OK. Ian secret admission. In 2004 I left my then dream job (at Hubble Telescope) because Bush was in power. I returned to UK to educate my kids in a sane country. We all left UK by 2022 to live in NZ. What on Earth have the USA and UK become?
So. Moments when you know you are getting old. In a meeting today, someone asked a question about something if it happened, never happening again, and I replied "just like the James Bond film, never say never again". Everyone in the room other than me didn't get the reference. #old#seanconnery
I have just found another image from last weekend's auroral display. This was taken at 20:51:58 from Lake Aviemore, New Zealand. It shows one of the lovely aurora corona's seen on the night. #aurora#corona#NewZealand
@iangriffin I can understand why some people believe in angels coz that image looks like having a distinctly human image in the centre. That'll be the pattern recognition of the anthropic principle.
The political right use the term ‘woke’ in the way that communists would use the word ‘bourgeois’ to signify “things and people we don’t like and who had better watch out”.
It has the advantage of being easier to spell. That’s important give the education cuts.
The Aussies had a teal election. In Wellington, I'd call it the Paul Eagle effect. Suffice it say, the urban centres of Te Ika a Maui have had a gutsful of Labour.