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SF author. Whisky appreciator. Cricket tragic. Tsundoku victim.
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Just a leaf on the footpath after rain…
Photo of a single leaf lying on the footpath with drops of water beading on it.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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I *think* I may finally have Linux Mint working… Hoping I can move on from Windows entirely. Some things easier than expected, some things took a bit longer…

#linux #linuxmint
Meme showing an iceberg. Above the waterline, text says “Beautiful Linux Mint Installation”. Below the waterline, text says “ Video tutorials, Linux forums, googling, invoking deities…” and “ Trial and error, rebooting, sudo-ing, changing settings I don’t really understand…”
November 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Make a book title edible:

The Catcher in the Rye Bread
Life of Pie
War and Pizza

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Words on a background of blue sand dunes: “Make a book title edible. I’ll start: Lord of the Onion Rings”
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I’d thought the practice of recipes being preceded by a rambling personal anecdote was a relatively recent one, but I was proved wrong by this account in a book that’s been in our family since 1890 (Dr. Chase‘s Third, Last and Complete Receipt Book). A story dating back to 1839…

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October 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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My September reading list. Only got through 7 books last month. Just missed out on reaching 100 for the year. 98 at the end of September, 99 today…

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1. Numbers don’t lie - Vaclav Smil 2. The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Risk and Luck - David Spiegelhalter 3. Uncanny Valley - Greg Egan 4. Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life - Beth Kempton 5. Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso - Jeremy Egner 6. For Her Eyes Only - John Birmingham 7. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? - Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
October 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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September 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Successive posts in my timeline. There might be a link, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
September 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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My 2025 reading binge continues… 12 for the month, 91 for the year. “When Breath Becomes Air” was the standout. Beautiful and heartbreaking. “Decline and Fall…” was very well written, and very sobering. Ongoing progress through Scalzi, Murderbot and Slow Horses.

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List of books read in August: 1. Lock In - John Scalzi 2. Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Neil Gaiman 3. Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe - Ken Krimstein 4. Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells 5. World War 3.1: Axis of Time - John Birmingham 6. The Last Town - Blake Crouch 7. System Collapse - Martha Wells 8. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi 9. Real Tigers - Mick Herron 10. The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction - Henry Gee 11. Head On - John Scalzi 12. World War 3.2 - John Birmingham
August 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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My mood for most of this year…
Screenshot of a tweet: Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says "Can I help you find something?" "I'm looking for the obituaries." "The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade." "Not the one I'm looking for."
August 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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August 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Not shown: 4 Billy Bookcases, non-Billy Joel posters, comfy chair, assorted crap removed from desk for this photo…
August 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Sign at a nearby cafe. Is it wrong that I think the free glass should be provided to all the other patrons?
Cafe sign: Free glass of wine with any kids meal
August 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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A PhD that can’t count…
August 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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I love how confidently wrong it continues to be…
August 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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When travelling for work, I sometimes caught the Khe Sanh Flight. Last flight from Sydney domestic airport was to Melbourne.
August 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I thought it was the other way around - they’ve eaten the checks. And the balances.
Protest poster: “They’re eating the checks. They’re eating the balances.”
August 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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The 12 books I read in July (79 for the year).

Corruptible was the most depressing (given state of the world), but very well written.

I can now see how great a job they’ve done of adapting Slow Horses for TV - Gary Oldman IS Jackson Lamb.

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Books I read in July: 1. Wayward - Blake Crouch 2. Picks and Shovels - Cory Doctorow 3. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything - Nate Silver 4. Slow Horses - Mick Herron 5. Revenge of the Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell 6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin 7. Dead Lions - Mick Herron 8. The Last Man in Europe - Dennis Glover 9. The Lost Cause - Cory Doctorow 10. Test Cricket: A History - Tim Wigmore 11. Sleeper Agent: Nemesis - John Birmingham 12. Corruptible - Brian Klaas
August 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Just read Brian Klass’ book “Corruptible” (2021). Very well put together, but increasingly depressing as you see how the real world is playing out.
Front cover of “Corruptible” by Brian Klaas.
July 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Never skip nine!!
July 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Seems like Stellan suffered the same fate as Luthen…
B&W image of half of Luthen’s face, with text where the other side of his face would be, saying “I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see.”
July 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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How is this not on the list?
July 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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A second hand bookstore in Daylesford had this lovely section in their display. (We added the Rolf Harris book with their enthusiastic blessing! 😂)
July 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Flinders Street Station at night.
July 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Someone asked me today how my novel was going. I just saw the response that sums up my feelings...

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Meme with depressed looking owl. Text: Them: how's the novel writing going? Me: [picture of the owl]
July 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Another 15 books read during June, taking my total to 67 for the year (against a goal of 50 for the entire year...).

Anything to avoid actually finishing writing my own novel!

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Books I read in June: 1. Courage is Calling - Ryan Holiday 2. The Season - Helen Garner 3. What is Life? Understand Biology in five steps - Paul Nurse 4. The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt - Ken Krimstein 5. The Siren’s Call: how attention became the world’s most endangered resource - Chris Hayes 6. The New Tao of Warren Buffett - Mary Buffett and David Clark 7. Australian Football’s 100 Year Club - Andrew Clarke 8. Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty - Adam Kucharsk 9. Ganbatte! The Ancient Japanese Art of Always Moving Forward - Albert Liebermann 10. One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This - Omar El Akkad 11. Orbital - Samantha Harvey 12. This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 13. The Shortest History of AI - Toby Walsh 14. Radicalized - Cory Doctorow 15. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM