Today is Hiroshima Day
If you're a regular reader, you will have expected this post.If not, and you are curious about the reasons for it, find an explanation here.
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Pretty as a picture
Talking about statistical work by nonstatisticians, recently ("Stats for the million", 14 June), I mentioned the importance in that context of graphical visualisation of data. It goes well beyond that,...
View ArticleThe blue, the blue, the blue!
Unreal Nature's "Rather than presumption" post, earlier today, quotes from a Vivian Sobchack essay on Derk Jarman's film Blue:“ ...the image is not "empty"...” How I wish that I could persuade the rows...
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Coming and going
Yesterday, JSB's Ray Girvan captured me with a sixteenth century CE poem (Dark night of the soul) and a piece of music (of the same name) which I bought before the day was over.Today I've been...
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Good grief, Charlie Brown...
Wanting to check the spelling of Ephraim Mirvis' surname, I did an online search for "new chief rabbi".The first entry in the resulting hit list was...
View ArticleWhen the Raynes come
Kate Raynes' Fiction Fix is always there in the left hand "Other Voices" column of this blog, for you to follow; but this morning I woke to a short story which I'm recommending individually.Ms Raynes...
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Anorher turn around the mulberry bush
Once again, I agonise over not only the prospect of military action but the reasons advanced for and against it. I cautiously concede that the British parliament probably reached the right decision...
View ArticleTaking comfort where I find it
One of the things which regularly helps to restore my faith in human nature, after it has taken a kicking: the way even the most aggressive and selfish car driver usually pulls over immediately to make...
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Charles Gounod, “O nuit divine” Roméo et Juliette , Act II [Angela Ghiorghiu].
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Is anybody there...?
Coincidentally (following close on the heels of Ray Girvan's comment on my "Taking comfort where I find it"), BBC Radio Four's A point of view slot on Friday evening backed him up with A L Kennedy's...
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Today
“It frequently happens ... — and this is one of the charms of photography — that the operator himself discovers on examination, perhaps long afterwards, that he has depicted many things he had no...
View ArticleThe kindness of strangers
In my teens, I spent a fair amount of time hiking a sparsely populated semi-arid island landscape. Agriculture, here, was a peasant economy marginally above subsistence, herds of sheep and goats...
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The white and the red
It's that time of year again, when my discussions with those (including myself) who ask why I wear a white poppy are enriched by comments left on my post a couple of years ago. If anyone is interested,...
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Too big for its boots
In a delightful way, from a writing perspective, my last few data analysis topics have first synergised with one another and then led naturally on to the consideration of Big Data. What exactly is "big...
View ArticleChance conjunction of the day
The conjunction came from a song lyric and a book fragment, within not very minutes of each other.The song lyric came first; it was playing as I worked on the text of an article about statistical...
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To the Crabmobile!
We blog writers all, at some time (or times) hit fallow spells when we write little for a greater or shorter length of time. I'm in one of them, recently. And we all have our excuses (as Jim Putnam...
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Sue Bamford web site
I have, at intervals, several times made mention here of my admiration for the work of Dublin artist Sue Bamford and have, since her exhibition last December, spent many hours lost in examples of her...
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