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Invisible Oscar
Oscar, the cat of GodDaughter2’s parental home down in the South of France, is a favourite object of photographic devotion here, and on the right there, the latest Oscar photo, from GD2D, showing him...
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Public ancientism and private modernism in Highgate
One of the themes I believe I have encountered in the course of my architecture-spotting is the one I’ve been calling The Triumph of Modernism Indoors. These photos, taken from a piece about a house...
View ArticleArtificial brain-controlled limbs as brain therapy to reactivate real limbs
About a week ago now, I did a posting here about a monkey that had learned to play pong using only its brain, with no merely physical contrivance whatever. Well, the other day (which other day is of no...
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3D-printed fake rhino horns
Suddenly I am finding all kinds of interesting animals-related stuff. This, for instance: My rule about Friday being my day for animals-related stuff has morphed, in my head, into the rule that I am...
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Some surprises at the Royal Marsden today
Now that the weather is good and Lockdown seems to be easing, I am doing a lot more getting out, but am in a physical state where properly thoughtful blogging is hard to do on a day when I will be...
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A choice that we all face these days
Yes, a favourite photo of mine, at the opposite end of the spectrum mentioned in this posting from the photo in that posting, is this one: I originally posted this photo, photoed in WH Smith Liverpool...
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Brexit didn’t stop London’s cranes
While I’m on the subject of postings past, here is one from the old blog from exactly five years ago, featuring a crane cluster photo, which I have also just transferred to here. Brexit was then being...
View ArticleThis Blog was fun while it lasted – but now it is approaching its end
First I got diagnosed with lung cancer, and that was bad. And then I started taking the pills, and that was good. The cancer got no worse, and I got better. But now the side effects, if that’s what...
View ArticleHello again
After writing the previous posting here, about how BMNB dot come is now being wound down, from a daily to an occasional blog, I was determined that my next piece of bloggage would be for Samizdata, and...
View ArticleI am in hospital
Not about to die, or I don’t think so, but yes, and trying to use my laptop. What with me being in a weakened state, everything now takes twenty times as long, no matter how simple it would have been...
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