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During the summer holidays we drove our Tesla Model 3 from Sydney to Melbourne via the Princes Highway and back via the Hume, about 2500 km all in including various…

Ain Eddban, the misterious salt lakes in the Sahara. Mujzem Lake, locally known as the “Eye of the Fly”, is located anout 50 km from Ghadames in northwestern Libya. The…

But you aren't composing a novel or reading a script. (Not during an RPG session, anyway.)This is a long blog post about pervasive mistakes and miscommunication in the debate about…

I thought I had spurned productivity culture. I thought I had embraced simplicity and small-life living. I thought I had divorced worthiness from accomplishment. I was wrong. When, 19 days…

  Cycle Touring in Laos Laos is one of the more adventurous cycling destinations in Southeast Asia – the terrain is exceptionally mountainous and the distances between food and amenities…

 Well, that was fast. The 2023 edition of the Twelve Days of Wu-Mas has come to a close, and I hope you both enjoyed the gifts and goodies I left…

[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social] This is my sixth annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI…

Sometimes a story takes a number of years to ripen. And sometimes two or three stories merge in unexpected ways. I just had a moment of convergence when new infill…

I’m keen that disappearing photographic techniques are catalogued for future enjoyment. The Gelabrome process is a variant of the Carbro process. There seems to be very little on the internet…

I started a new blog! Come check it out and consider subscribing, the content will be similar to what I post here, but hopefully will be more polished. https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/

I received verification that my email subscribers have been successfully transfered to substack. I want to thank you in advance for continuing to read! (Please check your spam filter if…

First, this is still a live project, just one that is temporarily on hold. I believe in this concept, but at the moment, life has gotten in the way. This…

As we await the next generation of engineered writing, of tools like ChatGPT that are based on large language models (LLMs), it is worth pondering whether they will ever create…

Going forward, all of the content here will also be posted at https://goodoptics.substack.com/ The substack subscribe feature is much easier to use. I will continue to post on wordpress for…

Back in 2016, Apple released the dreaded butterfly keyboard MacBook Pros. They also pitched pro users on a new setup – forget about desktop computers. Get one of these laptops…

He hadn’t even gotten the letter into the envelope when he was sprayed down with Ending Gel. I know what the letter said because I was the one who sprayed…

After 28 completed days of the « 100 squats per day » challenge, I have to stop. I started the challenge to gain muscle in my legs and reinforce my…