2018-08-10 (Friday)
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Olympus PEN-F
Purely because it’s a lovely review of a camera. Nicely written, detailed without being nerdy-in-a-bad-way, and open to a change of mind.
Tweets
@bushofgoats Thanks!
@NaomiSeu Go for it!
I called Hiscox to ask why our premium had gone up 37% this year. A nice man reeled off several lengthy rote justifications which could be boiled down to “we put up our prices” and saved us both time.
@tomcoates Yeah, obviously, I don’t literally think people working at Twitter are nazis but I wondered how it would look and… yes, there’s something more striking about it than I expected.
@dotcode Yup.
Liked tweets
Olympic Stadium roof, Berlin. Spent most of this evening in the depths of the stadium filming interviews at @EuroAthletics Champs so not many views, but this one was pretty fine...
Olympiastadion, Deutschland
(…and I say this as someone who loves the movies: (As opposed to say Doctor Who) James Bond is, in essence, a terrible person and you shouldn’t really want to see yourself reflected in him.)
01 811 8055
1/ Who wants to hear some scientific intrigue?
A few weeks ago, a group of physical chemists posted a paper online announcing the observation of superconductivity at room temperature.
Today I posted a comment pointing out something funny in their data.
arxiv.org/abs/1808.02929