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The Twin Paradox
I am a twin. I have a twin brother, he’s my identical twin. We look the same, except, depending on diet and exercise, at first glance one of us will look like the fat version of the other. That’s just how it goes being a twin. One of you always looks like the before picture,…
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Chapter 2
John Menton didn’t like the heat. That’s why he wore a long-sleeved shirt, his wide-brimmed hat and drover’s gloves all day. John didn’t mind a sweat, didn’t mind the humidity that seemed to build the further you got north of the Tweed, but he couldn’t abide the way the sun made his skin feel like…
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Chapter 1
It was hot and humid, like every other day in the south west of the colony of Queensland, and the air shimmered and danced on the horizon as five men rode into view. Their features and faces were blurred by the heat, obscured by the distance, but it was clear to anyone looking they were…
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Acknowledgement of Country and Content Warning
I acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians of the Country I live and work in. I would like to pay my respects to the Elders past, present and emerging. I would also like to pay respect to Australian South Sea Islander peoples, who hold a unique position in Australia’s…
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Blackbirded
In the Colony of Queensland in the 19th Century, an Australian Native Police patrol is called in to track and retrieve an escaped group of blackbirds-South Sea Islanders, taken from their home and forced to work out oppressive contracts on sugar plantations. Experts in tracking and killing, the patrol ventures into the Australian bush to…
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Welcome to 2024
I went to Japan at the end of last year and my main takeaway is that I would very much like to live in Japan. I know everyone gets that way when they come back from holidays, they’ve got the holiday high of wistfully thinking back to how much fun they had and how good…
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The Chinese Room, Plagiarism and Me
Youtube essayist Hbomberguy put out a ludicrously long video essay earlier this month titled Plagiarism and You(Tube). It was entertaining and informative and it has sparked a bit of a firestorm online as people debate what is and isn’t plagiarism. Watch it below. It got me thinking about the nature of creativity. I have a…
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The Robot Butler Did It
By Joab Gilroy “I’m very sorry to offer up such a dull cliché,” said Inspector Loggins. “But the butler did it.” He stood in the foyer of the stately home of Doctor Cecil Ceres, the world-renowned cybernetics surgeon who had pioneered the use of high-quality monofilament fibre optics to repair and replace broken nerve endings.…
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Welcome one and all
I should have set this up long ago. I did have a website, a while ago, where I would share my musings and my freelance work, but the return on investment for it never really made sense to me. I’m not a website designer. I’m not really visually artistic at all. I understand the need…
Where to find me
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