Author: richard
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The Mindful Shave
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor two weeks or so I have been using a safety razor rather than the usual electric shaver, or conventional three to four blade shavers. In the process I have had to become more attentive to what I am doing. The Usual Shave With an electric razor you turn it on and…
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On The Value of Not Being Anonymous on Social Media
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I felt comfortable tweeting as myself for two reasons. The fist reason is that we met up so often than tweeting under my actual name made sense. The second reason is that it was a network of friends of friends and we were seldom, if ever trolled. That changed during…
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Hiking in the Jura in Minimal Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for a short walk in the Jura with minimal shoes and I felt fine. The shoes, despite being thin soled, felt fine on the dry dirt paths. They do get wet when walking in dew covered grass but that’s what you would expect so that’s acceptable. When you’re wearing…
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Cycling from Nyon To Geneva and Back
Reading Time: 2 minutesCatching the train to Geneva and back to Nyon costs about 14CHF per day, depending on whether you have paid 180 CHF for the half fare or not. In contrast two Continent GP 5000 tires cost about 110CHF and you can go to Geneva and back a few hundred times. The loop…
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Walking “Barefoot” with The Vapor Glove 6
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost shoes are designed to protect the heel with a cushion of air or material that absorbs heel strikes, before they are transmitted to the rest of the skeletal system. With barefoot shoes, especially the Vapor Glove 6 those heel strikes are not absorbed. You feel the force with which your heel…
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The Lost Art of Silent Material Cutting
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor years now the noise in this village has been frustrating me. It is the noise of industrial cutting. The noise of an angle grinder on metal, of a circular saw on bricks, stone and wood. It is the constant wail of a circular saw cutting into something, every few seconds, or…
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Playing With Pelican – A Static Blog Website
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen looking at Codeberg as a European alternative to github I came across mentions of Pelican, a static blog generator. Yesterday I spent several hours setting it up and playing. Whilst playing with it I saw some opportunities. By default Pelican is designed to have one category per blog post. For small…
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The Energetic Bike Ride
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday my intention was to cycle along the Voie Verte from Crassier to Grilly and then back down towards, the lake, along the lake and end up back in Nyon. I didn’t follow this plan through. I was thinking “I don’t want to do the steep Mies climb so I’ll go to…
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The Paradox of Instagram’s Twitter
Reading Time: 3 minutesWithin the last two days I saw a headline that is either amusing or tragic. The headline is that Instagram is creating a twitter clone, or even a Twitter competitor. This is amusing, or tragic, because Twitter and Facebook have always been competitors. You had the network of strangers that became friends,…