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When I was about to park my car for a house inspection, all the spots were taken. I asked the homeowner if it was ok to park on the lawn. She didn't mind, and then added: "We need to be a little flexible in life." Imagine how many of our...
When you see a text a second or third time you recognise it, and that feeling of recognition is easily mistaken for actual understanding. This is the fluency illusion: the ease of processing something gets read as a measure of how well...
I've been going down lots of rabbit holes on finding new blogs last day or so - mostly tech as that’s what there is, some accessibility (in tech), some books (about tech) etc etc. Today I was met with this. Look I know I know only too...
You know how it goes. August means guests. So I have not been as idle as it relates to the beer reading and the beer writing. These are pastimes which demand a special type of slacking. One cannot succeed as a dedicated beer scribbler...
In honour of Stockholm Pride, I want to share some good shows on the subject. Watching LGBTQ+ characters on the screen has given me courage to live more openly. I hope these gems can inspire you as much as they've inspired me. Or, at the...
My most reliable random name generator works completely without any electricity and is attached to our fridge as a set of magnetic letters. Every other day, a new name appears. It’s like magic.I wonder how this works. 🤔 Reply by email
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to: Place the word Madagascar somewhere in the response in a way that makes no sense As I web searched for Madagascar I...
This is an irregular column that rewinds the clock back some years to see what was on the taps at certain pubs. Too many of these will no doubt be from my local, The Great Northern Railway Tavern (GNRT), in North London that has been a...
I’ve read a lot of Greek mythology but very little British mythology, so when I came across No Fair Maidens on NetGalley it seemed like a good opportunity to rectify that. However, I don’t think I read the description of the book...
by Gertrud U. Rey This article marks my 100th contribution to Virology Blog since I published my first post on March 1, 2018. Above all, I have learned that nature does not recognize the boundaries humans use to organize scientific...
Maxwell’s equations describe the behaviour of electric fields and magnetic fields; a more detailed introduction appears in post 25.12. Equations (1)-(4) (highlighted above) are Maxwell’s equations in vector notation. Here E is an...
Yesterday was a delightful day. Today will be delightful too, although it's a full day on campus, so it will be a different kind of delightful. And I've been awake since 2, so I do worry about how tired I'll be by late afternoon.My brain...
I never mentioned it here, but we had a death in the family about a month ago. Most of you know that we have two dogs in our family, but each dog had only one master that they answered to. I have a yellow lab named Maley, who just turned...
I had a wonderful idea the other day to mod my cheap Kmart digicam to take C mount camera lenses because that sounds really fun. It certainly wasn't going to improve the quality of the sensor because it is already a shitty 1/6" 720p...
Grief is such a strange, unpredictable thing. My daughter Rana took her life at the end of 2021 at age 36. She’s had five birthdays since then, each July 23. But for whatever reason this one, when she would have turned 41, hit me harder...