Like many projects, this one was abandonned for a while. But it’s (mostly) done now. solarigraphy Solarigraphy is the photographic practice of using a pinhole camera to capture an image of the sun’s path over days-weeks-months-years. Typically it uses regular B&W photo paper[1] for capturing the image. And...

Not always, but sometimes when I need[1] to concentrate™, I put some music/noise on. Either through headphones or the speaker. FIP often fills silence satisfactorily. Brown noise also works. Sometimes I turn to youtube for long background tracks like the ten-hour long White Noise Sounds of Frozen Arctic Ocean with...

I am currently reading Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers by Paulina Rowińska.[1] Chapter 4 — Distanced — starts by discussing homeomorphic representations that distort distances but preserve connections, such as Harry Beck's map of the London Underground. This leads into a brief section critiquing...

I was coaxed out of the house.[1] We went to Jupiter Artland for a walk around the sculpture park. Glorious weather: blue skies and fluffly clouds. A few hours spent walking through the woodland with big bits of art to look at very few minutes. Personal favourites include (in no particular order): Stone Coppice and...

outside I went up a hill, two hills in fact, for the first time in a long time. Driesh and Mayar, a pair of Munros in Glen Clova. Near whiteout conditions were enjoyed on both summits along with some haribo tangfastics. ⛶↗ Fig 0: above Corrie Fee, looking back at where I'd come from. made of meat When emptying the...

I was thinking about something else[1] when the small matter of the volume of water in a lake came to mind. I looked at a map and waded into some murky waters. Of unknown depth. notethis post was better in my head. sorry os What can you see in Fig 0? ⛶↗ Fig 0: Loch Treig and Loch Ossian from OS Landranger 42OS Crown...

Not a lot. I think. I am still hopelessly in love with this peanut rayu, and I'm currently enjoying reading (very slowly) A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-ran.[1] ill I was snotty for a week and a bit. That halted the running & cycling & climbing discipline of last month. I have just come back from my first climb in a...

Am I doing a poor imiation of what garmin and strava already do? Yes. Am I learning. Yes. Am I having fun. Mostly yes. I think. I should hope so. garth In my previous post on the matter, I mentioned that my silly little CLI would not have the the ability to auto-magically sync. And I was wrong. Having dug into what...

Some thoughts having watched a bit of the coverage.[1] ice hockey What a bonkers sport. I love it. I wonder how far the puck travels over the course of a single game? I like that they can go behind the goal. The goal appears to be very small. Quite how the players (and camera operators) can track the puck during a...

A while ago I listed some of my works in progress. Last week I unpaused one of them (again). Namely, making a database and interface for interacting with all of my running, cycling and hiking .gpx and .fit files. It feels like quite a big job. So I am going to endeavour to break it into small(ish), manageable(ish)...

What happened[1] over the last four and a bit weeks? I started doing a bit more exercise after a too long hiatus. A friend came to stay and made some ramen and it is my new favourite thing to eat. I had it for lunch, and will be having some leftovers shortly. Actually, that's not true, my new favourite thing to eat...

For the third year I am participating in the #30DayMapChallenge. Creating a map per day for the whole of November is challenging. The challenge is in finding the sweet spot between doable,[1] and worth doing. Worth is a moving target. If I learn something new—a technique, a new-to-me matplotlib feature, anything in...