Rebecca Black is OK! [Weekly Head Voices #56]
Probably the most brainless song on the whole of YouTube must be “Friday” (don’t click that link, please) by Rebecca Black. At one stage, she’s seriously singing about leaving home and going to the bus...
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Coffee addiction potpourri. [Weekly Head Voices #57]
Yes boys and girls, I was keeping back writing that Rebecca Black post, but now it’s 4 days later and I can let ‘er rip again, like I promised. This week’s post sort of reflects my week 37: Chock-full...
View ArticleTime-traveling Danube Dubstep in my BBQ [Weekly Head Voices #58]
The title is pretty close to pure gobbledygook, but that’s what you get when the foundations of physics seem to have been rattled every so slightly. Let’s first take a gander at this gentleman, pointed...
View ArticleHell Yeah! [Weekly Head Voices #59]
We kick off this week’s edition of the WHV with Ben Goldacre giving his TED talk on “Battling bad science” at 180 km/h: He’s fabulous, isn’t he? If you haven’t done so already, you should really read...
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Happiness slingshot. [Weekly Head Voices #61]
Make sure you won’t be disturbed for the next 2 minutes and 57 seconds, and then focus your full attention on this marvelous YouTube clip: Yes people, there are apparently some brilliant human beings,...
View ArticleYou have beautiful ize. [Weekly Head Voices #62]
I completely lack the genes that usually cause human males to have a thing for cars, but I do love Top Gear. This trailer for a fictional 60s detective show, made by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and...
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Astropsychonaut. [Weekly Head Voices #63]
I recently came across this hauntingly beatiful time-lapse view of Earth made from the ISS (the International Space Station! Yes, we have one!): Watching this, my nostalgia flared up. You see, I’ve...
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Rhythm of the Night. [Weekly Head Voices #66]
(This post has an extremely high slightly-insane-rambling index (SIRI). You have been warned.) The rhythm of life I love Unkle. Here’s the introduction to their song Back and Forth: Click here to view...
View ArticleDear Academia, I hope we can still be friends.
After many great years in academia, I finally decided in October of last year to resign from my position as tenured assistant professor. As of February of this year, I proudly walk the earth as an...
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Just start.
We’ve all been there. Faced with a daunting and complicated project (thesis, book, building a house, the list goes on), or a whole bunch of projects, you start suffering from an acute sort of brain...
View ArticleDon’t dream big.
For months I’ve been walking around with this idea in my head. I was planning to turn it into a blog post titled “On not scaling”. It was going to be about deliberately choosing focus over bandwidth in...
View Article5 months as an independent engineer: lessons learnt.
In February of this year, I left academia (read more about my reasons in the accompanying blog post) to start a new life as an independent engineer, or simply freelancer, if you will. In this post, I...
View ArticleOn leaving the Netherlands
Moving consists of leaving one place and going to another. This post is about the first part. It’s really not easy to write, but I would like for people to understand that the leaving part of this...
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Back in South Africa
(I was supposed to publish this around the start of February, but then life happened, and I didn’t get to quite finish it.) For the first time in the three weeks after having arrived back on South...
View ArticleWeekly Head Voices #70: Patterns in the sand.
(I just deliberately deleted the draft I was working on. It was not the best pattern.) I want you to read this quote by Richard Dawkins, taken from the God Delusion: Think of an experience from your...
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Surviving Autumn in the Cape: Lourensford Harvest Market
Six jumping castles for the little ones, beautiful food and Lourensford wine for the adults. Lourensford Harvest Market is on every Sunday at Lourensford Wine Estate. We might just make it through...
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What a country!
Exactly ten minutes after having made a single discreet phone call, a truck arrives at one’s house with thousands of pieces of lovingly chopped braai wood. The amount of one’s choosing is then lovingly...
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Dolphins on the R44
On Sunday, April 10, 2016, as if the day was not already perfect enough, we were super fortunate to see a pod of dolphins speeding along in the sea right next to the R44 coastal road. The sight was so...
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The 2016 to 2017 transition post.
Following the rich tradition over here of year transition posts, having just rounded off a brilliant outdoorsy take-your-mind-off-of-everything vacation with friends, and also inspired by wogan.blog’s...
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The 2017 to 2018 transition post.
My innermost circle of humans, on an exceptionally windy hill in St Francis. Does anything still work around here? So much dust… Is this thing on? Testing… 123… tesssting… sound check sound check. OH...
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