Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Becoming an Architect. This week, I was talking to someone about careers and why or how we pick something to do for the rest of our lives. I got lucky, I knew what I wanted to do when I was thirteen. But there are a few people, experiences and objects that make this a journey […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Allergy Denier. I am six weeks away from a year of writing a weekly article. Most weeks have been pretty easy, but the odd week, like this one, tests my resolve. Not helped by the energy and motivation drain of a bad cough and the associated green flem. I may have reached a terminal point—a […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Tikory Hickory Tok, The Mouse Ran Up The Clock. After spending a week immersed in TikTok, I’ve peered into every corner of its vibrant, chaotic landscape. It’s a peculiar digital town square, showcasing everything from mundane daily routines to the strangely hypnotic, where I found live-streaming to hold the most allure. Live-Streaming Lures Tom’s 80s […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Decaff Dreaming. This week, I’ve left it late. Overslept. I woke at 4 am. It was too early to start work, but I wasn’t sleepy, so I put on a podcast and listened to an interview with a chap called Whitley Strieber. He regularly slept with an alien in the 1980s. I did fall back […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Running Through Time: A Journey to Less is More. I love running around a place I don’t know; it is a reason to stay fit. I saw an interview with Lance Armstrong the other day. He doesn’t have any events to train for nowadays. So, he is training to “be prepared to do whatever anybody […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
It Won’t Be Long, Yeah, Yeah. I’ve been busy this week. Listening to podcasts while building 3D VR models and drawing electrical layouts. Grocery shopping, reading books on tax dodgers and a garden in Dungeness, plus a bit of Four in a Bed and chatting with a new AI app that suggested avocado and honey […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Golf n’ Around. Here we go, Here we go, Here we go again… This week feels like it’s gone by quicker than most, perhaps sped up by my self-imposed dry March, or maybe due to a peculiar time slip, a sudden shift in space and time. Perhaps it’s both, coupled with being run off my […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
The Image of a City. I spent last weekend ‘stoatin’ aboot’ Edinburgh with Rhondda—32,742 steps of ‘stoatin’ aboot’ to be precise. It’s Rhondda’s hometown and my first visit. I ran to the beach (5km), ate overpriced steak, went to an engagement party, danced till 3 am in a basement, and argued in the Royal Commonwealth Swimming […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
At the Laundrette. Stepping into the laundrette on Monday with an over-full load, I entered not just a place of washing and drying but a realm where every spin cycle mirrored the complexities of society itself—a lesson in diversity, resilience, and simple yet strange human connections. Yeah, really. It is a strange place. You watch your […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
The Temperature’s Rising. Gotta start TFTW early this week. When you read this, I’ll be a year older and down-west, sitting in a sauna, regenerating myself by jiggling my heat shock proteins. The cellular protection and repair afforded by this protocol will counter my ageing. The whisky over the same period will counter this anti-ageing. […]
