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The two LeunigsI know Michael's cartoons very well, unmistakable style and sharp wit, and as it happens today I cam... | 133 | 1 | Feb 5 |
Australian writer Yang Hengjun given suspended death sentence in ChinaNot long after Australian Cheng Lei was released from Chinese prison, convicted of obscure spying of... | 173 | 3 | Feb 5 |
Indonesian Presidential Elections 2024Joko Widodo's two-term presidency finishes shortly. It was relatively uneventful, apart from refusa... | 137 | 0 | Feb 5 |
BRICS and replacing the USD as the global currencySatyajit Das on de-globalisation, détente, & de-coupling from the American dollar This is a thinker... | 270 | 10 | Feb 4 |
Bricks - and a piece of comic geniusSomeone, several someones were speaking of bricks in one of the threads, and it reminded me of that... | 128 | 0 | Feb 3 |
The Reith Lectures 2023 - The future of democracyThe Reith lectures are deeply thoughtful thought provoking lectures given each year by great thinker... | 166 | 2 | Feb 1 |
The revealed history of Australian Invasion and WarsAt school in the 50s there was never a word of the wars and murders of the first people. Not a word... | 184 | 1 | Jan 28 |
YAMP - yet another 'maths' problemAn encounter with Feynman, hey! All the A's are shown since no '.' is A We see at on... | 205 | 6 | Jan 20 |
Pretty well spot on.... | 297 | 8 | Jan 20 |
So Fargo season 5 is under wayNo high expectations since series descend season by season, but this has the same quirky feel and mu... | 305 | 1 | Nov 22 |
Introducing Eddie Woo - MisterWootubeHeard of him? Watched any of his maths wootubes? He's a famous enthusiastic teacher, originally Ma... | 215 | 5 | Jan 16 |
Time for a little something from my favourite chanteuseUsually (she tells me) she buys her clothes and accessories from Vinnies, St Vincent de Paul, but no... | 216 | 0 | Jan 14 |
So (some of) you want this man as your president (again)Incoherent vulgar crude rant. Don't like Meidastouch? But it is Trump speaking. Ye... | 764 | 20 | Nov 20 |
Someone was pleading with me to post another maths thread - so here we goFrom mathologer, along with numberphile and agadmator one of my go-to threads... | 259 | 4 | Jan 10 |
Word of the day (for me at least) Phallocratic!(Beauf, short for beau-frère, or “brother-in-law,” signifies “an uncultivated, vulgar, narrow-minded... | 264 | 3 | Jan 9 |
The Handshake - Philip Adams Late Night Livewatching, no listening to this, the famous moment when Mandela shook the hand of Pienaar at Rugby Wo... | 163 | 0 | Jan 9 |
In a pig's ear'In a pig's ear' I quite lately hear Is disputed and reputed to be a pig's eye but nonetheless y... | 538 | 2 | Jan 8 |
Valley Forge speechWhat a sick dot dot dot... Well there's the first front foot speech in the campaign, and high time!... | 378 | 13 | Jan 5 |
Books that changed my thinking back then through the 60sJohn dos Passos stands out for his USA trilogy, although I guess I read his entire bookshelf. I hav... | 182 | 0 | Jan 7 |
Where are the CS South Africans here?Enjoying the cricket against India perhaps? All out for 55, but then the last 6 Indian batsmen all... | 252 | 1 | Jan 3 |
two hundred hack attempts per day so far this yearI had occasion to login to my microsoft 365 account today, needing to renew expired payment method,... | 352 | 5 | Jan 3 |
A sticker I saw, walking home: Stand up for Palestine!And I noted my reaction, taken aback... What? Stand up for a people which seeks supports and foster... | 591 | 8 | Dec 10 |
uva uvam vivendowas all I could make out on the sign tied to the wagon - Lonesome Dove - something like 'grape by li... | 228 | 0 | Jan 1 |
Avogadro was a pretty weird looking dude, strongly reminds me of a crow, those eyes.But how did they calculate 'Avogadro's number' to such precision? Surely no other universal constan... | 452 | 3 | Dec 3 |
Twin Sisters of Kyoto - the sense of 'Japaneseness' in post-war fictionI read quite a lot of Japanese fiction, mid-20th century, Kobo Abe, Soseki and Kawabata in particula... | 270 | 0 | Dec 19 |
Indulgent nostalgia - Joni Mitchell 2022The Robbie Robertson dedication led to a dip into memory and Joni Mitchell now recovered sufficientl... | 235 | 1 | Dec 18 |
Disappearing blog? Scorcese Killers of the flower moonI watched this tedious long-winded film with Di Caprio, de Niro and Lithgow - 210 minutes of it - wi... | 335 | 1 | Dec 18 |
Random recollections - pigs in a blanketCirca 1976-7 I think - we landed in San Francisco and then by Pinto to San Jose, Monterey Carmel Bi... | 325 | 2 | Dec 13 |
Oliver Stone's "The Untold History of the United States"Came across this recently and it is fascinating to see alternative presentation of facts, with histo... | 417 | 2 | Dec 11 |
A tale of two chickensNot, not Dickens - Chickens! The first chicken I ever had and another later - neither memorable for... | 268 | 1 | Oct 17 |
Contacted here by a Palestinian refugee now in EgyptA young woman from Gaza, seeking just conversation and apparently above board, has contacted me here... | 517 | 8 | Dec 3 |
Change in social customMy suburban street is dead straight, and runs over two modest hills, around 100 houses, last number... | 354 | 4 | Dec 2 |
Online romantic and Bitcoin scamSo she contacted me in wechat early October, Late forties very presentable. She was in Perth, she... | 625 | 16 | Dec 2 |
So Kissinger gone...A figure prominent in my memory of the late sixties, and through the seventies whose finger had so c... | 375 | 3 | Nov 30 |
Maori or Moriori - which is the myth? Evidence based science vs mythologyReproduced because CS member prefers fiction or myth to fact Quote from an 'enlightened' CS member... | 417 | 13 | Oct 15 |
At 2am or so it was 7 for 90-something, chasing 291ODI World cup 2023 Aus vs AFG - all over (bar the shouting), so off to bed. Yet another humiliation... | 361 | 6 | Nov 7 |
Whistling past the graveyardThis is from quite a while ago, but I came across it just today: "Whistling past the graveyard": Ju... | 236 | 0 | Nov 18 |
Thinking back to the defeat of HillaryWell it left me then with the taste of regret. Not for the loss of HC but for the incoming of that... | 1,041 | 49 | Nov 5 |
The Aurora - Australis this time, not BorealisSolar storm produces stunning aurora australis along WA's southern coast, Wheatbelt | 283 | 3 | Nov 7 |
NomadlandA sobering movie, the second thought-provoking movie by Chloe Zhao I've watched (previously The Ride... | 424 | 5 | Nov 4 |
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