I have spent a chunk of time in therapy. Often, when trying to explain my thought processes, I gravitate towards metaphors that have their roots in a domain in which I am more comfortable: physics & maths & earth science. This means I have found myself explaining the inverse-square law, or the geologic principle of...

Whilst I can appreciate the strength and technique, I don't find speed climbing particularly captivating to watch. In fact, I think it's quite dull. The route never changes and each race is over in five seconds. To me, it feels more like a muscle memory competition. Having just watched the first three rounds of the...

i can't afford a what? a geochron[1] what am i going to do about it? get a high paying job[2] make one myself[3] get a raspberry pi & a small screen and make a little digital version[4] write some wobbly code to change my desktop background every 5 minutes[5] what i did about it skip to the output. No offense taken....

This is the list I mentioned in my previous post, which I am leaving here, because, why not? started a black and white version of this map either for use with the pen plotter, or be cyanotyped a map of Cima Presanella sonifying some glaciological data paused swedish tables[1] in the terminal i've started & paused...

happy equinox [1]To all those who celebrate. A few days ago, in a moment of mild frustration, I listed my works in progress, or projects[2], and roughly organised them into four categories. not yet started / ideas started paused abandonned notethe line between started and paused is a bit fuzzy. the line between...

I made a gallery. And I think I've finished tinkering with it. It's static. There ain't no js here. motivation To have somewhere to put my maps. And maybe, maybe, this will motivate me to make a few more. At the moment it is mostly populated with ones made during the last two 30 Day Map Challenges. assistance I...

links a very cool game: The Evolution of Trust mapping OpenFreeMap: a nifty way to for getting OpenStreetMap tiles Mapterhorn: public terrain tiles webmap viz. Will inc. High-res of Europe. Chronotrains: everyone loves trains. And who doesn't like isochrones? I got pretty excited about this new geomorphological map....

.hike { font-family: 'Nimbus Mono PS', 'Courier New', monospace; font-weight: normal; } preamble Firstly. Let me apologisfe for the length of this post. It is long enough that I feel it needs a preamble. Secondly. In addition to the usual content warning this deeply personal post mentions suicide, self-harm,...

Tomorrow evening we leave for Italy. Thankfully. At last. The journey is both long and quite straightforward. One huge day and then an easy few hours, on the next. The possibility of doing it in a single day is tantalisingly close, but it just doesn't work. At least not whilst living in Scotland[1]. sleeper It...

It's July. That means the tour is on. That's a good thing. I read this piece on watching the tour de france a few days ago, which does a good job of explaining the tour's appeal to those who might not get it. Bonus points for referencing Tim Krabbé's The Rider. I have faint memories of watching the occassional stage...

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why The below post on mastodon by goat farmer & astronomer Prof. Sam Lawler got me thinking. Post by @sundogplanets@mastodon.social View on Mastodon It made me wonder how far back does the collective memory, or willingness to search, stretch? Roughly. rough plan get a big dump of articles from a single journal,...