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This is what Tasmania looked like in December:

Tasmania - like New Zealand, only tastier!

I feel bad about not joining in the spirit of Movember this year and failing to raise any money for prostate cancer or depression, so next year I shall redeem myself with Cocktober.

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”
- H. Lecter

Apparently Ian’s Shoelace Site - one of the original links in the robskee.com sidebar - is the world’s number 1 shoelace-related web site. Not bad for a local. He was recently profiled in the Moorabool Leader newspaper. The article also links to a video showing how to tie the world’s fastest shoelace knot: the Ian knot.

People in our neighbourhood are very politically switched on. Within days of the federal election being called, the placards began to appear:

Obviously these people are somewhat sheltered from the gusty winds of politics and, what’s more, they don’t care who knows it.

Mmmmm…

Is this woman spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If you see her as spinning clockwise, it’s supposed to mean you’re right-brain dominant (uses feeling, “big picture” oriented, imagination rules, symbols and images). If you see her spinning anti-clockwise you are supposedly left-brain dominant (uses logic, detail oriented, facts rule,words and language).

Whichever you see, it’s possible to switch to the other, although it’s perhaps telling which direction you perceived straight off.

For me, she was spinning clockwise. Definitely, definitely clockwise. Until she wasn’t.

What about you?

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Thanks to the folks at the Herald-Sun for this one.

Because of the new site design, I have more room for the slowly increasing collection of links. Recent noteworthy additions include the art of pencil sharpening, the museum of scientifically accurate fabric brain art and - my current favourite - anatomically correct and ethnically diverse dolls.

If you prefer something less twisted (not that there’s anything particularly bent about sharpening pencils), you may like Martindale’s reference desk, or perhaps freely useable images from Wikimedia, Clusty the clustering search engine or the information rich Internet resources for Australian journos.

J insisted I post this photo. I apologise for imposing such cuteness on your unsuspecting selves.

Robskee’s head, nose and fingertips have been buried in the Commonwealth Department of Finance and Administration’s (2002) Style manual for authors, editors and printers, 6th edition, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. Perhaps not surprisingly, the little nerd has found it absorbing reading, despite its total lack of discussion of coffee or cheese.

Robskee will be reconnecting with the world shortly.