Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
A Gen-X/Millennial cusp (Xennial), I'm old enough to remember life before the internet but not (quite) old enough to have seen Nirvana live. Or, as my wife puts it, I adapt to technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer.
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6th July - 12th July Thick morning fog completely hides the hills on the horizon. smudging the yolk-gold sun like it's trying to erase it from the sky but, instead, spreads it across the firmament like butter. It feels like a dream. Not...
Listening to AA Williams and feeling blown away. Gothic dark rock music. A slick and polished wall of bassy distorted guitars, solid drums, and plaintive piano leaving room for Williams' vocals that sit in that Tori Amos space. At times...
Interface designers must have the same maxim as doctors: primum non nocere Matt Gemmell Time after time we hear the same stories; companies shipping radical new UI that alienates stalwart users, "Google changed Gmail and now my mum can't...
Ashur has a lovely website and a brilliant eye for detail (look at the URL!). I have been replying to folks' blog posts every now and then over the years, notably in #JulyReply season so I jumped at this nice bit of design work....
In their article "Wanting to Write More", Toronto blogger Joshua Maynard, mentions feeling like they're running out of things to say here which, in all honesty, is something I've struggled with in the past too. I have a couple of pieces...
The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a document written by the Office of Strategic Services (now CIA) in 1944. The manual was declassified in 2008. The manual was used to train "citizen-saboteurs" in German-occupied Europe because...
29th June - 5th July It's light at 5am, the memory of last night's thunderstorm still lingers in an overcast sky and fat wet raindrops falling from leaves to the ground with a slow. rhythmic. slap. The birds are clearing their throats to...
I am an absolute sucker for female protagonist urban fantasy surrounding books and libraries, and this is a good example of that sub-sub-sub-genre. Sitting in the Venn diagram intersection of library-based urban fantasy and disabled...
We had packed lunches every day for 10 years and retired at 40 Auntie Beeb Just reading an article about the FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early) movement and I have Opinions™. First, my obligatory declaration that I'm not...
Happy July! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
22nd June - 28th June Midsummer. Summer Solstice. The start of Summer. The beginning of H1. The end of Q2. Whatever you want to call it, we've hit the halfway point. Week 26. And, as some of you in the UK may be aware, it's a tad warmer...
This book is simply incredible — epic in its scale; a scale matched only by the darkness of the veil, the brief glimpses you get of its vastness. Like soft wan milky starlight illuminating the corners and edges of a building so enormous...
Thanks to James over on the Coffee Blog for this pure noughties nostalgia quiz — Blogger Archetype Quiz. I answered the ten simple-ish questions and was duly informed of my archetype; shared below. What I love about these quizzes, as I...
Ansel Adams is one of the world's most famous landscape photographers with an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society and photographs blasted into space as a record of human artistic greatness. He famously documented the...
15th June - 21st June They're spreading manure this week — the whole village stinks. Why is it always the week we need to leave the windows open‽ Freshly mown fields are like catnip for buzzards. Big, hovering predators –like US drones...