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Art in Rebecca Hossack gallery — read more
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Aphrodite in the Archaeological Museum, Naples. Beautiful. — read more
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Je n’ai rien vaillant; je dois beaucoup; je donne le reste aux pauvres. Rabelais — read more
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Seen in Store Street recently — read more
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Some uses for a beret
I like berets. Here are some uses for them I’ve found so far: keeping the rain off keeping the sun off keeping warm keeping cool an excellent light-shade when sleeping, without interfering with breathing looking like a surrealist covering your nose when your dog or cat breaks wind or your children, or wife (ahem) carrying… — read more
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In Libya (a lost post)
(I found this tucked away in a corner of my filesystem. Late, but interesting) In Libya, Day 3, Saturday, 19 November 2005 Today we have had an absolutely top day. We got up at about 8 o’clock to have a relatively leisurely breakfast of some rather peculiar things but including cornflakes and halva. Takila [our… — read more
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More Crazy 8s
New workout this morning, a variation on Craig Ballantyne’s Crazy 8s method: Warm up: Rower (4-5 mins at a good pace; you want to feel as if you’ve been working, but not completely cream-crackered) Star Jumps x 50 Push-ups x 16 Kettlebell swings (16kg) x 20 Foam roller crunches x 12 Kinesis reverse fly x… — read more
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Meaning in life
From the Harvard Business Review, of all places, comes this really rather good article by Clayton Christensen on the importance of assessing what you really want in life. This basically boils down to ‘Things’ or ‘People’: …the powerful motivator in our lives isn’t money; it’s the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others,… — read more
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Searching done better?
An interesting perspective from Mark Bernstein on how to improve searches on Google. In a piece headed Internet Failure hew says: “My recent strategy has been to fool Google by combining the information I want with the name of a serious cook – Ruhlman or Keller or Bourdain – and then to look for results… — read more
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Italian eating in Kyoto: Il Pappalardo
Il Pappalardo is an excellent local trattoria-style Italian restaurant in Kyoto. You really should go there if you are in Kyoto and want a good Italian pick-me-up. Located towards the southeast of town, on the east bank of the river, it’s about 3 minutes walk from Sanjusangendo (one of my favourite temples) and perhaps 15… — read more
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