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I thought I should remind the pillars of democracyUSA, of course, how democracy is supposed to work. Australian elections yesterday. The government... | 213 | 25 | May 22 |
Playing the magic square puzzle......with my 10 year old Vietnamese student as an exercise in numeric thinking and logic. These puzzl... | 317 | 40 | May 20 |
Hundertwasser - Wellington NZ 1970sBack then as program manager I used to visit Wellington every now and then - installing equipment, i... | 54 | 4 | May 18 |
Walking out today, I sliptthe word recalls a Chinese translation - 'slippery floor beware of landslide' seen in a hotel bathro... | 249 | 22 | May 9 |
Well the computer service attendant said"you must be the luckiest guy in the world" And in this one case I rather concurred. A rogue compu... | 114 | 6 | May 13 |
A blog judgerAnd one who blocks comments to boot! I can scarcely contain my excitement! But I won't bother cont... | 145 | 6 | May 5 |
My long time friend and student is a contralto I thinkThough I am no expert. Yet her voice is a rare pleasure. (F3) to two Fs above middle C (F5) and is... | 47 | 1 | May 4 |
Watched 'Mark Felt: The man who brought down the White house' tonight.Somehow I had missed the news of the 2005 Vanity Fair article. Interesting what the world's greates... | 82 | 1 | Apr 30 |
Christmas eve in XujiahuiSoft snowflakes falling as I ventured out shopping That Christmas eve 2018 Dodging the deliveries... | 72 | 2 | Apr 28 |
On watching the history of Nazi invasion of NorwayOf Quisling I was aware but not so deeply. Of the separation or dissolution of the Swedish/Norwegia... | 91 | 1 | Apr 28 |
Anzac day yesterday. Uncle Norman died in 1943as a sailor on the Hospital Ship Centaur of 332 just 64 survived, and Norman was not among them. No... | 61 | 0 | Apr 26 |
My Mathologer 'Feynman point in pi' t-shirts arrived yesterdayYou may notice the 999999 sequence in red occurring at the... | 78 | 2 | Apr 22 |
So USA excludes China from space cooperation but permits and depends on Russian participationBizarre isn't it. China has developed its own space stations and cooperates with Russia and Germany... | 148 | 13 | Apr 17 |
Julian Assange - late night live with Julian's father | 63 | 3 | Apr 18 |
Sadly I see she has deleted her profile again when she is the only one writing of feelingsso this is what I wanted to post:... | 214 | 5 | Apr 17 |
A little science for those here who tout ivermectinSome history presented by the wonderful Dr Karl Kruszelnicki - Great Moments In Science. The discov... | 118 | 4 | Apr 13 |
Tomorrow both new and old studentsThe first I suspect will become an old friend (how can we know that) and the other already a friend... | 174 | 8 | Apr 3 |
MY RUSSIAN STUDENT WILL drive 19 hours this week - Ufa to MoscowMakes you realise how huge Russia is. He went skiing (it is still snowing there, flying first to N... | 107 | 5 | Apr 7 |
Two times I regret not having asserted myselfHigh-school prize-giving - my ex French teacher objected to my jacket. Some junior walked up on sta... | 160 | 10 | Apr 6 |
The so called 'new atheists'I was listening to a debate on 'new atheists' tonight... The New Atheists are authors of early tw... | 1,015 | 52 | May 2020 |
So the chemistry lesson went wellvery well! a lovely personable ESL student, she understood everything except perhaps atomic weight,... | 94 | 1 | Apr 3 |
Unfinished expression.He's finished but I haven't. To arrive at rational values of the expression somewhat deeper analysi... | 183 | 8 | Apr 2 |
As vice-regent of IndiaLord Mountbatten was no hero of mine, but assassinated, murdered back then in 1979 it was indeed a s... | 101 | 0 | Mar 31 |
Interesting 'Repair' correspondenceLate last year my Lenovo all-in-one 27" touchscreen computer out of warranty started playing up with... | 108 | 0 | Mar 30 |
Solo-trekking in China - Longsheng Titian (Rice terraces) - (1)2012 I returned to Guilin, planning to go trekking for 3 days in the Longsheng rice terraces. By bus... | 268 | 5 | Dec 2020 |
Words of the day - Petrichor Geosmin and argillaceous'Petrichor' drifted through my consciousness early this morning, 4am'ish, from the faint radio - and... | 79 | 0 | Mar 29 |
Idiots who ask questions but disable comments?Well what can one say? Rhetorical questions are they?... | 373 | 23 | Mar 28 |
Four foot five, 32, from New Yorkand the photo shows up in Romancescams and at Vipergirls - native American. 4'5" really? And she l... | 308 | 5 | Dec 2020 |
Hi handsome - good morning to youHi handsome (she needs glasses for sure) 35 Good morning to you 42 How are you doing 30 I admire... | 295 | 10 | Mar 16 |
Inverse squares, pi, Euler and lighthousesEuler pops up everywhere, doesn't he!? What a genius! Here is a nice geometric demonstration of his... | 118 | 5 | Mar 27 |
Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)This is nothing political - simple high-school maths but Mathologer is a lovely youtubist! This is... | 1,285 | 163 | Mar 2 |
War as failureThis war is glaring in how it demonstrates inability to compromise, don't you think? I have little... | 185 | 10 | Mar 26 |
Completeness Consistency and DecidabilityA nice clear youtube presentation of a deep concept - Kantor Hilbert Goedel and Turing... | 77 | 0 | Mar 20 |
From my 15 year-old high-school student in Kiev this morning via SKYPE:Hello, how are you doing? I with my family moved to Central Ukraine. We moved because the village ne... | 119 | 0 | Mar 18 |
The Russian peopleHave a dreadful time ahead. I know Ukrainian people have it right now, but it is also happening day... | 99 | 0 | Mar 17 |
From Garrison KeillorBut our nation is divided as it was not in 1940. I wish Joe Biden will show mercy to individuals who... | 144 | 10 | Mar 16 |
Mass spectrometryI have to admit it is not an area of expertise for me, but that is the topic of the moment with my l... | 201 | 10 | Mar 13 |
Staggering reallyHow bad the standard of English here is The likes of dedorix we understand Speak it like using t... | 435 | 20 | Mar 7 |
Music from another world, from left fieldI always admired respected lusted for yoko! haha... | 259 | 21 | Mar 7 |
It's not his languageI am thinking But the nonsense he speaks that is stinking Someone who habitually speaks of big... | 158 | 0 | Mar 7 |
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