I am up in Sydney for Christmas, and if you are in Melbourne and reading this, please dont rob my house. All the good gadgets are with me anyhow so there is nothing worth lifting.
I am up here to spend Christmas with my mother and our extended family. This is the first time in [...]
I am flying in the face of my mate Scott on this opinion, and those who read his sensational blog will realise that this is not a wise maneuver. Scott is an ex-Marine, or Navy Seal or something. He is 3 parts bad temper, 2 parts foul mouth, 4 parts pig headedness with [...]
Being one of the un-mutilated, and having gone through the process of being teased about it at school only to go on to discover having some additional skin is actually a GOOD thing, imagine my horror at the recent news that circumcision actually [...]
Land-a-goshen
Where has my head been at?
For the last few months I have been very intermittent in my blogging, and I am sure that my loyal reader is sad over my absence. Mostly cause she calls me up and demands I start again. Initially my distraction was rebuilding [...]
Last weekend I went on a get away from Sydney with Paul. We drove down the south coast of New South Wales visiting Jarvis Bay and stopping for the night at Batemans Bay . Both were really gorgeous [...]
Not something you hear about every day, the creation of a new island, but its going on right now. Somewhere in the Pacific, inside Tonga's Territorial waters, a new volcanic island is forming.
A passing boat, the Maiken †, came across a field of floating pumice [...]
micrology
[fr. Gk mikrolog�a : minute discussion, frivolity]
/mahy KROL uh jee/
1) attention to petty details or distinctions;
nitpicking
"Micrology registers the occurence of thought as the unthought that remains to be thought in the decline of grand philosophical thought." – David Rodowick, Reading the Figural, or Philosophy After [...]
The Cole Enquiry handed down its report yesterday and it was tabled in Parliament.
The gnashing of teeth from the opposition was audible here in Melbourne as the Government and its Ministers were exonerated of any criminal charges. AWB and it leadership on the other hand have been dealt a stinging [...]
Earlier this year our fearless Prime Minister, J'Ho, set up a panel of scientists, engineers and nuclear policy advisor's to look into the prospects of nuclear energy in Australia. Led by former nuclear physicist, and one time Government Employee/CEO of Telstra Dr Ziggy Switkowski the "Nuclear Task force" was charged with examining nuclear [...]
After a bit of a break, Wørd of the week returns, with a word that could have been crafted just for me:
Schizothemia
from. Gk schizo-, from schizein, to split + thema, theme]
A digression by means of a long reminiscence;
repeated interruptions of a conversation by the speaker
introducing other topics.
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