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Hey people! Such a long time without a “Bibiel Hears Things” post! It’s been quite a rollercoaster over here in Bibielland. So I thought I’d feature a song I’ve been listening to a lot over this past rollercoaster-y month, from an artist...
July 10, 2026 Our researcher of all things Gothic architectural detail is in Paris. Melting. Loving her small borrowed apartment with air conditioning… First up, let’s savor her signature work of art – the painting from which she draws...
For 94 minutes at least, all the countries in the world (except the US) were rooting for Belgium. And did they deliver. 4-1 to Belgium and US was knocked-out of the Round of 16. Even if Belgium were to lose to Spain in the...
The Consistency Journal is an experiment. There are signs of early momentum, but I don’t know how it’s going to go. It started off as a pet, and now it’s more like livestock. Creative Doing was an experiment. I started interesting...
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?” Is it… Hope? It’s true that season announcements from Shakespeare’s Globe in recent times have had me reaching for the bottle rather than tickets, but with the autumn/winter/spring...
More of my posts about photography: I'm still in search of the perfect camera If money was no object I'd buy this camera OM System OM 3 - why I like it so much The most important thing to consider when buying a new camera
Last month I presented a bit of research on how our bodies’ chemicals appear to drive, direct, and dictate (ie ‘condition’) our behaviour by trying to maximize the body’s feelings of pleasure and minimize its feelings of pain. They do...
Hello, loves! Knowing the fix, let’s install it properly. Then maybe an idea. Yesterday, during the two hours of thrashing that I didn’t document in detail, and even during the morning, where we figured out what the defect was, I put in...
Belt Fed Potato Cannon Spits Spuds | Hackaday I appreciate few things more than taking an absurd idea to perfection.
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Clearly after Ana and I read Inky Wandering’s post, we both had the same thought! I broke mine into two groups of five. The first are the lower end pens that I just can’t quit. The second batch are the slightly higher end and more...
Recently, a pair of researchers made a massive breakthrough in the foundations of physics. In their paper, they describe how gravity is an emergent property. More specifically, they say that the origin of gravity is entropy. And not just...
Sutton Attwater has a folklore PhD, a 1972 Volkswagen bus, and absolutely no chill about the possibility that the woods are full of things we haven’t named yet. There’s a fresh one up right now. Sightings, history, the whole obsessive...
Boeing's PDP-7/340 Most of my career has been involved in various ways with computer graphics. Below the fold I recount the story of how I got started in the field just as it was getting started. To give you some idea of just how early...