richard blyth
richard blyth
@richieblyth.bsky.social
Former ergonomist/designer, sucks polos instead of smoking, not that keen on people. Husband and Dad. Can't believe how farcical the planet has become
Im reading the article as about a different boat given the story went out on the 14th Sept and they talk about Friday (the 12th?) US illegally sunk other boat on 2nd I think - could be wrong
September 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Singing in the Rain with Gene Kelly; my cat Twiggy; Goldberg variations Glenn Gould; Cooking a good roast dinner; my wife and daughter
September 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
from early days of the network, ARPAnet and then email etc from, 1964ish see this from p259 The dream machine : J. C. R. Licklider and the revolution that made computing personal
by
Waldrop, M. Mitchell
Publication date
2001
Publisher
New York : Viking
Available from Internet Archive
August 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I think we call them Glow worms in the UK and they are widespread, see www.glowworms.org.uk or www.wildlifetrusts.org/where_to_see... - happy hunting
UK Glow worm survey home page
www.glowworms.org.uk
August 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
wonderful! Where can I get one!?
July 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
are they non violent? They caused over a £1M worth of damage at Thales factory in Glasgow. The Sheriff, in sentencing for the violent crimes, spoke of the panic among staff who feared for their safety as pyrotechnics and smoke bombs were thrown - (from court judgement Case No: AC-2025-LON-002122)
July 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It's because he knew we are living on Discworld.!
May 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
And then they came for us...
February 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It is Rincewinds hat..!
December 21, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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December 12, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Small beer originally described a low alcohol beer brewed in the middle ages that was safer, and more palatable, to drink than water, which was often contaminated. The brewing process cleaned up the water. People drank a lot of it daily, see theoriginalsmallbeer.com/blogs/small-...
What is Small Beer & When Was it Brewed?
Small Beer dates back to the middle ages when people drank beer rather than water.
theoriginalsmallbeer.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Jago Cooper I thought did a great BBC series on the Americas - I expect you know his work as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jago_Co...
Jago Cooper - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 2, 2024 at 4:04 PM
An interesting read on the "messy" details of work can be found here books.worksinprogress.co/book/mainten... in this case it was anthropologists doing the study, neither ergonomists or psychologists
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine - First Draft | Books in Progress
Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
books.worksinprogress.co
November 25, 2024 at 11:31 AM