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What’s wrong with mindfulness? Why do companies make everything worse? And why do we still work for them? I’ve got answers! Please continue to my website to read the post. Sorry about that. If you're …

403: You are not authorized to access this material Or using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots · October 18th, 2024 U G H. For some reason my quaint little piece of …

Bluesky is having A Moment right now, and my feed is getting busier with games industry folks. It’s lovely! I’m a little sad Mastodon didn’t get the same love but Bluesky is undoubtedly easier to …

Frodingham Deltic no. 20214 on shed at Haverthwaite. Genuine Frodingham Deltic at Haverthwaite yesterday! We’re in Cumbria for a well earned break, there’s not been much modelling of late, hopefully things will pick up soon!

Late summer up on the Long Pound has morphed into autumn, with some lively gales stirring up the canal and turning the hard-baked towpath back to mud. It's getting time to be dropping down through …

Thirteen years ago, my wife Dimitra wrote a children’s story about a magical kite for the teacher training course she was doing in England. Today is Clean Monday, a day when Greeks traditionally fly kites, …

After a solitary spin, I think I borrowed my friend Duer's copy of Iron Maiden's second album, Killers in 1981 ... and I'm honestly not sure I ever gave it back (sorry, Du), besotted with …

Third Stop Readers: With this third stop we’ve covered Tour 1 of Excursion 1. My slides from the first LSE meeting in 2020 which dealt with elements of Excursion 1 can be found at the …

I recently read the New York Times headline: “Trump Tries to Rewrite History of Jan. 6 in Campaign’s Final Stretch.” The phrase “Rewrite History” jumped out at me because Nat Goldberg and I published a …

Marcel Proust? Alexander Pope? Frederick A. Blossom? Sydney Schiff? Apocryphal? Illustration of a price tag from Pixabay Question for Quote Investigator: A prominent literary figure disapproved of intellectual works filled with abstract discourse and archetypal …

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I'm amazed to read that Bob Yerkes just died at the age of 92. Why is that amazing? Because Bob Yerkes spent his life diving out of windows, dangling by cables, swinging on trapezes, clinging …

Snow cover extent on Mount Shasta glacier as the melt season ends in 2024. Oct. 15, 2024 Sentinel image, red dots indicate outline of snowcover areas ~25% of glacier area. In 2021 and 2022 winters …