Wren
Wren
Wren
The Wrens are starting to get busy building and preparing their nests, these were taken last year during the material gathering process and I hope to capture more this year #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography
Fragments: reporting fines, engaging with gen AI, experience engineering, watching the ralph loop, migrating COBOL
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a beautiful windfallen apple in a man's hand in the sunshine
Wind fallen apples every year? Don’t waste them! 🍎 Make fresh apple juice, tangy apple chutney, or brew your own cider. 🧃 If you’re not into that, compost them to enrich your soil or leave a few for garden wildlife to nibble on. 🍂🐦 There’s always a way to make the most of nature’s bounty!
One Battle after Another (2025)
Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.
More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
Still missing from the Cashel area a few weeks now.
We did box feeding with our boy. As he got used to it we added more and more external stimuli. Tapping the box, jangling his leash, even opening the door. It helped him tune things like that out, plus it's a really fun way to turn feeding into a fun, social activity.
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Day of the Triffids (1981, BBC 6-part series)
A rowdy looking crowd faces a small stage where a singer with a microphone stands. Police or security guards struggle to hold back audience members from rushing the stage.
Sex Pistols gig, Halmstad, Sweden (1977) Photo: Lars Astrom
The Internet Archive has a ton of old HyperCard programs that you can run right in your browser, including Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, the Whole Earth Catalog, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ebook, and The Manhole (Myst precursor). [kottke.org]
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"
A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com
As promised 😎
Showing the original 4:3 aspect ratio of a frame from Frasier, and the dumb 16:9 reframed aspect ratio as it appears on Paramount Plus
"Frasier" s04e01 aspect ratios
Apropos of nothing
Why not treat yerselves to a nice shiny copy of
Another Fine Mess and read about some of History's funniest catastrophes
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Forbidden Planet premiered 70 years ago today!
If you've never seen it, don't miss this Star Trek ancestor.
Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!
big round green tomato on the vine in the sunshine
small green tomatoes growing on the vine
Give your tomatoes a mid-season boost in July by applying a balanced fertilizer or compost. Focus on a formula with high phosphorus & potassium to support fruit development. Avoid high-nitrogen fertilizers to prevent excessive foliage growth. #Tomatoes #Fertilizer #JulyGardening
Ann Ballentine bought an old candy factory building in Brooklyn in 1979. She filled it with working artists and became something of a fairy godmother to them all. A lovely little short film. [kottke.org]
Troubled that my wife is not come home from Chelsey, whither she is gone to see the play at the school where Ashwell is, but she came at last, it seems, by water, and tells me she is much pleased with Ashwell’s acting and carriage, which I am glad of.
It just keeps getting better. New version is out! 😍
Windows Maintenance Tool v5.0.3
A free, powerful, all-in-one Windows maintenance toolkit built entirely in Batch & PowerShell.
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#tech #PCRepair #ComputerRepair #TechNews
RIP Paul Brainerd who introduced the term "desktop publishing" and co-founded Aldus Corporation who released PageMaker in 1984. Some absolute nuggets in this obituary. www.historylink.org/File/7657
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
They're smaller, have both lossy and lossless modes, lossy animation (like gif but not terrible), and lossy transparency, etc. For the purpose of web media, they can do basically everything jpg, png, and gif can do but better. It's lack of support is mostly because Apple hates open standards.
This guy gets it.
1st playlist of the new age! Was very nice to be back on the radio, you can have listen back via here tinyurl.com/4kf8fubd and tell me I did good, eh?
@8radioireland.bsky.social #themusicwelike
A beautifully vivid, realistic illustration of a WPC standing directing traffic
The modern world in old Ladybird books.
“Nowadays there are police women as well as policemen. Every force has at least one or two” (1962)
Artist: John Berry
In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroe...
