Tom Brown

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An impossible Situation

By Tom Brown on Sun, 05 Mar 2023

Fresh from a long sea holiday everybody was very surprised when I arrived and reported for duty to be met with a disciplinary hearing and finding out...

Autobiography

Bachelor of Mathematics

By Tom Brown on Fri, 03 Mar 2023

I've been out of circulation for long now well more than a decade, I've been isolated from society and am in safe keeping you might say, doing well I...

Erotica

Story

Elementary set theory

By Tom Brown on Sat, 04 Feb 2023

Georg Cantor (1845 – 1918) The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent...

Philosophy

Some theorems on sets

By Tom Brown on Fri, 03 Feb 2023

This view of the infinite, which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the...

Philosophy

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I wonder how many

Posted on Wed, 11 Oct 2023

I wonder how many families still sit around a table for meals? It is sad. It is part of ages old rituals an integral part of society and life. I know from when I lived alone, especially supper it felt so wierd and spooky on your own.

And...

Posted in 6 (?) to dinner

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Blade Runner

Posted on Wed, 25 Jan 2017

Oscar Pistorius with nickname “Blade Runner”, as South African athlete participated in international sprinting events. Both his legs were amputated just below the knee, he has carbon-fibre prostheses.

A career of remarkable sporting...

Posted in Disabilities and Employment

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Very sensitive

Posted on Thu, 05 Oct 2023

Very sensitive Richard, you know what a guy wants! Tom

Posted in A Little Child

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I think there are forests

Posted on Mon, 04 Sep 2023

I think there are forests in Magoebaskloof and Blyderivier Canyon but they are partly destroyed to make way for alien plantations, which are stone dead not a mouse stirring, total silence. The Knysna forest Jacques spoke of must be incredible the...

Posted in Stirring Forest

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I found it fascinating

Posted on Thu, 05 Oct 2023

I found it fascinating that my shadow was so long late afternoon and so short at midday. How do you explain that to a kid?

In the one cowboy movie Terrence Hill can draw his revolver faster than his shadow. Movie for kids, great fun! ...

Posted in The puzzle of shadows

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... drawing back curtains

Posted on Tue, 26 Sep 2023

... drawing back curtains; greeting the sunshine and wondering! Fantabulous!

See you! Tom

Posted in Misguided In The Early 90s

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Once a tourist

Posted on Mon, 02 Oct 2023

Once a tourist here in the Kruger Park got out the car to have his picture taken with the lion, he got mauled yes and I believe they got it all on video, there was also a woman in America that sent her boy to paint a Grizzly with honey for a...

Posted in Grizzly Tragedy

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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...

Posted in Beneath My Favourite Tree

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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....

Posted in Fantastic Plastic!

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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