2009.07.27 00:00:58 EDT Of cabbages and king prawns Went to the Asian Food Market today, and realized how much I love summer and cheap produce. It was a quick twenty-dollar shopping trip. But the most impressive of all was the Cabbage! Napa cabbage wa
2009.07.24 13:09:43 EDT There are some things money can't buy. For a visa, there's MasterCard How much I am spending on applying for a Tier 2 (General) visa to Britain: Visa application fee: $424.00 Return postage: $12.00 (for them to return my Diploma and other originals of supporting docume
2009.07.07 11:22:25 EDT GDP ≠ economic performance Two Ph.D. candidates, Bob and Joe, in the economics department often spent their afternoons debating economic theory. In preparing their dissertations, they consistently tried to outdo each other and
2009.07.03 22:41:26 EDT Valentine for the relativity geek This just came randomly into my head (well, while I am trying to think up a T-shirt design). A (really geeky) valentine's day card for your favourite relativity geek: Rμν - ½ R gμν