Libraries, science and digital things

Joined October 2010
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23 Dec 2025
Rip Vince, thanks for the great games GG
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8 Dec 2025
Groki: Grok-powered KiCad schematic review, exploration, power analysis, and part replacements via deep research. Evolve your EE workflow! @juliankc @KodaClement @ernestyalumni @unhinged_evan
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28 Nov 2025
Nice idea from Charlie Munger, the inversion idea that instead of thinking what would make something thrive or really go well; what would make a venture sink then build backwards from there
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27 Oct 2025
Apparently I have been on Twitter/X for 15 years, time goes fast
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This Banksy, which appeared overnight on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in London, is extremely powerful.
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7 Apr 2025
Speed limit 120 kmph, but you have to lock your phone in your boot.
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7 Feb 2025
Yesterday I went to Ōnuku to celebrate Waitangi Day, and it was a great delight to hear the GG speak
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30 Jan 2025
I saw a cat using a wooden power pole as a giant scratching pole this morning, couldn't help but laugh
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30 Jan 2025
Radical idea: if we dig fuel and minerals out of the ground we could sell them to fund things like hospitals, infrastructure and proper food for kids at school
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28 Jan 2025
New Zealand has sleepwalked 30 years in a rent-seeking stupor and awakened to find the kids have gone to Aussie having been the unthinking architects of a society entirely hostile to young people.
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26 Jan 2025
I should get a boat.
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β€˜In a single generation New Zealand has transformed itself from a home-owning democracy into a society fractured by property wealth β€” between those who have it, and those who do not’ northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/…
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25 Jan 2025
Latest update for my #Googlepixel bricked the battery. Offered $89.00NZD as recompense ruining my otherwise perfectly adequate phone. I look forward to putting that money in the direction of another firm when I buy a replacement :-|
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24 Jan 2025
$4M science funding spent to spray sick Kauri trees with whale-oil, and play them whale-song based on nothing but folklore. Scientific opportunity cost at the hands of neo-mystic folktales, pedaled by ideologues.
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24 Jan 2025
I say this all as a very proud Northland person who loves Kauri trees
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22 Jan 2025
When I was kid I used to catch eels - farm kid. Knowing all I know now about eels, I would have to be starving to eat one these days - beautiful creatures. I saw kids fish out one on New Years eve and I felt a pang of sadness. Sentimental journey
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16 Jan 2025
That's what you want!
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16 Jan 2025
Writing summaries of soldier biographies and this sentence comes up time and time again "... and was killed in action in Belgium on XX October 1917" - the Battle of Passchendaele was an absolute disaster.
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10 Jan 2025
Burned my thumb on the oven and instinctively licked it to ease the burn, alas now I have the indelible taste of my own grilled thumb.
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Applications are open for the Munby Research Fellowship 2025! This 2 year Research Associate position in Bibliography and Natural History Humanities is a collaboration between Cambridge University Libraries & @CamGLAMresearch Closing date: 17 Jan APPLY: loom.ly/zcBK0BI
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