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(I Am With Name)

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Anthony Smith

I'm an educator and published researcher in Sydney, with various job descriptions and duties depending on who I'm working for and what they want me to do. Most of my professional and personal pursuits are in education and other scholarly endeavours. My academic background is in Mathematics and Physics. I've been in various lines of work and my works are varied accordingly. If you got here via a link with the subtitle "I Am With Name" and are wondering what that might be from, look here.

There are three places to go from here. Below is news of my most recent exploits, updated about once a year. If you'd like to see some of what I can do, I have a portfolio of sorts here. And there is also a fairly long page here about me - pretty self-indulgent, really. Nothing else to see on this site . . . or at least, nothing you can see. I can be reached via astroant@hotmail.com .



Row-by-Row and Columns left-to-right: R1C1: me in 2017, R1C2: sitting in an audience at SCU Sydney in 2018 (on the right is Dr Jeff Zerbst: mild-mannered academic manager by day, guerrilla theatre-maker by night), R1C3: a panel from this xkcd comic, R2C1: me in 2011, R2C2: at Manning Bar (Sydney Uni) in 2006, and R2C3: the title image from my MSc thesis. And the background image for this page? That's a procedurally-generated stellar background (artwork for a computer game remake, of Star Control) that I wrote the code for - here's what it looks like.



Recent News

2023: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (gotta wax these guys sometimes)

2022: How Does the Grass Grow? (thoughts on Ukraine)

2021: Sunday (I get infected, but not with the obvious suspect)

2020: Cat People (me failing, a few years ago)

These posts as a soundtrack



Places I Like
xkcd, the webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
Explain xkcd: it's 'cause I'm dumb.
Crimson Dark: it's pretty, it's got spaceships and abuses the papyrus font! What more could you want?
Pushing Ahead of the Dame - David Bowie, song by song.
My raja, The Backwards Traveller.
Bowie, Indian Ringneck - he's a RINGNECK, and his name is BOWIE.
Free Software Foundation.
Star Control: Pages of Now and Forever - in this place it's always 1999.
Star Control: Ultronomicon - The galaxy teems with threatening monsters. May the Ultron be with you.
Doom.



And me? You mean me, personally? How nice of you to ask!
astroant@hotmail.com