Coombe Barton

Just getting ready to start my last week of timetable teaching. At least: The road out of town has reopened, having be shut for power line replacement fir a couple of weeks It's not raining It's not frosty But I'm sure that something will come along ...

Britain was completely unpopulated until about 10,000 years ago, so the people who walked were the Mesolithic strand lopers, who were supplanted largely by the people bringing agriculture - and they came in boats as the Channel had by that time reformed.

... We. Are. All. Descended. From. People. In. Boats. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/covid-different-trends-look-from-a-different-angle-admin-taking-a-long-time/

Trying to get my rear end in gear to do some work Not succeeding.

... people with disabilities aren’t seen as having value of that sort? I can think of one person who sometimes reads this blog who would have rather a lot to say about that ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/21/respiratory-infections-inhumanity-all-round-rip-sir-andrew-davis/

Me too - it's usually hiding in plain sight!

Or for those of us with the technology the pain of having to install their spyware app for a one-off use.

Thought it was Penzance, not Camborne Station :)

... 40 years ago this weekend moved into this house. Must get it sorted. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/the-next-pandemic-im-more-of-a-luddite-domestics/

I'll have to try it in the summer.

Leicester is rated the native curry capital, not over influenced by 'interpretations'. However the best curry place I know is the Taj Mahal in Penzance. None of these are 'posh', just serving superb food. Other nationalities specialities I don't really know about, but they certainly exist outside Maggie's Girdle (the M25). When I used to travel for work I used a lot of different eateries, and really didn't have a bad experience. However, I'm not hyper critical. Nowadays it's just me, so I'm not out much, preferring my own company.

From WhatsApp to Greggs - why is tech going down more? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxrz350qyy5o

... I have spent all day on record checking and correcting. I’m ready for the weekend! So ready! ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/19/the-various-viruses-im-a-luddite-record-checking/

... from author Joanna Maciejewska. You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/covid-up-again-and-flu-down-a-wish-for-ai/

... if students devoted as much creativity to the task of producing assessments as they seem to do producing excuses they wouldn’t generate the problems for themselves that they do ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/who-drives-the-vindictive-more-vivas-local-history/

... Small and select group turned up today. I still have never seen five students (of 70) in this cohort. We’re in week 11 of 12. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/age-related-covid-susceptibility-a-possible-explanation-chris-whitty-on-tobacco-and-vapes-bill-absence-of-students/

Quorn, in common with other fake meats, is incontestably ultra-processed. Evidently, this is not an issue for the animal welfare, vegetarian and vegan groups that hail such confections as a potential end to animal slaughter and the misery of factory farming Source https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/12/quorn-revolution-rise-ultra-processed-fake-meat#:~:text=Quorn%2C in common with other,the misery of factory farming.

Knock, knock. Who's there? Donald Donald who? Good, you're on the jury.

... marking ... quite what relevance to Hotel performance the citation which refers to “Prolonged presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in faecal samples” I long to find out ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/vaccinations-more-summons-to-vivas-and-getting-cross-eyed/

Sandy took her mother and her aunt on holiday many times, and once did Millook south to north in a little Suzuki three cylinder jobbie. She said her mum was having kittens all the way up. Her aunt (who will be 94 on Thursday) loved it. (Memo to self - get a birthday card and pressie.) (that Suzuki was a great little car.)

... “The outlook for academia with regards to A.I would seem challenging; with students using A.I, quoting faked A.I research, itself citing faked authors and studies … and we base economies, health and defence systems upon such input?!” ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/14/eat-out-to-help-out-more-potential-student-falsification-non-flying-eggs/

Did Hardknott a couple of times in 1979 in a 1300 Ford Fiesta

Have you contacted the Guinness Book of Records?

I try to design all AI out of my assessments

... AI: If we allow people to cheat then the people who don’t cheat see their work devalued ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/gp-visits-hs2-long-process-to-check-students-work/