Autodidactic, forever in pursuit of the unknown and unexplored, smart enough to know when something is impossible, dumb enough to ignore even my own advice :-)
The Barred spiral galaxy
It feels appropriate to come back to where I so naively started this journey of symmetry so many years ago:
I have decided to finally give a name to this grand cosmic structure: --- Maurice ---๐
Named after: Maurice Derek Southam -my grandfather.
Known to friends and family as Mo.
A father of 3, a grandfather of 5, an honest man, a noble man, a veteran of WWII and Vietnam; he joined the home-guard for the defense of England at the age of 14, enlisted in the Royal Air-Force serving as a radar technician abord Sunderland flying boats.
Retired to New Zealand to raise a family.
I choose to name this after him for the reason that no other person has ever had the same kind of impact on my life as Mo, as a child he looked after me during school holidays, long weekends, and that one time I got expelled๐. He taught me to think critically and openly, never treated me like a child in conversations of technology and science, always had a copy of popular mechanics or popular science and let me watch documentaries on skytv when he could have been watching the cricket instead, when he wasn't tending to his garden he was in his garage - he was the only person I knew who built his own car from the ground up, bolt by bolt.
He was there for me when others gave up, he was there for me when no one else was concerned. If it wasn't for Mo and the kindness he showed me as a child, I would not be the man I am today. I hope with this gesture I can repay the generosity graciously gave me.
Sometimes all it takes to change the world is just to be a good person ๐
I will never forget.
@chrisluxonmp HA!! I literally tried to hand over physical evidence to the Papanui police office that I had been drugged, providing the very bottle that was poisoned to the officer at the front desk and they refused to take it. "Best in the world" my ass, this has to be a joke!
10 YEARS mate!!
@RealDonKeith Yup and that's what New Zealand is trying to do as well, and to top it off they are trying to implement digital ID which will only make this so much easier for them.
It's evil, it's pure evil.
@NZNationalParty OMFG yes! finally maybe now I will get peace and be left alone? no more harassment every time I leave the house? no more harassment when I try to do my shopping? no more harassment on the bus? no more cyber harassment? no more harassment in the very apartment building I live in?