Indeed!
When I got home from work today waiting for me in the letter box was an envelope marked “To the householder”. I opened it and a piece of paper with the following upon it (complete with errors of grammar and punctuation) was enclosed.
Dear neighbour,
My Wife and I live in the neighbourhood. We have not [...]
The concept of parallel universes is much loved by science fiction writers. Among other theories of the universe that astrophysicists have developed is one where other universes exist beside ours in dimensions that we cannot see of detect. When combined with choice or chance writers use this device to create worlds similar to our own where one [...]
Two articles within days of each other, one reported by the ABC here in Australia and the other by the BBC.
The ABC article reports on a study conducted in Canberra it found that:
the increase [in peanut allergies] has come despite increased efforts by parents to avoid giving toddlers peanuts in their diet.
The author of the [...]
I recently discoverered the joys of StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is a web service where at the click of a button you are taken to random website matching a set of pre-entered interests. Account set up is painless and adding your preferences. Given my wide range of interests (everything from writing to web design and biology) I [...]
The public hysteria over severe peanut allergies raised my skeptical hackles recently. Following a discussion with one of the teacher assistants at work last week, in which she tired to argue with no clear understanding of the issues or even the scantest anecdotal data, that we should ban nuts from the school, I decided to [...]
I have so far refrained from entering the fray of the current world financial problems but having watched, listened and read over the course of the unfolding shambles I thought that it was about time that I set everybody straight with a little bit of Atomac self-opinionated self-righteousness.
By now most people are aware that the [...]
And so ends another spell of school holidays.
The holidays didn’t actually seem to be as long as they appear on paper. The six weeks seem to fly by and aside from getting all of the items on my optimistically long to-do list done I feel I should have achieved more. Particularly in terms of this [...]