Confused Middle Aged Dad

@confusedMiddleAgedDad
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Closed down my link to twitterVerse what feels like an age ago. Engineer in process safety. Cyclist. continual learner; bewildered by culture wars; usually pleasantly surprised by my offspring.
douglas adams's story about the civilization that built a giant computer that gave the ultimate answer but nobody knew what the question was so they put all their resources into building an even bigger computer just to figure out the question ... it feels more plausible every day.

#WillCycle #Throwback: Project Rebuild – the beginning

My bike is a 2016 Genesis CdA 20. It started life as a gravel bike, but I've made extensive modifications, to turn it into a touring bike. I don't treat...

https://www.willcycle.com/better-world/project-rebuild-the-beginning/

Project Rebuild – the beginning - WillCycle

Project Rebuild: rebuilding my ageing 2016 Genesis CdA 20 into almost a new bike. Follow along the challenges of this project, starting with the strip-down.

WillCycle - Because you deserve some adventure in your life
This is the first time you get a good view of the hill known as Liathach as you drive down Glen Torridon towards the sea. And what a view. BTW: It's one of the Torridon Hills, hence the description, but let's face it... it's a mountain.
My unified theory here is that after a decade of Tory government, people expected a Labor leader with a huge majority in Parliament to govern radically differently in action, tone and focus.

Starmer did not.

People may have differing reasons for feeling that way, but that's what it comes down to.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:luw7pcqimp4xchky7hdkvzvd/post/3moubluf3rk2s
#Onthisday in 1837, Queen Victoria ascended to the throne and so began the Victorian era. Of the vast amounts of Victorian content on our site, this is perhaps our favourite — a dictionary of Victorian slang: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-1909
Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.
My latest @[email protected] cartoon
So which time format is more silly?

Back in 2011 when I worked in Singapore at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, I visited Angkor Wat and the surrounding temples in Cambodia. On the outskirts, overgrown by the jungle, is Ta Prohm, made famous by that Tomb Raider movie.

I thought I might as well share my photos. I generally try to minimize travel these days, and I try not to glamorize travel either. But it also seems a bit silly to sit on these photos forever and die with them on my laptop. So here they are. Not great quality, but a great place.

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