richard
richard
@admin-richard@www.main-vision.com

I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • Of Punch Cards and AI

    Reading Time: 3 minutesMany decades ago, when computing was still in its infancy punch cards were used for looms, to design patterns in English mills. They were then modified to store census data and to help measure the US population. In the process they saved the US government weeks of work and five million dollars…

  • Zen and the art of Fishing Leaves Out of a Pool

    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile I was in Spain I spent hours by the pool. Due to it being winter, rather than Spring or Summer I wasn’t going into the pool or sunbathing. I was fishing out leaves that had accumulated over a period of months. The bottom of the pool had been filled with a…

  • Lost Streaks

    Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Saturday I drove for twelve and a half hours and felt exhausted by the time I got home. I didn’t write a blog post so I lost my 480 day blogging streak, and I didn’t read using the Kindle app so I lost my Kindle reading streak. In the end losing…

  • A Long Drive in the Rain

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I went for a long drive in the rain. I drove from an hour from Valencia back to Switzerland with rain along most of the journey, and rain. The rain was sometimes falling so heavily that I had to slow down to see. At other moments the rain was light…

  • Fleeting Nine Hundred and Sixty Kilometre Range

    Reading Time: < 1 minute[![960km range — 960km range](/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3360-300×225.jpg){.alignnone}](/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3360-300×225.jpg) For a brief instance I saw that I had a 960km range with the car. It was brief because as soon as I accelerated above a certain speed the reading went down to a normal reading. It would have been nice to have such a long…

  • Tomorrow I Have a Long Drive

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow, once again I will go for a long drive. We will see how well I cope with it. In theory I will be comfortable, as I was on the outward journey.

  • A Fishing Heron in Javea/Xabia

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Heron Fishing in Spain – [![IMG_3124](https:/www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3124-300×225.jpg){.alignnone}](https:/www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3124-300×225.jpg “myset0_1 “) – [![A Fishing Heron in Javea/Xabia — A Fishing Heron in Javea/Xabia](https:/www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3125-300×225.jpg){.alignnone}](https:/www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3125-300×225.jpg “myset0_1 A Fishing Heron in Javea/Xabia”) [![A Fishing Heron in Javea/Xabia — A Fishing Heron in Javea/Xabia](https:/www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3124-300×225.jpg){.alignnone}](https:/www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3124-300×225.jpg)

  • Melissa The Frustrated Bee

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteImagine, you’re a bee. You stop off at the local watering drinking hole but you fall in. All the pollen that you collected in the morning is now lost. It is now in the swimming pool where you had stopped for a quiet sip. Life would have been over, if not…

  • A Day With Little Walking

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome days I walk from one village to five others before going home. Other times I walk five hundred meters. Walking 500 meters is extremely rare for me. I usually always walk for one and a half to two hours.

  • The Predictably Irrational Daily Blog Post

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere is no reason to write a blog post every day. I don’t have things to say daily but I try to write anyway. I have no interesting photos to share today. Tomorrow I may be more inspired. It’s also because I don’t have two hours to devote to writing a…