Statto’s shorts

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Andrew Steele — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:07:55 +0000

At the end of our road sits a ‘site office’. It’s a shed with a table, a chair with hi-vis jacket draped over the back, and wood saw, which was presumably used to construct the shed.

Short 1838

Andrew Steele — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:09:15 +0000

Monday photos: spring springing in flowery bluebell form.

Short 1835

Andrew Steele — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:37:26 +0000

Estimating a problem’s size is a good starting point for choosing your battles, but it is just a start.

Short 1827

Andrew Steele — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:40:12 +0000

Excellent Supermoon shots by Chris Kotsioupoulos and Robert Arn. Hat-tip Luis Argerich.

Short 1824

Andrew Steele — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:49:34 +0000

Apparently big-hitting medical interventions aren’t always glamorous, expensive drugs with sciencey-sounding names.

Short 1823

Andrew Steele — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:43:39 +0000

Font licence nerds: I’ve made a brochure using Gill Sans, Santa Fe LET and OCR-A, would putting InDesign file plus fonts online be legal?

Short 1821

Andrew Steele — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:06:34 +0000

New Headline Superheroes: There’s Norway that’s relevant.

Short 1820

Andrew Steele — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:03:48 +0000

Friday photo: clouds. Another one in the ‘Arty and weird: good or crap?’ series.

Short 1819

Andrew Steele — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:59:17 +0000

Monday photo: an ancient oak. (Taken on the FameLab masterclass weekend!)

Short 1818

Andrew Steele — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:09:36 +0000

Ponderous, glorious, monochrome Saturn: raw data from NASA missions as art.

Short 1817

Andrew Steele — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:25:55 +0000

This is brilliant not just for watching Venus traverse the heavens, but also for seeing the variety of post-sunset skies we can get.

Short 1816

Andrew Steele — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:07:44 +0000

I’ve heard this kind of sentiment before, but my interest was re-piqued by this tweet the other day:

Dr Phil Hammond @drphilhammond

NHS uses income from non-urgent work to fund emergencies. If the private sector creams off the profitable stuff, emergency care crumbles.

16:08 – 17^th April 2012

Why don’t we just fund services in proportion to their true cost? Wouldn’t this be a more sensible way of managing either a public or a privatised NHS? Or have I missed something vital?

Short 1814

Andrew Steele — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:49:14 +0000

GMail users: you should do this. Non-GMail users: you should use GMail.

Short 1813

Andrew Steele — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:37:34 +0000

And then, a cycle home through a weirdly deserted, freezing cold Oxford. What a spooky evening.

Short 1811

Andrew Steele — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:57:31 +0000

The Physics Department is creepy when you’re alone at night. Especially if there’s a half-full box of batteries clattering in your back pocket.

Short 1808

Andrew Steele — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:09:54 +0000

Why does Facebook only sometimes e-mail when I have a message? Notifications are enabled, spam folder is empty…is it just a pile of cack?

Short 1807

Andrew Steele — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:36:00 +0000

Which falls faster, a tonne of liquid helium or a tonne of gaseous helium?

Short 1806

Andrew Steele — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:54:03 +0000

I’m taking ten SD cards around in a MiniDV case. Ah, progress.

Short 1805

Andrew Steele — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:56:48 +0000

New Headline Superheroes in which we meta-rant about Samantha Brick. Even though that’s what they want us to do!

Short 1804

Andrew Steele — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:46:29 +0000

Friday photo: glowing graffiti.