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: Finished reading: Can’t Buy Me Love by Jonathan Gould 📚

: As someone who who has been maintaining some sort of meditation practice for around twenty-five …

: Finished reading: Vagabonding by Rolf Potts 📚 Definitely inspired to plan an extended break after …

: The intergenerational report tries to scare us about ageing. It’s an old fear, and wrong

: Now listening. Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of “enshittification” 🎙️

: Establishing new habits is such hard work. Those nasty old habits are always lurking in the shadows …

: Gen X Nostalgia Almost finished listening to The Talk Show episode ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason …

: Coffee tasting notes for our latest single origin coffee. Yum.

: This article advocating for changes to pay university students for undertaking placements is …

: Week 11 of the trimester today and going into the biggest period of marking. Always difficult to get …

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: Coronation to the Succession theme

: How to get more women on bikes? Better biking infrastructure, designed by women

: As someone who left home at 18 and has moved around a lot for work, I enjoyed this primer on how to …

: This sums up my current views on the AI hype. Get back to me when it is working for the interests of …

: Lovely walk this morning. Crisp and clear and lovely view towards the main beach skyline #GoldCoast

: “Competition and domination, exploitation and exclusion, minority rule and class hate: These …

: About to start my online teaching for the week. This is my screen set up before I launch Teams. OBS …

: Good morning from Burleigh Heads. #GoldCoast

: Currently reading: Essays by George Orwell 📚

: Finished reading: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn 📚A must read for any Beatles fan. This history of the …

: Good morning. I hope you have a fantastic day.

: Good evening from the #GoldCoast. I hope that everyone had a good day.

: Currently reading: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn 📚Reading the chapter on ‘the Boy’s’ first trip to …

: Better Things: Finale Watching: Better Things. Finished the final season last night. It’s always fun to see how a long …

: Happy weekend everyone. Hope you have a fun and adventurous time.

: Finished reading: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy by Melvin Konner 📚

: Simon Mayo not a fan of the current crop of AI generated articles 😂

: Good morning to all. Hope you have a great day #GoldCoast

: Community garden plot update. Really starting to take off now.

: Lighthouse Song (Live Demo) This is a live demo of a new song called Lighthouse Song. It was recorded in my old apartment just …

: Garden plot comparison over the last few weeks. 🍉 and 🌽 really starting to take off! 🪴

: Good morning to all. This is a recent photo I took of an electricity sub station in our local area. …

: Easy Beatles indeed! I can picture the 70s tv dance troupe jazz handing their way through this 😂 …

: Loved this post. “Whatever you’re working on right now, whatever it might be, I ask: try to leave a …

: Now listening: The Rest is History: Æthelstan My biggest unexpected take away here was that my old …

: Now listening: The Beths — Expert in a Dying Field Early start today and this is just the pick me up …

: Currently listening: The Rest is History: Hallowe’en and modern paganism Was interested to …

: The Life of Brian Finished reading the chapter “The Swish of the Curtain” from the Mark Lewisohn book “Tune In, The …

: This is Andy. Andy is our neighbours dog who sometimes comes over for visits. He is a good dog.

: Whale spotting, or perhaps it was a pod of dolphins.

: Morning. One of the lovely things about living in sub tropical Queensland is the amazing trees. On …

: A few weeks after planting our #CommunityGarden plot. We have lost a couple of beetroots, but …

: Good morning to all. Thank goodness it’s the weekend.

: Nice view looking over to Surfers Paradise taken on my morning walk earlier in the week. Hope you …

: Song fragment 22nd of February With my house move done and a basic studio set up, tonight was the first time I have had to just …

: Good morning. Hope you have a great day.

: A photo I took about a week ago on the #GoldCoast. I love the variety or coloured lights.

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: Love this The Oatmeal Comic that @gruber linked to today. theoatmeal.com/comics/be…

: It’s that terrible time of the weekend where thoughts turn to the working week ahead.

: Bendigo Trams are getting ready to go back into service.

: You know summer is on the way when cricket is on the TV. Happy days.

: COVID street art.

: Full moon in Bendigo last night and it had a ring around it that was as bright as any I have ever …

: 🚴 this is my new ebike Li’l Sebastian. Would love to hear from any other micro.bloggers with an …

: Research describing how to duplicate keys using only the sound they make when going into locks.

