Captain Haddock

December 19, 2018•58 words

Apparently Loch Lommond wasn't always the whisky brand for Captain Haddock. It's interesting that the actual Loch Lommond distillery opened at the same time as the name change in the Tintin books. I was really excited when I first discovered Loch Lommond, but it was a disappointment to learn that there wasn't any intentional overlap between the two!

👍❤️🫶👏👌🤯🤔😂😍😭😢😡😮

Subscribe to the author

You'll only receive email when they publish something new.

More from Michael
All posts

New Cello!

December 11, 2018•83 words

Trying this out as a blogging/journaling platform... My new cello arrived today! Crafted by Wang Zhiguo this year from nicely figured 20+ year-old Bosnian maple for the back and sides and 200 year-old Chinese spruce for the top. The spruce came from beams that were part of a Qing dynasty home in Beijing that was demolished in preparation for the Beijing Olympics. ...

Read post

Quitting Bookface

January 5, 2019•480 words

I quit bookface at the end of last year. I posted a message on my wall, but it seems that bookface has become such an embedded part of life that the most common reaction was that it was a joke. I'm guessing it also didn't get much visibility because I deleted most of my network during the 2016 US presidential campaign to get away from the Trump lovers and Bernie bros; one notable component of bookface's feed algorithm is that it doesn't seem to weight social ties in anyway. Consequently, the mor...

Read post

Captain Haddock

More from MichaelAll posts

New Cello!

Quitting Bookface

More from Michael
All posts