Michael Maclean

@mgdm.net

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Developer, software architect, former sailor, occasional photographer, sometime cyclist, full-time geek. He/him.

A very orange hybrid bike leaning against a gate on a field. It has a slightly paler orange pannier bag on the back. The pannier bag honestly looks a little like a packed liferaft.
The "you wouldn't download a car" anti-piracy warning, but edited to read "you wouldn't cache a page", in reference to all the recent Linux security vulnerabilities involving the page cache
A screenshot of the What3Words site showing that a location named expressed.invest.interest exists and is somewhat north of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
A screenshot of a terminal session on a Mac where the user has typed `cargo install cargo-space`, which installed a package, and then ran the command `cargo space`, which replied with "car no do that. car go road"
An electron microscrope image of a tardigrade, playing a violin. A scale at the bottom right indiciates that it's around 150μm in length.
A screenshot from a Wired video where Alex Honnold is answering climbing questions from Twitter. Luc asked one.
The Greggs Semiotic Standard. The icons from a Greggs paper bag that tell you what the markings on bakes mean, redrawn in a way inspired by the icons from Ron Cobb's Semiotic Standards for the Alien films. Why yes I have been enjoying my time off, why do you ask
Another pair of polar plots. This time, there is a big spike at 215° in the pitch plot, indicating there are a total of seven occurences where someone says "mark two one five" in the show.
Two separate polar plots of the yaws and pitches specified on the show. There are big spikes at low numbers like fifteen, and a red line pointing out where 215° lies at. In the Pitch plot, there are four at this point.