: Just finished watching the movie Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Beautiful. French cinema at its best.

: Some photos of spring blooms from around the campus.

: Queenscliff Victoria Australia.

: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego.

: ‘Blue Angels’ FA18 Hornet, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego.

: Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego.

: F4U Corsair, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego.

: Spitfire, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego.

: P-51D Mustang, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego.

: Gee Bee R-1 air racer, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego.

: ‘Gum Drop’ Command Module, Apollo 9. San Diego Air and Space Museum.

: Jacaranda Tree, San Diego.

: Exhibition buildings, Balboa Park, San Diego.

: Museum of Modern Art, Balboa Park, San Diego.

: Views around Mission Beach, San Diego.

: BBQ, Burgers and Beer. Welcome to America!

: Paddington Basin and Little Venice.

: Kensington Gardens.

: Kensington Palace.

: Still more photos from Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.

: More views from Hyde Park an Kensington Gardens.

: One afternoon in London before flying home. Spent four hours roaming around Hyde Park and Kensington …

: View from the top of Gainsborough Old Hall.

: ‘John of Maldon’

: Jan and I at Gainsborough Old Hall.

: Torksey Lock.

: Day off in Lincoln before heading to London. Visited Gainsborough Old Hall, a nearby medieval manor …

: Last work commitment completed. Looking forward to a sightseeing day tomorrow.

: Bit of rain around Cambridge today, but not enough to spoil the beautiful scenery.

: Long travel day today. Arrived in Cambridge late in the day. Only had a short amount of time to …

: My pick of the Whisky’s from last night.

: Dinner at ‘The Bothy’ in Hillhead. Isle of Arran Haggis with Neeps & Tatties and a Whisky …

: ‘The Park Bar’ Anderston, Glasgow.

: ‘Christ the Redeemer’ Salvador Dali. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. I haven’t seen much of …

: View from a window in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum looking out towards Finnieston.

: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

: ‘Spitfire’ Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

: The Kelvingrove Organ.

: The eyes have it. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

: ‘Domino Clock’ Charles Rennie Mackintosh

: Looking for family resemblance with my Scottish ancestors.

: View towards Glasgow University.

: View of ‘The Rotunda’ and the ‘SSE Hydro’ outside my hotel last night.

: After dinner, a wee dram at ‘The 78’.

: Dinner in a beautiful little Polish restaurant last night.

: Here are (most) of the members of our lab who are at CHI in front of the conference logo.

: This is Scot, the finest barber in the whole of Scotland. Look him up if you are ever In Argyle …

: Municipalities of Glasgow.

: Argyle Street.

: “Clydeport”

: Waiting for keynote address.

: Conference centre on first morning of CHI 2019.

: Banks of the Clyde outside my hotel.

: Morning coffee to try and counteract the jet lag.

: Dinner after the Technology and Ageing workshop.

: The view from my breakfast table.

: Ashton Lane, Glasgow.

: Vodka Wodka, Ashton Lane, Glasgow.

: The Ubiquitous Chip, Hillhead, Glasgow.

: Yarn-bombed park bench. Glasgow Botanical Gardens.

: Georgian Terraces, Hillhead, Glasgow.

: Glasgow Botanic Gardens.

: Bridge in Glasgow Botanic Gardens.

: Park bench plaque in Rennie Macintosh font. ⁨Glasgow Botanic Gardens⁩.

: Standing outside my old apartment in Byres Road, Hillhead.

: Selfie with my Glasgow walk buddy, Bernd.

: ⁨Kelvingrove Park⁩, ⁨Glasgow⁩.

: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.

: Up at 2am to catch a flight. Feel a bit like this guy.

: What a great idea. Sunshine Coast University Hospital doctors, nurses entertain on grand piano to …

: The community food co-op feeding one of Tasmania’s most disadvantaged suburbs - ABC News …

: Hilltop Hoods - Leave Me Lonely. The first decent song in the jjj hottest 100.

: In the line for a democracy sausage after voting in the state election. Yay democracy! 🇦🇺

: Disappointed there were no updated Apple pro apps announced that would run on the new iPad pros. …

: I’ve listened to lots of podcasts discussing this week’s Apple event. Surprised none have …