The week before last I was rather on a roll, I thought, in terms of getting somewhat forrader on various projects in the pipeline -

And then last week I was drooping around feeling a rather sad miz weary hedjog, due to sleeping badly, which was mostly due to the achey bits deciding to be particularly achey or flaring up after having long been ( Read more... )

Looking back (I'm not doing one of those lists that assume that life is more or less NORMAL, not that they ever particularly match the lifestyle of a Crabby Ol' Bat Hedjog.
Best thing I got during the year: 2 A-Z + 1 Pfizer vaxxes.
Best things I bought during the year: new computer, it really does show up how massively, massively sluggish the old ( Read more... )

Got off my commentated version of an ms within my sphere of interest that I had been reading. Also got off a couple of emails in connection with outstanding projects, and revised an abstract and uploaded it to the relevant site.
Bought myself a new laptop! I have been less than satisfied with the Yogabook for some while, and have been havering and ( Read more... )

As somebody who earned something between 'peanuts' and 'ooh, free copy of book' for contributions to academic tomes, I am Very Much Appreciative of the work of the Authors' Licensing and Copyright Society for gathering together micropayments in respect of copying for student packs etc on my behalf annually. While this may not exactly amount to a ( Read more... )

While I'm absolutely there for recuperating needlework and textile skills from the condescension of posterity, as in this Twitter thread and this one yesterday -

- and deploring the simplistic invocation of a 'not like other girls' protag who prefers anything else to her needle (will concede that Madame C- confesses that she does not take after her ( Read more... )

This may not have crossed all my dr rdrz' radar: Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection: planned building closure. And, as my dr rdrz may or may not know, the Trust is one of the world's major medical research NGOs, and the Collection is one of the world's major centres for the history of medicine. We feel that they know whereof they are dealing ( Read more... )

At least, that's how it seemed.
There was the flu jab accomplished (arm soreness gradually receding).
I not only finally rang the dental practice for an appointment for my overdue checkup, they managed to fit me in - with a new dentist, the former one having departed - this very week. (No work needed - yay!)
Organised jaunt to Scotland - I am ( Read more... )

Spotted on Twitter: someone alleging - can this even be true? I see various iterations of the idea that "if you wouldn't discuss your taste in pornography with your grandma/your boss/a stranger then what you're into is wrong." This is some bullshit.

Come ON. People judge other people about tastes much less high-risk than what they wank to and they ( Read more... )

The founder/sole owner believes “titles don’t matter” and it’s more important to focus on the responsibilities each person has.
Hmmmm. Well, I suppose they are designating responsibilities, but I think this is all rather heading into Tyranny of Structurelessness territory, no? which is what I feel about a lot of these 'flat' structures where they ( Read more... )

I can quite see that a lot of 'itsajoke!!!' is merely a feeble cover for something that is not funny at all.
I also observe that there are people who do things for their own amusement and that of others that is cruel and unusual to somebody somewhere.
So, I was thinking, but are there not jokes which are simply harmlessly entertaining? e.g. the ( Read more... )