A good walk today, Ben Oss and Beinn Dubhcraig most excited about sundew, mountain ringlets and a cloud berry. Map, photos and notes: walkmap
Kilpatrick Braes First for a while the lockdown crowds seem to have gone.
Lots of flora: yarrow, thyme & ladies bedstraw in the fields. Bell heather, heath bedstraw & tormentil on the moor. First Blaeberries Lots of Ringlets, a few fritillaries when the sun appeared.
Doug Belshaw (Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel)I think we've all felt a close affinity and, dare I say, relationship with people who wouldn't know who we were if we met them in real life. In fact, I've kind of experienced the other side of this due to my TEDx Talk and the TIDE podcast. People at events would come and talk to me as if they knew m
On the other end, this makes me feel a bit uncomfortable listening to some podcasts. I used to listen to quite a few popular mac/tech podcasts, but the feeling that I knew these folk was somehow quite unpleasant. 1. I don’t & 2. I live in a very different world. They are often over long with a lot of friendly, between presenters, chat. I now keep an eye and dip in occasionally when the topic looks good thank to Castro’s triage.
Tide, I very much enjoyed because I had met irl Doug and virtually Dai. My own broadcasting/podcasting efforts were mostly aimed at folk just like me. I’d guess I knew many of our audience.
Walking round Ardinning Wildlife reserve for a picnic lunch today. The large keep your dogs on a lead signs seem generally ignored. Today a guy’s spaniel took off & quartered a section of moor, 2 curlew going crazy over it. Bloke could not catch or call his dog. Mood: grumpy.
Just set up my pi as an AFP server using How to Setup a Raspberry Pi AFP Server – Pi My Life Up pretty straightforward. Quite please with myself. I wonder if I could have a pi with a big SSD on it. Seems you can set the pi up as a Time Machine. I didn’t manage to mount my home folder but can get /var/www/html to work which might be useful.
The response to this has been very interesting.
Has teacherinstagram become more useful than #edutwitter ? https://twitter.com/mr_minchin/status/1412090247165497351
I use Instagram for photo-sharing rather than Edu. Feel it is becoming more & more problematic. Hard to share, link to, link from, lots of adverts and horrible algorithm. Very silo like.
'Twitter did something that I would not have thought possible: It stole reading from me. What is it stealing from you?' https://twitter.com/janinegibson/status/1412044936476872704
1. Reading your & other blogs.
2. Resources, Twitter is good for easy short term sharing not for long term discovery.
3. Time
Posting this via my blog, where it belongs and is organised by me in my online memory.
As part of doing some sessions at UBC in June, I got some gift cards to use at the bookstore, and picked up some heavy pieces of literature. Tha…
Hi Alan,
I, somewhat serendipitously, read this post recently. Didn’t notice the date.
The book arrived, £2.29 including p&p, this morning.
Marvellous book and I think it will a great resource when I go back to school in August.
Four-spotted Chaser at Ardinning on Friday