmen.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Not strange if Telstra's involved.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, good point. Nothing is strange when that 800-lb gorilla is in the room..

[identity profile] strang-er.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 05:50 am (UTC)(link)

Congrats on the certification (i guess it's appropriate to be certified where you're living now).

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
*cackle* Nice one, Mr. Punster.

Next step now is to finish Business Law and Economic Decision Making... and a couple of electives (probably Strategic Management and People Management) and then I'll have a grad diploma..

After that I would have completed not only the grad dip, but all the core units for the MBA...

[identity profile] lifedistilled.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
If they swear it's disconnected, place the call to Brazil. >;D SOMEONE will have to pay for it. They can't very well nail YOU for it if they say they can't connect your line in the first place, amirite?

[identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com 2010-03-19 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly how heavy are you, btw? :)

[identity profile] zey.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

[identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Whoops, hello brother! Please dont beat me :)

You mean, he doesnt have any mass whatsoever? Is he a photon? :D

[identity profile] zey.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean, he doesnt have any mass whatsoever?

Well, he's a force to be reckoned with, and riding to and from work must require some acceleration and deceleration. From this, we can derive that Lev has some mass.

"Heavy" is a relative term though. To a physicist, a lead atom is heavy. To a small child, it's barely noticeable when s/he inhales a few thousand at the traffic lights.

[identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, i was asking as a physicist. :)

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
You mean, he doesnt have any mass whatsoever? Is he a photon? :D

I have greater than zero rest mass :)

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Around 110 kgs... I used to a mere 80!

[identity profile] angel80.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Keep up the cycling!

[identity profile] amazinggoatgirl.livejournal.com 2010-03-23 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats and good luck with the phone and biking!

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-03-23 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I am feeling somewhat sorer but lighter.. Now where have you been in the last few weeks?

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-03-25 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, I meant in livejournal land :)