Tom Brown
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Apart from studies in the natural sciences I am interested in languages and literature in general as well as religion. Lately I have been writing more popular general interest essays and also trying for a bit of balance with mathematics and while keeping things understandable for most people.
I am South-African born and bred. At high school I excelled in science and mathematics competitions and completed two years of mechanical engineering with very good results. That didn't work out due to ill health. I have had permanent teaching positions at Unisa and at Wits.
Graduating with an MSc under WK Bartoszek (Unisa 1997) and a PhD under N Sauer (Pretoria 2006) formal interests would be in abstract analysis: Markov operators and stochastic processes; vector valued Laplace transforms applied to semigroups and families of evolution equations (empathies). It has now been quite a while since I was academically active I don't have much published. The way things have developed was beyond my control and I am very isolated.
Favourite authors are Jules Verne, HG Wells and Jack London, Shakespeare and poets William Blake and Dylan Thomas. I like adventure, science fiction and fantasy movies my all time greatest are the Narnia stories and the Lord of the Rings.
The meal best enjoyed is a breakfast of bacon eggs on toast fried chips with fresh orange juice, and for supper an ox-tail stew. I like eating out romantic. For recreation nature hikes, camping and fishing, listening to good music and reading, classics mostly, and good movies. I love dogs my best one was a Maltese poodle Freddy. I love rain and lightning thunderstorms and rainbows. As well as writing and publishing here on Abctales.
God is in the details. God is in the timing.
I got lost twice since a long time
Posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2022
I got lost twice since a long time it was terribly scary. The one time was in bush sea bushes at the sea God spared me nothing else. The first one I can remember was in primary school. Another was weird tunnels behind across the walkway of a...
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Sorry Di I honestly did not mean
Posted on Sun, 06 Feb 2022
Sorry Di I honestly did not mean to criticise your work at all and I don't recall that I ever have. It is a great poem. But please keep in mind any good teacher knows one often learns more from your mistakes and by the way I'm also out of a job....
Read full commentPosted in February Rainbow
Yes
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Yes. Beautiful ending, man's best friend. Heartbreaking sometimes we feel a duty for mourning. And indeed, it is much more noble to live for someone than to die for someone, sometimes living takes great courage.
Keep well Paul! Tom
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No doubt inspired
Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020
No doubt inspired by Jules Verne's classic scifi novel 20,000 leagues under the sea. Also makes one think of Jacques C. and the research ship the Calypso.
Good work, original too! We are in, looking out, man and fish roles reversed! Who's...
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it's good to be young
Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
It's good to be young and insane.
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Not very cheerful
Posted on Sat, 24 Dec 2022
Not very cheerful, “Like a spanner in the works” is a good one, “Like a lie inside the truth” a very dangerous thing, deadly, as a half-truth, and “Like a clock that’s stopped” ominous. The chorus says it all.
“Hell” is a nice swear word...
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Everything is relative
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
Everything is relative hey? Eg in all sizes from astronomical to microscopic doesn't look like there's an end to it either way.
By the way a common misconception, you cannot deviate the course of a astroid with any nuclear bomb, the...
Read full commentPosted in The Can Guru Lectures #314
Wedding vows American style
Posted on Sun, 07 Apr 2024
Wedding vows American style, "as long as we both shall love". By the way don't put too much value in the "number of views" they are always suspect.
Cheers! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Holy Forever.
Psychiatric Treatment
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2024
This is a collection of stories of my experiences of psychiatric treatment in South Africa, I have them in order as far as I could. The stories are true.
15 years ago I was again hospitalised for four months or so and after that put in a...
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brothers and sisters
Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2019
All your strength is in your union , all your danger is in discord ;
Therefore be at peace .. and as brothers live together.
~ From Hiawatha
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