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Well, today has been of the random.
Got into lab and found internet/internal network was dead. So got on with non-internet-dependent stuff, after my trip to get coffee revealed sticky notes already stuck to the computer tech's office door and when I passed him in a corridor, he had three frustrated-looking people following him.
Lab meeting was an odd one, a enormously long review paper written by a cognitive psychologist collaborating with a philosopher, so was sort of artsy. Was about humans, but we discussed if and how the theories could be applied to bees, and various other things. Lasted 2.5 hours. A couple of the lab members left early as they had other committments. So partway through I realised the sex ratio had swung towards 5:1 in favour of males. Then I realised I didn't actually mind and had only just noticed. So carried on.
Halfway through the afternoon, the IT tech appeared in our lab and informed us that to give us our internet back he had to reconfigure our computers himself. I spied on him doing one of the other computers and realised he was just switching from the normal DHCP they use here to static IP addresses like we used back in Cambridge. This seemed very odd, as it happened totally out of blue with no warning, and judging from the apparent harriedness of the IT tech, he hadn't been expecting it either (if he had, presumably he would have warned us we'd lose almost a day's worth of internets).
My room is still on the QMUL DHCP, so it looks like I'll be changing the LAN settings on the laptop twice a day. Fun.
I also agreed to take on some extra marking as the other PhD students in the lab are much busier and more stressed than me. Didn't really want more marking, especially as this set of scripts are significantly poorer than the last, but I can spare the time and they can't really. Oh, and of course, it does pay...
Got into lab and found internet/internal network was dead. So got on with non-internet-dependent stuff, after my trip to get coffee revealed sticky notes already stuck to the computer tech's office door and when I passed him in a corridor, he had three frustrated-looking people following him.
Lab meeting was an odd one, a enormously long review paper written by a cognitive psychologist collaborating with a philosopher, so was sort of artsy. Was about humans, but we discussed if and how the theories could be applied to bees, and various other things. Lasted 2.5 hours. A couple of the lab members left early as they had other committments. So partway through I realised the sex ratio had swung towards 5:1 in favour of males. Then I realised I didn't actually mind and had only just noticed. So carried on.
Halfway through the afternoon, the IT tech appeared in our lab and informed us that to give us our internet back he had to reconfigure our computers himself. I spied on him doing one of the other computers and realised he was just switching from the normal DHCP they use here to static IP addresses like we used back in Cambridge. This seemed very odd, as it happened totally out of blue with no warning, and judging from the apparent harriedness of the IT tech, he hadn't been expecting it either (if he had, presumably he would have warned us we'd lose almost a day's worth of internets).
My room is still on the QMUL DHCP, so it looks like I'll be changing the LAN settings on the laptop twice a day. Fun.
I also agreed to take on some extra marking as the other PhD students in the lab are much busier and more stressed than me. Didn't really want more marking, especially as this set of scripts are significantly poorer than the last, but I can spare the time and they can't really. Oh, and of course, it does pay...
