Keith Houston @OrkneyDullard
Blogs at @shadychars. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK and EMPIRE OF THE SUM (https://t.co/kqBm6gz9dA). See also @[email protected]. shadycharacters.co.uk Birmingham, England Joined February 2011-
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Sometimes I get in the mood for some non-fiction and @shadychars by @OrkneyDullard is just the thing 😊 and yes, my favourite symbol is the ampersand &❤️
This week on #CVBooksThatChangedLives we have @OrkneyDullard's choice - 'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien and 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville. 👉 bit.ly/3VbgeJI After production costs, all proceeds of #ClearAndVivid go to @AldaCenter.🗣️💙
I guested on @alanalda's Clear + Vivid podcast recently, on the subjects of punctuation and counting: …r-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/keith…. What a treat, and what an honour! Have a listen and let me know what you think.
This, by @derailleurkate, is magnificent: web.archive.org/web/2024030117….
Tomorrow is PODCAST DAY! @alanalda chats with author @OrkneyDullard about an aspect of communication we rarely think about - the wild world of punctuation! 👉 bit.ly/3tR21Gs After production costs, all proceeds of Clear+Vivid go to @AldaCenter.🗣️💙 (@shadychars)
Entirely had enough of the people driving on West Mids roads putting everyone else at risk in their tonnes of metal. We report on it every day - the latest person killed for having the temerity to cross the road. I think it is time we start calling it out much, much, better.
This Saturday, the BBC's @BBCMoreOrLess radio show will be running a chat with host @TimHarford (Tim Harford!) and I on the story of the pocket calculator. It'll be available here after the broadcast: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…. If you have a listen, let me know what you think!
I've been keeping a low-profile bike blog for a few years now. Apropos of yet another senseless pedestrian death in the city (birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…), here's a post on 5 years of riding in Birmingham: grupetto.cc/2024/01/16/bru….
Consultation on draft Road Harm Reduction Strategy now open until 5/4/24. We all deserve to get home safe in Brum whether by car, bike or on foot. For too long we've tolerated death & serious injury on our roads, we need new approach to deliver #VisionZero birminghambeheard.org.uk/economy/roadha…
Interesting to see @for_birmingham have launched a campaign to get drivers to pledge to drive better. I've looked at their list of pledges, and almost all of it is just 'I promise not to break the law'. Really sad to think that's where we are now. betterstreetsforbirmingham.org/better-drivers…
It's the final day of the Shady Characters advent calendar! To round things off, I'm taking a look at the Sinclair Executive, a 1970s British success story that eventually spawned a peculiar Cold War myth. Read more at shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/12/advent…! Happy holidays!
It's day 11 of the Shady Characters advent calendar! What was the first breakout consumer electronic device? Some commentators would say you're looking at it: the sleek, innovative HP-35 scientific calculator. More here: shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/12/advent…!
It's day 9 of the Shady Characters advent calendar! The Curta, or math grenade, as William Gibson calls it, was the first genuinely pocket-sized mechanical calculator. It is a gem of a device - both the first and last of its kind: shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/12/advent…
Recording this with @romanmars was, and I cannot emphasise this enough, so much fun. Thank you to @abby_madan for making it happen! open.spotify.com/episode/6q6gK6…
It's day 8 of the Shady Characters advent calendar! You think you know slide rules? You don't know slide rules! Witness the E-6B, beloved of pilots across the world and favoured by none other than Mr Spock of the starship Enterprise: shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/12/advent…
It's day 6 of the Shady Characters advent calendar! This chunky boy is the Comptometer, one of the arithmometer's main competitors and a device that would inspire many copycats - and it was born in a macaroni box. Read more at shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/12/advent…!
