Adam Tinworth

That looks like a cool way to camp…

via www.toxel.com

Not sure high winds would add to the experience, though…

The Coffee Ritual

I've become a great fan of the process of starting with roasted coffee beans and ending up with a glorious cup of coffee, and I have at least three methods I regularly use to make brew up. Much as I enjoy the coffee itself, the ritual of making it is part of the jy. It takes me away from whatever I'm working on a gives me a break as I focus on the moment. In this fast-moving, hyper-connected, screen-based lifestyle, that's a valuable few minutes.

This video captures the ritual beautifully:

I strongly recommend an AeroPress - they make great coffee. 

The joy of Due South

It's a programme that can't see a fine line without walking towards it and treading catlike along it until it vanishes over the horizon. It moves from light to dark between scenes and within scenes. Benton is a naïf, a compulsive truth-teller living within an absurdly strict moral code and pathologically polite and literal mindset without ever being idiotic or unconvincing. He has impossible skills (tracking people through the mean city streets as he used to track caribou through the northwest territories as a boy) in a determinedly realistic setting. Ray is a hardbitten, cynical motormouth with an idealistic soul struggling wearily to shine through.

via www.guardian.co.uk

This article goes a long way to capturing what I loved about that series.

Beware the elephant of intuition

Argument: Because the elephant of intuition is more powerful than the rider of deliberation, moral judgements are firstly and mostly intuitive and only subsequently and occasionally reasoned

Highlight: Experiments which test subjects’ reactions to stories involving abnormal but not strictly harmful behaviour find that, instead of reasoning leading to response, the subjects react first and then develop – often rather contrived – rationales for their reactions

via www.matthewtaylorsblog.com

This is why discussions about politics and religion so rarely go well on the internet.

When I'm stressed…

Spring on Shoreham Beach

Whenever I get stressed about finding work, about the fact that I'm going to be a father soon, about the huge changes that are sweeping over my life, I remember that I live here, that I've been married to a woman that I love for 9 years and that I have some fantastic, helpful and talented friends.

And suddenly I can't find much to be stressed about…

On the Barbados shore

Sailing the Caribbean

16-bit 11th Doctor

via www.kasterborous.com

Brilliant satire of the last two seasons - and is it wrong that I want the 16-bit music version of "I Am The Doctor"?

Calmness in the Cotswolds

 

Just to remind myself that calmness is out there.

The only Infographic that matters

via blog.thedaily.com