Competition prizes found at last! 11 Sep 2012 Last November (November!) I ran a competition for some spare copies of Species: A history, but then I moved, and my prize copies ended up in storage. I was living in a one room granny flat, as we call them in Australia, and had no access to the boxen in which my books resided. Now I have moved into an actual flat, and have actual access to my actual library. I am pleased. But even more should Cameron Peters Doug G Elais Jackson Jesse Schaefer Lorax sbh be pleased, because I found them, and can now mail them to our worthy winners (worthy in that they were selected by the Excel random function), if only those worthy folk will email me an address. Very sorry for the delay… Administrative
Administrative Great. My new suburb gets bombed 4 Feb 2009 I move into a new place and less than three days later, it gets bombed. Well, strictly a place around the corner got bombed. I slept right through it. Seems someone doesn’t like the Hell’s Angels. I had no idea their clubhouse was nearby (not that it bothers me. I’ll… Read More
Administrative A piece of useful software for Mac-using teachers 15 Oct 2007 I gave a lecture yesterday on animal minds, and in the course of it tried to show some YouTube videos in Keynote by linking to the pages (tool using crows, by the way, and the excerpt from Life of Birds by Attenborough on Japanese crows using stop lights to get… Read More
Administrative The hiatus 20 Jun 2012 I have been filling a badly needed gap in the blogosphere lately, for which I apologise. My work situation has been extreme (we had two weeks to organise an international workshop, prepare a textbook draft and do various other things associated with navigating the US military bureaucracy. By the way,… Read More
You should have gotten rid of the weight before moving, but if you still need to shrink your library I could send you my address 🙂
That’s a German plural ending attached to an English word. Very common here. John seems to have moooved quite a stretch. P.S.: I always thought the rich invented ethics, in order to… 🙂