Via Kottke: Your 10-minute radius matters more than almost anything else about where you live: Think about what you can get to in ten minutes without making it a whole thing. ↬ ∙ Tagged in Advice.

Oliver Burkeman: To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). Makes me feel better as I look over my overflowing queues of books/articles/media/etc… ↬ ∙ Tagged in Knowledge Management.

It's an easy enough mistake to make. We've all been there. Don't let it bring you down. It never was spaghetti. Good news: you can own a copy of the original artwork (as above) quite easily but I'm not going to tell you how to do it. Frustration is good for the soul, so they say. Success in life requires determination, patience and treachery.

Foggy first thing but not cold. Did K car. Moved a lot of boxes out of the office in the library and cleared silage lab again. Went for half gallon of juice.

Personal notes for week 42 of 2026

UpdatesFeels like I am back in rhythm with my weeknotes now. As I get ready to launch my new venture, having a pause once a week to collect my thoughts is good.Focus this week has been putting many of the bits and pieces in place when starting a new business. I finished the Start Your Own Business course I was doing with the Local Enterprise Office. I learned well on the evening course, and I'd recommend it to anyone starting a venture here in Ireland. The biggest win for me was having space to…

This month's Field Notes restores presence, cutting out the endless background noise to focus on one thing at a time in both work and leisure – and asks whether a business can scale with the same outlook. | Read full post >>

This month's Field Notes restores presence, cutting out the endless background noise to focus on one thing at a time in both work and leisure – and asks whether a business can scale with the same outlook. | Read full post >>

Snoozle numero uno is a wonky photo of the Submarine Lagoon, from December, 1964. If it wasn't for those glowing red lights, I might have assumed that the Submarine ride was down for maintenance. This isn't the worst photo, but it ain't great either. Next, from "sometime in the 60s" is this bright, sunny photo of Main Street Station, with the Ernest S. Marsh coming in for a landing. "But Major, this picture is pretty OK, why is it a Snoozle?". BECAUSE I SAID SO!

When last we visited this dead tree a scant few weeks ago, there was nothing to be seen. Imagine our joy on finding THIS upon our next visit: Well, maybe not everyone was joyful… Big whoop…can we go now??? Hang on a minute, Bowsie….I need to take some close-up shots. Servants’ quarters at the base of the Palace, perhaps? One of the many “balconies” of the Palace. Servants’ view. Close-up of another balcony. Okay, okay…we can go now! Stop giving me those judgy looks, dog. Can’t a person have a…

Welcome to my sixth year of doing week­notes. What a journey. My week­notes sure have changed since my very first week­notes entry. Quick bits For acting class, I had to write a three-minute piece about myself. One could assume that this would be easy, given the vast amount of writing I have done on this web site. Alas, I struggled with it so much! I did not even finish it, but had to present it anyway, improvising the ending. It wasn’t badly received, at least. In a few weeks’ time, we have to…

A song you’d do at karaoke? No. I do not enjoy karaoke. But, the first time I did it I was “volunteered” on a work night out. The track, I kid you not, You Got The Power by Snap. Even if I HAD chose to sing that night it’s not exactly a first choice candidate, ya know? The second time I sang at karaoke was a very VERY drunken night in Spain. The local bar that my expat in-laws frequented, long after they called it a night, started up karaoke and I was drunk enough to perform Times Like These by…

I went on a walk today. The weather is nice, temperate. I can take four consecutive steps without sweating beads. Autumn is here. Let’s go. I make my way to the first stop of my walk: local café. It’s bustling for a Saturday morning, but still enough seats for me to choose from. I order chai with an espresso shot added in, and two pastries. I wait at the bar area. I’m thinking ahead of how the walk will go, then just as I’m beginning to thinking too far ahead, my order is ready. I eat, sip, and…

A quest for a bit of nosh takes a wrong turn… Image by Author, created in AI One from the archives… So, I innocently wander into the kitchen, wanting a little snack but not really sure what that might entail. I’m not dying of hunger, but I’m at that age when the simple things please me, like shoving food in my mouth when I don’t really need it. (It’s Friday night. 30 years ago I would be at the local disco, sucking down shots like a baby calf. Now? I just want munchies that are not fueled by…

8:25 - A long way to Basel. Apparently I've only slept 4 hours. Ahhhhh

I just got back from a lovely family holiday to Bali. The waters were blue and warm, the weather was beautiful, the skies were clear (a precious thing we don’t take for granted these days, in hazy Singapore). I always look forward to spending this time away every year with my parents, siblings and nephews, and I am the sort of idle layabout who particularly enjoys do-nothing beach resort holidays, so this was a very welcome break. This holiday, I deliberately went as analog as I could. I left…

Why does a lion brake in the middle of a chase? Not because it is tired. Speed makes every turn wider, and past about 5 metres a second a lion cannot push sideways against the ground any harder. So to follow a zebra that cuts away, it has to slow down. A research team filmed 67 lion chases from a drone, tracked every frame, and measured how lions steer and when they brake. They also found that lions aim partly like a guided missile, a rule known until now only in a hawk. Source: Duporge, I. &…

