Margaret L Ruwoldt

Minute Cryptic has donated $40k to Alzheimer’s Research Australia. Very proud to be involved with this important cause.

www.minutecryptic.com/alzheimers

Procrasticleaning ftw!

If only my new lilac phern were the same regal purple as your iMac 😍

Photo of a Macintosh G3 computer, its case made of translucent white plastic with blue fascia on the front.

The G3 was the first desktop computer that could keep up with my typing speed. These days it’s a quirky sofa-side coffee table.

* having

Have switched over both phone and desktop device in recent weeks, am sending you the sympathies of the recently afflicted 🙄

Sitting in the shopping centre car park, watching a Victoria Police vehicle* proceeding along the most popular row. The driver talks, holding a phone to his left ear and gesturing with his right hand. No part of him is touching the steering wheel.

* one of those modern beefed-up SUV divvy vans

My dad was a keen pilot; when he had a minor heart attack around the time of this ad, Mum decided she’d better get her own licence so she could take over the controls if something went wrong in the air. (They preferred Cessnas, though.)

Painting by Vincent Van Gogh, in an ornate gilded frame. It’s a village scene rendered in intense, vivid green, blue, red, yellow, black, white. Boston Museum of Fine Art, part of the Impressionists exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria 2025.

Move to the country, said Theo. Use more color.

Excited child, loudly, as mum unwraps and hands over a gingerbread dinosaur biscuit: “It’s giNORMous!”
Then, whispering: “I like it.”

#CafeLife

Outdoor table at the neighbourhood cafe. My commonplace book and a pen; a red hardcover book, “How to art” by Kate Bryan, illustrated by David Shrigley, and a fresh cup of coffee. Photo by me.

In “Right Story, Wrong Story” Tyson Yunkaporta describes how the process of making a physical object helps him to think deeply about ideas, problems, questions, relationships… he might be making tools; he’s also making art, memory, culture.

Entrepreneur!

Pardon my French.

[grins] I know you have mad research skilkz — just thought it may be worth trying a slightly sideways tack. Good luck!

Ask a Librarian Need help with your research or searching the Library catalogue?

Not to state the obvious, but if the brains trust is off frolicking in the spring sunshine then I’d try asking the State Library whether they know of a source…

www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and...

History brains trust: does anyone know if flight logs exist for Mascot Airport in the 1930s, and if so where they are? I know that a plane landed there at 7:52pm on Tuesday, 7 November 1933 and I want to see if I can confirm the name of the pilot.

Memory, cramming and exams

Today, 3:05PM, I'll be talking with Chris Bath on ABC Radio Sydney 702 on memory systems and last minute tricks - music and art.

Music and art are innate skills used by humans for millennia across all cultures, as per The Knowledge Gene and Memory Craft - so useful!

Feeling seen rn

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

With US science & research tanking, an independent CSIRO, weather bureau and medical/science grant systems in Australia are more crucial than ever. #csiro #bom #sciencesky
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Lavender + gold 😍

Do yourself a favour (as they say in the classics) and get hold of a copy: IMMORTAL GESTURES is insightful, amusing, learned, and written with stylish clarity. A good read.

Do yourself a favour (as they say in the classics) and get hold of a copy: IMMORTAL GESTURES is insightful, amusing, learned, and written with stylish clarity. A good read.

Wow, it’s really coming along!

Do scroll through the replies to this post (👇🏻): a fascinating list of vanished occupations.

Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland A sheep farmer has welcomed the restoration of an internationally significant wetland on his property outside of Hobart. The collaboration of a non-profit organisation with landowners, scientists, the Aboriginal community and governments has allowed the return of a vital ecosystem.

Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/tasmania-saltmarsh-wetland-restoration-former-sheep-farm/105883488

Katherine Collins, quoted in Tyson Yunkaporta, “Right Story, Wrong Story.” “When learning new things, we are trained to think Is this true or false? But it is so much better to think When will this be useful? Also, When should I not rely on this? When will it fall apart?”

“When learning new things, we are trained to think Is this true or false? But it is so much better to think When will this be useful? Also, When should I not rely on this? When will it fall apart?”

— Katherine Collins, quoted in Tyson Yunkaporta, “Right Story, Wrong Story”

Title page of a new book, with the bookseller’s logo added via a rubber stamp and red ink.

Still in use — bought this last Friday. The stamp was an optional extra.

Hours of fun!

Sir, you are far from alone in your nerdity 💙

#HanShotFirst

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Clearly too long since my last rewatch 😏