Peter and Chris Macinnis

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More about Peter

I went to school at Manly West Primary, Manly Boys' High, and took many years to get a B Sc at the University of Sydney, majoring in botany and zoology. I later took even longer to get a slow but amusing Master's degree in obscure statistical jiggery-pokery. You don't really want to know more than that.

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.

More about Chris

Born Christine Clarke, she lived in Cottesloe, then moved to Sydney where she attended Loreto Convent Kirribilli, University of Sydney B. Sc. (Hons) in botany, Teaching Fellow in botany, then a teacher, dropping out (ha!) to raise kids to the age of reason, gave up when they didn't (they never do), and returned to teaching. While she played with computers in the 1960s, she is only now starting to mess with the computers in our house, of which there are quite a few. We are going to have to buy another one, soon.

She can write the rest herself when she is ready. That is, when she gets into HTML a bit more.

This file is http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/index.htm. Other key pages on this site, given here as explicit URLs, mainly for search engines, include

Peter's writing pages / Lord Howe Island pages / Sydney tourism pages / Science Project pages / Science experiment pages / Ugly Islands pages / Ockham's Razor pages

This page began in early 1994, and was last revised on May 9, 2009.
This page was created by Peter Macinnis -- macinnis@ozemail.com.au (But that email won't work unless you put my first name in front of it!)

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