Grey but mild and calm this morning. This is good news for the NBC television crews who are out bright and early filming the players in the collegiate championship. Being stuck a hundred feet up in the air when its blowing a gale can't be much fun.
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A Sheltie wanders over to observe what's going on. It settles on the side of the path by the camera crew to get a better view. It's there when we go and there when we come back. It has clearly decided to make a day of it. Two men on a golf cart arrive with bacon rolls for the cameramen. The Sheltie moves closer. As all dogs instinctively know good things come to those who wait.
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The youngsters will be allowed to play the Old Course for the finals. This morning the early rounds on the sacred turf are the preserve of some gentlemen from an insurance company. From the logos on their caps we think they may be bigwigs from Mutual of Omaha. Their underwriting business in Scotland must be close to non-existent so they're presumably tournament sponsors. The insurance folk seem determined to enjoy themselves. A bored looking young woman with a camera is there to capture their circuit of the course. She looks underwhelmed.
The pros and cons of fibre in your diet :https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/10/13/fiber-debate-could-skipping-it-be-health-hack-49766
This seems pretty profound :https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/scientists-found-that-memory-can-happen-outside-the-brain/
AI is coming. This essay by one of the industry leaders is unusually candid and insightful :https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-431-technological-optimism
Norway :https://bowofodysseus.substack.com/p/norway-1906
Norway by boat. This seemed like a good idea when booked in high summer. In preparation we're off for our Covid jabs this afternoon :https://youtu.be/6Io-HNfZvPo?t=697
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It’s glorious in Aberdeenshire today. As my mother would have said “we’ll pay for this”.
Have you watched “Lilyhammer”? It’s fun.
Hari Om
My little home sharpener does a fine job on my knives. Am surprised the Font doesn't have one. Definitely don't skip fibre in the diet... and have those researchers not heard of 'muscle memory'? Quite often I think all that science is doing is catching up with intuitive and intellectual knowledge... YAM xx
Fortunately one of the local hardware stores offers knife sharpening at a very reasonable 2:50€ per knife. No idea if it's any good as, like YAM, I have my own - an electric one that seems to do the job well enough. I vaguely remember the days when a man used to come round to houses, on his bike, and sharpen knives!
Dear Angus,
We have very little knowledge of knives or their sharpening but have been most interested in your pictures of the St. Andrews' golf course. Not that we play golf, or indeed any sport, but we do think that the course and, of course, St. Andrews itself are treasures of Britain. Such a wonderful position if often windy and cold. We have often toyed with living there....the town not the golf course.
I was a pretty back in the day, "Official Preppy Handbook" and all. Then we were DINKS, double income no kids. I hope the young lady with the camera is allowed to follow in a golf cart for the day.
I never thought before about the implications of being up in a cherrypicker on a windy day, but I don't think I would like it one bit. Glad they are having a calm day today. The article on AI was, as you say, insightful, although not necessarily reassuring.
I hope the Sheltie found the day rewarding.
My mom had a drawer full of good quality knives and took them to a man who knew how to sharpen knives. After she passed, my siblings and I divided up her knives and they're still going strong. I take them to the meat department at a local grocery store that offers a knife sharpening service.
Yeah well... because Princeton.
I'm surprised that the new kitchen shop doesn't offer this service, though a courier is nice, too. The video of Norway made me really want to go to Palm Springs. I don't have enough clothes for Norway in winter. Then again, I've never seen the Northern Lights. I guess everything comes with a price!
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