Moving Day

Yo,

I'll now be blogging over at http://blog.christopherwilcox.com. Just one of the exciting new things soon to be found at http://www.christopherwilcox.com.

Yay!

Actual Content From My Actual Life

So, whilst looking forward to heading down to Melbourne next week I send my supervisor (who's in China at the moment) an e-mail just to make sure my leave is fine.  She sends this back in response:

There has been some new development in the department you may not aware of. Originally the department agreed to hire you for our project. Recently some new rules have been set up which requires  the project to pay for the cost of hiring you. Based on the new situation, I have informed the department as from the 2nd of April that the project will not be able to afford you and they should direct you to new tasks which are not our project related.

What a load of crap!  Apparently it's all part of some battle for control of the matching funds resultant from the grant we are funded by.  Still, I've signed a five year contract with the project so if worst comes to worse I just get paid to read a novel until they decide what to do with me.  What really annoys me though is how ready my boss is to sacrifice me at the first sign of any budgetary trouble (especially when I created the projections that made it apparent in the first place).  It really makes one feel appreciated...



All job offers considered!

Papillon D'Amour

Amazing video.



(Discovered via Neil Gaiman's blog)

Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy...

Fish tank/deep fryer from a restaurant in Japan:







I'm sure this can be interpreted as a metaphor for something, aren't we all just one wrong move away from boiling oil in some sense...



(via Boing Boing)