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The ultimate non-disruptive technology
Next Friday, my good friend Adriana Lukas will be giving a talk at my home entitled Personal Recollections of Life Under Communism. While concocting some biographical information for my email list...
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Helipad next to a railway station
Last Saturday, in the afternoon, while the rest of England was obsessing over Sweden v England, I was taking the train from Victoria around the south of central London to South Bermondsey, to see an...
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Poetry is not dead
Indeed: Here. She also wrote that NYT letter about white privilege, concerning which she Tweets: Do not deny my lived experience. Absolutely not. Originally posted at Brian Micklethwait’s Old Blog
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From ridiculous to sublime
Ridiculous: Octopus shorts. Photoed by me in the Kings Road. Not so ridiculous and just a little bit sublime: It’s this shop, in the Fulham Road, a few hours later. Sublime: Sublime compared to the...
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A different way to open a car door
Today a friend needed some rather dramatic medical attention, and I dropped by to provide what I hope was a little moral support. Outside the place where this was happening, I encountered this cute...
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More healthcare technology in action
Yesterday, as already noted, I was out and about in London. And another interesting thing I photoed was this, also healthcare-related: I photoed this photo with his permission, by the way. I guess that...
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I love London
Another shop window photo, photoed by me on the same day as I photoed, this, this, and this: Click on that to get it quite a bit bigger than usual. It deserves the detail. I have long considered the...
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Fitness vehicle
Yesterday, being ill made me think of food, because I wasn’t eating any food. Today, what I am most feeling the lack of is body fitness. So, this: Spotted by me in Stoke Newington last week. As you can...
View ArticleBMNB Quota QotD: And the winner is …
Today I want to be very busy doing something else, and I don’t want to be fretting about not yet having put anything here. So, I just trawled through Twitter for a LOL quote, and here is the one that...
View ArticleHappy birthday
Happy birthday to me, that is, because today has been my 72nd birthday. Several emails have arrived noting that various Facebook friends have been wishing me a Happy Birthday. I find Facebook baffling...
View ArticleMisery me
I don’t have many engagements, but I had a couple lined up for tomorrow, and I just cancelled both. Flu, I think. Worse, that particular sort of flu that means that when I cough, the whole of my head...
View ArticleParrot as toothpick
Here. Nine seconds of video. An Other creatures posting, not just because it’s a parrot picking human teeth, but because the human teeth are those of a Fox.
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Laughing at the plague
TRIGGERnometry: Last night on our live stream we made some jokes about the Corona Virus. Now some people are upset. We would like to apologise sincerely to anyone who might have been given the...
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FaceID
Back in my Alternative Bookshop days, I and my libertarian pals used to joke about things that were both compulsory and illegal. It would appear that face masks in China are pretty close to being that,...
View ArticleThe Chinese government shoots itself in the social media
Glenn Reynolds, writing about the Chinese government’s handling of the Coronavirus outbreak: The Chinese government continues to censor news and social media. This not only keeps the rest of the world...
View ArticleCreature tweets
Lost of animal stuff on Twitter lately, as always, with much of the stuff I liked best involving dogs. First, a dog’s unique way of getting past a gate. Next, a reunion. I looked up “cats and dogs” on...
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Waiting for the plague to arrive
Life in London and places like it is, just now, strange. It is not now like this: But will it soon become like this? That’s a photo taken just over a century ago in Seattle. The Shorpy caption reads:...
View ArticleThis snake ate a towel and watching it being removed is oddly mesmerising
Here. LATER: Fox on a Russian lady’s shoulder in the underground. EVEN LATER: Ducks v locusts. Two problems with this. First, when the ducks have killed all the locusts, would there not then be a swarm...
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Steven Pinker: “Don’t confuse pessimism with profundity …”
See the world through Pinker-tinted spectacles than you may be inclined to: Keep some perspective. Not every problem is a Crisis, Plague, Epidemic, or Existential Threat, and not every change is the...
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Trees and other Things
I’ve not being doing much out-and-abouting lately. But yesterday the weather looked good and I managed a photo-expedition. My odyssey was a familiar one. I walked past the Channel 4 TV headquarters...
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