Category Archives: from your comments

Crustal evolution assistance

By 6000 | 6000 | April 19, 2012

Ooh – incoming email: Dear 6000, I am a geology student from the UK and I am looking for some assistance with a project on the geology of Table Mountain. Since you mentioned this subject in a post recently [I did? Oh yes. I did. - Ed.] and you are based in Cape Town, I [...]

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a-ha’s “Take On Me”, played by North Korean accordion group

By 6000 | 6000 | February 11, 2012

Incoming from Jacques: In case you’ve never encountered this. I’m told by a friend-of-a-friend on FB that: “Apparently a member of a-ha went there (cant remember why) and took a CD. Within three days the group came up with this arrangement. They had no sheet music or anything other than the CD to work off.” Obviously, I haven’t [...]

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The answers to that Excellent Quiz Question

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2012

IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THE ANSWER – CLICK HERE NOW!       Last week I posted an Excellent Quiz Question which evidently got a lot of people thinking. This is a good thing. Now, I’m going to post the answers, but on this separate post so that the question remains “live” for [...]

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10 years II – The Big South African Pool Cleaner Export Ban Explanation (sort of)

By 6000 | 6000 | January 11, 2012

Remember this post – where I suggested that the penalties for the seemingly innocuous crime of exporting a pool cleaner (or bits thereof) from the Republic of South Africa seemed rather harsh? (Not as harsh as those proposed for the proposed Severe Weather Warning Law,  at least in financial terms, but still pretty nasty.) In terms [...]

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Pete is very trying

By 6000 | 6000 | December 28, 2011

As I mentioned earlier this week, things all get a bit confusified at this time of year when it comes to blogging. And despite the fact that I’m away from my beloved internet, that doesn’t stop the potential post suggestions rolling into my inbox. Here’s another one I thought might be worth sharing. It’s evident that [...]

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