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Ranking: Australian states

Saturday, 21 June, 2014

Australian states and contiguous territories ranked:

By increasing area: Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia.

By increasing population: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales.

By increasing number of wineries: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria. (Source: Winebiz.com.au)

By increasing number of times I have visited them: Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory (all 1 each), Queensland (about 5 times), Victoria (about 10 times), Australian Capital Territory (about 20 times), New South Wales (I live here).

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Ranking: Ball sports

Wednesday, 18 June, 2014

(Selected sports)

By increasing ball size: squash, golf, snooker, tennis, cricket, hockey, baseball, softball, lawn bowls, American football (shortest dimension), Australian rules football (shortest dimension), rugby league and rugby union (shortest dimension), volleyball, bowling, football (soccer), basketball.

By increasing number of pro games I have watched live at the venue: basketball (1), baseball (2), cricket (dozens), rugby league (approx. 100). Others zero.

By increasing number of pro games I have watched live on TV: hockey (1 or 2), basketball (a few), football (soccer) (a dozen or so), rugby union (a dozen or so), lawn bowls (approx. 20), American football (tens), baseball (dozens), snooker (scores), rugby league (approx. 100), cricket (hundreds). Others zero.

By increasing number of games I have played: volleyball (a few), softball (a dozen or so), squash (tens), tennis (dozens), snooker (scores).

I’ve played a bunch of informal touch rugby and lots of informal cricket, which were not organised games with formalised score-keeping.

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Ranking: Nuts

Monday, 16 June, 2014

In a new, perhaps to be semi-regular, feature on this blog, I shall post my rankings of various things in two or more categories! To start with, nuts!

In increasing order of crunchiness: Chestnuts, cashews, walnuts, pecans, pistachios, coconuts, peanuts, macadamias, brazil nuts, almonds, hazelnuts.

In increasing order of yumminess: Brazil nuts, coconuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, walnuts, almonds, pecans, chestnuts, peanuts, macadamias, cashews.

In increasing order of how often I cook/prepare food with them in: Brazil nuts, chestnuts, macadamias, pistachios, pecans, hazelnuts, coconuts (cakes), peanuts (curries, satay), cashews (stir fries, curries), walnuts (cakes, and pizza toppings), almonds (I mix some in my home-made muesli every week).

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