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Nils William Olsson has a paper called “What’s in a Swedish Surname?” (Swedish American Genealogist 1.1 [1981]) that is, as you might expect, about Swedish surnames. I’ll quote some bits that particularly interested me: It should be...
I came across this excellent quote around the midway point of tax season. It so perfectly encapsulated the challenges I felt I was facing at the time. In my experience, those who are armchair quarterbacks/coaches/accountants become...
Sound the clarion! It’s time to help SV-POW! once more! I’m working on a paper about mounted rearing skeletons of sauropods, and I want to include figures that show various examples. To be included in a CC By open-access paper, it’s...
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Brian: And today, once again, we’re talking about tools, but this time focus on tools for publishing and collaboration in writing, which is all a bit more complicated than what text editor do you use? So, to start at the simpler end of...
I swear it’s true. To prove it, here’s a photo I shot of a flower. That I took after my run today.
My watch wanted me to run for 38 minutes today at a pace of 8.6 km/hour. Instead, I ran my usual 5K in just over 29 minutes. What the watch apparently didn’t know is that it was much warmer this morning. I started out exactly where I...
Tough day.41 words · 2 images
Drew a nice wedding scene. 🎨
“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”
What's this?Every week I look back at the previous seven days and forwards to the next. Running and health, culture, home improvements, work and adjacent things. Read none, some or all – sharing in case it helps someone else out...