Thomas the Think Engine

A bit of the face fell off a couple of weeks ago. It is beginning to look like Arnie at the end of the Terminator films. Continue reading I own a seven year old mobile phone

Rob Oakeshott’s plan for a mix and match government is far more clever than people give him credit for. Continue reading Post electoral uncertainty and the role of naivety

After traveling the North West USA for a week, your correspondent (together with Mrs TFC) finds himself in Seattle for a few days. Continue reading Who likes maps?

As a result of watching a lot of American television shows and movies, familiar-looking American faces seem to pop up everywhere: the uncle, the best friend, the sister, the neighbour, the put-upon wife, the drug dealer, the politician, the cop, the bar tender. I see these people every time I get on a train in Oakland. Continue reading Character actors one and all

I’ve made mistakes in life.  Many have been the result of too little coffee, too much alcohol or not wearing clean underpants.  But some have been mistakes of logic.  I want to stop making the logical mistakes at least, so I’ve been thinking.  Here’s where I got up to: Continue reading And that’s when I realised that almost everything makes no sense.

Counter culture radical, Dick Smith, the man whose face adorns a chain of consumer electronics stores across Australia, as well as untold millions of jars full of processed peanut fat, has launched a campaign to cut consumption. Continue reading Is Dick Smith being ironic?

Adjective: To be devoted to one’s State, as in Oregonians are very statriotic. Continue reading Bloglite – A new word: statriotic

We are heading up to Yellowstone National Park next week. With a population of about 600 Grizzly Bears (they’re the big ones, compared to the Black Bears in Yosemite), I thought it was time to become bear aware. Continue reading Are you bear aware?

Alexander Vinokourov won stage 13 of Le Tour today with a late stage attack. He jumped clear at the bottom of a small climb 10 km from the finish. He managed to hold a 10-second advantage over the sprinter’s teams who were probably driving the peloton at speeds approaching 60-65 km/hour on the flat.

Continue reading A big hint that a cyclist is on the gear…

I know you’re frightened to see such a publicly display of man-love as the fat controller put on show in that last post.  I know it was every bit as gut-retching as he imagined it was heart-wrenching. I know, and I’m sorry.  This hasty post is designed to move it down the page, post-haste, for the good of the internets, hallowed be their name.

Continue reading Resuming our regular programming

Readers may have noticed a dearth of thomasthethinkengine posts of late. Have you noticed? What do you think? Do you want thomasthethinkengine to return?

American mobile phone plans are a bit weird. For one thing, an individual contract is comparatively expensive, but a two phone contract – one for me and one for Mrs TTE – is  extremely cheap. Continue reading The text message fairy