• Appliance
  • My Gaggia espresso/cappuccino machine
• Australian invention
  • The clothes hoist
• Australianism
  • Yeah ... Naah .... (for Yeah!)
• Australian (mis)pronunciation
  • Pleace or even Plice (for Police)
• Beers
  • Wadworth's 6X and Marston's Pedegree
• Book (academic)
  • "Continuous-time Markov Chains: An Applications-Oriented Approach" by W.J. Anderson, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991.
• Book (novel)
  • The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
• Campaign
  • The Campaign for Real Ale
• Card game
  • Bridge
• Cartoonist
  • B. Kliban
• City (to live)
  • Brisbane
• City (to visit)
  • Venice
• Composers (living)
  • Adams (John)
  • Conyngham (Barry)
  • Cronin (Stephen)
  • Edwards (Ross)
  • Meale (Richard)
  • Sabin (Nigel)
  • Schultz (Andrew)
  • Sculthorpe (Peter)
  • Wesley-Smith (Martin)
  • Westlake (Nigel)
  • Vine (Carl)
• Composers (dead)
  • Beethoven (Ludvig van)
  • Mahler (Gustav)
  • Messiaen (Olivier)
  • Shostakovich (Dmitry)
  • Wagner (Richard)
• Computer game
  • Lemmings
• Cricket team
  • The Queensland Bulls
• Cuisine
  • Japanese
• Deity
  • God
• Dog breed
  • Shih Tzu
• Drug
  • Caffeine
• Food
  • Crayfish
• Football team
  • Brisbane Broncos
• Herbal infusion (herb tea)
  • Orange peal, lemon grass, camomile flowers, licorice root, roasted chicory root (plus honey)
• Honour bestowed
  • Moran Medal (Australian Academy of Science)
• Journal article
  • Reuter, G.E.H. (1957) "Denumerable Markov processes and the associated contraction semigroups on l", Acta Mathematica 97 1-46.
• Language (foreign)
  • Italian
• Mathematician
  • Kolmogorov (Andrei Nikolayevich)
• Misnomer
  • Melbourne is the "Centre of the Universe"
• Mispronunciations
  • eck cetera (for et cetera)
  • enginuity (for ingenuity)
  • ideallic (for idyllic)
• Monty Python quote
  • "Look mate, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government" (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
• Movie
  • Muriel's Wedding
• Openers
  • Mark Taylor and Michael Slater
• Opera
  • Parsifal
• Password
  • My present one
• Painter
  • Cy Twombly
• Painting
  • Blue Poles (Jackson Pollock)
• Pauline Hanson quote
  • "If the aboriginals [sic] don't like what I'm saying, they can go back to where they came from"
• Philosophy (popular)
  • Live and let live
• Political party
  • Senator Natasha Stott Despoja
• Popular music
  • You're kidding - I only wish I could avoid it
• Prejudice
  • If you win the toss you should bat
• Recipe
  • Chicken curry with chick peas
• Regret
  • I am a jack of few trades and a master of none
• Satisfaction
  • I am a jack of few trades and a master of none
• Search engine
  • Google
• Sorrow
  • The demise of academic freedom
• Software
  • Matlab
• Sport to play
  • Tennis (preferrably doubles)
• Sport to watch (summer)
  • Cricket (preferrably Test Cricket)
• Sport to watch (winter)
  • Rugby (preferrably Rugby League)
• Statesman
  • Gough Whitlam
• Television programme
  • Big Train
• Teaching
  • Probability and Stochastic Processes
• Theorem
  • The Dominated Convergence Theorem
• Thing
  • Form
• Web site
  • CricInfo
• Wine
  • Penfold's Grange Hermitage
• Writer
  • Robert Hughes
• Zen Maxims for survival in a modern university
  • Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
  • It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
  • Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
  • Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
  • If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
  • If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
  • Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
  • A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Pet hates

• Aftershave
• American spelling
• Authority
• Automatic electronic birthday greetings
• Background music
• Being called "Sir" or "Excuse me" by students
• Being beaten 6-0
• Cigarette smoke
• Drugs in sport
• Religious fundamentalism
• Self-righteousness
• Vocational education
• World music (I mean the incongruous musical soup kind: definitely not the distinct music of various rich cultural traditions)