This morning on my blog, a very quick thought about the usefulness of AI.
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kcm
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mastodon 4.6.8Controversialist, catalyst and facilitator, quietly providing different ideas and views of the world.
Born: London; early 1950s. Chemist; PhD in spectroscopy. Worked in IT for 35 years; retired as a senior project manager
Founding Secretary, Anthony Powell Society.
Chairman of my GP's patient group.
Other interests include: family history; photography; naturism; mysticism & comparative religion; science ...
Aka @kcm
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My monthly self-portrait from the blog ... "Through a Glass Darkly".
This month's quote from my blog:
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
[Bertrand Russell]
This month's self-portrait: "Fat Boy Works the Night Shift"
https://zenmischief.com/2026/02/february-self-portrait-2/
#photography #selfportrait #cyanotype #February #blog #zenmischief
On my blog today: this month's quote.
"I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned."
[Richard Feynman]
This day on the blog, my monthly collection of links to items you'll wish you hadn't missed.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/monthly-links-for-march/
#biology #books #environment #history #links #physics #science #sexuality #blog #zenmischief
Today's offering on my blog is this month's "Something to Think About":
«Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it and neither do they.»
https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/something-to-think-about-this-month-15/
New today on my blog: a quick look at some things which happened in March 1926.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/march-1926/
#1926 #otd #March #blog #zenmischief
From my Zen Mischief blog...
On Oil and Ethics
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/on-oil-and-ethics
From my Zen Mischief blog...
Unblogged March
https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/unblogged-march-5
Last evening on my blog: Unblogged June: some things, and thoughts, from June which I didn’t otherwise write about.
A short thought "On Oil and Ethics" on my blog this morning.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/on-oil-and-ethics/
#oil #ethics #environment #shipping #thoughts #blog #zenmischief
Today on the blog we give you this month's "something to think about":
"Intentionally losing a game of rock, paper, scissors is just as hard as trying to win."
https://zenmischief.com/2026/02/something-to-think-about-this-month-14/
#logic #thoughts #blog #zenmischief
Today on my blog, notes of a few things that happened in this month 100 years ago.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/may-1926/
#1926 #otd #May #blog #zenmischief
From my Zen Mischief blog...
April 1926
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/april-1926
On my blog: one council rejects the government's "new town" development programme.
Answers to my February quiz questions on biology are now available at https://zenmischief.com/2026/02/february-quiz-answers-5/
#biology #quiz #February #blog #zenmischief
Today on my blog, this month's "Ten Things" which is "Words ending in -lion" ...
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/ten-things-74/
#words #language #tenthings #blog #zenmischief
From my Zen Mischief blog...
Monthly Links for March
https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/monthly-links-for-march
From my blog: This month's quiz questions are on Geography.
From my Zen Mischief blog...
This Month’s Poem
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/this-months-poem-16
Yesterday on my blog: quiz questions, this month on General History.
Our usual notes on things that happened this month 100 years ago.
This evening on the blog: Unblogged March, being things I've not otherwise written about.
Today on the blog, a quick look at a few of the things that happened this month 100 years ago.
From my Zen Mischief blog...
April Quiz Questions
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/april-quiz-questions-5
This month's poem on my blog is the opening of "April Rain" by Mathilde Blind.
This evening on my blog "Unblogged May", being a few notes about stuff that I didn't otherwise write about.
Earlier today on my blog: teh answers to this month's quiz questions which were on Geography.
From my Zen Mischief blog...
Ten Things
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/ten-things-74
From my Zen Mischief blog...
Monthly Quotes
https://zenmischief.com/2026/02/monthly-quotes-84
On this day, from my blog, a poem for June:
"All in June" by WH Davies
From my Zen Mischief blog...
This Month’s Quote
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/this-months-quote-27
My monthly collection of links to items you may have missed is now up on my blog.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/mays-monthly-links/
#biology #blog #links #medicine #physics #science #sexuality #zenmischief
From my Zen Mischief blog...
On the Sexing of Toilets
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/on-the-sexing-of-toilets
From my Zen Mischief blog...
April Self-Portrait
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/april-self-portrait-2
From my blog: This month's self-portrait, "Listening".
Today on my blog, this month's list of link to items you didn't know you didn't want to have missed...
https://zenmischief.com/2026/06/monthly-links-for-june-2/
#links #drink #history #June #sexuality #medicine #science #blog #zenmischief
This month's quiz questions - on biology - are now on my blog. Answers in 2 weeks.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/02/february-quiz-questions-5/
#biology #blog #February #quiz #zenmischief
From my Zen Mischief blog...
On Spiteful Sniping
https://zenmischief.com/2026/02/on-spiteful-sniping
Today from my blog this month's "Something to Think About" ...
"We pass the anniversary of our death every year without knowing."
https://zenmischief.com/2026/06/something-to-think-about-this-month-18/
The first of the month on my blog brings us some things which happened this month 100 years ago ...
From my Zen Mischief blog...
Something to Think About this Month
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/something-to-think-about-this-month-17
A quick thought on my blog this afternoon on the behaviour of the media.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/02/on-spiteful-sniping/
#currentaffairs #thoughts #blog #zenmischief
This month's quiz questions on y blog are on Physical Science and Mathematics.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/april-quiz-questions-5/
#quiz #April #physics #science #blog #zenmischief
From my blog: this month's "Something to Think About" ...
"If anything is possible, then is it possible that nothing is possible?"
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/something-to-think-about-this-month-17/
This month's quiz questions on my blog are on People.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/may-quiz-questions-5/
#people #quiz #May #blog #zenmischief
My monthly collection of quotes is now available on my blog -- and it's a bumper bundle this month!
From the blog: This month's Ten Things is words ending "-va".
A couple of (probably unpopular) thoughts on the current political state of affairs now on my blog ...
https://zenmischief.com/2026/06/thoughts-on-the-political-system/