Week 21, 2022
Week 21, 23rd - 29th May 2022
23 - 29 May
This week; final prep for my Scottish bikepacking week then a long 12+ hour drive from the south coast of England to half way up Scotland with a sleep in a van. Now to complete a 700km tour of the west coast
As part of my prep I installed Instagram again to be able to engage with the group of cyclists doing the same event. It immediately starts to eat up my time with little benefit
Links
- A Whole Way of War Sank with the Moskva (theatlantic.com) - the effect of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on modern warfare
- Man Uploads 2,000,000 YouTube Videos (thenewleafjournal.com) - a YouTuber who has been posting more than one video per minute
- Farm vehicles approaching weights of sauropods exceed safe mechanical limits for soil functioning (pnas.org) - farm equipment is getting so huge that it risks compressing the soil, reducing it's ability to grow useful crops
- Accidentally Saving the Day (essays.jwatzman.org) - a story about being in the right place with a willingness to help out
- How the Apple of the Midwest fell apart (grid.news) - the history of Gateway computers which briefly went huge (archive link)
- Math Mutation: 278: Bicycle Repair Man (mathmutation.blogspot.com) - a story about Alan Turing and his faulty bicycle
- The Sad Story Of Henry: is this TV's most tragic tale? (denofgeek.com) - the harrowing story of Henry from childrens' TV show Thomas the Tank Engine