simonfirth

Silicon Valley writer - working the space where technology meets culture, where gardening meets children who love to dig.

[simonfirth @simonfirth]

@TLRailUK Help! We left a backpack on the train at Brighton (front carriage) with important medicines in it! Train was from Farringdon and arrived around 3:50pm. Can you help?

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@juliathrift Oh, Mr Tibbs looks very regal. And what a tail! J has wanted a cat ever since we met, but my allergies prevented it. I've been getting immunotherapy shots, though, which seem to be working so J is very, very happy. Hope you are all doing well and Happy New Year!

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@caitlyn_yaede @ClaraJeffery @dailytarheel Student journalists again leading the way

[Caitlyn Yaede (she/her) @caitlyn_yaede]

The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –

I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.

Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

[simonfirth @simonfirth]

@McFaul Amaryllis belladonna https://t.co/bxbKfskedV

[Priscilla Gilman @priscillagilman]

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry, born #OTD, 1934

[E. Anne Chambers @chamberea]

This was one of the most incredible wildlife encounters I’ve ever had — seen while tidepooling on the Northern California coast. (Also please enjoy the look of sheer terror on my friend 😅)

[NWS Bay Area 🌉 @NWSBayArea]

@dmitchinson @DinaKupfer @NWSSacramento Speaking of birds, we saw them out our "window" this morning! Most notably taking off out of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Napa County, and the Monterey Bay area.

[simonfirth @simonfirth]

@juliathrift Glad you got it! And yes, it would be really good to catch up. Not sure about our travel plans this year, but if we're staying in London for any length of time, I'll let you know! Hope you and the family are doing well.

[simonfirth @simonfirth]

Berkeley's Codornices Creek right now is a halfway decent whitewater slalom course @Berkeleyside

[simonfirth @simonfirth]

Berkeley Rose Garden on New Year’s Eve #berkeleyside

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@paulg But did TV news actually play much of a role in establishing college reputations when you were a kid? Didn't they emerge from a soft confection of family, teacher, and peer impressions, none of which were especially well informed - sort of like now?

[simonfirth @simonfirth]

@888Lioness Cool! We were driving in the same direction, but on Oregon Expressway, so we didn't have quite as good a view, but it was a good few seconds. I'd have thought it was a plane but the angle was too steep and the speed too fast. Hope you made a wish!

[simonfirth @simonfirth]

@888Lioness Yes, we saw it driving towards the East Bay from Palo Alto. Definitely seemed like a meteor. Just came on here to see if anyone else did and yours seems to be the only tweet about it so far. But it was very bright.

[Robert Harris @Robert___Harris]

Bletchley Park was run by historians (Hinsley, Briggs), classicists (Knox, Adcock), musicologists, papyrologists, pure mathematicians (Turing, of course) — people whose degrees would fail Sunak’s test, yet who did more for this country than any number of well-paid City analysts

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@BristolHarbFest Can you tell me how long The Hamlet Voyage is? Thanks!

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@mlmcgill Ditto on the pesto, which you can freeze. And it's great on pizza, or in a pitta with feta and olives.

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@grubreport @thejordache @bloomsburykids @Alex_Borbolla @NewLeafLiterary Congrats!

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@DianePatterson So scary. But I'm impressed how the car restricted nearly all the compression to the front.

[simonfirth @simonfirth]

@DianePatterson Yikes! Very glad you are both okay. Was that on 5?