”My lifelong career love affair has only ever been with bioscience but what a huge, fascinating, awesome world that is. I am so grateful to be able to potter about in my corner of it and marvel at the rest.”
Glad the word “career” is in there!
One of the interesting things about the current MacBook Pro keyboard problems is that it’s proving to me that a five year old machine is pretty adequate for my needs still, as I avoid buying a new one until it is solved.
I can hang on to Apple kit for longer than I have been.
It looks like I last wrote about Google+ nearly five years ago — and only to declare it not dead.
Never a good sign.
So, here’s a video from a defunct satire site, about a defunct social network, found via a defunct VC-backed news site, which concludes with the fact that social networks lead inevitably to nazis.
This must be the most 2019 thing ever.
Wow - Google+ integration in search. I had completely forgotten about that.
Bittersweet memories of 1999
Wow.
The current batch of negatives I’m scanning right now really capture a moment in time. They must be from 1999, one of the more significant years in my life - and 20 years ago, almost exactly.
The first few photographs are of the woman who was soon to be my ex-girlfriend in the flat we shared (and, honestly, the coming storm was written all over her face in those images), while the next batch were of a party at the flat of the woman who is now my wife.
Those really were a few months that changed my life forever, and in ways that were only good.
However, the deep sadness is that one person in those images is no longer with us, passing too, too young.
Plenty of pain in those images and the memories they evoke - but also joy. I wouldn’t surrender either.
Just preordered The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson, because it looks fascinating.