Current Life : Boring But Important
Mar. 21st, 2023 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipThe mad month of March continues. I knew it was going to be tricky finishing one full-time degree whilst starting another full-time degree, but I am getting through it. The fact it has been coupled with my usual full-time work with additional casual lecturing and tutoring has really meant that my life consists of (a) get up (b) work (c) study (d) sleep and repeat. Still, there is light at the end of the tunnel; completed two workshops today for Cluster and Cloud Computing, I have a lecture to deliver tomorrow, followed by another workshop, and then marking assignments. I've been successful at getting some particularly finicky software installs completed (ceres-solver and pytorch in particular), and I've finished multiple assignments for the master's in climate science degree, the most important I believe being of the relative virtues of carbon taxes versus emission trading; I fall slightly in favour of the latter, although both can run in parallel.
Still, it hasn't been "all work and no play". Liana kindly dragged me out on Friday night to a local pub, "The Rubber Chicken", to see some comedy for a couple of hours (I thought the MC was the best). And on Sunday I spent the afternoon in the fine company of Erica, Angela, and Rob, followed by dinner with Anthony where we primarily discussed the very expensive submarine deal and Keating's remarks that there should be an internal ALP revolt against it. The reality is that they are ridiculously expensive, they're not designed for defensive purposes, they won't achieve their objectives (let's face it, it's to contain China), and they'll be obsolete before they're deployed. So what's the point?
Still, it hasn't been "all work and no play". Liana kindly dragged me out on Friday night to a local pub, "The Rubber Chicken", to see some comedy for a couple of hours (I thought the MC was the best). And on Sunday I spent the afternoon in the fine company of Erica, Angela, and Rob, followed by dinner with Anthony where we primarily discussed the very expensive submarine deal and Keating's remarks that there should be an internal ALP revolt against it. The reality is that they are ridiculously expensive, they're not designed for defensive purposes, they won't achieve their objectives (let's face it, it's to contain China), and they'll be obsolete before they're deployed. So what's the point?
