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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: January 20th, 2018, 9:18 pm |
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Apropos of a set of German TV documentary shows called “Terra Australis” (my wife’s still watching it) I had a “statistics freak” attack (I have delved into the arcana of baseball too deeply – it’s incurable). Comparing Sydney, Melbourne and Berlin, our largest city at 3.7 million inhabitants and 892 km² (though our largest urban agglomeration is the Ruhr area with about 10 million). Seems an attempt at comparison is futile, as the organization of local government units is too different. But what caused me to do an “Eh, wot?!?” double-take appropriate to our site was a little detail in the list of names of the local government areas of Greater Melbourne: of the 31 units, 27 are called “city” – and 4 are called "shire". So that’s where all the Hobbits have gotten off to!
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: January 22nd, 2018, 10:10 pm |
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Trying to avoid listening to Kellyann Conway yapping on CNN
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: January 23rd, 2018, 9:19 pm |
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Decided to give a rerun of the very first 2010 episode of “Sherlock” with “Smaug” and “Bilbo” a try, and actually enjoyed it.
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: January 28th, 2018, 3:00 pm |
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The average female hippo weighs around 3,000 lbs. (1,400 kilograms) while males weigh 3,500 to 9,920 lbs. (1,600 to 4,500 kg) according to the San Diego Zoo
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: January 29th, 2018, 8:39 am |
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Randomly posting.
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: January 29th, 2018, 3:30 pm |
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The shortest woman to ever give birth, since we've been recording such things, is Stacey Herald, mother of three, and 2'4' (71cm) tall.
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: January 29th, 2018, 5:45 pm |
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I’ve put two fattish non-fiction books that I’ve been (re-) reading on hold because I’m getting annoyed at the authors’ current droning redundancy. A third (the fattest, and also a re-read) has not quite reached that annoyance stage yet, but I have today bought a couple of new such books in the low-to-high 200-page range that may very likely be much less annoying. To be continued …(?)
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 3rd, 2018, 7:02 pm |
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Spinning the wheel ot see what randominity comes up.
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 3rd, 2018, 8:49 pm |
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Watching, and singing along with, Celtic Women on KCTS, Seattle's PBS station.
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 4th, 2018, 3:07 pm |
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Been reading the fattish (1200-page) “Reader’s Guide” book of the 2006 two-volume “J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide” by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Kind of a specialist companion to Foster, Tyler and Co., concentrating on JRRT’s writings besides LoTR and TH, and his life, including places and people who were associated with him.
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 5th, 2018, 1:18 am |
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What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 5th, 2018, 6:29 pm |
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Slower than the air-speed of an unfettered Peregrin falcon?
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 6th, 2018, 4:57 am |
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Only if it's carrying a coconut.
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 11th, 2018, 5:59 pm |
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or a pineapple perhaps
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 12th, 2018, 3:48 pm |
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European or African bird?
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Post subject: Re: Randomness today... Posted: February 14th, 2018, 3:21 am |
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You have to know these thing when you're king you know.
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