Tony McFadden's Blog, page 5

The Average IQ is 100

By definition. The tests are designed so the average score is 100. Sixty-eight percent of the people taking the test fall into the range of plus or minus 15% of the mean, or between 85 and 115. So I have to assume there is a significant skew downward to results lately because a large percentage …

De ja F*ck U

Now if I’m totally honest, when my employer told us all to go home last March (2020, of course), I didn’t mind one bit. We are a bit of an insular family, anyway. I got rid of my hour long commute, could barbecue some snags at lunch and got an extra hour sleep at night. …

Netgalley

This isn’t an advertisement for Netgalley, but it sure is going to sound like one. I have a publisher’s account at Netgalley. I give them a fair bit of money, and they present my book for review by readers, booksellers, libraries, and the like. You can join for free, as a reader, if you’d like. …

Batteries Not Included – Update

Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in Financial Crimes with the Australian...

Story Structure

I bang on this a lot, and if the truth be told, this is only a minor component of a good story, but one...

Reconstruction

Apparently there’s a WordPress Plug-in exploit that allows nefarious bastards to gain access to my site and change shit. Posts prior to a couple of posts ago have been disappeared. With prejudice. Fortunately, the way-back machine has archives of some of those posts, so over the next few weeks, or months, I’ll reinstate them. Stayed …

AstraZeneca and its Side Effects

I got my first jab last week. There has been a lot of hesitancy about the AstraZeneca vaccine, and the EXTREMELY SLIGHT risk of blood clots. So I took it upon myself to track the side effects I experience. For the general public’s awareness, you understand. I received my first AZ jab the morning of …

Batteries Not Included

Just leaving this here for now… Coming in September. Sometime… Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in the Financial Crimes Division of the Australian Federal Police. The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars — the first and only manufacturer …

So, what’s new with you?

I noticed I haven’t posted a bloody thing since January, when I bitched about the gym work (I really like it, actually) and it’s like that was just yesterday. Like nothing has happened since then.

And really, it’s been pretty boring. Mostly.

Lincoln (who got 16 stitches for a Christmas present after the neighbour’s dogs took exception to his presence) developed diabetes in February and is going (has pretty much completely gone) blind. We are his seeing-eye persons. I’ve got a vest and ever...

Stockholm Gym Syndrome

If you don’t know what Stockholm Syndrome is, it’s defined as “…when hostages bond with their captors .With this syndrome, hostages may come to sympathize with their captives.”

So, yeah. I’m starting to enjoy this.

Wednesday and Sundays.

Wednesdays are lower body (essentially your legs).

Sunday’s are upper.

I love leg days because it means the next session isn’t legs.

This (below) was last Sunday’s workout. And while I complained vociferously at first, I’m beginning to “sympath...