Making It Up

Category: Tim

  • Leaving the comfort zone.

    Leaving the comfort zone.

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    Jax Blunt
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    Recently I saw someone on twitter talking about the idea that we should all leave our comfort zone every single day. This is my comfort zone. Yup, it’s my bed. I drag myself out of it daily. If things get on top of me, I retreat. That might be a physical reaction – I get…

  • Sunday sketching.

    Sunday sketching.

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    On recommendations from a couple of people, I dug out our copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence (Amazon affiliate link) today. (Turns out there’s a new edition. Must not buy.) It seems that in my experimentation I’ve worked out the five basic principles…

  • the 101 list – challenge accepted.

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    Knowing that this list was once again relegated to my drafts folder, today Big issued a challenge, which I accepted. She’s doing something important to me. So I’m setting out on my 101 things. Again. (If you want to check out her take on the list, her post is over here.) The list so far.…

  • Lands' End Wool Pea Coat – review.

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    I am not really a coat person. I don’t like being muffled and winter coats I have tried on in the past have always felt like I was being suffocated with blankets. My staple has always been lightweight stuff, most recently a Paramo windproof, waterproof fleece. So, when the Lands’ End Wool Pea Coat arrived…

  • Stay Away

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    “UN nuclear monitors have advised Japan to consider expanding the evacuation zone around the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. An exclusion zone with a radius of 20km (12 miles) is currently in place but the UN says safe radiation limits have been exceeded 40km away. … … The US and UK earlier advised…

  • Happy St Edmund's Day

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    Have a great day today, celebrating the feast day of England’s patron saint, St Edmund The Martyr  

  • The Last Piece Of Chocolate Cake Scenario

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    There it is, on the table, it is a chocolate cake, a good chocolate cake. There is only one piece left. You want it. I reckon there are four types of people. Selfish You want that last piece. The challenge is to persuade everyone else to let you have it. If the room is empty…

  • Rubbish Christmas 2010 – Must Have Christmas Tree

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    It is rare to find an item which is thoroughly awful in concept, tacky in execution and utterly ugly. But then, there is always The Range. This year, they are offering a 170cm Cascading Snow Tree – Black, a snip at £99.99. This ghastly piece of festive tat awaits you at your local store, or…

  • A Bit About PR

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    I have never been much of a fan of PR. For one thing, I would like to see truly local MPs, for another, in the past I had fallen for the “you will never get strong government” line. However, looking at the opinion polls this weekend, I think, makes it clear that we have to…

  • Shape Of Things To Come

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    Scientists from Rand Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look in the year 2004. However, the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now…