The Prince is a handbook for gangsters, he said, or did he?
Bertrand Russell and Niccolo Machiavelli
Will one of you smart people, please put me right on this?
Author: Michael W Jackson
Alumni corner
Keep in touch with classmates by adding a comment here. There are pictures of most of my classes. Find yourself.
This is a place for graduates to get in touch with each other. When the blackboard unit of study web site ends, students can shift to this one. When I have occasion to contact graduates I will ask them to visit this blog and leave a comment. Open this post and you may find yourself pictured.
Then and now: the working day, the working week.
Things have changed … slowly, for the better.
Those good old days! Before Dawkins. (Don’t know what a Dawkins is? Hit google for “John Dawkins.”)
Continue reading “Then and now: the working day, the working week.“
The Paradise Report 2010
The top three for this visit were (1) Shangri-La, (2) Pacific Aviation Museum, and (3) Waiklele Premium Outlets. Each is recommended.
We kept a travel diary on this trip, as we always do, but it now competes for input with Kate’s blog
http://knittatpug.blogspot.com/
and mine https://theory-practice.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/
Not to be out done, Julie also blogged their part of the excursion
http://julie.stuffworld.info
Return to Paradise
We have been here many times before, yet there reamin many new things to see and do.
We are taking another winter vacation in Waikiki.
Then and now. Space the first frontier.
Classrooms are at a premium.
Over the next weeks I will post my own exit poll on my four decades at the University of Sydney.
The necktie
As long as it is unconventional, radical, and daring, that long shall I wear neckties!
The time has come to address the neck tie.
I knew it would come to this one day, and that day is now, not nigh.
“Are you a reader?”
When I admitted to being a reader, the door opened!
“Are you a reader?”
Should one admit to being a reader? That is the question.
One Day Cricket
Without a narrative context all One Day cricket has to offer is the show, and Twenty20 is far better at that.
Yes, Bleaders, I have something to say about this, too.
Passion leads to ruin.
Too many policies are pursed on the basis of exaggeration and overstatement, call that sensationalism.
I keep going on about the dangers of passion.