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Adventures in Typewriting – in Australia

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When the lockdown began here in Australia, I – like all of us – found myself with time on my hands. I learnt typing in school, in the old-fashioned way, and that was on big, heavy manual typewriters. They made a satisfying clunk noise when you typed, and frankly my Apple Magic keyboard wasn’t doing … Read more

Hidden Dangers

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(The below is a speech that I wrote last night for my Rostrum speaking club – the topic was ‘Hidden Dangers) Humans are fragile things. You hit them with a car – they die. You feed them teeny-tiny chunks of arsenic – they die.  You lock them in a room without oxygen – they die.  And of … Read more

I sold my old desk today

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I wrote three theses, countless reports, and far far too many emails and games of Baldur’s Gate and World of Warcraft.  I sold it for $10.  I know, right?  Last of the capitalist geniuses.  Glad to see it go to a Masters student.   Here is my Gumtree Ad for posterity.   This is an … Read more