Category Archives: DS106

How to tell a story

Posted on 21st July 2025 by NomadWarMachine

How to tell a story flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license How to tell a story Who am I to tell you how to tell your story? You might start at the beginning … Continue reading →

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Thoreau

Posted on 12th July 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Thoreau flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today was a very hot day, so we decided to head out to the woods with a packed lunch. Despite the inevitable traffic jams around Balloch … Continue reading →

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Blogging as an academic practice

Posted on 11th July 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Percolating ideas flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I’ve been enjoying dipping in and out of the “On Writing” series that Jim Groom’s been hosting on Reclaim TV, although I’ve not been able … Continue reading →

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HOMAGO

Posted on 6th July 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to reflect on what make a community. That’s quite a big question for an an activity that typically takes 15-20 minutes to complete. I didn’t check before replying to it today, but last time this … Continue reading →

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Dogs of war – or peace?

Posted on 2nd July 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to Try this site that gives you a bit of control over world maps. It allows you to re-orientate the world map to specific countries (so you change the common perspective found in so many maps). You … Continue reading →

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Three in the Wild

Posted on 28th June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Out in the garden after breakfast today – losing the cats under the long grass, marveling at all of the fruit on our apple and plum trees. It was hard to find a place to take a photo of only … Continue reading →

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Unparalleled Misalignments

Posted on 29th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

An excellent Daily Create today: Unparalleled Misalignments are “pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other.” Did you see what we did there in the title of today’s Daily … Continue reading →

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Castle in the Sky

Posted on 9th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”) I found a … Continue reading →

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Turner and the Dragon

Posted on 23rd April 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days … Continue reading →

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My blogging journey

Posted on 16th April 2025 by NomadWarMachine

I started my blog on 17th July 2012, originally as a WordPress.com hosted site. I blogged sporadically about conferences I’d attended, bits of philosophy that interested me (at the time I was a tutor in Philosophy as well as a … Continue reading →

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