Coffee — Nectar of the Gods

October 1st, 2006 Comments Off

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Strong black coffee and a swig of The Glenlivet — sometimes together — are my drugs of choice.

ABC filming: Slow down please

April 13th, 2006 Comments Off

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Boat, ship and city reflections

April 13th, 2006 Comments Off

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Poodle day at the show

April 11th, 2006 Comments Off

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Hey Toots! — it’s poodle day at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show and quite a few of your relations will be there strutting their stuff…

Monster waves

April 10th, 2006 Comments Off

I wrote about monster waves a week back and received an interesting e-mail from Bob who directed me to a US Navy site that predicts wave activity around the world.

I checked the site out last week and it showed big waves predicted to move from the Great Australian Bite up the east coast.

Yesterday, the sea was huge and it was reported by the mainstream media that some Sydney beaches had their largest waves in 30 years. Link

Bob wrote:
…the story was interesting, and like the Scientific American article says, the 112 ft wave is the largest OBSERVED — I have no doubt they can get much larger, and in time I suppose that someone will see larger waves – they most certainly exist — in time we will learn a lot more.

Here is an interesting link to a US Navy web site that predicts wave activity around the world for several days. Link

Thanks Bob!

Oblong portholes and orange life raft covers

April 1st, 2006 Comments Off

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Vikram Seth: Sit

March 31st, 2006 Comments Off

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Sit

by Vikram Seth

Sit, drink your coffee here; your work can wait awhile.
You’re twenty-six, and still have some of life ahead.
No need for wit; just talk vacuities, and I’ll
Reciprocate in kind, or laugh at you instead.

The world is too opaque, distressing and profound.
This twenty minutes’ rendezvous will make my day:
To sit here in the sun, with grackles all around,
Staring with beady eyes, and you two feet away.

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