John Warner

This face looks more like a Soviet era portrait and it made me think of "Animal Farm"

"No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Two copies of "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness with different covers.

I am sorting out book shelves at home - so I can fit more in - and I found two of these. One I will give to someone. Which one would you choose to donate and which to keep?

Answers on a "postcard" to...

and only another 1451 days left.

Needed to write an equation (or eight) so just refreshed my knowledge of LaTeX and KaTeX

Which equations I am writing from these:

$$ \oint_S \overrightarrow{E} \cdot \hat{n} da = \frac{q_{enc}}{\epsilon _0} $$

and

$$ \nabla \cdot \overrightarrow{E} = \frac{\rho}{\epsilon _0} $$

My mother found in her nineties holding a book tiring so we (my sister and I) bought her audiobooks on CD so she could play them.

She didn't finish Middlemarch by George Eliot before she died sadly but she was a good way through it.

Hi there, it is John Warner being a refugee from some of the toxic places elsewhere.

How are you?

Not sure if mine has been counted as I ordered it through a German bookseller.

Isn't the legal speed limit the EU limit of 25 kmph converted into mph for the British?

When it came out I was in college and four of us went to the local flea pit that didn't chuck you out and watched that film four times in a row and laughed at different jokes each time.

A handheld computer which I assembled and got working.

Received a Clockwork Pi uConsole yesterday and have just set it up except I am waiting for the batteries which arrive on Wednesday so it is there to a power cable until then.

Is it a measure of future inflation from 47's tariff policies?

Interesting that the line "reward for failure" is in both papers - who is feeding the talking points to them?

Well they will not be quoted widely if they are behind a pay wall so that is good.

A still from the film "Muppet Christmas Carol" with Kermit and Miss Piggy.

The Muppet Christmas Carol is locked and loaded in the DVD player.

I hope wishes have a returns policy.

Vegan Elise Lebkuchen, Biscoff biscuits and a cup of black coffee on a wooden tray.

Can you tell it is a vegan Christmastide here in our home in Germany?

A secondhand book arrived with someone else's tags in.

Just received a secondhand copy of a biography of Charles Ives and it came with someone else's tags in it. So hours of joy finding out why the previous owner put the tags in those locations.

We're not the first, hope we're not the last

Don't tell Larry Hogan

As a retired teacher of mathematics - my career was as a STEM communicator and mild comedian LOL.

Not tried being an author except my reading diary and little or no experience as a businessperson.

Doesn't it go well with their 1938 choice of "Man of the Year"?

I own, read and enjoy books.
Is that unusual?

I remember going into Virgin Records in 1984 and finding two Minor Threat records and buying them and playing them to death.

I later listened to Fugazi and stayed at the Dischord House.

I remember in 1981 going into the record shop to collect the first EP of Blitz entitled "All Out Attack" and there was a huge queue for the Soft Cell single "Tainted Love" - as everyone used the record shop then.

I was giving a lift to work colleague in the early 90s and he asked what music I listened to and I had a mixed tape of Ministry and Big Black and I described it as "my dance music" - he was shocked LOL but to me this is very danceable.

And in 2024 some people voted for him because "he gave us that check"

Ducking autocorrect!

My sister still has DR on all her because it solves the Miss, Mrs or Ms problem.
She is a retired academic.
She has to explain that she isn't a medical doctor occasionally.

My mother-in-law was technically Polish aristocracy but never used her title but did use her Doctorate.

We frequented Leeds Art Gallery so I probably saw the same one.

BTW I think Andrew Lloyd Webber who likes and bought a lot of Victorian paintings in the sixties when they weren't popular and were cheap has quite a few Grimshaws. I saw an exhibition about twenty years ago in the RA.

True but I was thinking of his urban night scenes lol