@ticketybooks Ranking the greatest opening lines in picture book literature, including #EricCarle #ShelSilverstein #SandraBoynton #kidlit #picturebooks #booktok ♬ original sound - Tickety Books @thegreedydick Eggs with a side of a shrine to Joan Collins Max Cafe on the Clapham Road, a weird bit of London's food history londonhotspots londonfood londonfoodie
I've been going out and streaming mixes from various outdoor locales. This morning I was by the lake in Regents Park. I think it makes for a nice combo of gentle ambient music and gentle ambient nature. It also featured a large fish jumping, occasionally, from the lake.
The original Peter Skillman talk Tom Wujek's talk, with lots of data
Relevant links! Adam Morgan's eatbigfish podcast with Dave and Jeffre.
One of my favourite moments of the year. I look at the calendar. Pick a date, Ask Anne if she's got anything on. Do a bit of googling to make sure there's nothing important happening and email the Conway Hall. They send me back some forms.
"Slop wins because it conforms to neat narrative arcs that fulfill our desires for cohesive stories: At crime scenes, children make the best witnesses because they simply report back what they saw rather than editorializing into a natural story arc. The adult brain is hardwired to eliminate cognitive dissonance
"One garment became central to that image. The navy Howick jacket Burnham wore during the Tier 3 dispute in October 2020 is now held by the People’s History Museum. Its catalogue records it plainly as a Howick VI coat, bought from House of Fraser. Yet within days British
Talking with Dan on an internet screen. Friday. Come and say hello How People Work, Live! ... with Russell Davies - Dan HonHow People Work, Live! -- the live show about how to people, based on the How People Work workshop that helps teams deliver better, faster.Join Dan, a very special guest,
Inspired by this excellent post from Tom Stafford. "Just imagining that you might be wrong is enough to create demonstrable benefits to problem solving and estimation, which has been variously called “the wisdom of crowds on single player mode” and “dialectical bootstrapping”. I like to think that the imaginary
Giles and I were swapping postcards a while ago. Middle-aged affectation but fun. And it struck me that a Haudoo on 'how to write a letter' would be a good idea. I suggested that to Giles and, because he's a genius, he wrote a letter
At the last Interesting I threatened to come up with a plan to do 'other things'. I love the feeling at Interesting and it'd be nice to have it happen at other times and places, I've never quite worked out how to do this