Continuing onto the third skill highlighted in Robin Good’s article “What We Really Need to Learn to Be Successful in Life – Part 1″ is How to Distinguish Truth from Fiction. Good question. How do we? Especially at an age where it may seem that everything we read and see online may be fake. Going […]
Bits and Bobs For The Week
I finally finished my seamless jumper! This one was designed using a tutorial on “how to design your own sweater” using any yarn and using some basic mathematics to determine how much yarn I had to use and stitches to cast on. Knitting a square and then determining its tension and with a measuring tape […]
How to Read
Continuing onto the second skill highlighted in Robin Good’s article “What We Really Need to Learn to Be Successful in Life – Part 1″ is How to Read. Reading is my most favourite activity. Reading is critical thinking for me. However, it’s also HOW we read that is the most important skill and I believe […]
Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday
I had a chuckle with this post. Why? I had thought of doing the same thing but then I thought I’d only find a set that goes up to 1990 or some such…. Forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe try buying some encyclopedias to prepare for the AI-driven information apocalypse instead. — Read […]
How To Predict Consequences
“Kids nowadays don’t know the meaning of consequences,” says my husband after he’s heard yet another story on the news about wayward teenagers creating havoc in the suburbs. “Maybe because it feels as if there are none nowadays. Or they haven’t learned to understand that with each action there is a consequence – good or […]
Book Review & Life Lessons from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
How have I NOT ever read this brilliant book before?! Jane Eyre fast became one of the BEST books I have ever read in my life. There’s a handful of books that I LOVE and adore and have somehow made an impact on my life. The first 10 are the ones I would throw into […]
What We Really Need To Learn To Be Successful In Life by Robin Good
I’ve been reading the curated lists of Robin Good’s work for many years. He has been consistently sharing educational and informative links in the field of learning and education for many years. In particular, he introduced me to curation and the many different platforms that I could use to curate information sources. Here is a […]
Knitting in Public Day
June 10th is Knitting In Public Day and this year, Linda, librarian of Caulfield Library and expert crafter organised an afternoon of knitting for our local community. So I gathered a couple of friends from my knitting and ukulele groups (who then invited theirs) and headed down to enjoy knitting and chatting for a few […]
My Brother Jack Fiction Prize
I’m sitting in the peace and quiet of our local library. With my jacket and beanie on as it’s freezing outside, I found a book that may help me write my next story. I’m a hopeless creative writer. Abysmally hopeless. I need to learn to write not as myself but through a character. My problem […]
Another Unsuccessful Job Application
Argh. I’ve been trying to get a casual or contract role in a library since late last year but to no avail. The roles I’m going for are helping customers with finding books; returning books to shelves and general admin roles. Today I received yet another rejection. Luckily, some time ago I had spoken with […]
New Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry
Here’s a new book review of a book that many people are reading at the moment. Highly enjoyable and immersive story.
Stuff I Write in My Personal Diaries
Relax. It’s nothing exciting. I’m in my 50s and life has become a tad less thrilling. Today this is what I wrote and cracked up with myself. Emily is my niece. If anything, my diaries are random collections of thoughts that I would otherwise not express publicly. Mostly self deprecating or self loathing but almost […]
Hand Talk
This week in our french class, I submitted a video for general discussion. It’s about the gestures that the French do and how I got nearly all of them WRONG. In the video, the host says that in order to learn the French language, you also need to understand the gestures they use. If you’re […]
New Video Book Review: Man-Made by Tracey Spicer
If you haven’t already heard about artificial intelligence then you may have been living under a rock but trust me, if you could move over a bit, I’d like to come in there under with you too. This book is a collection of chapters based of research and interviews on how technology today is using […]
Earthquake In Melbourne
Early this morning around 1:30am I was awakened by a tapping sound just outside our bedroom door. Andrew wasn’t in bed as he had just returned from a night watching a live band in a dodgy part of town. He was in the lounge room having a quiet cuppa before he went to bed. As […]
Competition Frenzy
About once every couple of months (or thereabouts), I sit down at my computer and spend a few hours submitting for competitions. Usually I do random searches of local or national competitions and they could be anything. Health and beauty products, cash, home accessories, fashion, garden, cars, travel, anything really. As I don’t play lotto, […]
Wuthering Heights
I’m reading Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and getting my fair share of the Yorkshire Moors. A book to read on these dark, cold, windy Melbourne nights. But geez, already, Cathy and Heathcliff! I have to get a hold of myself and rethink how I approach this book every night as I reach for it. Cathy […]
Democratic Inputs to AI
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law. — Read on openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai *********OpenAI isn’t really open. It’s actually owned by Microsoft who bought it a […]
Hotel Bars
When I stay home all day, there are times I put on the big screen, YouTube videos of big bands like the Glen Miller Band or Jazz Bar music. I then sit back on my husband’s chair, (it swivels around), with my feet on the stool then close my eyes and just let my feet […]
Artificial Intelligence For Good
I’ve been going down the rabbit warren of AI and realised that I’m reading and seeing more of the bias in these machines versus the good they can do in the world. After all, most of us are using them in our everyday lives just to function through our devices, calendars, maps etc. I wanted […]