Yesterday I found a good-as-new clothbound copy of Moby-Dick for a mere £7. It's a classic, but it's also a book I (briefly) mention in my own as just one example of works of literature in which the author shows their knowledge of & interest in mathematics […]
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John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais:
"I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]
I raise a hopeful toast for reasonable guards when faced with railway chaos:
No introductions, just slainte and prost
Raising a beaker and raising a toast
Here's to the train crew and here's to delays
And here's to corrupt information displays
https://kensson.com/songs/connection/
(The train guard was, in the end, entirely reasonable. Here's to him.)
Another note in my occasional quest to make my post-Amazon Kindle a worthwhile e-reader:
Can anyone recommend a #KOReader plugin that will make things look nice AND is *explicitly* designed for non-touch Kindles?
I've tried a couple of plugins and they've been close to bricking my device […]
Colin Beveridge
Cleaning up old files because Dropbox was complaining I'd used all my space, buried in an old SVN repository, I just found my production diary from the worst play that I ever lit. The time is mid 2000s. The place is the tiny theatre above The Oxford Arms, Camden. Here it comes:
I'm sorting through the #BeachSpectres photos. This one's a nice desktop background.
Colin Beveridge
Tommaths (he/him)
Here's a data problem for someone handy with GIS: what's the largest circle you can draw, centred in the UK, where the majority of buildings are older than the USA?
#BeachSpectres day 1 went really well.
I heard that we might have completed 100 level-1 metatiles, which would be around 800-900 tiles stamped in the sand.
The unusually gloomy weather didn't get us down.
Same again tomorrow!
