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#silentsunday

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An enormous sculpture of a winged figure is displayed outside a modern building, designed to appear as if it is flying along two iron rails.

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The sculpture is called the “Maschinenmensch” (Machine Man). It is described as “half locomotive, half human figure, half iron devil, half iron angel” — a steam-breathing figure bound to a rail track. The museum’s own text says it represents the conflicted feelings people have had toward technology: fear on one side, hope for progress on the other.

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A Polish artist created it in 1989, based on a caricature from 1884. It is roughly 6-7 meters long and 3 meters tall.

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Since our doggo, Lucy, passed away last month, I’ve realised how much of a muse for my causal photography she was. I spent all 13 of the years she was with us snapping her beautiful face, glossy coat, and enormous paws!

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Capturing the detail of her features was not always easy. She had such dark, glossy fur, that the various phone cameras I’ve owned sometimes struggled to make the detail of her body visible.

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Now, without her, I’ve started to focus even more on the other kind of photography I like making - Macro shots of lichens, mosses, moulds, wood, stone, metal, and so on.

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My wife reminded me of some more names:

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Schnoz-boz,\nLimpalot (when she hurt her foot),\nLimpalottie,\nPupster McPup.

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The physical memory of her presence is what feels so remarkable to me. Sitting in a chair and expecting her to come over and rest her head in my lap…

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I read that part of the feeling with the loss of a pet - especially to euthanasia - is the instinct to still want to protect them, but having nowhere for that instinct to go. Rings true.

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Our dog died on 16 January 2026. I didn’t know it would hurt this hard. Her name was Lucy, but we also called her:

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Schnozzle,\nSausage,\nPoodle,\nPoodle-Doodle,\nPuppy,\nPuppy-Doodle,\nBumhole (don’t ask!),\nBum-nut (ditto!),\nBaby Girl,\nDarling,\nNoodle,\nDoodle,\nSchnoodle doodle,\nPoods,\nPoods McNoods,\nPoodsy,\nPoodsy schnoods,\nGieselbert the Great,\nLuce,\nLuce-poose,\nDarling daughterchen.

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My goodness I miss her.

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It’s interesting when three domains of my interest coincide. Last week (or was it the week before?) it was the tech/leadership/design news that (now former) Apple Human Interface Design chief, Alan Dye, was leaving Apple for Meta. I drafted this post when the news was announced, but I forgot to post it… so here it is.

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My first thought was not about Dye’s competence as a designer (those more competent to judge than I suggest it was limited), but rather the strange move from the perspective of Leadership.

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One of the things you learn if you want to succeed as a leader is how to adapt your leadership to the organisation in which you’re leading. Or to leave and find an organisation more aligned with your values and principles. If Dye has done the latter, it is remarkable that he spent so long at Apple. While both Apple and Meta are corporate behemoths, they do seem fundamentally different when it comes to the expression of specific values. If Meta is Dye’s ‘value home’, then Apple certainly cannot have been. If Apple is Dye’s ‘value home’, then Meta is going to be hard for him. Time will tell, I suppose.

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For more on the story (if you somehow missed it), John Gruber has a nice write-up on how this news was received at Apple: daringfireball.net/2025/12/b…

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I didn’t like Stage Manager when it debuted. But in Tahoe, I’ve switched to using it. It makes me much more intentional and focused. It still has the problem that if I do need to use two or more apps side-by-side, the interface to bring them together is clunky… and there appears to be no interface at all for separating them again outside of closing the apps and starting over (please tell me if I’ve missed something). But I like the fact that I have a single app on screen; that I can see my beautiful wallpaper around it; and I’m totally zoomed in on what I’m doing in that app without any distraction.

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Geology and formation

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Stone runs form when a layer of clay in the soil prevents lime-rich groundwater from seeping downward. If this spring water then flows very slowly over a gentle slope, the lime dissolved in the water reacts with the oxygen in the air and is deposited as solid limestone. This mostly happens along the edges of the stream, so that over time a raised channel forms, with a central groove where the water continues to flow.

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Stone runs are a unique feature of lime-rich regions such as the Rohrbach Valley. In Germany, they mainly occur in the karst landscapes of the Franconian Jura and the northern edge of the Alps. They are especially found in deciduous forests with nutrient-poor soils.

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Only six such stone runs are registered in Bavaria as geological natural monuments, four of them in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen.

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The Stone Run at Rohrbach is about 80 meters long and 1–2 meters high.

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Growth Rate: A few millimeters to two centimeters per year.

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Vulnerability: Their growth can be interrupted by falling leaves, so most stone runs rely on human maintenance to survive.

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Adaptable and Full of Life

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Such special habitats are home to rare species like:\nBechstein’s Bat\nRoosts in humid places and hunts insects in richly structured forests.\nPurple Emperor Butterfly\nStrongly dependent on specific plants like aspen and goat willow.\nBroomrape\nA parasitic plant that taps into the roots of others to feed.\nBistort\nA moisture-loving plant with prominent flower spikes.\nLesser Stag Beetle\nA beetle whose larvae develop in dead wood; prefers old broadleaf forests.\nAlpine Dock\nFound in moist meadows and forest clearings; rare in Central Europe.\nBlack Woodpecker\nThe largest native woodpecker; carves large nesting cavities in old trees.

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We’re holidaying in France at the moment. Today we went on two lovely walks to waterfalls.

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Cascades D’Augerolles

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The hike to Cascades D’Augerolles is a very nice walk going down one side of the valley and up the other. I recommend the walk for its scenery and interesting terrain. I will say though that the waterfall is not the highlight of this walk. The fall you can get to is really rather small and the big fall has such an overgrown path that you can’t get near. It does look nice from a distance. Overall, it is a lovely little walk. It took us about an hour to go from the car park down and then back up the other side.\nGoogle Maps Link

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Cascade des Jarrauds

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The hike to the Cascade des Jarrauds is a much easier walk, though still with some steps to climb up and down. And the waterfall itself is a little more impressive, though again you can’t get close to it.\nGoogle Maps Link

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Little jumping spider on the table. Poor thing got fed up with me and started attacking the camera!

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When someone dies and you prepare for their funeral and reach out to their friends and siblings, you learn about all the other people they were, beyond the person they were to you. And you get to know the full person they couldn’t or wouldn’t let you know, and you wish you could have known that person too. But now it’s too late and you couldn’t have known them in any other way anyway. So you’re grateful for knowing them as you did. And that has to be enough.

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