Welcome to Brian Micklethwait’s New Blog
Yes, welcome. I’ve already shovelled quite a few postings from the old blog to here (see below), and I now intend that many more will follow (so that if I refer back to an old posting, you won’t have...
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The curse of Having To Do Something Else The Same Day (and gauze in the early...
I am writing this at 5am, and will shortly be going back to bed. That’s another Getting Old (see the “Categories” below) thing. I now typically have to get up in the middle of the night, to piss and to...
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Horizontalising a toy train photo
My excuse for inviting myself to visit Rob and his family last Sunday was to check out the toy trains I’d given to them. For years, I had been keeping this stash of toy trains. So, when I heard that...
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Gallery means that you decide
One of the many things I love about this new WordPress blog of mine is that I can now do things like this …: … a lot more quickly. Thank you “Gallery”. All of the above photos were taken within a few...
View ArticleA slight interruption
Earlier this evening, at around 7pm London time, there was a brief interruption of service here, lasting around ten to fifteen minutes. This happened during the process of updating the security...
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Octopus and mantis
Friday, so cats and kittens, or other creatures, and again, I go to 6k to get my posting here sorted on what is turning out to be a rather busy day, involving claims by my computer that its Antivirus...
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Some housekeeping
Yes, following on from yesterday’s cricket dramas, the mundane matter of how photos look, here, on this blog. You will recall that last week, GodDaughter2’s Sister and I were wandering about in London....
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 ArticleMichael McIntyre speaks for me
And for many others, I’m very sure: I found this here. I am Old, but I have made enough friends among the Young for me to be able to twist Young arms and mostly get them to do all this for me. The...
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The new Google building in King’s Cross is taking shape
And the shape is the big green thing that someone has stuck in the middle of this photo …: … which I found here. More about this building-to-be here. On the right, King’s Cross railway station. On the...
View ArticleVideo of straight line going through curved gap
If I add all that href https blah blah stuff to the link, then I can put the link to this cute video here. But if I just shove the address without any hrefery, I get the video right here: A straight...
View ArticlePause over
I am happy to report that the transmigration referred to earlier has now, it would seem, happened. Because, I am now allowed to put stuff up here again. The pause lasted longer (longer enough to break...
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Tardy tardigrade posting
Friday is my day for Other creatures postings, and you could hardly get more othery than this: So, I did a posting about this very othery creature, which is called a “tardigrade”, and I thought I had...
View ArticleBird keeping its head still
Indeed: Incredible demonstration of hover control and head stabilization from a kestrel surfing the breeze along the top of South Stack Cliffs, Wales, captured by @ZedAnthony pic.twitter.com/VfsA1aqAGr...
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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,...
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The artistic retreat from beauty
Like many people, I like photos like this: Not photoed by me. I wish it had been photoed by me. But, not. It makes me think of David Hockney, who also likes leafless trees. I’ve said it before and I’ll...
View ArticleSilencing the many voices
I am in the habit of opening windows, each window with lots of open tabs, and of leaving them all open. Pocket (thank you again 6k) has been a life saver, because I can now close a tab and still have a...
View ArticleAbout that snake that swallowed a towel …
I just did this posting at Samizdata, recycling AndrewZ’s comment here on this. Like I said in the previous posting, regular commenters here get the Rolls Royce treament. (When I feel like it. I...
View ArticleA twenty-first century moment
Central to understanding it is that I still don’t understand it. Okay, so earlier this evening my phone rang. I picked it up, and said, to some suspiciously silent silence, “Hello”. No answer. “Hello”....
View Article“Is now the moment that using video has become the default thing that people...
Michael Jennings (he who got the pictures back (thank you Michael)) writes this on Facebook. It’s not personal, so I’m pretty sure he won’t mind me recycling it here, even if I don’t believe a link is...
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