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Five of Clubs: Marmites
This weekend Geneva celebrates the Fête de l’Escalade, so I made a video of the piece I wrote about various things called marmites, their nutritional value, use in soup cooking, and effectiveness...
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Misinterpreting Douglas Adams: Digital watches were a pretty neat idea.
My first watch was digital. I was probably nine or ten, and the watch was a black Casio with a dashed line around the face in alternating green and blue. My brother and I would race to find each other...
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Shoe Shop Map
A while ago a friend of mine was excited to discover that she could fit the shoes in the children’s section, which were cheaper. Someone else was delighted to discover that she could fit shoes in the...
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Reviews of a Mid-air Movie Marathon
Technology is great. For instance, did you know that you can get to New Zealand from Europe simply by sitting in three different chairs in the sky and watching about seven movies while people bring you...
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What’s the difference between couchette cars and sleeping cars?
Today I found out that New Zealand has lie-flat sleeper buses, which I’m going to have to try while I’m here. I can’t sleep on planes, but I can on trains, so buses should be my next experiment. This...
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Hemispherism: Is it time for a War on Winter?
The Holidailies writing prompt for today is: Tomorrow is the first day of winter. What do you consider the perfect winter day? Well. Once again somebody has forgotten about the ‘worldwide’ part of the...
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Recording: Te Harinui
When Europeans colonised New Zealand, they brought not only mammals to drive many of the native birds to extinction, but also their religion to exterminate the native theodiversity. This began with...
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Apple Watch vs. Macintosh Classic boot time
I somehow ended up buying an Apple Watch the other day, though I’d intended to wait a while first. I have a pretty neat Casio digital watch already, of course, but I’d never had a wearable computer....
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Welcome, McFly. Seriously.
I arrived in October 21 2015 about an hour ago, and Marty McFly should be arriving later. It seems a good time to recap a few things I’ve made and done relating to Back to the Future. Firstly, here are...
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Accessibility is for Everyone
Accessibility is for everyone. I say that whenever an abled person finds a way that an accessibility feature benefits them. But that’s not all that it means. There are really three different meanings...
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