Author: Matt Jukes

  • June(sie) 01 

    June(sie) 01 

    🚨🚨Warning🚨🚨 I’m still feeling a bit sorry for myself. I can’t seem to shake it at the moment. Physically, mentally and emotionally I still just feel a bit off – not terrible or anything but definitely sub-optimal (and it isn’t like ‘optimal’ Jukesie is exactly much to write home about these days.) Work was okay.…

  • May Days [04]

    May Days [04]

    The cognitive dance I am doing day in, day out continues to be pretty exhausting.  Am I fatigued because of the heat wave or because my diabetes is running wild? Is that twinge in my abdomen a precursor to another bout of pancreatitis or because I am 53? How can a diet as unchanging as…

  • AI = Ain’t Inclined

    AI = Ain’t Inclined

    Originally I titled this post ‘AI = Not Interested’ but I realised that is not really my state of mind. I am somewhat interested. I am not dismissive of the discourse.  There is something happening. I’ve enjoyed Tom’s experiments and Doug’s folk software (a term he introduced me to that I prefer over the slightly…

  • May Days [03] 

    May Days [03] 

    I’ve been back at work for 10 days and today should have been my 100th (working) day in this role. I actually think I’ve managed 65 – so I’ve been off sick a third of the time I have had this job. Which, I have to be honest, is making reintegration a little bumpy. In…

  • 100 novels (of limited literary value)

    100 novels (of limited literary value)

    My inevitable response to The Guardian’s click-bait list is this list of a randomised 100 novels I have purchased online, read and enjoyed in the years since I had Gmail and used Amazon – as it was the easiest way to search. I’ve tried to only include one book from any series I devoured (and…