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Trigonometry is fun!

We learn to do all kinds of difficult and complicated problems in school and to do them fast, but do we understand what we are doing? We hardly know...

Load Shedding

Core Electricity Load Shedding in South Africa We were totally unprepared when it first started in 2008 as spontaneous and random blackouts which...

Last Straws

Hollywood, “Elizabeth how many husbands have you had?” , “You mean of my own?” A hard man is good to find! Sundry Quotes, In Chess, lose with dignity...
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Guns, Babies and Medicine

And how is your brother doing? He went to university he took medicine. Sorry to hear, is he feeling better? - Van der Merwe arrived in his grand...

Types of equilibrium

There are essentially three types of equilibrium (or balance): Stable equilibrium, unstable and neutral. - Think of a golf course. If the golf ball...

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All this makes me think

Posted on Mon, 02 Oct 2023

All this makes me think of Newton, according to the story he discovered the Law of Gravity seeing an apple falling from the tree. Romantic hey? There probably is some truth to it. Einstein discovered his "law of gravity" sitting in a barber's...

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They said in the news

Posted on Tue, 26 Sep 2023

They said in the news the other day how there are solid plastic islands dritfing in the sea hundreds of kilometres of that. In the oceans. Imagine that? Thousands kilometres of plastic. Killing marine life, like you say, not biodegradable....

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Sometimes it's nice to be alone

Posted on Sat, 23 Sep 2023

Sometimes it's nice to be alone, some peace and quiet andgood company that's why I like fishing so much. No problem if you forgot the bait at home.

Good luck! Tom

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I am a rock

Posted on Sat, 23 Sep 2023

I am a rock, I am an island, and a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.

Have a good week, we have an public holiday tomorrow, not that it matters anything to me.

Cheers! Tom

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Wonderful! Fallen leaves

Posted on Sat, 23 Sep 2023

Wonderful! "Fallen leaves of golden color, Hills for childish delight.

A sense of wonder, beautiful, see you! Tom

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I like solid ground

Posted on Thu, 21 Sep 2023

I like solid ground under my feet, all the best! Tom

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Sadly

Posted on Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Sadly Richard, on the plains of America there were also thousands and thousaands of Bison, here in South Africa we had herds many many thousands of Springbuck on the highveld, basically wiped out long ago. At least the migrating Wildebeest are...

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Practical jokes

Posted on Fri, 25 Aug 2023

Practical jokes can often lead to terrible accidents and then it's not so funny anymore. At best they humiliate someone. In my experience pranksters are usually not too bright.

Keep well! Tom

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When I see old people like

Posted on Mon, 21 Aug 2023

When I see old people like that I want to take a little dictating  machine and ask to tell me of "those days". I did record my late Uncle Nolan like that. My dad taped my afrikaans great grandfather Eustace Steyn like that he was a child in the...

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Nostalgia

Posted on Wed, 16 Aug 2023

Very good Jenny, but isn't it sad that we reminisce and live in the past so much, here and now is really all we have. I learnt this from my mother “yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift – That is why we call it the present...

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