Thank you! I should upload more of my old portraits...
Thank you! The actual act of drawing so many closely spaced parallel lines is somewhere between Zen meditation and the sheer terror of bomb disposal. One false move...
Thanks! I like these little snapshots of people's lives.
What a lovely thing to say! Thank you, that's my day made.
And so much fun to do!
It means to pointlessly take something to a place that already has it in abundance.
I was talking with a friend who mentioned "taking tea to India". It made me wonder what the equivalents are around the world. "Taking coals to Newcastle" is the UK's.
Look to Windward is my favourite. The Ways of Dying monologue is hauntingly beautiful.
Excession, by Iain M Banks.
Genar-Hofoen felt the Diplomatic Force officer's kiss through the few millimetres' thickness of the gelfield suit as a moderately sharp impact on his jaw followed by a powerful sucking that might have led someone less experienced in the diverse and robust manifestations of Affronter friendliness to conclude that the being was either trying to suck his teeth out through his cheek or had determined to test whether a Culture Gelfield Contact/Protection Suit, Mk 12, could be ripped off its wearer by a localised partial vacuum. What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.
Gorgeous.
No disagreements here! What you're doing here is recognising that the waste incurred from storage is less of a problem than the waste incurred through Transportation, or Waiting for resupply. In this case, inventory is waste worth doing. Any workshop needs to keep SOME spare parts, every house needs to have SOME food in the freezer. But that doesn't mean it's not a kind of waste to store stuff -- a fact people acknowledge when they choose not to rent a warehouse to store even more.
What I'm saying is that it's a trade-off. In fact it's a pretty bland statement, obvious when you think about it, but putting it into words like this can be helpful when making processes more efficient.
It's an idea from Lean management. Everything you need to keep, prevents you from keeping something else; requires you to remember where it is, where you could be remembering something else; takes longer to move when you have to move it; takes longer to organise than having less would. It poses fire hazards that having nothing wouldn't pose. Blocks light that having nothing wouldn't block. Keeping stuff is inherently wasteful.
None of this is to say that keeping stuff is bad. It may be very useful to keep it. But you should always recognise that doing so incurs a cost that you need to trade off against its usefulness.
While we're on it, inventory is one of the eight kinds of waste identified in Lean. They are:
- Transportation
- Inventory
- Motion
- Waiting
- Overproduction
- Overprocessing
- Defects
- Skills (misuse of)
Remember TIM WOODS.
All of this is meant for running a factory, but I've found a lot of them useful in other bits of life, especially the idea that Inventory is a form of waste.
Inventory is waste.
How was the Graeber? I loved Bullshit Jobs.
BEST NOVEL: We Need to Talk About Kevin
WORST NOVEL: The Chemical Detective
BEST NONFICTION: Homo Deus
MOST DEPRESSING NONFICTION: The Climate Book
BEST COMIC: The Photographer
THE LIST:
Leofranc Holford-Stevens - The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction
Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefevre and Freredic Lemercier - The Photographer
R F Kuang - The Dragon Republic
James S A Corey - Persepolis Rising
Bob Woodward - Bush at War
Bob Woodward - Plan of Attack
Sydney Padua - The Thrilling Adventures of Babbage and Lovelace
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
James S A Corey - Tiamat's Wrath
Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Danny Dorling - So You Think You Know About Britain?
Alex Garland - The Beach
Desmond Morris - The Naked Ape
Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Dipo Faloyin - Africa is Not a Country
Jeff Guinn - Waco
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt - How Democracies Die
Gary A Rendsburg - The Book of Genesis
China Mieville - October
Hannu Rajaniemi - The Causal Angel
James S A Corey - Leviathan Falls
Chris Atkins - A Bit of a Stretch
Fiona Erskine - The Chemical Detective
Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus
Mikiso Hane - Japan: A Short History
Greta Thunberg - The Climate Book
Natasha Brown - Assembly
John Lanchester - Capital
Lee Child - Killing Floor
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky - Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Konrad Spindler - The Man in the Ice
Tim Marshall - The Future of Geography
Peter Frankopan - The Earth Transformed
Ian Dunt - How Westminster Works and Why it Doesn't
Naoki Urasawa - 20th Century Boys
Jill Cook - Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
This is poetry.
My favourite part is that he uses the modulo operator in his Python script to generate the C code.
I'm in awe of Naoki Urasawa's storytelling abilities. He has a marvellous way of handling suspense by controlling the way critical details are revealed, or not. I love his crisp art style.
I think the work as a whole could have been much shorter, with many of the subplots pared away, and overall the series had the feeling of starting out with a brilliant premise but no clear idea of where it was headed. It would have benefited from tighter control.
All this says, this is one of the best manga I have read. Bravo!
I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.
I finished this one recently. It was brilliant and utterly horrifying. Have you read his previous one, How to Be a Liberal?
This... sounds kinda awesome.
At last, something achievable.
But I was hoping to be done with all that...
Lay it on me, people!
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A lot to remember when doing the combat sequences, but a really fun co-op game! Anyone played it?
It would be a good way of seeing what else is out there.
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From the Natural History Museum, Vienna. I love her. She's perfect.