A conversation posted to flickr by Dunstan Orchard and the ensuing comment-fest, prompted me to recall the following:

So, a famous British Antarctic explorer is due to give a public lecture at Leeds Town Hall. The Mayor of Leeds gets up on the podium and says:

“Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my...

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It probably means something that the print can only be made while listening to a recording of a Herbie Hancock jazz standard being played on dobro. I just wish I knew what that meaning is.

One of the pleasures abandoned in moving into a digital darkroom.

This much is clear. Microsoft hel...

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Terra preta is the very fertile black soil found mostly in parts of the Amazon basin, and believed to have been created by people mixing fine particles of charcoal and other stuff into the soil. A whole lot of voodoo has grown up around the subject, with unscrupulous charlatans, head in the sand na...

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I am developing an unhealthy obsession with nuns. After all, in the end they’re probably more or less normal people, with the same hopes, fears, ambitions etc. as the rest of us. But I still find it noteworthy when I see them doing more or less normal things. Like using laptop computers. And weari...

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I spent some time talking recently with bright business types, including some who work as consultants. They pointed out that hard times for the rest of the economy can be good for consultants, who can be brought in to say things that management either cannot or will not. One of the hardest things fo...

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