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Poldhu Cove in the Evening
Some video of Poldhu Cove I shot one clear but rough evening in late November 2019.
I shot using a Nikon D3400 and a Sigma 18-300mm lense, balanced on the edge of a picnic table. Editing was attempted in the freemium version of DaVinci Resolve 16.
Archive Team
An interesting little talk from the early days of Archive Team.
Steam at York
The ‘Mayflower’ steam locomotive changing direction on the turn table at York Station.
I like Steam – the sound, the smell, the sheer force of presence that comes from a visible engine pulling up to the platform you are on – far more than the modern trains I’ve taken for work and for leisure. I do under stand the practical reasons that they needed to be retired, but it still seems something of a loss. Perhaps when autonomous vehicles have destroyed mass transit, the remaining national railways can be converted to heritage lines and Steam can rise again…
Achnahaird Beach (Autumn 2018)
Another collection of photos, this time from the lovely – but exceeding remote – Achnahaird Beach, deep in the Highlands of Scotland. I’m a great fan of heading out and getting away from people and my visit to Achnahaird (and the rest of this trip) really offered me the opportunity to do so.
Cleaning Up
A Deep Space Nine sizzle reel, remastered using machine learning. The linked version without the Youtube compression artefacts is really rather impressive.
There’s lots of media out there that, either due to cost or just that HD elements never existed, will never be remastered for modern displays. Blackadder, Red Dwarf, early Doctor Who; all of these could be rejuvenated for the 21st century.
The Poo Bit Adder
It looks like some clever chap as build a fully functioning four bit adder inside an unmodded Cities: Skylines. The best part of this simulated circuit is that it’s partly powered by simulated in-game poo.
Northern Lights at York Minster
I had a good but long weekend. Saturday was, of course, filled with watching England’s hard-fought victory against New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup. Beer was drunk (to excess!) and a good time was has by all.
Sunday was a little more highbrow; I popped up to York and spent a very enjoyable 30 minutes watching two showings of Northern Lights at York Minster – a fantastic laser, lights, and audio installation in York Minster’s Nave. I thoroughly recommend it and would suggest that you either see one of the few remaining shows of this season or jump in early when it (hopefully!) returns next year.
Here’s a short documentary I found about it:
The Power of Telemetry
The online backup company Backblaze – of which I am a reasonably satisfied long-term customer – makes statistics about the hard drives they use public. A chap called Ryan Smith took this telemetry and, with a little data wrangling and some educated guesses, worked out large parts of their business model – including important elements of their asset replacement cycle.
Telemetry is creepy. Turn it off.
Oh Zippy… you naughty, naughty Dalek!
Dalek Zippy is always an amusing little watch on a lazy Sunday morning.