Large clumps of wet snow following on directly behind a downpour of rain. Settling briefly on darker coloured cars.
This might be the earliest snow in London in a long time. I don’t recall any earlier in the last 40-someting years.
My other job
When I’m not looking at teeth and bones, I’m a Gadabout heritage scientist.
Today, I’m up in Cambridge looking at old manuscripts with modern science. I’m using optical coherence tomography to see if we can look beneath some corrections in a south American manuscript.
The end.
I was an early adopter of twitter; I had a three character user name. I made friends on Twitter, I mourned friends passing on Twitter.
I’ve been elsewhere for a couple of years. I made the twitter account private, but didn’t delete the content. I suppose I was hoping sane hands would take over – similar to how Flickr has developed over the years. I have talks and websites and publications that link to twitter, I can’t edit those. That was my excuse.
Fuck that.
It’s gone.
10 years
The sidebar of this website (it’s underneath the posts these days for some reason I don’t understand) has links to websites and comics and things that I like or used to like. I don’t clean it up very often, so there’s still a link or two on there I’d not visit now.
One of the links is to the blog of G4ILO, Julian, a radio amateur who died a while ago. I still dip into his posts on occasion as there’s useful stuff there and his host hasn’t taken down the page yet. Earlier today I clicked the link to Julian’s site and realised it hasn’t been updated in 10 years, clicking though from there took me to his ‘one foot in the grave’ blog – that informed me he died 10 years ago yesterday.
How time flies.
Comet
I finally spotted the comet (C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS))
As seen from south Minneapolis.