Tag: nobel
Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago’s breakthrough novel in English, full of contrasts and landscapes but lacking his later spark.
Death at Intervals
Saramago is the sort of funny old man I would’ve loved to have read bedtime stories to me when I was a kid.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Finishing FarCry
Finishing FarCry last night brought to an end my long struggle with mutant monkeys, mad professors and obsolete computers. It had been almost a year before I could even play the game after my own mid-spec machine gave up the ghost on all but the lowest display settings available in Ubisoft‘s inaugural next-gen gem. Whilst …
- Originally published: 27 Sep 2005 in Personalia
Estrella Morente
A shining light of modern flamenco comes to Brussels, bringing three centuries of tradition and a modern sensibility.
- Originally published: 16 Mar 2011 in Concerts
Reflections on Relocation: Part 2
The second of two articles looking back on relocation to Brussels five months on. This is my partner J’s perspective.
- Originally published: 30 Oct 2008 in Relocation
Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado)
Searing heat and boiling tempers in the Brazilian outback.
- Originally published: 28 Mar 2007 in Film
A walk in Longdendale
A bleak, depopulated valley on the Manchester side of the Peak District and a symbol of the industrial revolution.
- Originally published: 21 Feb 2007 in UK
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.