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November 2, 2008

Mo-vember

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I've joined the local Mo-vember team, in which we all grow a moustache in order to raise money to support men's health issues. My day by day progress photos are at on my "mo-space " and you can support the cause here . The beneficiaries are the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Beyond Blue . For the record, I am totally against prostate cancer, especially that bit where the doctor puts his finger up your bum. They should find a cure for that.

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October 11, 2008

Rubic's cube

William was just asking where our book for doing the cube is.

I actually could do this in school, but now I can only get two layers and the corners out without the book. I did find these instructions to do the cube in six seconds on Gizmodo though.

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/5994/rubiczi9.jpg

The book we have on solving the cube was written in the seventies by a very cute, blonde, smug looking ten year old English genius boy who I would like to slap every time I see the book.

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October 11, 2008

Day trip

Drove out to the breakaway today (photos). The story here is that water has eroded a section down to the granite bedrock so you can see a nice cross section of the top layers. The kaolin is a very soft, very white powder that William was soon covered in. The pinkish grey you can see scattered below it are smallish (1-3mm diam) pieces of quartz that are embedded in the clay where it has not been weathered yet.

This very white clay is pretty common in this part of the wheatbelt as you can see driving around if you look at the dam banks. I'm pretty sure it is the type of clay used for china/ceramics such as basins and toilet bowls. There was talk of a commercial mine near Wickepin a few years ago - I don't know if anything came of it

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