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I have been missing in action for a couple of weeks. I apologize for my tardiness, but I have been busy with personal matters. Both my heart and mind were not in it. Anyway, this week I have some great (and fun) pieces that I enjoyed...
On 25th June I need to travel from France to Berlin. One option is to take the once daily direct train from Paris Est to Berlin Hbf. Here's the timetable and the price of that train from SNCF:And here is the same connection on the same day
Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate anxiety—into a single ideological system fueled by...
Kieran Healey – a man who does some truly fascinating things with sociology, data visualization, and the intersection between sociology and data visualization – some years ago used the data available from the NYC government’s open-data...
I’m slowly working on two music-related projects.
After my experience with the underwhelming American Girl advent calendar, I wasn't sure if I'd be tempted back to the brand any time soon. However, I'm a sucker for new things, and lately American Girl has decided to do something new....
AI-generated, one-shot from the blog title via Gemini (Nano Banana). × AI-generated, one-shot from the blog title via Gemini (Nano Banana). There’s a version of this story where I move everything to Europe in one go and write a...
This Sunday morning I am thinking about multimedia cd-roms by musicians in the 90s and thinking: “did they play Myst?” I do not care about if any musician was actually a gamer, but because I am a huge dork I keep thinking about the band...
Today the Arsenal, the 180-year-old British football club won the Premier League after 22 years. The lesson I took away from it was that it's never ever done.
Heatwave! ☀️ We’re enjoying some wonderful weather this week and it’s fantastic to get out into it! Bank holiday weekend as well so Monday off 🥳 🏠 More home stuff...
Memorial Day Cabin Weekend You might remember that Patrick’s words for 2026 were “Adjust and Adapt” and mine is “Resilience.” So here was a great chance to put this into practice. Sometimes, your cabin plans are not what your cabin has...