I’ve spent the last eight months unable to run, rehabbing the damage done to my leg as a result of an osteochondral lesion in my knee. I recently underwent surgery to transplant cadaver cartilage into the small area on my… Read More ›
Articles
The bad guys are winning
If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse… More here. An obvious topic very well… Read More ›
Nintendo Ring Fit: 18 months later my shoulder is still bust
Despite following every instruction and using an easy setting I noticed some pain in my left shoulder / top of my arm and so I stopped for a few days. The trick for any pain is to avoid exercising the… Read More ›
The Geometry of Grief
“What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller wrote in her stunning poem about what gives meaning to our mortal lives as she neared, but never quite reached, the triumph of having lived a… Read More ›
A recovered watch obsessive
For some time now I have been fascinated by watches, those tiny little objects that do nothing more than let you know where you are in the day, and like for so many others that fascination quickly turned into something… Read More ›
A recovering smartwatch owner…
Since I dropped the Apple Watch back onto its shelf I have been wearing a Garmin fenix and overall I have been enjoying the experience. The sense of freedom compared to the Apple Watch was acute and alongside the decent… Read More ›
Twist your hand around
A few years back I ended up having some injections in my elbow and multiple appointments because I was really struggling with continual pain. The decision was made to operate, even though this was by no means a certain cure,… Read More ›
Employee Hacks His Job, Gets Paid To Do Nothing For 5 Years
“Progressively, I hit the point where I knew more could be automated, but I didn’t possed the skill to do it at the time, so I contacted a developer, told him what I needed to have done. The whole process… Read More ›
Quartz is being squeezed and Fossil is truly f*cked
Excuse the language in the title, but I liked the alliteration. Fossil is at the height of the modern watch industry demise because of the brands it is responsible for. Currently Fossil builds watches under the Fossil, Relic, Michele Watch,… Read More ›
Revealing the truth about Jimmy Savile
Meanwhile, George Entwistle, the BBC’s head of television, was trying to work out how BBC light entertainment would mark the death of one of its biggest stars. Entwistle was informed that there was no obituary ready to run on Savile… Read More ›
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