Slightly niche, this, but does any one know of a stockist of MKS Grip Monarch pedals in the EU?
🎬 Fantastic Mr. Fox
A lovingly made animated film. Not only is Mr. Fox fantastic - everyone is. And so is the story, the sets, the music. And as typical for Mr. Anderson, it sometimes difficult to appreciate all those little details during the first viewing.
👍 Recommended!
Noticing
Walking through the Royal Mile, I noticed the faint – then increasing – scent of coffee in the air coming from a popular bakery. It is morning. I continued walking for a little while, en route to one of my preferred coffee shops. There, the baristas were laughing, one exchan...
I’ve been very bad about posting my recent machine knitting adventures, but rest assured...
I’ve been very bad about posting my recent machine knitting adventures, but rest assured that they continue! I’d love to do proper write-ups for these (and others) soon!
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📗 Want to read Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros ISBN: 9781739371753
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📗 Want to read To Write Like a Woman by Joanna Russ ISBN: 9780253209832
Rainbow walk
Today there was a rainbow.
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A few minutes into my walk, a shower flashed from the grey sky. Looking at all the falling water that surrounded me, I took cover under a nearby, dense tree, one through which comparatively few raindrops were falling. I can wait here for a ...
“In a sense heat itself is a kind of garbage we’re dumping offshore while we dump the carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere.”
“To starve a whale is a crime against nature that staggers the imagination.”
Two perfect sentences from Rebecca Solnit’s latest newsletter.
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-starve-a-whale-letter-from-a-hot-planet/
Notes from the gallery
On Tuesday I took a few notes while visiting the National Gallery of Scotland. Usually I develop these into a full post, but since the notes have been in my drafts for a few days I thought I would publish them verbatim.
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How the light of a museum changes the painting ...
Top Albums from last.fm on 27/09/26.
1, k.d. lang, Hymns of the 49th Parallel, (11);
2, Stéphane Grappelli, It Might As Well Be Swing, (11);
3, Warren Zevon, The Wind, (11);
4, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);
5, L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, Sona, (9);
Wondering how it is that 40% of visits to my website this past week seem to have come from the American Osteopathic College of Radiology, double the number from Google.
Sunrise
At this time of year, the sun begins to rise around the time I wake up. This means I can see the colours of the sunrise; how the sunlight changes the sky. While autumn and winter can be cold, the colours bring the seasons to life. Lately, I have been motivated not only to st...
The (continuing) joy of monostiches
In 2024 I started writing monostiches, which are poems that span a single line. Over the last few weeks I have been writing more, and now I have a category page devoted to monostiches.
I have been thinking about why I like the monostich form so much. I think there are a few...
here, something
In Distance there is the sight of everything; here there is the presence of something.
ever-changing
My website is ever changing. I am
the age
the age of the story.
nights
nights lost in darkness.
First pianos
I was listening to a cover of Taylor Swift’s Babylon and, almost immediately, something other than the melody stood out: the resonance of the notes. This sounds familiar. The recording reminded me of the sound my grandparents’ piano made when I would play it as a kid. I sat ...
@jon In case you have a moment, we were just in Padua where the trams run on a central single rail. Presumably the have balancing wheels on the sides. Are they unique? Is it considered a good design, or weird?
Ensuring my posts have permalinks using bash
Last month I moved away from using the Ghost CMS to publish pages and posts on my website. I made the move because I realised I was maintaining more than I really needed to make my site work. I had to manage Ghost (and keep it updated) and an intermediary endpoint to which G...