Last year captainmushroom gave a home to an amaryllis plant. We watched it grow until finally, in February, its crimson blooms burst out and brought a bit of breathtakingly lovely colour to the February greyness ( Read more... )

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I think anyone who works with kids, has kids, deals with neuroatypical kids or grownups, likes Mythbusters, or likes robots (or children who like robots) needs to read
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I dabble in design. I am not, nor do I aspire to be a designer. However, like most of my colleagues who work with text, either printed, or onscreen, I have opinions about type and typography.

I tend to like old-style, angled-serif typefaces, with good balance between thick and thin strokes: Goudy, Jensen, in a pinch Garamond.

But when it comes to ( Read more... )

One of the best parts of my current project is coming up with ideas for features in science books. I do a lot of this: a publisher will often outsource all of the chapter-openers or end-of-chapter features for a programme. I'll receive a table of contents, some samples, a bunch of curriculum documents, and a list of criteria, and I'll wander off ( Read more... )

If you have never awoken to freshly baked muffins and coffee in bed, I feel for you.

I strongly recommend the experience.

And now everyone at work is jealous of me.

Made it to Boston at 08h30 yesterday morning, after completely re-packing sometime in the wee small hours (neequdrazil, the more-or-less completed sewing made another bag imperative, so things got redistributed ( Read more... )

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