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As a title, Why Am I So Single? has the potential to elicit one of two responses: some people will be like a moth to a flame, and others will run a mile in the opposite direction. But hold on and don’t judge a book by its cover (or a musical by its title), as this new Marlow & Moss production is ultimately the story of two friends who discover …

With Robert Recorde (c. 1510–1558) and John Dee (1527–c. 1608), we have already looked at two mathematical practitioners, who were among the first to publish mathematical texts in the vernacular in sixteenth century England. A third member of this group was Leonard Digges (c.1515–c. 1559) who was a friend of Dee’s. Usually, if Leonard is known at all, it is as the father of Thomas Digges (c. 1546–1595) a much …

One of these is not like the other two This week I found out that fake chimneys are a thing.I was walking past a building site and noticed a couple of chimney stacks sitting on the scaffolding. My first thought was that they were pre-assembled, but then I realised, why would you do that? That would make them extremely difficult to install. Also, after a little more pondering, this site …

The Janus Stone – Elly Griffiths Another investigation with Dr Ruth Galloway and DCI ‘Baby Daddy’ Harry Nelson, this time in Norwich where an old children’s home is being demolished to make way for flats…. and a child’s body is unearthed. Delighted to find Cathbad is still around and in a slightly more positive and hopefully permanent role. I’d reserved the next in the series from the library but I’m …

Starting from Leyton I headed out for a walk with no destination in mind in the spirit of a classic dérive or drift following my nose and being guided by my feet.“So make up your mind to be bound by no programme, to travel with complete irresponsibility, to start nowhere in particular, and the odds are that you will catch a glimpse of England that is vouchsafed only to the …

(One of my summaries of the Dutch PyUtrecht meetup in Utrecht, NL). Joris started out as a bond trader, with his MSc in financial management. So definitively no programmer by education. Bond trading meant shouting on the stock market's floor, something that was in risk of being automated. So he moved on. In his case to Reuters, one of the two big financial information suppliers. Later he started using python …

"A microsecond passes, / I’m in memory’s territory— / a glazed light over alien shapes, / the land always speaking to me"

Ok, there are three kinds of mystery in stories--Classic 'What's Gonna Happen?' Mystery (diegetic mystery)This is a mystery to both the audience and the main characters in the story: They are wondering how events will play out (or, in the case of a Sherlock-Holmes-style-mystery have played out). What will happen to Jack, Wendy, and Danny in the Overlook Hotel is a 'What's Gonna Happen?" Mystery, as is who framed Roger …

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What’s up, Internet? In the continued efforts to keep our young family entertained on the weekends we decended upon the Wellington Brick Show 2024 put on by the Wellington Lego User Group. If you think that all we do is attend Lego shows and exhibits, well, we don’t… There’s just a few of them on around the country at the moment 😛 We all really enjoyed the show. There was …

This weathervane was photographed from our hotel room window in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.This was our view from our hotel window, the Marriott Renaissance, located between Independence Hall and the Museum of the American Revolution. It was a beautiful, gilded weathervane, and it took a long time on Google Maps and the internet to figure out which historic building had this weathervane. Finally we discovered it was atop the Merchant Exchange Building. …

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It's rare for me to even mention anything with an internal combustion engine in relationship with PNAERC, but on occasion, something pops up that's cool enough that even I can't manage to find it uninteresting. And so, courtesy of some timely photos and information from our friend Bill Wall, I present the Evans Auto-Railer.Back in the 1930s, there was a small market for rail buses, with many of the examples …

The settlement of Hampstead sits within the London Borough of Camden, in north London, and is one of the capital city's most exclusive and expensive places to live. In fact Hampstead village has the highest concentration of millionaires in the country. The geology of the area meant that natural springs were present. Hampstead had its own Chalybeate spring (meaning the water had a high iron content), and this was regarded …