For anyone interested, we’ll be going to see Edge of Tomorrow at 11:10am at Hoyts Melbourne Central beforehand, and we’ll grab some lunch too. Meet out the front of the cinemas at 11:00 if you’d like to come.
Maelin
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If you’re interested in carpooling, the best place to discuss it would be either on the Facebook event page (search for our “Melbourne Less Wrong” group if you aren’t a member) or on the Google Group post (again, search for our “Melbourne Less Wrong” group)
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In the description in the centre of the page, it says “Note: Due to its abundant use of math, this package excludes the article The Quotation is not the Referent.” but then right next to that, number 6 in the list of Included Articles, is “The Quotation is not the Referent”.
Also, is it possible to get a preview?
I expect to be there.
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Sure.
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I expect to attend.
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Because the 4th of January is a time when many people might be away on holiday or otherwise unavailable, it would probably be worth getting a sense for numbers beforehand to avoid . If you expect to attend, please let us know (no commitment!) either in a comment here (and get a free upvote for your trouble), or on the mailing list group, or via some other suitable channel.
I’ll start off by saying I expect to attend (~75% probability)
My father told me about someone he knew when he was working as a nurse at a mental hospital, who tried killing himself three times with a gun in the mouth. The first two times he used a pistol of some sort—both times, the bullet passed between the hemispheres of his brain (causing moderate but not fatal brain damage), exited through the back of his head, and all the hot gases from the gun cauterised the wounds.
The third time he used a shotgun, and that did the job. For firearm based suicide, I think above the ear is a safer bet.
For 9 days now I have set up my computer as a makeshift standing desk, using a pair of $10 Ikea coffee tables on top of my actual desk, and two $3 rubber mats and some cardboard to stand on. I have an appallingly sedentary lifestyle and often catch myself sitting at my desk with a terrible slumped posture, so I’m hoping to catch back problems before they occur, and also exert a bit more energy just day-to-day.
Each day my feet take a little longer to begin hurting, but they still hurt a lot by bed time. I have to take a few breaks to the couch to watch TV through the day to get by. I am planning to set up something more serious so I can put a stool at the desk and sit down from time to time without disrupting my usual activities (at the moment I don’t own a stool, and there’s nowhere for my legs to fit under the desk in any case).
Currently the only things preventing me from taking the desk down right now and just waiting until I have sorted a better solution are 1) my feet don’t start to hurt until the end of the day, when I usually can’t be bothered rearranging everything, and 2) I’m worried that without the driving force of aching feet every day I won’t feel compelled to go through with arranging a better solution.
If you happen to be in Melbourne while you’re in Australia, see if you can come to one of our twice-per-month regular meetups!
Sorry everyone! We got the address wrong. It’s actually 328 Little Lonsdale St, not Little Collins. Sorry! Give me a call (number above) if you’re lost.