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The CT90 exhaust system, although similar in appearance to the one used on the 6v C90, has different internals with fewer baffles and the addition of a Krizman spark arrester. The very early 'trial' models had a pea shooter exhaust exiting under the swing arm but in the mid 60s this was updated to an upswept version that exits close to the seat to help when crossing water (the model …

This is probably going to be short as this year is perhaps the most unproductive year I've ever had.As usual, I start this off with a compilation of monthly "highlights" that I've already listed in my monthly newsletter.January ⌨️ Got my first wireless mechanical keyboard. 👨‍🎨 Made a diagram with Excalidraw. 📹 Made a nice video. 🎮 Played around with some pretty cool UI (1) (2). February 💉 4th jab. …

❚ ONE OF THE GREATEST post-war crusading journalists has died after a lifetime of championing frank journalism and regularly criticising the mainstream media. In 2002, John Pilger said that “many journalists now are no more than channellers and echoers of … Continue reading →

Jay Gent wrote on We Are Cult: 2023: We Are Cult – A Year In Review ❉ Here’s a rundown of the 75 most popular articles we published in 2023! It’s been a vintage We Are Cult year for news, reviews and interviews covering some of the past twelve months’ most interesting independent, cult and classic media releases in pretty much every format bar 8-track cartridge and zoetrope, as well …

when you had sat down to just randomly looking at his scores while he was cooking. so you have a go and you get it wrong and he says and you hear him smiling, he says the one to the left. and so you work your way through the first line...and then he tells you to play them as chords and he comes over and shows it to you and …

WIP: Remains a work-in-progress for the year 2024. K My daughters are fascinated by strange things. Of course, the younger one is influenced by what her sister does. Five years ago, the elder one asked me to get Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. I started reading it, and left it. This year, I decided to finish reading the stories. Kwaidan (怪談) is a 1904 ghost …

Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬, 1599–1652 Great Ford on the Yellow River So, if the class makes1 I will be doing Late Imperial China in Spring. I was going to do a few weeks of basic stuff, do some Sanyan Stories, set up their research projects, and at the end do the Glory of The Qing and have them read Soulstealers. This is a pretty social and cultural and economic class, and …

[warning - a bit of long post] Well, here we are! The end of 2023! It seems like only yesterday that we were starting to hear some whispers about this thing called "ChatGPT," but it was in fact about a year ago, and as you know we moved pretty quickly through that hype cycle. Don't worry, this entire YIR (year in review) won't be about ChatGPT 😂. As I was …

Annual year in review: 2023 edition.

Back in 2014, I was invited to join the AGU Blogosphere to post about geoscience education and educational technology (see my very first post, Join the Trek to explore Geoscience Education). Over time, as my career interests and experiences expanded, my posts included science communication and the creative arts. I shared conference summaries, field experiences, best practices on inclusive pedagogy, and more. I’ve posted 428 blog entries, with this being …

We're almost out of 2023!This year has been the 30th Anniversary of Risus: The Anything RPG, the 20th Anniversary of The Risus Companion, and the 10th Anniversary of Risus 2nd Edition.As I write this, we're at the end of December, and I feel like I should raise a glass to Risus before the year is done. I've kept quiet so far because I think it would be unseemly, nowadays, for …

"What I often find as I make my way through the year in books is that I am prone to zig-zagging between different styles and genres. I couldn’t imagine reading the same type of book all year, even if I adored that particular type."

How to serve protomaps tiles with NodeJS.

While working on a changelog-generation script for my vsvg project, I wanted to display the list of contributors as circular avatars, just like GitHub does in multiple places. After a few Google searches and some failed attempts, I identified a couple of key tricks. The first is about obtaining the avatar image for a given GitHub account. Although the URL is hard to predict, adding .png to the account page …