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I’ve been thinking for some time whether to renew my (expired) British passport, and finally decided to do so. No longer being resident in the UK I thought this would require a trip to the Embassy in Dublin, but that isn’t the case these...
It's day 3 of the 6 week school holiday for our little D. We are just at the start of the summer period, so we have a lot of time in front of us before school starts again. And every year it's the time of year I dread the most... I don't...
Yesterday the idea popped into my head to buy a cheap GoPro knock-off for recording video of my bike rides. That idea grew from reading Terence Eden's post, I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C. There are good enough...
This comes to you from a field in Gloucestershire, at the end of day two of my human-powered journey to Electromagnetic Field. Much of the week has been taken up with polishing my talk for the festival. I find writing a talk to be one of...
How much does federally funded R&D benefit the economy? Sheila Campbell, Jaeger Nelson, Eli Schrag, Heidi Williams, and Caleb Wroblewski work through some ways of answering that question in “Estimating the Economic Effects of Federally...
i’m traveling for work and i chose to take the train, but it’s HOT and American infrastructure is crumbling so it’s been delayed three times!! i did have a handful of great interactions with strangers, so it’s not all bad. also sent out...
Observing shadows. Another singular-image day. Taken right when I started the morning commute.
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1159/magic-portal
At the beginning of the year, I made a 26 for 26, which is a list of 26 mini-goals for 2026. Here they are with their status. I use for done, for easy, for hard but possible, for probably will not get done. Bench my weight: getting...
It took a few iterations, but I did it. My main standing desk is 60″ by 30″. It’s built on wheeled wire shelves. I tried using a small standing desk from Amazon, but it lacked the structural integrity to hold the monitors still while I...
I wanted to conditionally add the current buffer’s word count to Kakoune’s modeline. I thought I’d write down how I got this working in case you’re new to Kakoune or you’re interested to learn a bit more about how Kakoune and the shell...
A random jaunt to derelict early-mid-2010s blogospheres landed me on a discourse about shoujo manga's cluttered appearance, where the blogger hurled profanities at the works he claimed to hate before confessing that he did like some...
Status: A light pottering day today. Tidied the kitchen a bit. Thought about how much the football commentary annoyed me last night. Didn’t do much else. OK, I’ll bite. In short, commentary for big sporting events that take over...
I’ve been reading comics for over 60 years (and yes, I am really that old)…but I don’t know that I have EVER been affected as much as I was at the end of this issue. This ending hit me where I live. No, I’m not going to spoil the ending...