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John Leach is a human living in Bradford, UK. He makes regular and diverse changes to the universe.
Category Archives: Personal
Killing and butchering a chicken
At the weekend I killed a chicken, and Louisa and I plucked it and then Louisa butchered it. It was one of a few chicks that turned out to be male, so his fate was to be killed and eaten … Continue reading
Breaking my blog embargo
I often find myself in the situation where I’ve not blogged for a long time which makes it difficult to write a new one, as if the long delay means the next blog has to be weighty and impressive. I’ve … Continue reading
Chat Roulette: Eye Vagina
Chat Roulette is a web site that hooks you up to a random person. It streams their webcam video and audio to you, and your’s to them. When you’re done, you click next and get another random person. That’s the … Continue reading
Song In Code: Ramones, I wanna be sedated
Just the first verse: go = Proc.new { sleep 24.hours } self.wants :sedatation begin ; nil ; end case go ; where “no” ; nil ; end self.wants :sedatation self.get ‘/airport’ self.put ‘/airport/plane’ before self.insane? do 3.times { hurry! } … Continue reading
Live this Saturday at the Packhorse in Leeds, The Gillroyd Parade
My band, The Gillroyd Parade, are hosting an evening of acoustic music at the Packhorse Pub this Saturday (7pm to 11pm, 16th May). Supported by Ukelele Bitch Slap. Do come along, it’d be just dandy to see you. Full poster … Continue reading
Women in Technology
Dom kicked up a women in technology debate again recently. I’ve seen a few responses, from one chap who thinks women have achieved equality already to a woman who doesn’t think girl’s brains are generally good for “programming” – and … Continue reading
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Techietubbies live video podcast
I’m joining Dom and Rahoul tonight on a live video broadcast of their Techietubbies podcast thing. From the site: “Techietubbies is a weekly podcast covering a multitude of subjects, from a round up of the week’s tech news, live callers, … Continue reading
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My native language
I’m currently reading Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. It says many psychologists and neuroscientists agree that we humans have two general types of thinking, intuitive and rational. Also known as automatic and reflective. When dodging a … Continue reading
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Tagged brains, concious, geek, intuition, neuroscience, programming, psychology, subconcious., thinking
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Gravedigg: What will die next?
Gravedigg is like Digg, but rather than voting for pictures of cute cats or top ten lists of stuff, you vote on what you think will die or fail next. Companies, celebrities, technologies… whatever. So maybe you think the Perl … Continue reading
SAS and the R Programming Language
This New York Times article about the R programming language is pretty good, though there is a hilarious quote in it from proprietary software company that apparently make a similar product. Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at … Continue reading
Halloween Pumpkin Carving
Small pumpkin I carved today, with a carrot for a nose. It seems that I missed all the trick or treaters though. More chocolate for me and Louisa then. Louisa is cooking a lovely smelling soup with the innards from … Continue reading