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.
Lost on the internet
Posted on Fri, 25 Jan 2019
So true &
Read full commentPosted in 21st Century Kids
This one guy
Posted on Thu, 24 Jan 2019
This one guy called a friend of mine "deep" so he answered "Then you must be shallow". Reminds of Shakespeare hey? Fascinating dialogue yes. Couragous. And originail is it? Good idea- to keep it short. Good idea yes.
Tom Brown
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wine
Posted on Sat, 15 Dec 2018
Indeed. Drunkenness and anger speak truthfully -Old African proverb
Read full commentPosted in In Vino Veritas
I didn't know of this jelly
Posted on Mon, 26 Nov 2018
I didn't know of this little jelly blob thing 'till I got blind in one eye for about 2 minutes at work, so later I went to see a doctor he looked he said it's fine the same story as yours. He's got machines and stuff. It happens to everybody they...
Read full commentPosted in Vitreous Humourless
Sala kahle!
Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018
“Sala kahle” is a Zulu greeting for goodbye. It says “stay well”. For “go well” the greeting is “hamba kahle!”
I gave an attempted phonetic English spelling. I am learning isiZulu it's going slowly but steadily. I find it very difficult....
Read full commentPosted in In That Moment
Sounds good!
Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018
Sounds good! We don't ever get snow here in South-Africa. Never. Most of us haven't even ever seen snow. Only when it's terribly cold sometimes it snows on the mountains. The Cape mountains and the Drakensberg. There in the northern hemishere is...
Read full commentPosted in LET THE SEASONS
It sounds like a fairy tale
Posted on Tue, 13 Nov 2018
It sounds like a fairy tale. It's good to hear of a success story but there must be a lot give-and-take. Not all moonshine and roses hey!? Do you have other kids Richard?
Keep well! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in IT WAS A NIGHT
Two men look through
Posted on Sat, 03 Nov 2018
Two men look through the same bars, the one sees the mud, the other the stars.
Read full commentPosted in WHAT I SEE
I know how it feels-
Posted on Wed, 24 Oct 2018
I know how it feels-
Read full commentPosted in Weep Till Forever
Excellent!
Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018
Excellent! Enjoyed! Your poem reminds me of Narnia of the scene with Lucy with the falling leaves in Prince Caspian. A sense of wonder.
Read full commentPosted in An Autumn of Leaves
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