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 Wilkins hides in fear 1 Dec 20111 Dec 2011 I haven’t been engaging much recently. There is an Official Story and a Privileged Narrative. The Official Story is that I have submitted, revised or refined several recent papers for publication, met with a coauthor in Canberra (eight hours due north) for a paper, a talk of which I am… Read More
Administrative Ideas for papers 19 Jul 2009 So I was reading through some of my colleagues’ bibliographies recently and getting mildly depressed at their productivity relative to mine, and wondering, what can I do to publish more papers? And it hit me: I need to write my papers in haiku. When I recovered from that image, I… Read More
Administrative Some stats 14 Aug 201018 Sep 2017 It occurred to me that I don’t do a very good job of tracking the stats of the three incarnations of this blog. So here they are: Posts Hits ET 1 : 411 142,117 ET 2 @ Scienceblogs : 1,272 912,249 ET 3 : 618 tba 2,712 1,054,366 Ho. Ly…. 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… 🙂