David Weir

Ryvoan bothy, a mountain shelter in the Cairngorms in Scotland, has displayed a copy of this poem for at least 80 years, written by a woman, AM Lawrence, from Cumbria. It came to mind tonight and as it combines trains and mountains, I wanted to share it here too:

I Leave Tonight From Euston

I shall leave tonight from Euston
By the seven-thirty train,
And from Perth in the early morning
I shall see the hills again.
From the top of Ben Macdhui
I shall watch the gathering storm,
And see the crisp snow lying
At the back of Cairngorm.
I shall feel the mist from Bhrotain
and the pass by Lairig Ghru
To look on dark Loch Einich
From the heights of Sgoran Dubh.
From the broken Barns of Bynack
I shall see the sunrise gleam
On the forehead of Ben Rinnes
And Strathspey awake from dream.
And again in the dusk of evening
I shall find once more alone
The dark water of the Green Loch,
And the pass beyond Ryvoan.
For tonight I leave from Euston
And leave the world behind;
Who has the hills as a lover,
Will find them wondrous kind.

More information (PDF):
https://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ryvoan.pdf

#trains #mountains #scotland #cairngorms

Thistle do nicely.

(growing against the wall of Liikuntamylly, Myllypuro, Helsinki)

Puolison pyörä varastettiin talon pyörävarastosta Helsingin Latokartanossa noin viimeisen viikon aikana. En usko, että saadaan sitä koskaan takaisin, mutta ohessa on kuva pyörästä puskaradiolle. Merkki on ”Scott”. Lastenistuinta ei ollut kiinnitetty silloin, kun pyörä poistettiin.

#helsinki #pyörä

Finally got a name for my Nordic neo-noir crime drama film.

Meet one’s Digi-loo, idiom: to finally give in and listen to 80’s Swedish pop.

It’s 12 o’clock on the first Monday of the month, time to find out how good your windows are for soundproofing.

#WeeWooSuomi

TIL that Software Heritage properly renders Jupyter notebooks in archived repos, including math mode TeX, see for example: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:cnt:9e6c00391e0bae6dcfa5d80e0f986e1e5d4a85f5;origin=https://github.com/davidjamesweir/2026-lecture-demos;visit=swh:1:snp:634ff513503296f71f8cddaa4435f90451d505da;anchor=swh:1:rev:fccaa8a9526a9a8f68f891d4a98e1a9f4e663b27;path=/nucleation.ipynb

But… how can one properly archive the output of the notebooks for posterity? I’d rather not have it in the main files in the repo - or should I?

#Jupyter #SoftwareHeritage #python

#TunnistaPaikka vai onnistuuko paikantaminen aurinkokulman ansiosta? 🤓