Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
A Gen-X/Millennial cusp (Xennial), I'm old enough to remember life before the internet but not (quite) old enough to have seen Nirvana live. Or, as my wife puts it, I adapt to technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer.
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I am an absolute sucker for female protagonist urban fantasy surrounding books and libraries, and this is a good example of that sub-sub-sub-genre. Sitting in the Venn diagram intersection of library-based urban fantasy and disabled...
We had packed lunches every day for 10 years and retired at 40 Auntie Beeb Just reading an article about the FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early) movement and I have Opinions™. First, my obligatory declaration that I'm not...
22nd June - 28th June Midsummer. Summer Solstice. The start of Summer. The beginning of H1. The end of Q2. Whatever you want to call it, we've hit the halfway point. Week 26. And, as some of you in the UK may be aware, it's a tad warmer...
This book is simply incredible — epic in its scale; a scale matched only by the darkness of the veil, the brief glimpses you get of its vastness. Like soft wan milky starlight illuminating the corners and edges of a building so enormous...
Thanks to James over on the Coffee Blog for this pure noughties nostalgia quiz — Blogger Archetype Quiz. I answered the ten simple-ish questions and was duly informed of my archetype; shared below. What I love about these quizzes, as I...
Ansel Adams is one of the world's most famous landscape photographers with an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society and photographs blasted into space as a record of human artistic greatness. He famously documented the...
15th June - 21st June They're spreading manure this week — the whole village stinks. Why is it always the week we need to leave the windows open‽ Freshly mown fields are like catnip for buzzards. Big, hovering predators –like US drones...
No search engine or AI model will be able to answer the questions that are most important on a personal level: the existential ones. Robert Birming Robert touching here on the contradiction of contemporary "always on" society; a culture...
Thanks to David Meissner for proposing this! His contribution has some lovely entries and you should go read it! My old harddrive had years of collected samples and photography on it. It died was killed by an incompetent computer repair...
As with basically everyone else with "Technologist" in their job title, I have Opinions™ on the proposed legislation from the UK government to ban under-16s from social media. While the Labour Party have, at time of writing, yet to...
8th June - 14th June Started using my 9x14 grid paper Moleskine this week and it's pretty awesome. It really needs a pen loop (on order) but otherwise near perfect for what I need! There are two maple saplings and two ash saplings...
I heard via ava and Manu that Rishabh had created a blogging challenge about AI usage so here I go, hopping on that bandwagon. How was your first experience with AI models? My earliest memory is messing around with image generators and...
Brand new Evanescence album! Exciting times! This Arkansas symphonic metal band pioneered the noughties alt-metal boom by blending American stadium rock sensibilities with cherry-picked classical elements to create something that failed...
Via Alexandra Dishing It Up ..., I'm answering Davey’s Dish Podcast Quick Fire Quiz; ten easy questions about delicious food! What is your favourite way to eat eggs? With my mouth? Poached is probably top of the list; too fiddly to...
1st June - 7th June The cabbage tree in the garden has begun to flower; the bees are beyond excited. I am grateful for the rain because it dampens the powerful stench of cat piss emanating from the tree. I don't know how Aotearoans cope!...