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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Surveillance for dummies

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This is the kind of surveillance camera that I’ve installed near the entry to Gamone: You might imagine that this device has been d...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Medieval meat

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Maybe I’m exaggerating when I refer to these huge pieces of freshly-shot wild boar as medieval meat. You’ll have to excuse me. My h...

Parable of the lamps

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Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a great new light cast by the lamps of Led. Then...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Alarms

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In my house at Gamone, I’ve just assembled and installed two alarm panels like this: The alarm on the left is a smoke detector, whi...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Morning mists and an autumn chill in the air

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In French, the word for mists is brume . So, the new calendar that was invented in the wake of the French Revolution of 1789 invented the l...

Selfies of an unexpected kind

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Just as I decided long ago to have nothing whatsoever to do with the childish but pernicious Facebook phenomenon, I’ve always been determin...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Survival of the fittest

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There's no doubt in my mind that Richard Dawkins will survive, for he's surely one of the fittest thinkers on our planet Earth. ...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Artistic dog

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My dog Fitzroy continues to demonstrate his tastes in sculptural forms. These days, I have a large stock of high-quality firewood in the s...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Shortest distance between two points

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Don’t ask me why I adore this image: My joy is strictly Platonic. The old Greek fuddy-duddy tried to persuade us that Heaven is ful...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Might I have Viking blood?

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It's hard to imagine that a quiet and well-behaved old-timer like me might evoke the possibility of his Viking ancestry. Besides, I can’...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Big picture

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If this tiny video doesn’t blow your mind out, then nothing will: I like to think that all this is happening just alongside our friend...
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Infinitesimally slow changes

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Four sisters. Forty years. This simple and beautiful pictorial story started in 1975 with a delightful image. — photo by Nicholas Nixon...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Jesus update

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Throughout my life, attitudes towards the Jesus phenomenon have been evolving constantly. As a child, I was led to believe that Je...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Plant more trees, build more toilets

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Environmental activists draw attention to the mortal sin (to borrow a good old Roman Catholic concept) of destroying rain forests as in the...
Friday, September 5, 2014

French-fried potatoes

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In the USA, they’re known as French fries . In Australia, we call them chips (not to be confused with the thin dried potato crisps sold in...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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