Richard Harris
@beeblebrox.com
Climate, complexity, data & cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
Another day with in-house review: “You do realise that your model fails to take into account edge effects at watershed boundaries?”.
#climatedata
#catsanyday
#climatedata
#catsanyday
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Another day with in-house review: “You do realise that your model fails to take into account edge effects at watershed boundaries?”.
#climatedata
#catsanyday
#climatedata
#catsanyday
I and my companies bailed out of Twitter nearly three years ago. I’ve done what I can to persuade people not to buy the cars and have added this to mine…
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I and my companies bailed out of Twitter nearly three years ago. I’ve done what I can to persuade people not to buy the cars and have added this to mine…
Altman & co claim that ChatGPT is solving hitherto unsolvable maths problems? So how about we start with the basics: exhibit A - the AI summary of my Apple TV invoice: £11.65. Exhibit B - the actual content: £9.99. Apple “Intelligence” has failed to distinguish ‘VAT inclusive’ and has added it on.
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Altman & co claim that ChatGPT is solving hitherto unsolvable maths problems? So how about we start with the basics: exhibit A - the AI summary of my Apple TV invoice: £11.65. Exhibit B - the actual content: £9.99. Apple “Intelligence” has failed to distinguish ‘VAT inclusive’ and has added it on.
October 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
No apology required - and, although it’s difficult to express without sounding trite - bad things do pass, sunlight and starlight reappear and your world turns again. In the meantime though, here’s Oakley in Zen mode. All the very best…
October 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
No apology required - and, although it’s difficult to express without sounding trite - bad things do pass, sunlight and starlight reappear and your world turns again. In the meantime though, here’s Oakley in Zen mode. All the very best…
An impressive level of seismic activity today for Scotland: a 3.6 magnitude at 0825BST today, & even bigger shake at 1807BST - our house is built on quartz bedrock and the whole place leapt around. Which is going it some for a 200-year-old stone house with metre-thick walls! The cats are unamused.
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
An impressive level of seismic activity today for Scotland: a 3.6 magnitude at 0825BST today, & even bigger shake at 1807BST - our house is built on quartz bedrock and the whole place leapt around. Which is going it some for a 200-year-old stone house with metre-thick walls! The cats are unamused.
So, this is what the outlook from our house cameras was late last night - on video it looked like a blizzard. Went outside, clear, still night, and nothing visible to the humanoid eye. 8.2ºC, Scottish Highlands. Stumped. Any ideas?
October 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
So, this is what the outlook from our house cameras was late last night - on video it looked like a blizzard. Went outside, clear, still night, and nothing visible to the humanoid eye. 8.2ºC, Scottish Highlands. Stumped. Any ideas?
It's that time of year again: mists, mellow fruitfulness, and the Red Deer bellowing on the hillsides. That isn't too bad - it's when they move to the lawn outside the bedroom window at 3am that it gets irksome. Noise cancelling Airpods are a wonderful invention…
#wildlife #nature #photography
#wildlife #nature #photography
October 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's that time of year again: mists, mellow fruitfulness, and the Red Deer bellowing on the hillsides. That isn't too bad - it's when they move to the lawn outside the bedroom window at 3am that it gets irksome. Noise cancelling Airpods are a wonderful invention…
#wildlife #nature #photography
#wildlife #nature #photography
A tale of two purchases:
1. Royal Mail First Class from Putney to Balquhidder: 5 days door-to-door (10 days from placing the order for an in-stock item) and zero tracking.
2. China to Balquhidder: 5 days from placing the order, door-to-door, tracked every step of the way.
‘Nuff said…
1. Royal Mail First Class from Putney to Balquhidder: 5 days door-to-door (10 days from placing the order for an in-stock item) and zero tracking.
2. China to Balquhidder: 5 days from placing the order, door-to-door, tracked every step of the way.
‘Nuff said…
October 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A tale of two purchases:
1. Royal Mail First Class from Putney to Balquhidder: 5 days door-to-door (10 days from placing the order for an in-stock item) and zero tracking.
2. China to Balquhidder: 5 days from placing the order, door-to-door, tracked every step of the way.
‘Nuff said…
1. Royal Mail First Class from Putney to Balquhidder: 5 days door-to-door (10 days from placing the order for an in-stock item) and zero tracking.
2. China to Balquhidder: 5 days from placing the order, door-to-door, tracked every step of the way.
‘Nuff said…
This is not, “an unforeseen weather event”. This is the result of decades of underinvestment in the resilience of the grid to predictable (and predicted) changes in weather patterns. Even without that, the grid is far less reliable than it was even ten years ago. The UK is no longer fit for purpose
October 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This is not, “an unforeseen weather event”. This is the result of decades of underinvestment in the resilience of the grid to predictable (and predicted) changes in weather patterns. Even without that, the grid is far less reliable than it was even ten years ago. The UK is no longer fit for purpose
I need a considerably bigger desk…
September 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I need a considerably bigger desk…
This has been true for some time…
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This has been true for some time…
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
— Douglas Adams
— Douglas Adams
September 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
— Douglas Adams
— Douglas Adams
September 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Just a glimpse of tonight’s lunar eclipse - very hazy in central Brittany, so we could only see it once totality had passed…
#eclipse #bloodmoon
#eclipse #bloodmoon
September 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Just a glimpse of tonight’s lunar eclipse - very hazy in central Brittany, so we could only see it once totality had passed…
#eclipse #bloodmoon
#eclipse #bloodmoon
How many cinemas provide free marmalade sandwiches for audience participation when watching a Paddington movie? 😍
#BalquhidderHall #paddington
#BalquhidderHall #paddington
August 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
How many cinemas provide free marmalade sandwiches for audience participation when watching a Paddington movie? 😍
#BalquhidderHall #paddington
#BalquhidderHall #paddington
Well, d’uh… …what I’m referring to is the dominant conversation in the country (having lived for decades in both). This is strongly evidenced by the relative voting % for authoritarian/fascistic parties in each country.
August 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Well, d’uh… …what I’m referring to is the dominant conversation in the country (having lived for decades in both). This is strongly evidenced by the relative voting % for authoritarian/fascistic parties in each country.
Summer in Scotland always demonstrates a pretty toxic mix of riding and driving idiocy. But this year is excelling itself - on a 90km round trip to Stirling today, I saw five incidents of dangerous behaviour. Including this…
#roadsafety #riding #bloodyGSrider
#roadsafety #riding #bloodyGSrider
August 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Summer in Scotland always demonstrates a pretty toxic mix of riding and driving idiocy. But this year is excelling itself - on a 90km round trip to Stirling today, I saw five incidents of dangerous behaviour. Including this…
#roadsafety #riding #bloodyGSrider
#roadsafety #riding #bloodyGSrider
August 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It's clearly a profound cognitive task, so telling ChatGPT5-Thinking managed to get it right…
August 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's clearly a profound cognitive task, so telling ChatGPT5-Thinking managed to get it right…
However, when I switched to ChatGPT5-Thinking, it did manage to solve the 'blueberry' problem… 😆
August 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
However, when I switched to ChatGPT5-Thinking, it did manage to solve the 'blueberry' problem… 😆
Can anyone explain why the insurance renewal premium for a healthy, laid-back 7-year-old Maine Coon is more than we pay to insure a 500bho EV? 😳
August 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Can anyone explain why the insurance renewal premium for a healthy, laid-back 7-year-old Maine Coon is more than we pay to insure a 500bho EV? 😳
August 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM