Posts by Kate Hannah
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to stever@cs.waikato.ac.nz,
absolutely Steve - limited term projects and returns for NZ Inc. give short shrift to the long tail of much research. Though I was delighted that Marsden gave Brian Boyd funding for his Popper bio this year - that's been years in the making. Whenever I work on Marsden applications with people, I'm astounded and awed by all the fantastic good ideas they have - most of which, of course, never get funded and thus the research never takes place ....
And you'll be pleased to know that I'm formerly Kate Apperley (the elder daughter) & thus know a little about the language/logic in CS of which you speak ....
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to John Armstrong,
I - without wanting to put words in Bart's mouth - think he may be using 'science' as a synonym for 'blue skies research', as many of my colleagues do. I'm a historian, or at least was trained as one, and have an interdisciplinary literature/history masters, so am equally committed to the increased funding of all blue skies research. (Marsdenable, I'd call it)
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Bart Janssen,
+2 (Islander speaks wisely). Good ideas are the only thing that can transform - and we can't know which are the truly great ideas until quite a lot further down the track .....
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Muse: Thirteen Ways of Looking at A…, in reply to Rob Hosking,
Try teaching both the WCW and 13 ways to hung-over first years with flatmate issues.
My quibble has always been the coldness of the plums - I can't imagine that being nice - in the same way that strawberries cold from the fridge are flavourless. Perhaps its that crucial historic term icebox, which, in all likelihood, was never actually cold, but rather, cool.
I'm actually using 'The Red Wheelbarrow' this afternoon to teach Business School academics about writing ..... because, in fact, the poem itself depends upon the barrow, rain, and chickens.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Danielle,
Love it! You're saying what I'd love to say.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Russell Brown,
+1 .
I'm planning on revisiting that first line every now & then.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Baaaa haaaa haaaa. PBRF is the cause of my radio silence this afternoon. If only talking about PBRF met the PBRF definition of research. I'd be set.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Readers - above all indeed. in my experience, people I like seem to have eclectic books and wide-ranging interests ....
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Oh and the other big hit - with all my kids - my old and tattered copy of The Silver Sword. War, escape, reunion - what more could you want in a story? I have read it aloud to all three of them, and we have it as an audiobook. (I'm now making the link to why I write about imagining the past - particularly the Holocaust - could it be my youthful exposure to The Silver Sword?)
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780099439493?redirected=true&gclid=CITpuKuCiqwCFdAEQAod8hf4qg
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Pullman has certainly been a big hit in our house - Mr 9 is also a huge Rick Riordan fan - not as elegantly crafted as Aiken or Pullman but the mix of mythology and action and history very compelling. There's nothing that warms the cockles of this mother's heart quite as much as watching one of the kids read obsessively for days beacuse they have a great book. Miss 7 loves old books, preferably leather bound with engraving, and we scour op shops for beautiful editions of old classics for her to add to her collection. She's reading Nurse Matilda, Edward Ardizzone at present in a gorgeous 1950s edition - and is amazed that it's the story of Nanny McPhee ....