The short version: I went to a small-ish rally on the steps of parliament house, then navigated intimidatory security to watch… school boys and school girls ignoring the climate emergency. The longer version: Around sixty people, many aged sixty or more, gathered on the steps of the State Parliament of South Australia at 1.30 today.... Continue Reading →
Today New South Wales recorded 466 new cases of COVID. I heard the "press conference" (I will come back to those scare quotes) with the Premier, Gladys Berejiklian a while ago and a couple of things struck me, which are probably old hat to most folks, but I've seen them written anywhere else, so here... Continue Reading →
Koalas are fantastically dim. Their brains used to fill their cranium, more or less, but in the absence of predators requiring them to be able to think, the expensive (in terms of protein and energy) wetware got selected against. Koalas are therefore even more fantastically dim than they once were (when your 'prey' is eucalyptus... Continue Reading →
Hands up if you've ever changed your mind on a topic after someone called you stupid? [crickets] Yeah, me neither. I am not "stupid" (blah blah scholarships, degrees etc etc etc blah blah) but omfg have I done more (far more) than my share of stupid things. And the root cause of most of those... Continue Reading →
Let's say that there are three scenarios (all of which involve NSW losing control of the shituation - you could have other scenarios too, if you like, where Delta goes easy on us). Let's call them "same boat" "spot fires" and "deep moat" I think spot fires is most likely. Same boat In two months... Continue Reading →
So Scott Morrison, Australian prime minister, has given a blink-and-you'd-miss-it retraction of yesterday's debacle, when he repeatedly refused to apologise for the consequences of the vaccine stroll-out. Today he came out with I’m sorry that we haven’t been able to achieve the marks that we had hoped for at the beginning of this year. Of course... Continue Reading →
Not much to report! Got up, took my skipping rope, resistance bands and juggling balls to the local oval. Spent too long learning how to do two up one down (Juggling trick) and probably not enough on upper body strength. Dodged rain. Came back, worked on an article. Read some of a very funny satire... Continue Reading →
I strapped on a mere 25kgs of bricks and weights (up to 30kg next time though) and schlepped and slogged due south. Through an arboretum and then up a hill (this is the key bit) past various research facilities for wine and plant genomics etc). It got steepish when I turned around, but in future,... Continue Reading →
Actually got up early(ish), packed the relevant fitness kit in a daggy backpack and schlepped over to the lovely Unley Oval. Did some ... skipping (I know, I know) - my cardio-fitness is not what it will be. Got some upper body stuff done too. Shower and then watched "Insiders". Tried to zone out the... Continue Reading →
I've spent bits of the last two days sat in neo-Gothic wood-panelled halls listening to sages on the stage. Some of the sages have been great. Others, well, that's why I took a book, innit? This is not, after all, my first go at this rodeo. It's the "Adelaide Festival of Ideas" again, that under-funded... Continue Reading →
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