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A limestone tablet from 1250 BCE lists 40 ancient Egyptian workers and their reasons for missing work, from scorpion bites to brewing beer. Meet the world's oldest attendance register.
As always you can get the full resolution image over on my Ko-Fi page.
Today I completed a job that I’ve had on my list for a few weeks. The specifics of the job —fixing the broken grey waste pipe on our motorhome— aren’t what matters. As ever, I prepped, researched, bought some bits I thought I might need...
One day late reflection on the previous week. Last weekend was so busy that I couldn’t find an hour to sit and write a few paragraphs. Yesterday, we had a Mother’s Day dinner with my in-laws (where did the morning go? who knows!). On...
Six paintings, large and small
A while back I found myself having an irritating problem. I was reverse engineering an IP camera and wanted to modify its filesystem. Easy - you just desolder the BGA NAND, read it out, patch and write it back - right?Well, not when...
A couple months ago we had a ferocious wind storm that topped over our neighbours’ giant spruce tree. It was one of split trunk trees, so actually only half of the tree fell over. It still left quite the impression. The neighbours had...
On May 9, M. Paul Shore sent this note to me: A belated thank-you for the April 22nd Galuppi (1706-1785) link*. I’d never heard of him. That whole Baroque-to-Classical transition phase is a fascinating and enjoyable but underappreciated...
My experience with freezing and the disgusting normalization of the predation of women
One day I'm tweaking things over at baty.net, thinking I should live there for everything. The next day I'm here in Ghost and loving how comfortable it is and how and maybe I'll move in here instead. I'll probably do neither.
Read the full post at - Courage To Be by Paul Tillich Sometimes a name shows up everywhere in the same week. That happened to me with Paul Tillich. His name popped...