I was swapping texts with a photographer friend, who is bored of the lockdown and who has been doing amazing photos of soap bubbles. Normally, he does studio headshots for Hollywood types, but coronavirus has locked down his business.
I was swapping texts with a photographer friend, who is bored of the lockdown and who has been doing amazing photos of soap bubbles. Normally, he does studio headshots for Hollywood types, but coronavirus has locked down his business.
Speaking of failure… Well, it’s not over until it’s over.
One of the nice things about completing a knife and then auctioning it off, is I don’t have to confront the occasional failure. For reasons I’ll go into, this last week has been a bad one, replete with failures.
There’s an article on hackaday [h] about a model-builder who is trying to make an ultra-realistic model F-35.
I’m not sure if this is particularly funny anymore, but it was when I shot it.
Like Christine Blasey Ford, Reade is telling a story that is certainly believable, and that she appears to have told some of her friends and family at the time.
When you screw up, screw up with style and try not to bleed too much.
It’s pretty easy to side-track discussions of morality and ethical systems into one of two swamps: epistemological challenges and nihilism. [Read more…]
Who knows
doesn’t talk.
I’ve become fond of having an audiobook going while I work. It seems to help me focus, which doesn’t make a great deal of sense (I’d expect it to be distracting!) but it’s a great way to absorb new information. Perhaps it’s just a side-effect of how I work nowadays, but if I sit down and open a book, it usually turns into a nap pretty quickly.