Learnt a new word today, via one of those Special Ops memoirs I bought in a charity shop between bouts of writing. rumint (uncountable) (US) "Information of dubious veracity, particularly when grounded in rumor." And of course, rumint is addictive, while also not being so great for building shared situational (or shituational, as I prefer it)... Continue Reading →
What a species we are. Utterly oblivious, for the most part, to what is coming. I think if you asked a thousand people, randomly selected, to say what the atmospheric concentration is, give or take 5ppm, you'd get, what maybe 10 or 20 that got it right. If you asked the same thousand about the... Continue Reading →
Someone (a male, or group of males, I am willing to bet big bucks) has chainsawed the tree at the Sycamore gap. See tweet here. There will be an outpouring of revulsion and bewilderment at such a wanton act of vandalism. Here's my two cents. Ever since the pagans started losing to the monotheists, all... Continue Reading →
So, I've been lifting weights and going on yomps and while I've put on a bit of muscle and shed a bit of lard, neither did anything for my cardio-vascular fitness. Eight days ago I got on a rowing machine and managed to do 2 minutes before having to stop. #embarrassing Every time I've gone... Continue Reading →
So, reading more about the latest terminology in sustainability transitions (I know, I know, I should get a real job/life/whatever). And today's phrase to be thrown around confidently in some seminar, somewhere ages and ages hence, is (drum roll please).... "niche anchoring" See this good paper - "Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed... Continue Reading →
I grew up in the shadow of the bomb - when I was eight or nine I was worried about the neutron bomb. The shooting down of KAL007 had a profound effect on me (and we now know that that period - late 1983 through to mid 1984 - was when we came pretty close... Continue Reading →
Embarrassingly banal blog post (not that it has ever stopped me before). We don't have a language or imagery of democracy. If you do a word association, people will come up with "parliament, or government". If you ask them for an image, it will be the Whitehouse, Palace (!) of Westminster, or Parliament House. Maybe... Continue Reading →
“They’ve gone overboard with jabbing everyone..... Covid, it’s just a cold, it always was.” So the woman in her late 50s or so tells her older companions, at about 1pm, on Thursday September 21, 2023. They seem to agree, or at least not argue the toss. There can be as many dead as you like.... Continue Reading →
Two quick notes. First: I've been building up muscle bulk (lats, pecs, upper traps, rhomboids etc) at the gym and also getting back into long walks along the canal towpath wearing a weighted jacket (only 10kg, but it's a start). And wanting to shift lard again. So, "back to rowing, how hard can it be?"... Continue Reading →
On October 14th there's a referendum taking place in Australia. It's about whether to amend the Constitution and create an advisory group that will be a voice/Voice for indigenous Australians to the parliament. Other countries have them and the sky hasn't fallen. In a sensible world, it would be utterly uncontroversial. But... well.... So, here's... Continue Reading →
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