I may have mentioned before, I’m a rally fan. I’m also a sim-racer. It’s been a thing I’ve done on and off for many years, but at the start of lockdown last year I got super serious about it, bought a decent wheel and a decent seat and a decent PC. The game that I…
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A Return To The Bridges
Image from the trip posted up on blipfoto. A long time ago, in seemingly a different universe to this one, I spent a long time working on a landscape documentary project called The Bridges. It was ostensibly 13ish years in the making, but really 90% of it happened in the last 18 months or so….
Windows Update Disasters (Among Other Things) Have Driven Me To The Dark Side.
I’m not one to blame my tools when I work, but last week was a bad time tools-wise. My custom built ‘gaming’ laptop started to show serious signs of imminent implosion. The display suddenly went dim, and when I tried to increase the brightness it actually got dimmer. Reducing the brightness to 50% made it…
Hope
I was going to go out with my new camera today and give it a test run but nothing I did today could have more significance than receiving this. After a year of effective house arrest due to my health issues combined with a seemingly very specifically local resistance (other places nearby seem fine) to…
VR Workout / 15th Feb 2021 / Pistol Whip + Until You Fall
Meant to post this a couple of days ago but I had a lot on. Not a huge amount to say today. My knuckles are still a bit yellow from the “incident” last week. We’ve bought a small circular rug to stand in while playing, to try and ensure that never happens again. These are…
The Practice
I’ve always politely backed away from Seth Godin’s writing because I have a deep distrust of people who set themselves up as gurus. Especially those with a heavy marketing background like his. There’s an almost cultish sense that you get when reading reviews of his work. That said. My biggest struggle over the now decades…
Ow. VR Workout mishap.
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VR Workout // Racket: NX + REAKT // Thursday 4th Feb
Bit of a change of scene today. I became the proud owner of a Oculus Quest 2 yesterday. Keep in mind this is after expressing deep deep misgivings about Facebook’s new policies re: Oculus, and also having cancelled my account several years ago, AND swearing I would never get one. But productivity apps that allow…
VR Workouts Feb 1 + 2
So I streamed my workout again yesterday. It’s an extra challenge. Much like running with a friend. Keeping the conversation going forces a certain pace to things I find. It also stretches me mentally as well and benefits both the workout and my public speaking skills, which I need for other areas of my life….
My Trip To Work (Stay-at-home Version)
I’m currently working through an excellent writing course on Udemy and I think I’ll start posting my favourite pieces up on this blog. That is, after all, the point. Isn’t it? This piece was a simple re-enactment of my trip to work. Which, right now, is not a long one. Excuse the selfie. I have…
