Writing
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The late style or elder game of blogging
Wondering about the “elder game” and “late style” of blogging, and how weeknotes, as a phase of blogging, might fit in.
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m/e 31 January 2019
The Favourite, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The First, The Americans season six, Paul Heaton, Mildred Pierce, Luther season five, and Smoke by Simon Ings.
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The Beat Generation
Generation X missing from a list of generations, and settling on the Silent Generation’s name in 1958.
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Flickr favourites and photos-of-you downloader in python
From 5th February 2019 Flickr are going to be deleting an unknown quantity of older photos. So I…
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My 2018
Some things I watched and read and heard and did in 2018.
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Mysterious algorithms
From ‘Money Stuff’, on how algorithms in the markets go a bit wonky, not because they’re mysterious, but because humans don’t give them enough information.
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Stay vs Remain
On the etymological differences between the wordings of the Brexit options.
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‘Justified’ season three
We are still enjoying it. Lots of fun.
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‘The Sinner’
Season one. Lots of flashbacks and squinting.
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‘Roma’
By Alfonso Cuarón.
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‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’
I enjoyed Carson McCullers’ novel.
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Some movies
Widows, Disobedience and Sorry to Bother You.
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The Mace Wielder’s Regenerations
It’s nice to see a new regeneration of the Mace Wielder.
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Thomas’s hotels
On the BBC’s A Hotel for the Super Rich & Famous, the second season of Thomas Kochs’ Fancy Hotels.
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Marzipan mince pie recipe
At Christmas I often make some mince pies and I always use the same recipe because it seems to work. It has a lemony pastry and bonus marzipan.
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The People’s Front of Consumer Financial Protection
Moving two words in an agency name potentially costing industry $300 million.
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Knowing one thing in depth…
A quote by Mike Johnston.
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Search forms
What are the best, most accessible ways to make website search forms? I tried to find out. Here are some examples.
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Your letter transitions
On how odd post boxes, bank branches and public libraries will seem.
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IDLES
No weeknotes because I had a cold. But I listened to IDLES and they’re good.
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w/e 25 November 2018
An LRB letter, Portlandia season one, and Red Dead Redemption 2.
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w/e 18 November 2018
Fightmilk, Bad Moves and The Beths; Wagtail and Django; and ‘Wildlife’.
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w/e 11 November 2018
Art Brut; ‘Treme’; ‘The Bisexual’; and ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’.
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w/e 4 November 2018
Anthony Beevor’s ‘The Second World War’ and ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’.
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Lots of charts
I’ve added a couple of pages of bar charts to the site.