Briefly 16 Feb 2009 I finally have internet – only took Primus three weeks to install and get working my internet and phone – and that was with an existing account and line! Tonight I went to the opening of a Thomas Henry Huxley exhibit at the Macleay Museum, and Michael Ruse gave an excellent talk on Tom and his Sydney connection (his wife Nettie came from Sydney and THH himself spent a fair bit of time here and up north on the HMS Rattlesnake). Then a nice Thai dinner and talk, although (you may be surprised to learn) I spent a lot of time just listening. Ruse and Paul Griffiths at the same table made for entertaining discussion. Then I stayed up to watch the latest Dexter and so to bed… Evolution History
History Harry Potter, you see, is the wrong kind of magician 15 Jan 2008 In an article on the Catholic or otherwise virtues of Harry Potter (didn’t we do all this a while back), L’Osservatore Romano has an article claiming that Harry Potter is the wrong kind of hero. Why is that? Not, as you might think, because there are wizards in it –… Read More
History The chronicle of 2200 28 Dec 2007 Found in an old manuscript in the ruins of an old university: Well this year has been pretty much the same as those that went before. We planted crops, most of which failed because we only had the poverty of seeds we could find by the side of the now-decayed… Read More
Evolution Not the end of evolution again! 6 Oct 2008 I get so tired of comments like this: The Grim Reaper is taking a rest, and inherited differences in the ability to withstand cold, starvation or disease no longer power Darwin’s machine. Those who die from such killers do so when they are so old that natural selection has lost… Read More
They weren’t when I signed a two year contract in Brisbane. I have to say I won’t be signing another one. Colin, I have no idea. I am trying to track this down, but nothing seems to work.
Now, I make the connection. “Primus” is not a band that wrote a bad lyric, but instead a telecom/provider.
This apparently was posted at 11pm on Feb 16th, which it probably was, you being in Sydney and all, but it’s messing up the RSS feed,because it’s not getting that you are in Sydney and I’m in Ottawa, Canada. I think you aren’t indicating timezone correctly or something?