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  • A Fishing Boat

    A Fishing Boat

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA fishing boat returning to port in the morning. I don’t know whether it could find any fish in the Mediterranean.

  • A Lot of Walking in Circles

    A Lot of Walking in Circles

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesPeople think that you need to get in the car, drive for half an hour to two hours, hike, and then drive home for from half an hour to two hours but this idea is wrong. We can do a lot of walking in circles. In reality we don’t walk in circles.…

  • A heron

    A heron

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  • Gone Fishing

    Gone Fishing

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI haven’t gone fishing, but the bird has.

  • An SVG clock

    An SVG clock

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes we experiment and play with technology. The clock below is an SVG clock using SVG and Canvas technology to display local time. Doing it with these two technologies was easier than with JavaScript. The code doesn’t require calculating thousandths of a second like another clock I tried. The tutorial to…

  • Learning About Canvas And SVGs

    Learning About Canvas And SVGs

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOther the last week I have been learning about canvas and SVGs. I am not certain that I will use this knowledge immediately but it is good to learn nonetheless. I struggled with some code when setting up a clock. I went back through the code line by line two or…

  • Seeing the Pandemic As A Journey

    Seeing the Pandemic As A Journey

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night I was reading and began seeing the pandemic as a journey. The pandemic has been a journey for everyone, but especially for those in solitude. For those of us in solitude, it has required that we completely change how we consume the media and how we interact with the world.…

  • Pandemic as Journey

    Pandemic as Journey

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough not discussed as such the pandemic is an interior journey in the same manner as thru hikes as they are called in the US and pilgrimages in Europe. We start with one identity and one life and we have to adapt it to suit the things that can be realised…

  • The Evergreen Pandemic

    The Evergreen Pandemic

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe are currently living through the evergreen pandemic. I give it this name because the more time passes the more we remain trapped in it. Every time progress is made restrictions are loosened and we revert to the way things were. I don’t feel there is anything new to write today.…

  • Roman Fish Salting in the Mediterranean

    Roman Fish Salting in the Mediterranean

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor years I heard about Roman pisciculture baths near the sea in Spain and I thought that this is where they would keep fish for eating, like they did in medieval Europe. That idea is wrong. The pisciculture that you have near Javea, Cadiz, and other parts of the Mediterranean coast were…