My joys include wilderness walking where you can't find cars, reading, writing, debating and arguing, invertebrates of the leaf litter and the sea, red wine, wood working and creative computing. I derive a special kind of joy from placing my hand on an unconformity on a cliff, knowing that in that single hand-span, I can cover a time span of 100 million years. Creationists rightly regard me as a lost cause :-) -- and that reminds me -- I am rather good at nailing down fraud.
My main expertise lies in Bayesian statistics, educational measurement, science things, word herding and telling tales, short or tall. I try not to use them all at once
I want to know more about most things, but I especially wish to be expert in distinguishing Guinness from the hands of different master brewers. It's dreadful stuff, and I wouldn't normally touch it, but for the assistance it gives in raising the tall tales.
Peter and Chris, at sunset on Lord Howe Island, several years ago -- we will be back there again soon.
She can write the rest herself when she is ready. That is, when she gets into HTML a bit more. Last revised October 23, 2006.