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At a glance, Dekitate High School appears to be an intriguing bundle of bits. There’s a dash of Princess Maker-like raising sims in the way I’m expected to guide one teenage girl through three crucial years of her education. The...
Last year I got myself a PO Box and started asking Internet strangers to send me a postcard, if they liked, rather than plain old email and contact forms. Since then, I’ve enjoyed an occasional surprise “postcard from the Internet”, and...
Photo by Milad Fakurian on UnsplashImagine you wanted to design a machine that would pull the maximum possible amount of money out of a person terrified of dying. You wouldn’t build it around the interventions that work. The...
So apparently there’s this new film, right, called “Young Washington”, and at the end of it, Kelsey Grammer talks directly to the audience. It’s not as if the film is breaking the fourth wall with a character suddenly turning to us, it’s...
I made a timelapse animation of sea level from 1993 to 2022. Do you notice the sea level seesaw in the Pacific during ENSO? Fascinating, isn’t it! What else do you observe? Sea level data: Fournier S., Willis J., Killett E., Qu Z. and...
I can't recall if someone else originally came up with this saying or if I said it in some off-the-cuff comment and it just propagated, but since it's often attributed back to me, I'll relay it here regardless:Trying to delete yourself...
Now there are certain doors in life that are never meant to be opened. For me it's Groundhog Day having worked in automotive design for such a long time, but Area 57 (Sam's own words) within an automotive design studio is one of them.A...
This is a big free festival in Twickenham. I will be playing at 1 p.m. in the Eel Pie Pub, joined on the day by Ruth Tidmarsh, Lester Square and Karina Townsend
My favourite of the three Brontë sisters has always been Emily; although I love Charlotte’s Jane Eyre and Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, I love Wuthering Heights more and I also find Emily herself the most interesting and intriguing...
Friday 26 Jun 26 was International Day here & up the hill. Θ, my old roomie at The Institute, announced that she was bringing here research team away from the Mean Streets of SmallTown, Midlands . . . to get some fresh air and see some...
Reading Time: 44 minutes Does it feel like a good idea to encourage a country with a not-insignificantly-problematic relationship to booze, a general vibe that might best be described as ‘a bit febrile’, and where the link between ‘poor...
It really hasn't been that long since my last update on not drinking alcohol this year, but this week I hit the six-month milestone and I wanted to reflect a bit on this achievement as I felt a lot more strongly than I had expected to,...
If you’re looking for the kind of easy, comforting supper that makes everyone at the table smile, these Garlic Butter Grilled Cheese Dogs are about to become a new favourite. They take everything we love about a classic grilled cheese...
30 unblogged things I did in June Mon 1: Unblogged May got fewer than 20 comments, easily the smallest response yet, so either I wrote about dull things or perhaps this feature has run its course after eight years. Tue 2: The rain was so...
For a while I assumed the relationship was simply doomed. Photography requires patience: you develop a project over months without knowing whether it’s working, improvement arrives slowly, the feedback loop runs on timescales that...