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It is July! Domink Schwind recently wrote "Too Personal", mainly in response to how a friend told him "that week notes aren’t for him as they are too personal." This got me thinking about my own writing on this blog as well. I have...
Corner of Deansgate Market Street Piccadilly Gardens Piccadilly Railway Station Manchester city centre is always an interesting place to visit, and on Saturdays is always a busy place too. I guess everybody has their favourite spots, and...
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various analyses of strings. (Note that this ends today.)
For six months I’ve been trying to hedge my (and my family’s) access to intelligence. Open models, local inference, a box on my desk that runs a decent model without asking anyone’s permission, you know, the kind of things you’ve seen me...
1-01 The Harry South Orchestra– The Sweeney (Main Theme)1-02 Rose Royce– Car Wash1-03 Tom Scott– Gotcha1-04 Marvin Gaye– Trouble Man (Main Theme)1-05 Henry Mancini– The Return Of The Pink Panther1-06 Isaac Hayes– Theme From Shaft1-07...
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When I served as a superintendent, I fired a teacher for giving an A to every student he taught. George D. was a high school social studies teacher in Arlington (VA) when I led the district (1974-1981). In the Fall of 1976, one of our...
Graph of y = (x + 1) / x, as rendered by KmPlot Inf% When I type the first few words of any article, something incredible happens. Wanna see? Here's this article before I wrote any words: Here's this article again, after I've written the...
Daylight Music is a wonderful concept: lunchtime concerts concentrated into a two-hour time slot in churches. It started in the Union Chapel in Islington, where I played and where I met Robert Rotifer and Ian Button, actually. They were...
Market Street Jazz I Market Street Jazz II Market Street Jazz III Market Street Jazz IV What a treat to listen to a really good live jazz band.
The first Friday in July saw a group of pub enthusiasts gather on the Notts/Derby border for a trek around half-a-dozen venues in the village of Sawley.This is home to over 6,600 folks, a marina, a golf club, and an impressive nine pubs...
The second Lone Wolf gamebook, Fire on the Water, is quite heavy on setting up the series' lore, and features an expansive plot where Lone Wolf must travel halfway across the Lastlands to retrieve the fabled Sommerswerd. Perhaps because...
There's a pattern to 1987's indie chart I've appreciated experiencing slowly, and in depth, as I've written this blog. It starts with business as usual and lots of abrasive indie guitar bands topping the listings, then slowly morphs as...
After the gloomy wet days, today sprung like an unexpected flashbulb of perfectness. It was cold, but it was warm…if you know what I mean. Here is a spray of photos I took whilst walking amongst the Christmas in July markets.
I’m pretty confident that the majority of my fellow bloggers and readers – at least those few who even bother to read my posts – probably shake their heads at my music tastes and that’s okay, as each of us likes what we like at the end...