The latest splendid offering from SoundDust is called Plato. It comes with some Plato sounding quotes, all unsourced, and, as is the way of such things, many probably not found in Plato’s works. But there is no harm in repeating a good thing…
I woz ere!
The map by Sophie Stone records places you have lived or visited in the UK. This is mine:
Despite my names Scotland and Ireland remain mostly untouched. Curiously Apple’s Safari browser offered to translate the text into English. This merely changed pts to points and broke the layout.
Flaky Sabbath
Will the flaky Sabbath mural at the tattoo place in Hulme be retired once Black Sabbath finally retire?
I was never a fan although it was claimed that their roadies lived locally in the house with the deep purple (see what I did there?) curtains that were always drawn. Our teenage vocabulary was insufficient to describe the imagined debauchery within; but they were probably just sleeping having worked all night.
Happy birthday Microsoft
The fifty years since the founding of Microsoft have flown by. Much that is written today about their history seems to have been passed through a reality distortion field but they are American so we have to make allowances.
P.S. Can I have my Minecraft back?
Returning birds
This morning saw the return of a Heron to the local pond. A couple of years ago there was a heron nesting in a tree overlooking the pond. Time will tell if this one decides to stay.
This afternoon saw the return of an Osprey to the nest at Loch Arkaig in Scotland. The nests are monitored by The Woodland Trusts‘s Osprey Cams so the hatching of chicks can be followed through the summer.
It looks like the blue tits have returned to the hole in the wall at the rear of my home to build a nest.