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I’ve offered Unoffice Hours for a little over five years. I’m often asked about the experience of running them, and what I get from it. The short answer is: it’s overwhelming been a positive experience. Someone I was chatting to in a...
Putting together this most recent bite-sized family history project, Sis and I had an abundance of photos and ideas. The trick was to streamline the project by selecting some of the photos, not all of the photos--and some of the info,...
The 2026 football World Cup tournament has been cornering a little piece of my attention currently. But only a little bit. Being Cornish, I am of course supporting Mexico1. You may have expected me to be supporting England, but that...
Six potatoes. Forty-seven pounds. Ceremonial water sold separately. A brief investigation into what happens when wellness marketing gets hold of a vegetable. There is a potato. This should not be complicated. It grows in the ground. You...
This post from years back still makes me smile. I hope you’ll also enjoy it again! Not every juicy morsel works in every recipe. As a writer, I often come across something meaty, think, HUH! and then drag the link to a rarely visited...
Welcome to our Work in Progress Wednesday Quar Special We’ve had a number of members getting into playing Cash of Rhyfles and collecting Quar miniatures this year, we thought we should do a blog post all about it. We start with my Quar,...
I decided to take part in 100DaysToOffload to encourage me to write more, and to be more consistent with my blog. Throughout the first six months of 2026 I have not missed a single Week Note post and I am insanely proud of myself for not...
Travelers Point DistilleryCanon PowerShot A4952026 The weekend after Margaret’s birthday we spent a lovely Saturday hiking through Turkey Run State Park. It’s one of those places you must visit if ever you visit Indiana. It’s...
I can’t carry it for you… but I can carry you! – Samwise Gamgee, on the virtues of piggyback If you’ve ever fired up a ClojureScript REPL from your editor and it just worked, there’s a decent chance Piggieback was quietly doing the heavy...
“A sealed scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, has finally given up its secrets, thanks to a combination of machine learning and high-resolution CT scans....
It’s so fucking hot. As I’m writing this, I have a couple of deadlines for writing projects that are approaching at the speed of panic. My plan was to come to town today, grab lunch and sit down and write. But it’s so hot my thoughts...
I like Fano 3-folds. I like them so much that I created Fanography! One thing which I found intriguing in the story one aspect of the details of the Mori–Mukai classification that is not often mentioned. Namely, at the very end of their...
A selection of quotes and pictures to represent June’s reading: commonplace book noun a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use. ~ ‘When you think about it, everyone’s life’s a prison – of days, sort...
Generated by Gemini modified by Ian We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed reading the rule of the super rich on hearing about gig working nurses and is W social European and open...