Tagged “unclassified”
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Moving away from WordPress – important* info
When I started this blog in 2017, I picked WordPress almost at random, just so I could get started with something. And it has worked well enough. But: it’s not cheap it’s a pain to make layout…
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The straight, the curved and the pointy of LEGO-compatible train track
Disclaimer: I’ll be offering my opinions on the merits of currently available LEGO and non-LEGO train track elements. This will be mainly from a theoretical perspective, as I haven’t had personal…
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Tie-ing myself in knots – more LEGO track, briefly
Once more returning to the theme of sleepers (or ties) on LEGO track (see The art of LEGO railway track), I wondered whether I could make a passable representation of modern concrete sleepers, which…
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Choosing a scale for LEGO trains
This is a follow-up to my post a couple of weeks ago, The art of LEGO railway track. I’m coming back to the topic because I had a small problem with a platform I’d built (from a Blue Brixx set) – it’s…
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The art of LEGO railway track
[2024-03-14: I’ve since written a longer and nerdier post on this topic, which calls into question the decisions I made here.] For me the most satisfying LEGO models manage to capture the essence of…
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This is so hard (2020 edition)
In the park in the summer By this, I might simply mean writing this blog post, but I could be talking more generally about writing anything, or communicating with people in any way, or doing…
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The photographer’s error
At the pond I could get my phone out and take a picture. But I realised in that moment that looking at the photograph later would never conjure up the sense of being here. Never again would I…
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Prospecting for employment
Construction of a temporary venue at Edinburgh University This can be thought of as a companion piece to my earlier post To PhD or not to PhD. I haven’t made a firm decision yet on whether to…
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To PhD or not to PhD?
A linguistic overview of the university In 1997, I abandoned a PhD in mathematics, which I had begun in 1993. It had started to go seriously wrong in 1996, if not earlier, but I persisted for a…
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Out of place, out of time, out of date?
There are a lot of things I want to write about – I have a dozen sketched-out blog posts waiting in the wings, but some of them are on quite big topics, and I’ll need a bit of time to do the necessary…
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Commuting on the Number Line
The first station on the Number Line You almost certainly came across the Number Line at school (even if you didn’t pursue mathematics or the history of underground railways to an advanced…
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Alone
Extroverts are ‘energised’ by company, while introverts are ‘energised’ by time spent alone. Or so a little pop psychology would have us believe. But if that were the whole story, wouldn’t introverts…
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