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I trust you haven’t been sitting on the edge of your comfy chairs, waiting for the next instalment of my travels. To continue where I left off, I was on my way to Aberdeen. My friend and I flew out the next day, she to the US and I to...
There’s a rather popular flavor of social media content focused on helping unhoused people. The creator will give out sleeping bags, socks, and care kits; sit down and have a meal; or take the unhoused person shopping. Sometimes they...
Been a bit church heavy on the last few blogs, but not to worry, there is more old metal and concrete from WWII posts coming soon. Specifying this church as 'Old St Bartholomews' as there is a Victorian era St Bartholomew’s built up the...
What do you do when you find your family doing something very wrong, but they have so much power over you that you cannot do anything about it? Rules You cannot speak up. There is no changing their behaviour. There is no one else who can...
A good friend, Chuck Hooper, passed away on August 11, 2026. Chuck was 81 years old. Born February 9, 1945, he was a product of 1950s America. Confident, independent, and unafraid. Chuck Hooper, Craig Bloodworth, Joe Mako I met Chuck in...
Die with memories, not dreams.Aamir Sarfraz (via)
Crabgrass is lounging across the lawn and embedded in the garden beds, acting as if it had been there all along, which perhaps it was, abiding and biding its August time to stretch and lie languid, ducking its head under my mower, its...
There´s been news recently of AI escaping contaiment and hacking ito system where they noplace being. It suddenly reminds me of a movie I recenty watched.
Yesterday it was my son’s 7th birthday party. He had four friends over (and one younger sibling) and they had a blast. They tore through our house and garden like a whirlwind of giggles, shouts and squeals. My boy had looked forward to...
A green hot air balloon with the words “Flying Brothers” floats in a cloudy sky with patches of blue. 📷 209/365 - High in the sky.
There many examples of families of functions where each function can be computed as a linear combination of the two previous terms where a and b are functions of x but not on n. This is called a three-term recurrence formula. It’s...
Piu - MilaoModular synths and Moogs blend beautifully with raga and field recordings on Milao, the latest from Vancouver Island-based Priyanka Chakrabarti, who records under the Piu moniker. The album’s 12 tracks go way beyond gimmick,...
Probability density function must integrate to 1, and so if you know a density function up to a constant, the constant is determined. When you’re looking at a probability density f(x) for the first time, it helps to ignore the...
I played music on my little purple iPod Mini during the last two hours of the ride home, and Undertow by Lush got stuck in my head. At the time this album came out I wasn’t all that into Lush but over time I’ve come to appreciate the...
The last word! The Nava New Model mandolin and its happy owner!Cheers Gary