Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

In retrospect, doing on the smallest screen I've got instead of the largest was a questionable choice

Used to go and watch Roy Harper do amazing things with these

You won't thank me for this. thomaswc.com/2025.html looks like a entertaining diversion . It will ruin you.

Thanks, I hate it

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

21.00 GAVIN & STASI The course of true-love continues to be bumpy as the couple argue over weekend plans. He wants a quiet night in with a takeaway and a takeaway and a DVD, whereas she wants to round up any political dissidents and subject them to intimidation and torture to crush dissent. Warning, this programme contains several distressing scenes of James Corden.

Friday! New CEEFAUX! Exclamation marks!

And yet amid all this unprecedented demand @givenergy.bsky.social *still* manage to go bust!

The other question that never got a good answer was "how will the views of the people who aren't able to attend this short-notice one-hour session be reflected in this mission statement we're constructing?"

I also remember reading a lot of mission statements constructed in such sessions, consisting of bullet points, a few of which were always syntactically incongruent with the others but had clearly been put on the flipchart to keep the session flowing and never edited

I spent too much of the nineties asking facilitators of such things to explain how aims differed from objectives, which they always insisted they did but could rarely articulate, and when they could, couldn't point to an external reference that ensured a reader would make the same distinction

I, however, remain a proud pico-chad

All this talk of looksmaxxing gigagchads reminds me that a millihelen is the degree of beauty both necessary and sufficient to launch one (1) ship

He insisted on telling me why it was a logical fallacy, even though I already knew. Such a no-true-Scotsmansplainer!

Cathy and Claire (read over my big sister's shoulder) taught me a lot

I find the idea of an AI company developing a model that can crack cryptography very disturbing, obviously, but if it actually worked out how to crack and steal crypto, say all those Bitcoin originally created by its inventor, I retain the right to find it very funny

So the Hillbilly Elegist thinks the Chicago Pope is no-true-Scotsmanning, have I got that right?

Variant of Conquest's law: one is most prescriptivist about subjects one has the most experience of

Makes sense, and the button layout indicates it was an Anglo concertina (rather than an English one) so it would have been tuned like a melodeon

Definitely a concertina - the buttons travel parallel to the bellows, rather than perpendicular. I guess the man himself might have referred to it as his melodeon, in which case the museum card is only missing quote-marks

"hexagonal melodeon"? Is this what ragebait looks like now?

I've DM'ed deets.

Want my old Rega Planar 2? Yours if you cover the postage

So what turntable have you got?

Having just upgraded mine I'm now auditioning my collection for winnowing as the remodel has reduced our storage space. I never thought the day would come when I'd dispose of a Keith Jarrett album, and yet...

I hope someone is going to ask him why he isn't planning to exploit this insight and become unimaginably wealthy by insuring the climate-change-induced risks that the woke insurance industry won't

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I'm sure you already know this, but I only recently came across the idea that Newton had two versions of calculus, one pre-Leibnitz and one post

I feel ‘serving kings’ is a rather charitable description of the activities of the best-known Thane of Cawdor.

Too Dark? Too Bright? Scientists Need Your Help to Make Reading Easier Scientists are recruiting people around the world to take part in a participatory science project to help answer research questions about physical challenges that can affect our ability to read in dif...

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Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852