Doug Clow
@dougclow.bsky.social
I help people understand things and change them, with data. Views here my own.
"I can't quite work out whether you're a tremendously silly man, a tremendously serious man or, as I suspect, a rather unholy combination of both."
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"I can't quite work out whether you're a tremendously silly man, a tremendously serious man or, as I suspect, a rather unholy combination of both."
dougclow.org/contact
The Noperthedron! The first polyhedron proven not to have the Rupert property: it is not able to pass through a copy of itself, no matter how you rotate it. Seems likely it’s the first of what will turn out to be several.
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The Noperthedron! The first polyhedron proven not to have the Rupert property: it is not able to pass through a copy of itself, no matter how you rotate it. Seems likely it’s the first of what will turn out to be several.
@canyoustranglehrse.bsky.social The classic era Atari game Steeplechase features more than half a dozen (low res) horses. It is not possible for the player to strangle any of them.
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
@canyoustranglehrse.bsky.social The classic era Atari game Steeplechase features more than half a dozen (low res) horses. It is not possible for the player to strangle any of them.
Yet another excellent mission playing at spaceships @bridgecommand.bsky.social We achieved all of our objectives! Although sadly one of our Marine Colonels died heroically disabling the shields by boarding an enemy battleship, so we were able to nuke it… but sadly not before the Colonel was clear.
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Yet another excellent mission playing at spaceships @bridgecommand.bsky.social We achieved all of our objectives! Although sadly one of our Marine Colonels died heroically disabling the shields by boarding an enemy battleship, so we were able to nuke it… but sadly not before the Colonel was clear.
London’s alright really
September 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
London’s alright really
Oh and I can do this as well! Not that I use Access these days but it provides a useful vowel and will always have a special place* in my heart.
* this is not a place of honour, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, etc
* this is not a place of honour, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, etc
September 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Oh and I can do this as well! Not that I use Access these days but it provides a useful vowel and will always have a special place* in my heart.
* this is not a place of honour, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, etc
* this is not a place of honour, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, etc
I had forgotten why I have arranged the icons for PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel in this order for many years now, but I've remembered and I stand by it as a decision.
September 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I had forgotten why I have arranged the icons for PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel in this order for many years now, but I've remembered and I stand by it as a decision.
Every warning sign tells a story
August 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Every warning sign tells a story
I believe this is a 2D net for a 4D hypertetrahedron that could fully represent five-way vote shares. I am tempted to try to implement this based on the helpful R code from @davidfirth.bsky.social but I doubt it’ll be comprehensible for anyone but deep geeks.
August 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I believe this is a 2D net for a 4D hypertetrahedron that could fully represent five-way vote shares. I am tempted to try to implement this based on the helpful R code from @davidfirth.bsky.social but I doubt it’ll be comprehensible for anyone but deep geeks.
Have just been to what turned out to be the penultimate performance at the Barbican of “In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats”, an awesome immersive VR experience taking old ravers (and young) back to 1989. Now touring: recommended if you loved acid house or want to find out what it was like.
August 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Have just been to what turned out to be the penultimate performance at the Barbican of “In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats”, an awesome immersive VR experience taking old ravers (and young) back to 1989. Now touring: recommended if you loved acid house or want to find out what it was like.
To swing from litotes to hyperbole: Sell it all. Today.
August 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
To swing from litotes to hyperbole: Sell it all. Today.
Had the most amazing fun yet again at @bridgecommand.bsky.social. Friends and I took the bridge of a very realistic spaceship on an exciting mission. And I got a promotion for saving the reactor from explosion. Very strong recommend, excellent set, ace cast, really well run immersive experience.
June 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Had the most amazing fun yet again at @bridgecommand.bsky.social. Friends and I took the bridge of a very realistic spaceship on an exciting mission. And I got a promotion for saving the reactor from explosion. Very strong recommend, excellent set, ace cast, really well run immersive experience.
I'm probably fine, unless it turns out I'm a sympathetic character with thin backstory who mainly serves to illustrate how terrible the baddies are
June 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I'm probably fine, unless it turns out I'm a sympathetic character with thin backstory who mainly serves to illustrate how terrible the baddies are
You know, some train carriages seem really welcoming but from others you somehow get the opposite vibe.
May 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
You know, some train carriages seem really welcoming but from others you somehow get the opposite vibe.
Hooray for bluebells! What an amazing sight they are. Carpets of purple-blue. Surprisingly hard to photograph well. But lovely.
April 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hooray for bluebells! What an amazing sight they are. Carpets of purple-blue. Surprisingly hard to photograph well. But lovely.
Just look at these wonderful daffodils! Absolute corkers. Brightness and colour in adversity.
March 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just look at these wonderful daffodils! Absolute corkers. Brightness and colour in adversity.
So the daffodils, my favourites, are past their best (although there are still some spectacular arrays around the place) and now the other flowers are catching up. I love these fritillaries.
March 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
So the daffodils, my favourites, are past their best (although there are still some spectacular arrays around the place) and now the other flowers are catching up. I love these fritillaries.
Always happy to help a friend out!
March 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Always happy to help a friend out!
Yeah makes your hair grow too, I've heard from a previously*-reliable source.
* Like the late 90s
* Like the late 90s
March 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Yeah makes your hair grow too, I've heard from a previously*-reliable source.
* Like the late 90s
* Like the late 90s
The Manager, Enhancement Of Wellbeing hard at work at his important job, earlier this week. Can’t help others chill if you’re not properly relaxed yourself.
February 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The Manager, Enhancement Of Wellbeing hard at work at his important job, earlier this week. Can’t help others chill if you’re not properly relaxed yourself.