About Aviva
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Occupation: lazy high school student
On Weekends: Undercover ASIS Agent
Vocation: lazy writer/anything that pays in cheese
Preferred infestation: giant sentient cheezels (not strepsils)
Hobbies: eating 煎堆, and contemplating exercise after eating 煎堆
Favourite Colour: here are some clues…
That's right, it's blue.
Favourite plebiscite: n/a
Sage advice: ”life is short, art is long”
This is me holding a flowerpot.
This is what I look like after 3 1/2 hours of National Politics revision:
No, that isn’t a look of contentment. It’s the look of someone who is about to go comatose.
And this was my submission for the front cover of Stephen King’s latest.
Unfortunately those lovely people at Doubleday haven’t gotten back to me yet, but I’ll be waiting :D
May 10, 2008 at 6:13 am
i’m in love with your hair.
(and website.)
May 10, 2008 at 9:47 am
Hmmm, I wonder why…*wink wink*
May 13, 2008 at 11:46 am
Hi Aviva, Great web site. Umm I had not thought much about your hair, but on reflection - I like it. Always fresh and lots of body :-) Tip for the day - if travelling abroad best to take water purification tablets - you can never be sure when you will need them.
May 13, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Duly noted. But let’s move on from an extended discourse on my hair — I’d much rather complain about school or extol the greater virtues of camembert.
September 11, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I have a propensity for pondering Parmigiana. It’s an extremely versatile cheese, mildly erudite and, unlike Cheddar cheese, does not attract ambivalent rodents.
September 11, 2008 at 9:43 pm
“Erudite” — you mean the cheese is sentient too!?!? Like an ANU professor? I’m just glad none of my current lecturers are giant cheeses, because I wouldn’t learn a thing, just contemplate their maturity and the mouldy sheen of their coat under the theatre floodlights…
September 15, 2008 at 3:53 pm
On the subject of cheese:
In a response to my post about the LHC you said that cheese couldn’t be improved by particle physics. I have composed a Schroedinger-like thought experiment to prove otherwise:
Imagine you have a radioactive sample which has a probablilty of 0.5 of decaying enough to trigger a response from a Geiger counter in one hour.
The Geiger counter is connected (via a relay) to two motors. One of the motors will turn on if the sample has not decayed sufficiently in one hour, while the other will turn on if it has. Each of these motors has the capability of pushing one of two cheeses into a box below (in this case we’ll use a blue and a brie). This whole system is isolated and cut off from observation, and left for an hour.
Now those of us familiar with the real world would say that either the blue or the brie is in the box, but the Schroedinger equation implies that in fact both are half in the box, a superposition of the two eigenstates.
The cheese in the box is half blue and half brie until someone observes it.
Now I for one would like to try that cheese.
September 15, 2008 at 8:20 pm
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w51/natsueyuan/boom.jpg
October 10, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Forgive my erratic friend, Oskar. Medicare stopped subsidising his source of Physics in 2005