Tom Brown

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Tom Brown

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 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.

I have begun to study mathematics and its applications again, and look forward to be involved in formal research and teaching.

God is in the details of the details. God is in the timing of the timing.

My stories

* Silver Spiral Stairway *

A dweller on the threshold Strange Places Out Patients The Doctor A full force gale Nkosi Bayete! ~ Precious Time Living Alone Private Psychiatric...

Brutal Honesty

The staff union president and also my supposedly personal mentor, sat down in my office “I am going to be brutally honest with you”, “Some of your...
Gold cherry

Matchbox-cars and Lucky Packets

“There was a saviour, rarer than radium, Commoner than water, crueller than truth.” – Dylan Thomas - In my bed going to sleep sometimes I imagined a...

Dreams and Reality

Dreams and interpreting dreams gives insight into the inner workings of the unconscious mind. There are different kinds of dreams and analysis, you...

UFOs Aliens and Cover-ups

Typically stories are of alien abduction or infiltration and eminent attack with the earth and mankind in great peril, UFOs Bermuda Triangle, Area 51...

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387 of my comments have received 388 Great Feedback votes

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Beautiful!

Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024

Beautiful! Can't wait for pension! Tom

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Posted in East from Cwm-yr-Eglwys

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Typical.

Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024

Typical. Impatient. Very inconsiderate.

Should rather enjoy the walk.

 

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Posted in Time-out Spot

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We have similar here

Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2024

We have similar here Rhiannon but they are regarded as a weed, often grow on a road side. "Cosmos" something like that. I like all the pruple makes me think of our Jacaranda City. what a spectacle in October.

Congratulations with the...

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Posted in Columbine

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Original! Intriguing!

Posted on Sat, 27 Apr 2024

Original! Intriguing! Certainly, but I like it you have imagination,

Cheers Luigi! Tom

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Posted in Doodles

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The promised land

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

The promised land. Jip. This is the land of milk and honey, do some work in a garden for a morning, go to the grocers and buy a 2 liter of milk and a jar of honey. What else than? Not for everyone unfortunately, depends on your country I guess,...

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Posted in Life's fuel

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There are so many comments

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

There are so many comments perhaps my effort is repeated, but apparanly this yougurt and the clean fresh mountain air prolongs your liefspan greatly, often people live to 110 years and longer.

Cheers! Tom

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Posted in Lactobacillus Bulgaricus or Bust!

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Lyrical, almost ecstatic!

Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2024

Lyrical, almost ecstatic! You trancend yourself  losing yourself into the beauty of the scenery.

All the best! Tom

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Posted in Yellow Blooms Of Late May

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I'm a scorpio

Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2024

I'm a scorpio too so watch out!

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Posted in Killing Scorpio - Part Two

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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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Posted in Like Hell

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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...

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Posted in The Can Guru Lectures #314

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