Memento

I keep little symbols of big things in my life in a headphone case.

Believe it or not, this is the official Boy Scouts badge for my home region. (The region’s most notable landmark is an arsoned cathedral - at one point the second-largest building in Scotland.)

A young dead friend.

My first two degrees. (The Glasgow one is cut off a ceremonial teaspoon because the official merch sickens me.)

My first girlfriend, who was completely nonfunctional in the morning until she’d had three cups of coffee.

My first (anonymous) blog.

My second girlfriend, a sommelier.

33 conference badges.

This blog. I wanted a ringworld (see favicon) but of course the water here is on the wrong side.

My time in corporate data science.

The best event I ever went to. Matches match the theme of creating fire.

Self-explanatory.

A unit of currency from a terrible game.

A gift from a sentimental friend.

The FTX year.

Thank-you notes from my students at ESPR.

My first company.

My first employee.

A thank-you note from a coauthor.

Archive of photographs.

My character in my first larp.

My doctoral sword.

My academic life: