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.
Angus can write the rest himself when he is ready.
Duncan is seen here on Lord Howe Island (where else?), giving us a chance to show you the view from Transit Hill, across to North Bay. He has aged a bit since then . . .
Duncan went to Balgowlah Heights Primary, then on to Neutral Bay in Years 5 and 6, then Manly High (his father's old school). He is now doing a PhD in biotech at the University of Western Sydney.
Duncan runs, surfs, and played hockey (the real sort, played on green stuff), like his father and grandfather before him, and like cousins in most of the branches of his family tree (which reminds me, he climbs a lot). His brother and father refuse to play chess with him any more. Duncan can write the rest himself when he is ready.
Last revised October 23, 2006.