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My life’s an amphicheiral knot
Upon a liquid vortex wrought

Reader, hillwalker, aspirant storyteller, failed scientist, recovering pedant (with occasional relapses), James Clerk Maxwell disciple, old enough to have worked with punched cards.
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I mean, almost 30 years after this book and we're still dealing with this crap.
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H2O
The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water. The extent to w...
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January 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM
That's the Lavirotte Building:

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Lavirotte Building - Wikipedia
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January 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I often get that "big mountain" feeling around there when there's a bit of snow about:
January 11, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Aye. I'm living N.Yorks, atm, and the worst are cars coming towards you uphill. Impossible to see anything. Worse is folk not dipping their lights.
January 7, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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The em dash—the most vulgar of all punctuation marks.
December 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM