Posted in Blogging, Life on 15 June, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve got a few half formed post ideas buzzing around my head, but the weekend’s gone by without a post, so here’s a meme (thanks for the tag third cat):
You’ve all done it by now, but here’s my answers:
What was I doing 10 years ago?
Hard to believe that 1998 really is 10 years ago. I [...]
Posted in Life on 8 June, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A recent visit from Tall Cousin, one of my numerous cousins, made me ponder how different family mythologies can be, even in a close family.
After the obligatory catchup on what we’d each been doing with ourselves since we’d last seen each other, we started exchanging family gossip. Mr Penguin and I have been trying to [...]
Posted in Feminism, Life on 9 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Well actually, my title is ironic.
A teacher of a Year 1 class in Sydney has been sacked by the education department for posing nude with her husband and talking about their sex life in the sealed section of Cleo. You can read more here. This isn’t of course, political correctness as lambasted by the right [...]
Posted in Life on 23 March, 2008 | No Comments »
Today the Penguin family went (as we often do) to Darling Harbour. Over easter, there is a circus festival. Which meant that we saw three different live shows out of the ten on offer - The Pitts, Leo Bonne, and Ace P. Freckle. They were all good. The Pitts (my favourite), especially was a seriously [...]
Posted in Life on 23 March, 2008 | No Comments »
To pass the time on my regular jogging route, I count the weddings and critique the bridesmaid’s dresses. I’m lucky that I can run through a very scenic part of Sydney, and on the weekend, I’m guaranteed at least one wedding to gawk at.
This afternoon was a bit different. Only two weddings - one Jewish and [...]
Posted in Life on 10 March, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m in New Zealand at the moment, for work, but I managed to sneak in a visit to some relatives on the way. There is a shared experience in visiting family that makes me wish I did it a bit more often.
I had dinner at Teacher aunt’s house with various other relatives. Mathematical cousin (who [...]
Posted in Economics, Life, Parenting on 25 February, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Penguin family (99% Mr Penguin) does a fair bit of volunteering around the place. But we also live in a quite affluent area, where there is a strong sense of entitlement, and willingess to pay for things. It’s interesting to watch the intersection of those two things.
Freakonomics has an interesting chapter about what happens [...]
Posted in Life on 21 February, 2008 | 4 Comments »
How risk tolerant are we as a society these days? I went to an interesting panel discussion today.
We live in a less risky society than we have in pretty much any time in history. The risk of dying prematurely, of being severely injured, of having some catastrophic event make you lose your access to food [...]
Posted in Life, Work and life on 6 February, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I said in my Unearthed post that I’ve had some great mentors. Christian was one of them.
Fifteen years ago, Christian in an act of enormous generosity (that I only recognised as such in retrospect), convinced her boss that it made sense to split her own job up and give me (a refugee from a restructure in another part of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Life, Work and life on 28 December, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Today’s book review is Flow, the Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I first came across the concept of Flow in my previous job, where it was presented to us as a concept that will help you manage people better - that you should try and manage people so that they were in a [...]
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