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My Favourite Things
(See also my pet hates)
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App
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Appliance
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My Gaggia espresso/cappuccino machine
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Australian invention
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Australianism
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Yeah ... Naah .... (for Yeah!)
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Australian pronunciation
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Beeouwda (for Be able to)
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Cambra (for Canberra) (no m in Canberra)
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Ku lu (for Couple of)
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Larrsheer (for Last year)
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Nurioopta (for Nuriootpa)
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Shtray-ya (for Australia)
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Spoze (for Suppose)
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Pleace or even Plice (for Police)
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Waar daar (for Water)
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Beers
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Wadworth's 6X and
Marston's Pedegree
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Book (academic)
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"Continuous-time Markov Chains:
An Applications-Oriented Approach"
by W.J. Anderson, Springer-Verlag,
New York, 1991.
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Book (novel)
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The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
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Campaign
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Card game
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Cartoonist
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City (to live)
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City (to visit)
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Paris (followed closely by Venice)
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Composers
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Beethoven (Ludvig van)
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Mahler (Gustav)
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Messiaen (Olivier)
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Shostakovich (Dmitry)
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Wagner (Richard)
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Computer game
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Cricket team
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Cuisine
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French (followed closely by modern Spanish)
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Dog breed
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Drug
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Food
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Football team
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Herbal infusion (herb tea)
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Orange peal, lemon grass, camomile flowers,
licorice root, roasted chicory root (plus honey)
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Honour bestowed
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Journal article
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Reuter, G.E.H. (1957) "Denumerable Markov
processes and the associated contraction
semigroups on l", Acta Mathematica 97 1-46.
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Language (foreign)
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Mathematician
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Kolmogorov (Andrei Nikolayevich)
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Misnomer
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Melbourne is the "Centre of the Universe"
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Mispronunciations
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eck cetera (for et cetera)
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enginuity (for ingenuity)
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ideallic (for idyllic)
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Monty Python quote
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"Look mate, strange women lying in ponds
distributing swords is no basis for a system
of government" (Monty Python and the Holy
Grail)
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Movie
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Openers
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Mark Taylor and Michael Slater
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Opera
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Password
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Painter
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Cy Twombly (followed closely by Anish Kapoor)
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Paintings/works
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Pauline Hanson quote
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"If the aboriginals [sic] don't like what I'm
saying, they can go back to where they
came from"
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Philosophy (popular)
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Political party
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Popular music
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You're kidding - I only wish I could avoid it
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Prejudice
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If you win the toss you should bat
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Radio programme
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Late Night Live (ABC Radio National)
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Regret
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I am a jack of few trades
and a master of none
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Satisfaction
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I am a jack of few trades
and a master of none
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Search engine
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Sorrow
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The demise of academic freedom
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Software
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Sport to play
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Tennis (preferrably doubles)
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Sport to watch (summer)
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Sport to watch (winter)
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Statesman
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Television programme
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Teaching
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Probability and Stochastic Processes
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Theorem
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The Dominated Convergence Theorem
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Thing
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Tools
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Conditional expectation: E(E(X|G)|H) = E(X|H) = E(E(X|H)|G)
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Global knives
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Toy
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Web site
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Wine
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Writer
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Zen Maxims for survival in a modern university
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Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced,
you can't be promoted.
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It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply
to serve as a warning to others.
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a
mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize
them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach
him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink
beer all day.
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If you lend someone $20, and never see that person
again, it was probably worth it.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember
anything.
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Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot
of that comes from bad judgment.
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A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Pet hates
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Aftershave
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American spelling
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Authority
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Automatic electronic birthday greetings
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Background music
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Being called "Sir" or "Excuse me" by students
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Being beaten 6-0
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Cigarette smoke
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Drugs in sport
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The phrase "Please RSVP" (when "RSVP" is meant)
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Religious fundamentalism
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Spam
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Vocational education
If you have any comments on these pages,
feel free to e-mail
me: pkp@maths.uq.edu.au