-
Recent Comments
Unmissable gold from the archives
Click here for RSS
Archives
Blogroll
TTTE Tags
Articles about large world famous indian mausoleums Astronomy Biology Books Cadel Evans Choose your own adventure Coffee cooking cycling debt design diets Economics Ethical buying financial crisis Football Gardening global financial crisis Gratuitous Yellowstone Photos Kewell Lance Armstrong Language Logic Movies Music national broadband network paranormal Personal Politics Population Reviews sport Tax the internet Thought experiment transport Urban World Cup Yes we Canberra 2010
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Travel Disasters: Siberia 2003
In 2003, I made a trip outside Australia. I was 21. I visited a few different places. The story I want to tell happens in June, in Siberia.
iSnack Two Point – Oh dear…
The Kraft company has released a new Vegemite product made of cream cheese and Vegemite. The product is a high-risk variation on the classic Vegemite recipe – a Vegemite you keep in the fridge. Apparently items kept in the fridge … Continue reading
Choose your own adventure: Bruno Sprunkelstein and the E-Strasse Boys Choir (Part 2)
There was an overwhelming response to Part 1. You voted to hear a saxophone solo. Here it is!
The Grand Final
Tomorrow is the Grand Final. If you live in Melbourne you already know. It’s all over the newspapers, the news, the radio and now the internet too. Two teams face off. The Geelong Football Club – the Cats The St … Continue reading
A long, green Big Apple
I was not browsing the Christian Science Monitor the other day. I did not find the following article on it: http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/09/16/green-metropolis/ (Ok, ok. I was, I did, and then I lied about it. I’m sorry. Hush now.) It’s an article … Continue reading
My first (and last?) car.
I have a theory.
Little Red do ACDC’s ‘Long Way to the Top’
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/tv/video/lav.htm Little Red are a Melbourne doo-wop quintet.
Bruno Sprunkelstein and the E-Strasse Boys Choir (Choose your own adventure, Part 1)
Vienna, 1896. Bruno sits in the parlour of his family home, on Brandstatte Strasse, not far from Stephansplatz. His feet stick out in front of him so that his shoes do not touch the leather of the parlour’s most comfortable … Continue reading
GDP?
GDP doesn’t make us happy. Economics denies the enjoyment we get from stuff that is free: sunsets, conversation, going for a walk. “Judging progress by GDP is like judging an orchestra by how loud it is.”
Exercise won’t make you any less fat
Time Magazine said so.
Dave Eggers
When I was about eighteen, I bought a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Catchy title, no?
NYT <3 Socialism
This article in the New York Times about ‘socialism’ got 444 angry comments. Mine is first!
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Krugman – what’s wrong with economics
I studied economics. Then I worked at Treasury. So I should know about economics. But instead I find it confusing. There are two types of things I find confusing, normally. One: things that are complicated. The other: things that don’t … Continue reading
Bargain!
Have you ever gone across town to get a bargain? Chances are you spent more on time and petrol than you saved. Have you ever wondered why?
Chopsticks
I lived in China for about 9 months in 2003. Before I went, I was familiar with chopsticks. I knew how to use them and I appreciated their novelty. I got compliments from the locals. Ni hui yong kuaizi! (You … Continue reading
Confession time
When I have a little time on my hands, I play Scrabble. I do not play in real life, because my insistence on the status of words like taeniae, st, and yin makes me unpleasant to normal people.
thomasthethinkengine
thefatcontroller
