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A Warren Buffett 'aphorism' from the FT.

At this point we may have recorded all of the instrumental parts. I mean, we reserve the right to add a trombone here or a french horn there, maybe a synth part, etc., but for now we have got all the instruments recorded according to the current plan. Next month we’ll work on backing and […]

Last year, I bought a Raleigh Randonneur touring frame, which I used as my commuting bike for work. For a while, it was brilliant, but last winter was pretty hard on it, and there were parts of the frame that weren’t properly painted or protected from the elements. So it got rusty, parts broke, and at the start of this year I abandoned it in favour of a NoLogo singlespeed. …

I know nothing about Deleuze and I’m not sure I know anymore after this but I learnt some things about cute / a book written by Oliver Sack’s partner about New York / public sector backlogs / a 2009 interview with umberto eco / increasing the accessibility of Powerpoint slides / Sono Electro 2024 Festival is coming up and run by a friend / the compositional device of Rückenfigur / …

Noren 415 / 514 This is a thing I've been working on since last year. The first time I made this image it was on the wooden palette that a block of frozen fish had been packaged with. Eventually it became a pen and ink drawing. Then a hoodie. And then a t-shirt. Both the hoodie and the t-shirt were unwelcome windows on to the limitations of contemporary print-on-demand textile …

“UW HUB Stop” by Oran Viriyincy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. This is a revised examination of a measurement of how individual transit routes contribute to overall access in Seattle. The first attempt was subject to a computational error that caused incorrect figures to be reported for certain routes. This iteration fixes that issue, and also uses updated schedules for King County Metro and Sound Transit that will take …

I carried out a preliminary excursion a few days in advance of Terminalia. I wanted to check if there was any safe and legal route I could take from the Beech Woods to Fulbourn Road. The Beech Woods are immediately South of the Worts Causeway, a road which sits on the boundary of the City and South Cambs District, at the Southern extremity of Cherry Hinton City Council Ward. But …

15 years ago I wrote about the names I give to devices I plug into my Mac:Macintosh has been associated with Apple since the launch of its original all-in-one computer in 1984, reportedly named after the pocket-sized McIntosh apple cultivar. So when it comes to providing names for the external devices I plug into my Mac (backup drives, iPods and my iPhone for example) it seemed like a good idea …

If you’ve been considering backing the Magick Show project on Kickstarter, you’ve got just 24 hours to go (depending on the time you are reading this of course.) It’s been a fun and super-rewarding process. Old friends—many who...

WHAT I SMELL: L’ÂME D’IRIS opens with a tender embrace of cashmere iris, warmed by a subtle kiss of mandarin. Dreamy from the first spritz, it feels like a celestial whisper. As time unfolds, the soft perfume is gently powdered with violet, replacing the mandarin’s sparkle. A familiar note of makeup emerges, fresh and promising, hinting at a glamorous evening ahead. Yet, this is no ordinary night; it’s an opera-worthy …

I do want to write about stock-picking. Because that morning, I had checked in on my portfolio. I finally got around to calling old 401k institutions to rollover the funds from old workplaces into a Traditional 401k. When I scrolled through my accounts, one stock caught my eye. I saw it and laughed. The post The Stock Pick That Tanked first appeared on Financial Mechanic.

2024 is another good year for stone fruit: peaches and apricots have been flavourful and juicy, and our two plum trees are overflowing at the moment. I was surprised that I’ve never blogged about this crisp before, because it’s so good that I’ve made several over the past few weeks. The recipe is from an old Cook’s Illustrated (July/Aug 1998). Most crisp toppings have oatmeal, but this one recommends not-too-finely …

I love cemeteries, those museums not mentioned in guidebooks, which often tell a different kind of history than the official one. Their stones have often been written with different letters, in a different language, with different terms, and sacralized with religious symbols different from those customary in the city today. Their style and motifs follow a standardized set of forms, which are nevertheless almost made private and intimate, and tell …

One can choose to focus on the car crash, or the lessons learned from the car crash. Let’s do a little of both. The proposition of the Living Computer Museum was initially simple, and rather amusing in a Slashdot-baity sort of way: You could apply to get an account on a real, actual ancient Mainframe hooked up to the Internet, which meant you could literally connect into real, actual ancient …

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