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A giant pink flamingo now presides over London
On the same photo-walk that I photoed the Red Lion (see immediately belw) I also came upon this: And I got a hell of a shock, I can tell you. I am fond of graphic representations of London’s ever more...
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“A revival of ultrafast supersonic passenger jet travel is inching closer to...
Boom: Will the fake photos of the Boom Supersonic XB-1 ever get real? Will I live long enough to photo Concorde 2.0 over London? It’s starting to look like they and I might. How noisy will it be? I...
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A year ago today … cake!
This, believe it or not, was a cake: A year ago today, England beat New Zealand in the Cricket World Cup Final at Lord’s, by absolutely no runs whatsoever. I gave this event my full attention at the...
View ArticleAnton Howes on the Agglomerationists
I tried picking out bits of the recently penned essay by Anton Howes entitled The Agglomerationists, but it contains nothing I am willing to omit. Almost every sentence is something I find myself...
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How London is about to copy Notting Hill
Towers continue to soar upwards into the blue sky of London town: But now, with The Plague, Lockdown, social distancing, blah blah, do cities have a future? Does London have a future? Here’s detail of...
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Transparent plague mask
This actually looks like a pretty good idea: I found it at This Is Wny I’m Broke, which I make a point of checking out from time to time. The thing is, masks are annoying, one of the most annoying...
View ArticleThat a manufacturer of something complicated is using 3D printing to make it...
I get emails from Google concerning 3D printing. These emails happen daily and each contains links to many reports of 3D printing being done by this or that enterprise. When I first learned about 3D...
View ArticleBMNBQotD: William Befort on the bourgeois virtues
William Befort comments on this Instapundit posting, which links to and quotes from this posting by David Thompson. “Equity” now seems to mean that the bourgeois rewards must be evenly distributed even...
View ArticlePaul Graham on how and why universities are in decline
I like this, by Paul Graham, and I especially like, towards the end of this, this: On the other hand, perhaps the decline in the spirit of free inquiry within universities is as much the symptom of the...
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The Broadgate Tower … etcetera
The Broadgate Tower, because I like it. This particular City of London Big Thing is in a slightly different style to the more celebrated Big Things just to its south, in that it is one of those towers...
View ArticleElon Musk’s rockets are cheap because he wants them to be cheap
I have had this article open (see this) for quite a while, and I now see that it dates back to January 2012. What a difference it makes when you can dig up old articles like this. I learned a lot from...
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My neighbourhood – not that bad after all
Well I was in a grumpy mood the other day, calling my part of London boring. Today, after a bit of an absence from it, indoors, I visited my neighbourhood again, and found myself, eventually, to be in...
View ArticleSplashdown for SpaceX
John Stossel: 2 Americans just landed safely after spending 2 months in space. 11 years ago, an Obama committee concluded that would take 12 years and cost $26 billion. Elon Musk did it in 6 years– for...
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Taxi with sealant and construction adhesive advert
I continue to keep an eye out for taxis with adverts. But, taxis are a lot less busy at present, because of You Know What, and their adverts now reach far fewer people. But, the above observations may...
View ArticleHome cinema is just so much better than regular cinema
And David Burge tweets one of the many ways in which this is true: I’ll go back to movie theaters when they install pause & rewind buttons. To be boringly pedantic, this wouldn’t make things any...
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E-scooters in Oxford Street and buying a Dyson fan in the only place I could...
Today I went shopping in Oxford Street. I was photoing cranes and roof clutter and scaffolding and suchlike, when an e-scooter wizzed by, so I was able to photo that instead, and when I got home, I...
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Taxis-with-adverts photoed five years ago
For quite a while now, I have been curious as to when my habit of photoing taxis-with-adverts kicked in. I’m still not sure, but by August 2015 (August 15th 2015 to be exact) this habit had evidently...
View ArticleConcerning the inexorable tendency of modern architecture to be boring
When you own a building, you don’t want it owning you. You want the building to serve your purposes. You don’t want to be reduced to its mere caretaker, while it stubbornly refuses to serve your...
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Mayfair Tanning & Waxing
You see weird things in London. Well, I do: For years and years, this sort of car decorating was impossible. Now: everywhere. But not usually as artfully as in the above. Photoed by me, in Oxford...
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Lots of cardboard – no polystyrene
On the left here, my newly acquired Dyson Graven Image …: … and on the right, a look, in particular, at the packaging it came in. I note with interest the complete absence of expanded polystyrene. All...
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