Pete Langman

crouching sundial, hidden hourglass ... and the skull has just seen its 21st birthday, no?

Is the elephant shown slooshing the text all over itself in antother image?

Bumped into Passmore Edwards on a plaque at Stationers' Hall last night (as well as a 3/4 sized Elizabeth I birthday cake). Well, it sort of made sense to me ...

Wuther 'tis nobler in the mind ...

'To smile upon euerie man, is rather a signe of a vaine minde, then of a cheerefull countenance.'

'Hee which washeth his mouth with his owne praise, soyleth himself with the suddes that come of it'

You need an Alexorcist ...

Aye, but having Milady slit someone's throat with a stiletto ... shocking!

A rocking festival of delights in store, as ever!

... and for those born in the 60s ...

A bit late to this party, but Spycraft will be right up your street!

I wrote this about AI a few years ago. I find the image of an attack drone boasting about its PB rather more chilling now ... www.petelangman.com/cogito/

I rather suspect they think themselves to be said stable point ;) I remember Jerry and Warren going through the map business back at QM at the turn of the century ...

I still find it odd that there is ever any argument over the 'correct' way to show the globe. To suggest that such a thing exists rather relies on there being a single, stable viewpoint, which while we live on a rock that moves around a ball of gas that itself gently turns while drifting ... etc!

Francis Young is brilliant on the greatness of The Stripping of the Altars - on the Writer's Bookshelf this morning. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...

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'I could care less' works, of course, if you consider the second half of the phrase as being 'but I don't see how' ...

You've seen, of course, this early modern representation of the Cloud ...

They fly in groups (often termed a shroom), but hunt in pairs ... so if you can only see one it is probably too late ...

Describing the guitar solo as sounding like a digital cat is remarkably accurate ... the pedal he used to make the sound (a digitech whammy pedal) is renowned for doing just that!

just read ... most interesting (especially the perspectograph!)

Hey Thony, the link is currently arriving nowhere!

They do know what happened to Jeremy, right?

Reading the Guardian blather on about the trend for being 'disgustingly educated' made me wonder whether they meant 'disgustingly well-educated' or for 'bashing other people's vacuity into a pulp with the sheer bulk of your eruditon'?

Didn't Hound Dog Taylor have six fingers?

Splendid broadcasting!

On the 18th anniversary of my Parkinson's diagnosis, here's a selection of things that I've written about it - if I write the eighteenth, it will probably be about whay I so rarely write about Parkinson's these days! www.petelangman.com/17-pieces-of...

Seeing as most of these tests are set and monitored by AI systems I'm sure that it won't be long before humans don't know what traffic lights look like ... as is already the case with [insert vehicle of choice] operators ...

Surely all grammar began with someone's personal preference ...

If AI isn't bothering to make up a research profile for you, are you even an academic?