Fradam

I’ve just spent a sunny weekend up the coast, and whilst there, learnt a few random things about the land to the north.

The speed limit for Learners is 110 km/h (in Sydney, it’s 80 km/h). It is debatable whether it is safer having 16 year olds doing 110km/h on a motorway, or having them driving […]

Okay, maybe not quite a hundred billion.
But two in two weeks? It seems highly coincidental.. both the stories drifted across my nose in the past week.
Bottle #1
From: ~160km east of the Mississippi river delta, USA, in the 1960s
To: Pirates Beach (yaar!), Galveston, Texas, USA, mid-January 2009
Distance travelled: ~1000kms across ~45 years
Why: Drift bottles; experiment to […]

Today, reports of Atlantis flitted across my table. With the launch of an Ocean in Google Earth, searching beneath the ocean has never been easier. How exciting to have this opportunity! The fact that oceans cover nearly three quarters of the entire globe, yet we know so little about what is actually down there is.. […]

I didn’t want to make a deal of it when it happened, but I was robbed a few months ago.
It was the first warm spring day in a while and I decided to hang some washing out on the line. When I came home, two socks were missing, and one of my favourite pairs of […]

An oldie, but still good…
Did you know?
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons […]

Apparently, today is my lucky day because a bird pooped on my arm. I’m not even mad, but I do wish I got to eat a whole wheel of cheese after.
Here are some random things I discovered that have been happening in the world of bird droppings:
- Bird droppings could be the secret to Posh […]

Earlier this month, we witnessed a Jupiter-Venus conjunction in the sky - the two planets so tightly packed in together, that when the moon came along for a visit, it created an astronomically pretty smile. I think it is pretty amazing that all over the world, people could witness this (although, over the in the […]

… when you’re mad.
So, 2007 is about to end, and I’ve not touched this in sometime. Many a thing has happened, life in some ways almost seems operatic with suds on the side. Betrayals, infidelity, death, adultery, work shuffles, concerts galore, globetrotting family members… and I beat Steven in squash! (yes, it was a noteworthy […]

You have to wonder what the world is coming to when it seems anyone or anything, can get its paws on a credit card.
I wonder what the credit rating would be like on one of those giant trees…

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