https://stories.upthebuzzard.com CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Riffing on whatever is riff-worthy "It's always a problem when you go chasing a plumbing fix." Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:19:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2025-03-23-sink-waste-helter-skelter.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2025-03-23-sink-waste-helter-skelter.html I resolved to use only post-its, since they were everywhere: we did Agile at work, and *all* thoughts had to spend some time as post-its on walls. Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:35:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2019-04-29-modular-origami-with-post-its.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2019-04-29-modular-origami-with-post-its.html Angela Merkel, picks up the mace in the Bund where a cabinet's been. Sun, 28 Oct 2018 17:35:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2018-10-29-angela-merkel-is-eleanor-rigby.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2018-10-29-angela-merkel-is-eleanor-rigby.html It all comes down to minimising the variance, maximising the overlap, visualising. Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:50:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-07-22-how-to-hit-a-rounders-ball.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-07-22-how-to-hit-a-rounders-ball.html It's a vicious fight for supremacy across the rubbish heap, gathering weapons and food. Who can get a pouch full of foods to safety? Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:59:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-04-22-greedy-devils.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-04-22-greedy-devils.html a group pose, noble in intent and widely-tweeted, most surely ill-advised Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:49:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-03-28-that-moment-when.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-03-28-that-moment-when.html simultaneously checking buffers on both platforms, to make sure their respective trains would stop at the same position Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:49:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-03-02-waiting-for-a-train.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-03-02-waiting-for-a-train.html so had son the younger done all his homework for this weekend? "Mostly" Sat, 25 Feb 2017 23:46:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-02-25-cross-generational-puzzles.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-02-25-cross-generational-puzzles.html 9 hours, is, it turns out, how long our house alarm's battery lasts if you make a mess of fitting a new ceiling light Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:03:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-01-23-fragments-9-hours.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-01-23-fragments-9-hours.html A slow scan of the choices available, the nearest sales bod getting edgy as 5pm loomed large. A smile which flickered between hope and despair as I asked to try on these in size 9.5 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:39:00 +0000 https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-01-23-fragments-new-shoes.html https://stories.upthebuzzard.com/fragments/2017-01-23-fragments-new-shoes.html