Justin Cormack

An orange suede glove with a fluffy lining, on an antique woodern hand with very long and pointy fingernails. The price is 99 (euros)

glove

An espresso and a very neat lemon meringue tart on a silver tray

Morning!

tawny owls are most chatty in the winter.

A barn owl out hunting

havent seen any since October

Thinking fast, slow, and super slow How mathematicians train their intuition

Thanks to @cedricchin.bsky.social for arranging a group call with @davidbessis.bsky.social definitely going to be reading his book about how maths is really done, see davidbessis.substack.com/p/thinking-f... for a taste

those little disks were so cute! Had one in pcmcia form

Everywhere I see this it gets truncated to "Bytecod Alliance"...

There were occasional vomit books in UK libraries when I was a kid. I always assumed it was a glue/binding related thing but I dont know.

ha yes!

A mountain view in Switzerland looking towards Interlaken between the two lakes.

Interlaken is a funny place! Pretty much invented Swiss tourism back in the day. Stayed near there a while back - you an see Interlaken in the distance form where we were.

A pebbly beach with a wave breaking over the sea. Blue sky and clouds

on the beach

I see all these weird (to me) things with EU stuff, like get the EU to fund security reviews etc, but people are struggling to build viable businesses that are sustainable even (especially?) in the domains people want sovereign tech.

5. we can commercialize it.

sorry yeah no I meant only for the first point, vs complete "ownership" I totally agree you need the expertise and ability to delivery with it etc.

Seen some EU demands that looked like 1, but I think most open source people would agree that ability to fork is all you need here.

How Airbus took off - Works in Progress Magazine Airbus is an example of successful industrial policy and the rare European company that is better than its American rival. Could its success be copied elsewhere?

Don't know if there is a book but worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ai... was a nice overview

The mystery of South Bank's unknown husband 'I feel a bit sad for you that you have met the Easter Bunny, because now the mystery is solved, and you're just gonna close that chapter'

www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-mystery-...

I love his autobiographical Down the Kitchen Sink.

Well David Brent continued that rumour...

David: A postage stamp is legal tender. A bus driver would have to accept that as currency.
Tim: Yeah. That'd happen!
David: Well if he doesn't, report him.
Tim: Yeah report him when I'm walking home.
Gareth: Get a taxi if you've got enough stamps.

Good thing you don't have to pay stamp duty in stamps, thats a lot of Christmas first class stamps....

flamingos! in a lagoon, eating stuff. Pale with some dark pink bits. These are French flamingos.

Here are the flamingos from that coast, although this picture was not taken from the train, but you get this type of lagoons along there

yeah I think I live tweeted going to Kubecon Valencia. The BCN to Valencia leg is a bit annoying as Spain is optimised for going to Madrid. Done the Paris to BCN route quite a few times.

heard so much about that place but not yet been!

No it arrives just after the Sunday organized Paris train leaves...

Barcelona to Paris Train Tickets & Schedule - Spanish Trains Planning to travel from Barcelona to Paris by train? Check out route details (train time, distance, schedule, prices) & book your Renfe railway tickets today!

actually there are only 2 trains a day, www.spanishtrains.com/barcelona-to... and its almost 7 hours, if you get the morning one you can get an Amsterdam train (3h 25) www.sncf-connect.com/en-en/train/... and get in late, or stay in Paris, have a nice dinner and get a morning train...

Paris Barcelona is a lovely trip if you are lucky you get to spot the flamingos (sit on the right going to Paris to get the sea view)

The Man in Seat 61 - for train travel How to travel by train in Europe & worldwide: Schedules, fares & how to buy tickets.

from the UK, www.seat61.com although its less good cross Europe, although has some parts and good overall advice.

you should be able to join the Paris Amsterdam trip if you get the morning train from BCN to Paris.

We had pretty snow but it rained last night and its all gone!

I only went there when it was still in an old church and the owner showed you around, I havent seen the new building. It was great then!