What a day yesterday, left the hotel at 8am and not back until 9pm after dinner - exhausted but so wonderful to meet such lovely people, talk about the layout and catch up with friends old and new…This is not a review, more a few choice photos from my meandering yesterday.A dreary Tuesday in the Dearne Valley…Port de CrozonCorrieshallochA dreary TuesdayPort de CrozonCorrieshallochThe queue before opening…More a dreary Tuesday…Coalbridge operated by good friend Steve whilst I chatted to the…

For the first time, I'm stepping out from behind the microphone to say a few words. Watch the video on YouTube TranscriptMy name is Farha Guerrero, and I am about to reach 100 episodes of The Blue Hour, or what used to be Prof Talk. I thought it would be nice to do a little video to first say thank you to those of you who are listening, supporting me, and, of course, to the community of people who are curious like myself. It's really a beautiful privilege to do what I can do week after week:…

The World It feels like the situation in Ukraine is about to come to a head, with Trump and Musk almost openly siding with Russia, mainly by restricting Starlink access in Ukraine, but also by calling on Zelensky to resign. My Week Google Fit says I walked 67,494 steps from last Sunday to yesterday. 2.5k steps below target is me chilling out a bit. It was a good week. Managed to go wander around the malls for a couple of days. Found out there's a free QC bus from City Hall to Araneta! That was…

Anton Chekhov wrote nothing in the summer of 1888 but thought about writing a novel. He stayed at the villa of his editor and friend Aleksi Suvorin in Feodosia, in Crimea on the Black Sea. He was leading a “vile, lotus-eating life,” as he says in a letter to his family written July 23-24: “The days pass in an endlessly replete stream, the cup of life overflows . . . Lounging about on the beach, Chartreuse, punch, fireworks, bathing, good cheer at supper, trips, songs – all such pleasures make…

Starting line of the walk Sunday was the Breakthrough T1D Walk at Cleveland Zoo. James's mum created a team for donations and we all walked on that cold morning, raising $748 for research into Type 1 Diabetes.

(LLMs were used to help organize and translate this post) A photography collection Looking for Meanings is a collection of images that resisted being placed anywhere else in my photographic portfolio. Each one caught my attention for a reason — perhaps its colors, textures, composition, or a certain mystery that I couldn't quite explain. Yet none seemed to fit within the concepts explored by the other collections. These are, in a way, orphan photographs. Images I like, that stayed with me, but…

The Yorkshire Garden Railway show returned this year, to its spiritual home - Elsecar Heritage Centre. I like the site. While Barrow Hill, the location for a few years while the heritage centre was being refurbished, is great for us train enthusiasts, it's not somewhere to take the family. If you are setting up a layout or longish trade stand, the wobbly floor is a nightmare. A proper exhibition centre is much nicer, and there are craft and antique shops for non-enthusiasts. And for both, there…

It was the run I have been waiting 16 years for - spectacular fight and a new PB pike was in the net. I'll cut straight to it, 28lb 0oz of beautiful River Wye pike. F**king brilliant!! And my luck didn't end there. I normally pike fish alone, but this time the baliff appeared and witnessed the weigh-in, then a girl on a bike arrived and took the cracking photo above. It took 16 years to beat my previous PB of 25lb 4oz - but I'd really like to beat this one much quicker - getting close to the…

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Let’s check out ‘Outlaw King‘! You can see the trailer here: I love knowing which year it is, makes looking up errors much easier Not bad, candles are only there because they’re needed and there are some colours! What’s with the mullet?Chris needs a better barber.The chap on the right looks much nicer.Also look, there are…

My college buddy has been trying to get me to visit Nepal for two decades now. It seemed like I would get there earlier, but I did not. When we caught up a year ago, I swore up and down that I would go see him once I could travel again... and I finally made it. A few photos from that trip to Kathmandu and Pokhara, October 2026. When we arrived in Kathmandu airport from Delhi, it was pouring buckets of rain. I thought I'd known what momos tasted like, but I was not prepared for how much better…

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Food Around the Clock – New York, New York I shot this picture somewhere in Times Square. Given that they serve breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night, apparently they pretty much serve food around the clock. Though I can’t tell if they are actually open 24 hours. The black-and-white conversion works well here. There’s a nice shine and glow to the image, and the lack of color simplifies the photo. However, I like the color version too, and the red neon is a real bonus. I included that version…

Today was quite busy and full of excitement! We went to a bunch of activities and had a ball! The day kicked off with Clarkson and me going to a carnival event for his school, where he was excited to go on some bounce houses. Then, we drove over to the Tatertot Con Year 3 I had just recently discussed being excited about. When it officially kicked off at 12 PM, it became busy quite quickly! A number of vendors and creators were there. Near the entrance was Go Getter Gamez with their usual…