It's day 5 of the Shady Characters advent calendar! Now for today's entry! You're looking at the sleek, simple arithmometer, the world's first commercially successful mechanical calculator. Learn more here: shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/12/advent…
It's day 4 of the Shady Characters advent calendar! For today's entry, witness the "calculating clock" - the first ever (mostly) practical mechanical calculator - and a machine that was almost forgotten by history: shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/12/advent…
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348 Followers 478 Following CEO/Founder, Blackford. We provide a single platform to access and manage medical image analysis applications and AI algorithms that add clinical value.Sometimes I get in the mood for some non-fiction and @shadychars by @OrkneyDullard is just the thing 😊 and yes, my favourite symbol is the ampersand &❤️
In Old English, the ampersand, '&', was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. Children reciting the alphabet in school would chant 'per se', Latin for 'by itself', after letters that were words in themselves: 'A per se A, I per se I', etc, and also '& per se &'. This 'and…
Shady Characters on Alan Alda’s Clear and Vivid podcast shadycharacters.co.uk/2024/03/clear-… @OrkneyDullard fame at last
@alda @OrkneyDullard @aldaCenter I almost turned this off after 2 minutes but I gave it a chance and it turned into be interesting.
I guested on @alanalda's Clear + Vivid podcast recently, on the subjects of punctuation and counting: …r-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/keith…. What a treat, and what an honour! Have a listen and let me know what you think.
@alda @OrkneyDullard @aldaCenter It was a great episode. I listened thinking I wouldn’t make it through but I truly enjoyed it.
Tomorrow is PODCAST DAY! @alanalda chats with author @OrkneyDullard about an aspect of communication we rarely think about - the wild world of punctuation! 👉 bit.ly/3tR21Gs After production costs, all proceeds of Clear+Vivid go to @AldaCenter.🗣️💙 (@shadychars)
Support upgrading the A38 cycle lane from Selly Oak to Northfield and Longbridge - Sign the Petition! chng.it/TPmyFhwT via @UKChange
HELLO EVERYONE! I AM WRITING A BOOK!
As we approach a grim council budget, with an expectation that we'll lose access to some vital services, there's been some discussion about how the council can go ahead with transport schemes while possibly cutting other things. Let's sense check where that money comes from. 🧵👇🏼
Happy to be able to publish this article I wrote last year for MacGuffin magazine, issue 13, on the history of the interrobang: shadycharacters.co.uk/2024/01/macguf…. There will be lots that's familiar in there for Shady Characters readers, but some new material too. Enjoy!
I'll be honest, I didn't like this building at all. But I came to appreciate that whether I liked it or not was quite irrelevant. Architecture like this is part of the cultural story of Birmingham. And once it is gone, a tangible part of our city's history goes with it
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Birmingham City Council planning committee have voted 7-4 to approve the demolition of the Ringway Centre for the second time. This is the wrong decision for the city's heritage, environment, businesses and residents. More to follow...
One of these vehicle types is so tightly regulated you are automatically fined if you park it outside of a bay. The other type, not so much.
@djbduncan @TheTLS @OrkneyDullard @roaringgirle @michaelscaines Punctuation bibliography, here we go! Alexander Humez, On the Dot, Hyphens & Hashtags (Cock-Starkey), Crystal's Persnickety History, the inevitable Truss, and I'd suggest broadening definitions & include Rhetoric of the Page, Just My Type, Saenger's Spaces Btw Words, Glyph.
@djbduncan @FlorenceHazrat @TheTLS @OrkneyDullard @roaringgirle @michaelscaines And Malcolm Parkes’s venerable ‘Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West’ and John Lennard’s ‘But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse’.
Cross it off the bucket list, @FlorenceHazrat - “An Admirable Point”has made an appearance in the NB column of @TheTLS! A punctuation lit shelf might also need @OrkneyDullard’s “Shady Characters” & @roaringgirle’s “Typographies of Performance” @michaelscaines
Another taste of what easier walking in Bournville could be like. Not having to rush over Linden Rd in the 6 seconds allocated by the pelican crossing (less once I've checked all drivers have stopped) didn't have to wait & could cross at a point convenient to me, not 50ms away 🚶🏼
@LizClements That end by the shops is ripe for turning into a nice little public sq. and making Mary Vale Rd a no through road.
#edutwitterBookClub my "no new books" pledge for 2024 is being SORELY tested by learning that this book exists @OrkneyDullard (h/t @99piorg) Listen to a podcast about it here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/empire…
Why not take the pledge? #BetterDriversBetterStreets birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…
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