OK, so while the vandals are playing some weird game on another thread, I suppose I better tell the rest of you what's happening.
1. I'm applying for a real job, and another postdoc.
2. I have two conference papers to prepare and deliver, and travel to and from (including what looks like a very wet and cold motorbike ride to Armidale NSW this Friday).
3. I'm preparing to teach cognitive science to undergraduates. The poor wee bastards...
4. I'm responding to reviewers' comments on a grant application.
5. I'm writing other stuff.
Simultaneously. As I am by nature Very Lazy, this means I have to fit all this is around my normal procrastination schedule.
I'll blog sporadically, but not much until early August. So sorry.
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You know about the Hobbit. Not The Hobbit (TM) but the hominid from Flores, Indonesia. Mike Morwood was a key investigator in that research (though he did lots of other research as well).
He was born ...
I object! I'm not a Vandal, I'm a Visigoth.
You could appoint a temporary surrogate.
I hope it all goes as you wish it to.
Don't be silly! How many undersized, albino, Australian, silverback biologists do you think there are in the world?
May the Force be with you, Obi-Wilk, in your quest for enlightenment, intellectual fulfilment and employment profitable enough to keep you in beer and Pavlovas for the rest of your life.
That should of course be:
undersized, albino, Australian, silverback philosophers of biology!
With apologies, a discognitive slip of the keyboard so to speak.
Not enough. If there were more, we wouldn't be stuck playing Mornington Crescent here.
Bob
P.S. Good luck with all you applications, John. Oh, teach the undergrads cognitive dissonance. More fun, and more useful if they want to make lots of money.
Can we inquire what you mean by a real job? What's wrong with the current one? If you change your job for a better paid/higher status one isn't ther the possibility that, it being more demanding, you won't have time left for blogging?... Your gain, our loss... perhaps...
The job he has is ending; it is grant-based IIRC.
Yes, this is a fixed term postdoc that finishes sometime between the end of February and early May next year (because I'm teaching this semester my grant is being extended accordingly, but I don't know by how much just yet).
After that it's a factory job and I become one of those "independent scholars" you keep seeing post drivel to Usenet. I can't even sell the daughter to cover costs any more - she escaped and became an adult while I wasn't looking.
And I'm NOT undersized... not even for a silverback.
Me, I'm on the lower end of the scale...
That's just for the cliché.. I'm a fully fattened up silverback and don't you forget it. Or I'll fall on you...
What you need is to come up with some sort of perenially popular pop philosophy tome that will keep you comfortably for the rest of your life, something like Blogs and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Alternatively, British humourist Alan Coren was told that the two subjects that were surefire guarantees of literary success were pets and sports - which led him to write Golfing for Cats.
Anyone have any other ideas?
"I was flattened by an irate Aussi albino silverback!" reads like the headline from a Murdoch newspaper.
How many names from the world of gutter journalism can one post on a blog and be one hundred percent certain that all the Brits, Aussis and Americans reading it will instantly recognise the worm in question?
THE PHILOSOPHIZING SILVERBACK: Living Life the Natural Way.
Oh, in case I forget - you might try contacting Mick McCarthy. I was chatting to him a couple of weeks ago, and he was saying that they were interested in talking more to philosophers.
I'll try and remember to email him tomorrow...
Bob