Robert "Bud" Talbot, PhD
International Travel is Interesting During a Pandemic My wife has trained my daughters and I well in the use of the word “interesting.” She tells us that it is what to say when you don’t know what else to say, or when you don’t necessarily want to call something out as good or bad. Maybe […]
I often take the daily things for granted at home. I think we all do. Stuff like cooking, laundry, sleeping, shopping, getting around town, etc. One of the things I was really looking forward to on sabbatical was re-discovering these daily things in a different context. We’re starting to figure that out, so I feel […]
Like many people, I want to learn and use some new skills while on sabbatical. One of those skills on my list is writing in Markdown. According to the original developer John Gruber, Markdown is both a plain text formatting syntax and a software tool. I’ve been using Markdown for quite some time in R […]
How much stuff does a family of four need to take for 6 months in Australia? “Need” is the operative word here. Let’s just say that we didn’t want to buy anything we already had, and we had a BIG baggage allowance: 2 x 23 kg checked bags + 1 carry-on + 1 “personal” item […]
Well, the sabbatical has finally started. I’ve sent my first “I can’t attend that meeting because I’m on sabbatical” email (which felt great) and I’m getting ready to invoke the out-of-office email autoreply. Two years of planning have set us up for this great adventure. It is a great privilege to have a paid sabbatical, […]