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Twoxic
or “I unfollowed you because I love you and it hurts too much to see you this way.” Back in 1991 I was a something of a comics nerd and a regular reader of 2000AD. At that time some of 2000AD’s top...
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A Holiday in Llandudno
As a stop-gap measure to break the long stretch of No Break I’d had this year, we booked a cheap B&B in North Wales for a few days away. The weather darted between the extremes of sunny and rainy...
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Press Photos for Birmingham Opera
A photography job came out of nowhere last month – taking some photos of the rehearsals of Mittwoch Aus Licht, the bonkers Stockhausen opera that Birmingham Opera were putting on. I’d previously shot...
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A 40th Birthday Gathering
[Update: Thanks to Michael being unable to not make a fuss, we might be have hired the large rear bar area now. Or we might not. This is why I didn't want to make a fuss.] On September 19th, barring...
View ArticleOn Driving
I passed my driving test a few months ago. For the first couple of days I didn’t drive at all – I was kinda sick of it, to be honest. Having gone through the rigmarole of learning to pass the test,...
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Photography vs photography
Photo by Fiona This is one of my “working shit out” blog posts, if you’re wondering why it rambles with no coherent point. One of the things that’s often interested me in the time I’ve spent in the...
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My steampunk thinking helmet
On Saturday we were honoured to be invited to Maria and Alex‘s wedding which was to be held on a steam train on the Severn Valley Railway with guests requested to dress in the style of Steampunk, a...
View ArticleMemory I
I’ve been thinking about memory quite a bit lately. At least I think I have. I have some memories of thinking about it, and memories of a couple of conversations along those lines. If I asked Fiona she...
View ArticleMemory II
In recent years my memory has been getting worse. Part of this is probably down to my over reliance on the Internet (why remember stuff when you can Google it?) but I also see it in my peers. Fiona,...
View ArticleNotes on Fiona receiving a new iPad Mini
Preamble: I use Apple products a fair amount. Thanks to being gifted a Powerbook in the early 90s I’ve stuck with them ever since and have been pretty pleased with them. I’d like to be an ideological...
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Chiptune Karaoke Happened
In the ongoing saga of doing stupid things with electronics, I finally presented 8bit Karaoke tonight. It even had posters on the pub door and everything. I’d been wanting to do this since the first...
View ArticleBirmingham Spells
I wrote a long article about how one might define Birmingham. It’s 3,000 words but I think it reads fairly easily. It’s not 100% coherent but it’s not really supposed to be a final statement, more a...
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Dictionary + algorithm + PoD t-shirt printer + lucrative meme = rape t-shirts...
Addendum added 24 hours later: Since I posted this at 2am on Friday night / Saturday morning 50,000 people have come to this page and it looks like more are on their way. A few of them have even read...
View ArticleLetters from Stirchley
A new thing on Paradise Circus, exploring what looked to be a new river in Stirchley. Hopefully part of a series.
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80,000 people have seen a photo of my neighbours’ kittens
Everyone, go and read @peteashton’s blog. Need to hear him moan more about being popular. — Chris Ivens (@chrisivens) March 2, 2013 Well, that was an interesting weekend. I have a few posts I need to...
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Articles of note about the Amazon Rape T-Shirt weekend
Timely cartoon by my old chum Tom Gauld posted to his Tumblr. Jo Lindsay Walton: Keep Calm & Put It On More generally. The things we buy and sell tell us, indirectly, about what is and isn’t okay...
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And the geek shall disinherit the net
Google’s announcement last night that they’re closing their RSS Reader service provoked much frustration and annoyance from those who use it, with the usual cluster of hashtags and petitions that serve...
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Club Hashtag
Sometimes you need to stop and consider how far things have come, and it’s often the most mundane, idiotic things that make that clear. The other day, walking down Broad St, Birmingham’s district of...
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I interviewed Hunt Emerson about Birmingham Arts Lab
Flatpack Festival – Back To The Lab: Hunt Emerson As some of you will know, Hunt Emerson has long been one of my favourite cartoonists. So when I was given the opportunity to interview him for the...
View ArticlePaging Alfred Korzybski
So I’m reading The Meme Hustler this quite long article by Evgeny Morozov about Tim O’Reilly and it’s both fascinating and really annoying in that way some journalism can be when you know a bit about...
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