fredbassett

Reading I'm still reading Frazer Hines' Evil of the Daleks but I also started reading Modern Control Systems because I really need to know more about Control Systems particularly since, via a convoluted set of circumstances, I've inherited a PhD student who has papers full of phrases like "Lyapanov Equations" and I wouldn't know a Lyapanov equation if it introduced itself in the street. I am currently stuck on the first equation in the book which describes a spring damper system. I do not understand this equation and I've been returning to it and intervals for three days and have consulted wikipedia. I think I need a more basic "modelling physical systems using differential equations" book before I move on to control systems.

Listening Starship Alexandria in which Adrian Tchaikovsky and Emma Newman (two authors I have not read, but intend to) review books and films that I often haven't read. In this case Piranesi which sounds interesting but not so much so that I think it will earn a place on the to read pile.

Watching I am still snowed under by marking, so still nothing.

Reading: I've just started Frazer Hines' novelisation of Evil of the Daleks. Given he acknowledges Mike Tuckers and Steve Cole (purveyors of fiction), I do wonder how much of a hand he actually had in it. Good so far, but I'm only just starting Chapter 2.

Listening: I've been listening through the Missing Episodes Podcast. These started out really good but the one I just listened to on The Highlanders felt self-indulgent and over-long. Sufficiently so that I wondered once or twice if the presenters were drunk.

Watching: I was in Cyprus last week, and I'm now catching up and marking, so not much. Before I left we were watching Masterchef. B. is in Japan so it will be four weeks until we pick that up again...