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24th July 2025 (07/24/25) is a Pythagorean triple. I obviously have too much spare time on my hands.

I have not been on the site much for a week and 1/2. I have been hiking, riding, fishing in the Aust. Alps. Finally got to the top of Mount Kosciuszko (2228m) the highest point on the Aust. mainland. It is not really a mountain in the conventional sense, just the highest point on a ridge line...

Wondering about some events after Trump is swore in. Does Biden keep a security detail for the rest of his life or is it limited in time or unless there is a threat to his or his family safety? Do other memebers of the cabinet keep security details after they leave office? Just thinking of...

NSW (New SOUTH WALES) had 60,00 students earlier this week did their Maths Standard exam. Apparently there was a lot of chatter about how hard and confusing it was . I did my Victorian equivalent over 40 years ago. Looking at the given problems they did not appear particularly difficult. A few...

On Sat a few fellows from our church cycling group started to ride to Geelong, the next regional city from Melbourne, Victoria heading along the north western edge of Port Philip.I was never going to Geelong but rather to Lara to see my daughter Laura. Lara is the town before Geelong. I had...

With the death of Nasrallah Iran will choose the next head of Hezbollah with no thought of what might be best for the Lebanese. This will add more turmoil to a already fractured place. Add to that a barely functioning economy, armed groups running around the country, still reeling from the port...

My sister is a midwife with an NGO just below the Sudan-South Sudan border. Since late April there has been another surge of refugees south fleeing the conflict in Sudan. They are pouring past their compound in Pibor, Sudan in increasing numbers. Power-struggle-Sudan There has been much...

Let me explain. My wife has a small online business making and shipping original patterns for quilts, table runners, applique etc. She has never dealt much with the US because the shipping costs are horrendous for small (sic) parcels (paper is not terribly heavy). She has a shop though in the US...

Tomorrow, Thursday 29th Feb., I will be off to Everest Base Camp. Considering I have never been to the top of Australia's highest mountain this might be suprising. Indeed the base camp is approx. twice the height of Mount Kosciuszko. The training is over and now I go with a good friend David G...

Japan appears to be heading for a demographic crisis as deaths outnumber births by 2:1. Japan's falling population There are many here who would welcome a falling population and only see it as a blessing but I wonder if that is as rosy as conceived? With an increasing elderly population...

Shwhmubo and I are going in Nov. to South Africa for a neice's wedding. Neither of us have been there before and are rather looking forward to it. The usual what to see, what to do? We only have 11 days there. We will visit a game park and want to go to Victoria Falls. Which side is the best...

Which questions do you have that would not pass muster as an exam question? Give the Field and the question (with or without possible answers) I'll start Chemistry: Q: Which of these is not a hydrocarbon? A: Select from the following - Ethylene, Polypropylene, Come on Eileen Mathematics: Q...

Last weekend, Grant Alfred Beaumont, died at the age of 97. He was the father of the Beaumont children who went missing in 26th January, 1966. It is probably Australia's most famous missing persons case. I can't imagine the pain of not knowing what happened to your children for 57 years.

With the recent spate of tornadoes across Mississippi it had me wondering about tornado shelters. 1. Are they compulsory for home owners or public is such areas? 2. Would such a shelter work? Or like a bomb shelter only work provided it was not a direct hit? 3. Could a tornado shelter be built...

(Suprised that no-one has started a thread yet it seems) So yet another death from a police beating in the USA. Why do you people hate each other so much? I cannot understand why the police stopping a car should result in a death? From what we hear/see in Australia it would seem that police...

Being following with a tiny bit of interest the issue of classified documents appearing in private homes and offices. Is this rather cavalier attitude to classified documents widespread in the US?

Since North Korea has started launching att of those missiles what is the status once they leave NK airspace or territory? Are they 'fair game' to be intercepted by another party? At present their is much fear and concern and the NK is getting some sort of morbid pleasure in cowering their...

I was listening to the news last night (SBS World News for those who wonder) when an item came on that said that Putin is considering annexing the conquered parts of Ukraine. First question: Is is plausible? 2nd question: What will be done about it if it happens? So far the west has been...

I occasionally tutor school students at our church in algebra, trig, logarithms, exponents etc. Very rarely do I drift into calculus. However, a girl and I got to talking about the classis problem of boring a tunnel from one side of the earth to the other through the centre. We discussed it's...

One disadvantage of the Covid lockdowns in Australia is that I have been watching (far too much) Netflix, Amazon et. al. Whilst watching US shows it struck me that the house numbers shown were very large, in the thousands. As an example in 'Young Sheldon' his house is 5501 and his grandmother's...