Mark Foy

Halloween Data Viz Pumpkin 🎃📈📊

Glenn Hughes was fantastic tonight, incredible voice still

Without Ace Frehley, Kiss could not have achieved their extraordinary greatness | Michael Hann The guitarist was the most proficient musician in the original lineup and his bludgeoning ‘monster plod’ was central to their sound

Without Ace Frehley, Kiss could not have achieved their extraordinary greatness | Michael Hann

The room filled up, honest...

Leaving the house at 5:51 (😵‍💫) for the 2025 AphA Conference in London. 3 workshops to run and a train which gets me home for 10pm. Gonna be a long day
#AphA2025

As of tonight I'm now a qualified ECB Foundation Coach 🏏

Adding that to the email signature first thing tomorrow morning 😎

Summer of cricket at Old Trafford
2x T20
1x WT20
2x England Test Days
1x WT20i
1x T20i

What a way to finish last night 🏏🚀🎆🎇🔥

"that Alcaraz is good, wonder how he'll compare to the greats... I know I'll just ignore some early data and straight line forecast the most recent 2 years despite no other person demonstrating that trajectory... Job done"

#EngvSA

Back to work tomorrow after 18 days off. We were developing the world's greatest income, activity and performance comparator. Like a true leader, I tasked the only analyst in the team to build it while I was away. Can't wait to see how it looks, hope he captured the PES inspired benchmarking well

Leaving the house for drop off is for suckers

You're not thinking big enough. This is the non-contact drop off dad tech must have

Back at the cricket. One of us even managed to get on the pitch
#EngvInd

Sun's come out now
#EngvInd

Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

🟡 Heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne has died, just weeks after reuniting with his Black Sabbath bandmates and performing a huge farewell concert for fans.⁠
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In a statement, his family said he died "surrounded by love".⁠
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news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

Hope I can get this off before school tomorrow
#EngvInd

Good win for Lancashire today. Tara Norris and Kate Cross were so nice as well

Hülkenberg 🥲🥲🥲
#F1
#BritishGP

I restarted my analysis notes on the 10 Year Plan as my first run was just bland. Like every other commentary out there it struggled with the Plan really not being a "plan".

It isn't a delivery plan, and it doesn't allow people to jump right to their empire's impacts. And that's actually good.

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The greatest band ever... Sparks. Still in absolutely top form

Facilitated our Delivery Unit away day today. Obviously this meme featured, oh and a little about the future/strategy/blah blah blah

• Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of Big Star, recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread'' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it"). [31] • The Monkees' Micky Dolenz said that when he tripped on LSD with Wilson, John Lennon, and Harry Nilsson, Wilson played "Shortenin' Bread" on piano "over and over again". [291 • Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that Elton John and Iggy Pop were bemused by an extended, contumacious Wilson-led singalong of "Shortenin' Bread", leading Pop to flee the room proclaiming, "I gotta get out of here, man. This guy is nuts!"[32] • Musician Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson considered "Shortenin' Bread" to be the greatest song ever written. According to Cooper, when he asked why, Wilson responded "I don't know, it's just the best song ever written." [33]

RIP big dog

The mythbuster: The NHS can and should learn from Formula One Steve Black explores how resistance to outside comparisons hides deep flaws in NHS systems, priorities, and data use

The NHS is often hostile to outside ideas for improving the way it works. But it could and should learn more from many other organisations, in this can Formula 1 racing: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

Day 7 (Day 6 was rest day)
#T20Blast Lancashire v Northamptonshire. Disappointing defeat for Lancs

Back to work and school tomorrow

We did, but the cheque for that wasn't as much

Day 5
Trip to the Science and Industry Museum followed by a few overs at Sixes Cricket, where I took great pleasure in showing the one of us who plays cricket a few things

Day 4
Trip to Chester for @sicktodeath.bsky.social and Challenge Point*

*We didn't actually win 😞

Day 3 More chilled day. Bowling and new roller skates. Successfully avoided a trip to the hospital as well

Day 2
Western Approaches WW2 Museum and Quirky Quarter

Day 1 of Daddy and Amelia week. Windmill Animal Farm