"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

C.R. Shelidon

  • Yes, the fault might be our current project on PowerBI, but this month I’ve been reasoning a lot around our Illuministic obsession over measurements and how that affects our approach to business intelligence in the era of Big Data. On top of this, I’ve been...

    Author Imageshelidon
    04 June, 2025

  • So, what’s in town this month? Let’s take a look at a couple of things you need to catch before they leave. Some of the things I highlighted last month are still on: Sabrina Ratté’s Realia at MEET Digital Culture Centre closes today. I talked...

    Author Imageshelidon
    01 June, 2025

  • There’s a particular tension I carry with me when I walk into exhibitions like Art Decò: il trionfo della modernità. My heart irreversibly shuns away from some of the ideological implications of the movement – and I’m certainly more partial to liberty – and yet,...

    Author Imageshelidon
    31 May, 2025

  • I know, I know. I don’t speak about interoperability much, and ya’ll know what I think of IFC, but a recent discussion prompted me to submit to you a more articulated argument around the issue, because I do not think, in fact, that IFC is...

    Author Imageshelidon
    28 May, 2025

  • Earlier this week I wrote about KPIs and how we’re using them wrong, l but I fear I left something out, which is how KPIs are used in education. Nowhere is the distortion of goals by poorly chosen KPIs more visible than in the classroom....

    Author Imageshelidon
    23 May, 2025

  • How the Wrong Metrics Derail Digital Thinking (and What I Tell My Students About It) One of my students once proudly told me their Revit family—a window—had 42 parameters. They had worked hard on it, tuning and nesting constraints, adding types, and connecting dimensions to...

    Author Imageshelidon
    21 May, 2025

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Stuff to Read

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XV: The Lord of Vauparfond Thibault, on arriving at the Dauphin d’Or, ordered himself as fine a dinner as he could think of. It would have bee...

June 4, 2025

Yes, the fault might be our current project on PowerBI, but this month I’ve been reasoning a lot around our Illuministic obsession over measurements and how that affects our approach to business...

June 4, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XIV: A Village Wedding He had made but a few steps within the forest, when he found himself surrounded by his wolves. He was pleased to see them aga...

May 28, 2025

Oh. My. God.How come this novel isn’t up there alongside Ph. K. Dick, Asimov, and the rest of the greatest sci-fi works of our time? Oh, yeah, it might be because it talks about violence over a ...

May 23, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XIII: Where it is demonstrated that a Woman never speaks more eloquently than when she holds her tongue As Thibault was talking to himself he did no...

May 21, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XII: Wolves in the Sheep Fold The forest was not far from the Bailiff’s house, and in two bounds Thibault found himself on the further side of...

May 14, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XI: David and Goliath After walking the whole length of the village, they stopped before an imposing looking house at the junction of the roads lead...

May 7, 2025

Last week, I pursued the general hype and went to our local theatre to see a contemporary Opera inspired by Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose, one of my favourite books of all time. And though it w...

May 7, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter X: Maitre Magloire In this reckless state of mind Thibault, who had not as yet decided on any special course of action, spent the last days of the ol...

April 30, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter IX: The Wolf-Leader Thibault, fleeing from Madame Polet’s threats and her farm servants’ weapons, turned instinctively towards the forest...

April 23, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter VIII: Thibault’s Wishes The widow, on perceiving the effect which the sight of the soldiers advancing towards the mill had upon Landry, was al...

April 16, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter VII: The Boy at the Mill Finding it impossible either to cut off or pull out the accursed hair, the only thing left for Thibault to do was to hide it...

April 2, 2025

Happening in June

The Galli of Cybele: Queerness in Roman Religion The Galli were priests of Cybele (Magna Mater), whose worship was introduced at Rome from Phrygia. Often dressed in feminine garments and jewellery, th...

June 5, 2025

Singing for the Goddess: the Queer Voices of Inanna’s Gala Priests Long before modern notions of gender came into form, the streets of ancient Sumer — in what is now southern Iraq — roamed with ...

June 4, 2025

He Is the Wine, I the Cup: Queer Devotion in the Poetry of Abu Nuwas “O my heart’s beloved,You are the sun of beauty,And I — merely the eye that follows you.He kissed me, and I becameThe chalice...

June 3, 2025

Xochipilli, Prince of Flowers: Queer Divinity in Aztec Art What you’re seeing is a volcanic stone sculpture showing Xochipilli, an Aztec deity part of a group of representing health, pleasure, a...

June 2, 2025

As I did in previous months, I will celebrate Pride Month with one post a day, which the new layout of the blog will feature right here, in the dedicated horizontal band or in the dedicated subcategor...

June 1, 2025

There’s the widespread narrative that transsexuality is something new and we’re all wound up around something we invented yesterday. And to that narrative we say: fuck you. Representation has neve...

June 19, 2022

Following Aphra Behn’s death in 1689, Delarivier Manley collected her inheritance and brought forward the discourse around the sexual identity of women and the legitimation of female same-sex attr...

June 18, 2022

As we have seen with Aphra Behn, the Restauration period started challenging some of the concepts around women’s desire in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships, with delicate examples of t...

June 12, 2022

Undervalued as an author till the 1970s, Aphra Behn is not only a feminist icon but her works around women’s sexuality are an exquisite example of sapphic poetry. 240 years after her death, Virginia...

June 11, 2022

In 1964, Egyptologist Ahmed Moussa made an astonishing discovery: a tomb, in the necropolis at Saqqara, nearby the paved, raised road leading to the pyramid of King Unas. The tomb was a mastaba, a fla...

June 5, 2022

Well, I said I was going to share some notes for Pride Month, didn’t I? Here they are. I’d like to start with an amazing author and intellectual: Christine de Pizan, an Italian poet who wo...

June 4, 2022

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