living

a live being
ancient roots within
united and unique
manyfold networks
meld and flow
with or against the stream

picture hanging calculator

Showing your art? Have you ever wondered how to get the the right measurements to hang a picture, or a group of pictures?

Use the handy gallery wall layout calculator here to find all the measurements. A simple three step process let's you have perfect picture frame spacing and heights. It works for any wall layout. It's great for gallery or home use where you want precision for your art.

Try it out here and if you like it go to hangcalc.com for a progressive web app (pwa) version that you can download and install to use anywhere, or just use it in your browser.

doughs and batters

Making bread or batters? Here's a bread dough and batter calculator and recipes using baker's percentages. No more guessing with a dough and batter composition calculator. Convert pound and ounces to grams and the other way around with a useful measurement conversions calculator.

Experiment and make your own perfect cake, bread or pizza dough formula!

believing

one becomes two
two become one
whole and half
half and whole
haploid
diploid …
micro
macro …
life’s spirals evolving

a new Dharma?

2,500 years ago Buddha made some remarkable intuitive understandings about life. He identified three poisons of human character: greed, hatred and delusion. These poisons are ever present today, including in some of our leaders. Ideas from 2,500 years ago are still relevant. Can an updated view of the Dhamma / Dharma better inform how we should live today?

dependent arising

A common core idea across all forms of buddhism is conditioned or dependent arising (paṭiccasamuppāda in Pali / pratītyasamutpāda in Sanskrit). Here is a brief explanation of why it is so important and how it underlies buddhism's understanding of the world.

remembering

tracing back
the flow of life
coding, combining, refining
defining, organising,
surviving

Shelta vocabulary

This Shelta Vocabulary is extracted and hyper-adapted from "The Secret Languages of Ireland", R. A. Stewart Macalister, Cambridge University Press 1937, Ch. VI. pp. 174-224. It was developed by John Bear and was first available on the web in the 1990s and early 2000s.

old Welsh books

John Bear (Wilson) was working on some wonderful translations of old Welsh books. Unfortunately some were only partially completed. But they are all worth reading.

look to the stars

There are many influences on people. Some believe that there is something special about when we are born that can be explained by the stars. Roderick Kidston was one such person. He left us with many unique insights from his own work and experiences.

leaving a mark

Life is short, yet some people leave their mark. Arthur J Birch was a person who contributed to our understanding of nature; and whose work did change the world. A master chemist and pioneer of organo-metallic reduction, an originator of steroid hormone synthesis; and the polyketide hypothesis.