Personal blogs

More from Sign Here. Thanks for all the orders and shares – much appreciated! The only time I have see the word ‘injurious’, in Skegness. From Pontefract’s marvellous Liquorice Festival. A favourite sign from Byres …

For writers, artists, podcasters, journalists, and people who make things in public, Twitter was the one social networking site we all had to use. It’s as if Twitter has been stretched out across the map …

Over at Sentiers, I’ve turned some of the different “buckets” of writing into just a blog and I’ve been writing a bit there, if you want to follow that too. I might include the RSS …

I was crying after reading the news of Yukihiro Takahashi’s passing. He was a crooner. I love his voice, in the same vibe as Roxy Music’s Brian Ferry. His original music embraced electronic and mid-century …

Located in Anaheim, California, Spradrom Estates was a $7.5 million development of 486 homes that broke ground in 1956. It’s still there. Hundreds of housing developments were built across the Southern California landscape in the …

The Full Pint monthly link pour.

It’s been over a year since I quit smoking, so it’s probably safe for me to write about it with some confidence. I liked smoking You are meant to find your first cigarette disgusting. But …

Following an Arch Linux system update, I only had Dummy Audio output. I’m using pipewire and pipewire-pulse (for pulseaudio). Through investigating systemctl entries, I noticed a concerning error: ○ wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager …

Al principio de la semana hago Cmd+Tab y me meto en un taller de escritura donde, como en The Whale, el instructor se esconde tras un rectángulo opaco, y donde, a diferencia de The Whale, …

Lupin heading out for his twice-daily walk. On this Lunar New Year’s Day, I’m very happy to share that we’ve welcomed in a new family member. Please say hello to Lupin III, or Lupin for …

One of my fitness goals for 2023 basically entails me getting my shit together and nailing a consistent gym routine, and as such I’ve given up alcohol for the year (again). My journey to (and …

Hot and sunny at Hōkio (30C), after the rain #Hōkio #hokiobeach #sun #summer #heat #AfterTheRain #horowhenua

Back from Vegas. Lost $100. Tried to hide from the rain. Ended up getting my ears pierced, and learned I have really meaty lobes when I could hear the needle go through the cartilage. I …

I typed my doctoral dissertation in 1978 on my last electric typewriter, a sturdy IBM Model B. My soon-to-be wife was writing hers out long hand, which I was then typing up. Then one day …

Roman concrete was durable and self-repairing, and quite a bit of it is still around, whereas modern concrete’s lifespan can be measured in decades. The assumption had been that this because of a key ingredient: …

There’s a certain frustrating joy in fiddling with the details of a thing so as to improve the formatting of the new thing you’ve just added to your site, and discovering that a side effect …

Why are you here? If you come here for cool links on the web, not so many these days. My cool links are building bud.com. I was interviewed about our work in weed tech by …

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Taken during yesterdays running commute to the office. The weather has made running an adventure. The day before (?) I was wading through ice cold water that was up past my ankles, yesterday I was …