Alf van der Poorten's Interests

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I waste a lot of time playing with my Macintosh computer. Luckily, I can do that simultaneously with watching football on TV. I'm quite unprejudiced and can get equal pleasure from Rugby League, specifically the mighty Saints, Australian Rules (see also here), American Football, Soccer or Rugby Union. Then there's Cricket, Baseball, ... In the interstices I read Science Fiction and Mysteries. I've never thrown a book away and thus own some five thousand science fiction books and several thousand mystery books. But I'm not really a collector, just a keeper.

Mind you, I also keep several thousand mathematics books and ... .

Once, a little while ago now, I wrote rather bitter satire apparently emanating from Ralph ... , Porseffor of Sums and Head Scholar of the Mechanics Institute, Macquarie Business College.

Read this. Now!

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