Persona

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the [...]

Way Too Many Cat Jokes

Way too many cat jokes… Did you hear about the cat who drank 5 bowls of water? He set a new lap record. Did you hear about the cat who swallowed a ball of wool? She had mittens. What is the difference between a cat and a comma? One has the paws before the claws [...]

BBC Quiz of the Week

A quiet week here. It is amazing what a noise the generators make and it is only when they stop that you realise how loud they can be. Of course the down side is that when they stop, everything else stops. Internet, A/C, telephones, TV, lights and stoves. Even the diesel bowser stops working. Even [...]

Not for young people

Because they won’t understand it. Burgled from Miss Cellinia

Sky Watch Friday

Last summer, bushfires all around and the sun was setting on yet another excessively hot day. The sunset somehow made up for the discomfort of the day.

Hey, Arachniphobes

burgled from Phil

Cthulhu, Eater of Souls

Close to a tributary of an ocean lives a Vancouveritess. She has read a book. It was written by one H P Lovecraft and was called the Dunwich Horror. Her greatest hope is to one day become a victim of the other-dimensional horror described in that book. Possibly, in a previous existence, she was a [...]

Terry Pratchett and the Existentialists

From the incomparable Randall at xkcd

Beaver; “Here’s looking at you, kid.”

Giant Water Slide

I don’t know if this is a WIN for success or a FAIL for imagining it! Thanks, Mick

Thought for the Day

Well, it is possibly the only thought I shall have this week. Actually it is not my thought. It is a thought which flashed across the mind of Ambrose Bierce. So I thought I would share it with you. MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities [...]

What Kind of Book Are You?

You Are Fantasy / Sci Fi You have an amazing imagination, and in your mind, all things are possible. You are open minded, and you find the future exciting. You crave novelty and progress. Compared to most people, you are quirky and even a bit eccentric. You have some wacky ideas. And while you may [...]

Grandma’s Life

Tuesday Tune

With imminent power outages, two out of three generators being offline and officially NBG, I am doing my Tuesday posts while I can. I only hope my Wednesday posts will be able to be posted. So it is currently my Monday and this is oh so appropriate on so many levels.

All That Effort

I was wandering along the beach front of Port Hedland enjoying a rare sight of a large water body when I spotted a guy fishing off a jetty. He was facing me and I thought I would stop a while and focus my camera on his line. Just in case he got lucky. The way [...]