A big hello to all intelligent life out there! And to all the rest of you, the secret is to keep banging those rocks together!

A brief background: I am a fat balding white male, married with two adult (that’s what they claim) children, living in a suburb of Toronto. I recently came to the end of more than thirty years of white-collar work when my company management trimmed staff in North America as part of its process of global cost management. I won’t comment on that process as it applied to me specifically, but I believe that there is an element of the ‘tragedy of the commons’ as it works out in general. My interests are mainly in the sciences, but other areas attract my attention from time to time, so I can’t promise consistency in this blog. But there’s a whole universe out there – and I want to look at it!