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At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 81-82: Most assuredly, it was time for an entirely new route. Petermann had read Silas Bent’s …...
It's not very often that I get feedback on the blog posts I write. Some of my friends have the distinct privilege (or curse?) of hashing out my ideas over the course of days, weeks, months, sometimes years before they ever become posts,...
UpdatesWork remains in a holding pattern. Layoffs were announced weeks ago and we're still waiting on the specifics. Who stays, who goes, what the new shape looks like. Everyone is planning in the abstract, running scenarios, having...
Fantastic Film Festival Australia, 23 April to 15 May.Film festival mode is now complete having been to Lido to see another 30 movies since Hokum. I keep the film reviews and reflections to my Letterboxd account so I won't be repeating...
As part of my book group I have compiled a few “Top 10” or “Top 5” lists and some of these have been very hard to put together, as invariably I have so many books I want to include. To date there are lists for my favourite 1920s, 1930s...
Earlier this year I decided to host a small game day for the contributors of Lautapeliopas. I’ve been doing yoga, and the yoga school rents out the place. It’s a lovely place and good for small gatherings. For the first game day on...
This is the seventh in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. T Earlier posts explored, how this project started, the method, the role of wonder and beauty, the craft, how scientists think,...
What right has a “personal fortune” to be anything but working capital? The time is here when the commanding law is, “to whom much is given, of him shall much be required.” Henry Ford The post Personal Fortune first appeared on Joel...