In yesterday’s monthly post I teased about not being able to talk about “the thing that hijacked this update” because it happened in the current month. Here’s the story.
An excellent In Our Time episode on Sir John Soane brought me up short. Guests talked about Joseph Gandy, a talented draughtsman and artist who worked closely with Soane to turn Soane’s architectural drawings into realistic depictions. Gandy and Soane both had a taste for the aesthetics of ruins. One of Soane’s greatest commissions was for a new Bank of England. Gandy transformed the architectural drawings into realistic paintings, one of which showed the Bank as a ruin, a thousand years in the future.
In yesterday’s monthly post I teased about not being able to talk about “the thing that hijacked this update” because it happened in the current month. Here’s the story.
There’s a very good reason why this monthly update is as late as it is, but as all the delay actually happened in March, I shouldn’t discuss it until April, IYSWIM.
Leisureguy on Mastodon updated his post on Nordic walking and that proved the stimulus I needed to take up sticks again. I had a good workout yesterday, and as we discussed the topic, knowing that he used an Apple Watch, as do I, I asked which activity he used to record Nordic walks. Because of course Apple doesn’t believe people need to record their Nordic walks.
The subtitles over at Eat This Podcast were really tiny, which somehow I had not noticed before. A WP plugin called Subtitles is responsible, and reading the FAQs I discovered that it injects its CSS directly inline. To replace with my own CSS I would need to block the plugin’s CSS from loading...
