Category Archives: DS106

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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Starry Night

Posted on 30th March 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today is Vincent van Gogh’s birthday, and the Daily Create asks us to create art appropriate for a birthday card. I began with a sunflower I’d drawn sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license And … Continue reading →

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Boundaries

Posted on 29th March 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday’s Daily Create was about boundaries, and I was thinking about what my response would be as I was walking up to a Uni meeting yesterday morning. First, as I got off the bus and started walking up the path, … Continue reading →

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I love …

Posted on 27th March 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Inspired by today’s Daily Create based on Kim Douillard’s blog post. I love. I love to sit and knit on a winter evenings, sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, with my legs wrapped up in a Shetland … Continue reading →

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Eliza

Posted on 8th March 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Eliza flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I first came across Eliza in 1980, when an uncle gave my dad Gödel, Escher, Bach for Christmas. Dad loved it, and so did I when I read … Continue reading →

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