Sometimes it’s good to be wrong. Just over 6 months ago in this blog when we hit 100 million Covid cases I wearily predicted that at the then current rate of infection we would double to 200 million cases by Easter. I was wrong and I’m glad. Instead, it’s taken about 27 weeks instead of …
Author Archives: Ernest Zanatta
I miss TISM
Quite a few years ago (time does fly), there was a locally written novel in our bookstores by a Melbourne English teacher Peter Minack, titled ‘CWG (Campaigning With Grant)’. It is written from the first person perspective of Brigadier General John Aaron Rawlins, aide to Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the …
The Only Time When Gold Is Worth $1 Billion Per Ounce
People who know me well are aware that I am only ever half joking when I say that I wish the British Empire still existed and that I would much prefer for the Commonwealth Games to revert to its original name, The Empire Games. Whilst I have very little interest in sport (except that the …
Continue reading “The Only Time When Gold Is Worth $1 Billion Per Ounce”
Why the Olympics in Brisbane is a Good Thing
I consider Australian Rules Football to be true football, and aside from my enjoyment of Ted Lasso on Apple TV+, I do not have any interest in soccer (aka Association Football). Nor do I have any real interest in the Olympics. If I did, I would be posting on this blog this week headings like …
Continue reading “Why the Olympics in Brisbane is a Good Thing”
Two Cheers For Brisbane 2032!
I’m old enough to remember when the Melbourne City Square opened in 1980. The hype of the opening quickly turned into derision and it rapidly turned into a moribund white elephant in the heart of the city. The main symbol of this Quixotic attempt at creating a civic centre was the strange angular metal sculpture …
I for one welcome our new insect overlords…
If you pardon the quotation from the classics, the title to this blog post comes from the Simpsons episode ‘Deep Space Homer’ from season 5 of that show. It is uttered by newsman Kent Brockman when live feed from the space shuttle shows an ant farm Homer has inadvertently broken. Kent interprets that as meaning …
Continue reading “I for one welcome our new insect overlords…”
For once in my life I actually agree with Peter Fitzsimmons
http://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/fitzsimons-damning-two-words-for-cambage/news-story/a24db560b6909899eb7e2f1c581068c9 It only took someone as annoying as Liz Cambage to find common ground between myself and Peter Fitzsimmons.
Where did all the wine guides go?
Tempus Fugit, as Mork from Ork might say. Almost half a lifetime ago, I spent 7 months living in Canberra. Despite being bored and frozen and probably not doing my career any favours from that adventure, I do not regret it for three reasons. The first is making two close friends who are still amongst …
ATARI or ATAGI – both are failures but I wish I had the former with me now during lockdown….
What the hell does ATAGI stand for anyway? I don’t mean what it is short for (Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation). I mean what it represents and what values drive the experts who sit on this body and tell our political leaders and the rest of us whether or not a vaccine should be …
Kookaburras return to my street
Saw two kookaburras this morning on the way to the bus stop.
Lost For Words! 