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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No search engine or AI model will be able to answer the questions that are most important on a personal level: the existential ones. Robert Birming Robert touching here on the contradiction of contemporary "always on" society; a culture...
Thanks to David Meissner for proposing this! His contribution has some lovely entries and you should go read it! My old harddrive had years of collected samples and photography on it. It died was killed by an incompetent computer repair...
As with basically everyone else with "Technologist" in their job title, I have Opinions™ on the proposed legislation from the UK government to ban under-16s from social media. While the Labour Party have, at time of writing, yet to...
8th June - 14th June Started using my 9x14 grid paper Moleskine this week and it's pretty awesome. It really needs a pen loop (on order) but otherwise near perfect for what I need! There are two maple saplings and two ash saplings...
I heard via ava and Manu that Rishabh had created a blogging challenge about AI usage so here I go, hopping on that bandwagon. How was your first experience with AI models? My earliest memory is messing around with image generators and...
Brand new Evanescence album! Exciting times! This Arkansas symphonic metal band pioneered the noughties alt-metal boom by blending American stadium rock sensibilities with cherry-picked classical elements to create something that failed...
Via Alexandra Dishing It Up ..., I'm answering Davey’s Dish Podcast Quick Fire Quiz; ten easy questions about delicious food! What is your favourite way to eat eggs? With my mouth? Poached is probably top of the list; too fiddly to...
1st June - 7th June The cabbage tree in the garden has begun to flower; the bees are beyond excited. I am grateful for the rain because it dampens the powerful stench of cat piss emanating from the tree. I don't know how Aotearoans cope!...
Following on from the enigmatic "Tape 05" earlier this year, Scottish electronica legends, Boards of Canada, have dropped a whole new album, "Inferno", which is –in a word– "lush". Sticking to their classic formula of chopped up spoken...
There's something prehistoric about the trees round here. They mark out boundaries of farming land but it's impossible to tell whether the trees or the farms came first. In all honesty, probably a bit of both; land will likely have been...
Happy New "Love Island" Day! 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.
Inspired, as so many are, by Robert, I'm going to attempt #Junited2026 — sharing one link to another blogger every day to celebrate some of the excellent writing out there. I may not make it but we can but try. Thanks for reading this...
25th May - 31st May As much as I was enjoying "Left Hand Of Darkness", it's not a holiday read. I didn't DNF it as much as set it aside for when I got home. I started to read a scandi-noir thriller (classic poolside fare) only to...
This interesting debut novel gripped me from the off with its "Virgin Suicides plus Carrie vibes". Rachel is an outsider in high school; mildly bullied but mostly ignored. A chance overhear of a death metal band plunges her into a world...
18th May - 24th May Hello to everyone but especially the teenage emo lesbian in this restaurant wearing Vans, stockings, and a "I ♥️ My Girlfriend" t-shirt who has clearly escaped from 2005. Nice work. The washing machine packed in...