by Captain Skellett | Jan 19, 2012 | Just for Fun
I’m pretty fond of doing the Saturday quiz in the Adelaide newspaper, though I never keep score. I mean, who knows who won the Olympic backstroke in 1978? That was before I was born! I can’t let that drag down my credit rating, you know. Anyway, last week...
by Captain Skellett | Jan 13, 2012 | Just for Fun
I know, I know. It’s been awhile. Bad pirate! Post-holiday pillaging and plundering, time got away from me. Not to worry, I’ve harpooned it and got a handle on things now. So, just a quick one to tide ye olde blog over ’till I’m properly back...
by Captain Skellett | Oct 14, 2011 | Just for Fun
It would be remiss of me not to write about this wonderful, but rather unlikely story, given its about a subject close to my heart – giant squids. Within Nevada’s Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park are nine fossilised remains of ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 22, 2011 | Just for Fun
Hooray, it’s Friday Pi Day! Today, 22 July, is Pi Approximation Day – 22/7 being a sweet close-to value for that wonderful mathematical constant. Celebrate by eating pie, either for dinner or dessert (or both!) and indulging in a pint of your favourite...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 12, 2011 | Just for Fun, Science Art
So it’s appropriate that I’m a little bit tipsy while writing this. Alcohol under a microscope! That’s today’s post. BevShots take photographs of alcohol crystallized on a slide, shot under a polarized light microscope. It can take up to four...
by Captain Skellett | May 3, 2011 | Just for Fun
The white whale has been sighted off the starboard bow, and I’m hard on its trail. All hands to decks, no time for telling tales! Something in me must chase that whale, it haunts me… It has stolen from me, swallowed in its vast maw, some essential element...
