Notices by Patrick Lam :tinoflag: (va2lam@mastodon.nz)

@simon_brooke @cwebber good times, that was the text for the Programming Languages and Paradigms course I took in 1996

@simon_brooke @cwebber (got me, I donated)

@mayintoronto @skinnylatte I had a really excellent fish and chips from Bullock's Bistro, was it there?

Here's another submission I made, this time on the NZ Regulatory Standards Bill. Also bad! #NZpol

https://patricklam.ca/post/20250108-submission-regulatory-standards-bill/

> This legislation has already been rejected three times. It should once again be rejected and buried.

@skinnylatte how else could one pay student debt...

@skinnylatte maybe some would have been eligible for O-1 out of grad school, but in my research group at the time we had 2/3 Europeans go back to Europe and 1 stayed in the US; Canadian (me) went back to Canada; Indian stayed in the US; 3 Americans stayed in the US...

@skinnylatte wow now that's a hot take

@onepict @hacks4pancakes @Lazarou @munin or luck, but it's hard to plan on that. I got lucky twice: with my parents moving to Canada before I was born, and with my spouse being in NZ on a work visa in 2022 (though that was also in part planned based on a hunch)

@libroraptor @skinnylatte I think the Spinoff had some article about the "traditional" Chinese food in NZ... They did also have a bunch of content about immigrant food in general.

We went on a tramp in the Remutakas, almost all accessible by public transport (we needed to get a ride to Catchpool Valley). #tramping

https://gallery.patricklam.ca/index.php?/category/1987
https://gallery.patricklam.ca/index.php?/category/1988

Photos post from November. I sorted through 3000 (!) photos and put about 1000 of them on my gallery. There are 95 of them on this page:

https://patricklam.ca/post/20241201-november-photos/

Here are some pictures from the 2022 backlog, just around 2 years ago from today.

More landscape photos from mountain day on the Overland. #hiking #mountains #landscape

Another segment on the Overland Track: day 4, through the Pelion Gap, with sidetrips to summit Mounts Ossa (Tasmanian highpoint) and Peilon East. #hiking #tasmania

https://patricklam.ca/post/20240728-overland-track-kia-ora/

@futurebird @BorisBarbour @medley56 @wmd @alexwild yeah the other advantage of working in one's field of expertise is that it's easier to spot fake authors

@goatsarah true, though at least there isn't a person actively trying to push climbers down, just gravity!

@futurebird I just found out about the old Japanese clock. Always six hours of day and six hours of night. Hour length varied.