& his birthday was actually 27th of April (OS) but he chose to celebrate on 23rd, (h/t R3).

I imagined I would learn to crochet sufficiently well to try that blanket.

Ran out of options after guess 3
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Not mine specifically but I’ve used Psychopy before in lab. Online data collection DMDX (historical interest), Qualtrics & Gorilla for student projects. I’ve been to workshops where they demonstrate eye tracking uses, face stuff etc. moving a Gorilla thing to Pavlovia this summer.

I was surprised by the relatively reasonable looking pricing too. It was Wellcome (?) funded initially I think. Or perhaps EU.

I don’t find it that bad, but I find that most surveys are relatively alright and there are usually plenty of examples to follow online. Also the issue with all of them (bar none) are year on year changes.

Pavlovia?
pavlovia.org/store
No sure about the programming skills bit but you could use it for experiments too.

It is the week for "if only" after all. The music just distracts you.

I wrote this 12 years ago about the absurdity of the government *deliberately* seeking to reduce UK exports and growth.

After Brexit and Trump, it makes even less sense.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I struggled with Iain M Banks / Feersum Endjinn (the language, the spelling etc) but it seems just like a prediction now.

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Late today

“You will play golf and eat hot hors d’oeuvres”

Like this one - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Col...
Not a folk tale but great.

I got stopped at Minneapolis for 4 hrs (5 day conference; unusual parentage only excuse ;2nd visit to US) and thought never again even then.

Doch

They look ripe for Dr Who (like a mini tardis).

doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Also this one