This is a really good article about Roger Revelle and how various scumbags (I can say that now he is dead) used his reputation in a cheap and nasty culture war. I always get nervous when activists set up any given scientist on a pedestal. For one reason, it's not how science works (or rather,... Continue Reading →
All the way around Adelaide on Yomp 2…
Yomp #02 0645-1020 on 19 04 2023 = 215 mins 18kgs of weights in the backpack A mere 24 photos, the least unusable of which are below. The second yomp was just as much fun (and even more knackering - up hill and a bit further) than the first one. Some very loud and colourful... Continue Reading →
A walk in the park(lands). Of butterflies, coots and good times
Today the Adelaide Parklands Association (which exists to explore, inspire, protect and restore) held a rather excellent guided tour of the very south-east corner of the Parklands... Not much to say, other than groups like these - existing to defend public space from "practical" bureaucrats/politicians (who oddly often seem to get post-retirement sinecures with developers)... Continue Reading →
WHOOP! A letter in the FT, abt Tom Lehrer
My wife has made the outrageous accusation that I buy the Financial Times merely to come up with letters to submit to it. Oh, by the way. Alison Jamieson ("Memories of Little Britaly, FT Weekend, April 8) writes of an Italian ice-cream vendor offering potential customers a taster. It put me in mind of one... Continue Reading →
Film review: “Air” – of shoes, capitalism and fetishes (sort of)
Saw the Ben Affleck/Matt Damon/Viola Davis film "Air" today. It tells a version of the story of how, in 1984, the footwear company Nike signed then-rookie basketball player Michael Jordan and made a tonne of money (actually, probably several hundred tonnes of money) by creating a shoe that would get everyone buyin'. Short version -the... Continue Reading →
Of moorhens, #parklands and 3 hour yomps
Yomp #01 0755-1105 on 13 04 2023 - 190mins 18kgs of weights in the backpack 60 photos taken (the least unusuable ones are on display below). Galahs, moorhens (WHOOP), sulfur-crested cockatoos "etc" The first yomp of the Adelaide visit is done, and it was a corker. What follows is a bunch of photos, digressions and... Continue Reading →
Archives – a love story…
Yesterday I was at the BBC Written Archives Centre, in Reading. Here's me. I think there's three things that make it so fun. First, there is the physicality of it - having objects/bits of paper in your hands, and the little touches - I'd not seen Treasury tags that connect to each other before, for... Continue Reading →
The mise-en-abyss, the double-bind and the Hirschman & Cocker Protocols…
While I wait to receive "no, not shortlisted" and "thanks for doing interview, but no thanks" emails, I am going through piles of printed off articles and putting in three piles - a) for (re)reading and blogging about soon b) for "one day" and c) can go in the recycling (once blank A4 and A5... Continue Reading →
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