Blender, Audacity, Ardour, Inkscape, GIMP, Kdenlive, Puredata (programming, but visual), Krita.

Are these not creative software? Perhaps not industry standard, but what is industry going to look like in a couple of decades anyway?

Owen Gingerich was a historian of astronomy who did a census of printed early editions of Copernicus' book De revolutionibus. He found a tradition of students copying annotations from teachers readings into their own copies of the book. I recollect that he was able to trace various traditions of commentary each stemming from a well known astronomy teacher.

I suppose that checking early printings of key works looking for annotations is a pretty standard thing to do now.

No love for Erving Goffman here at all?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Ev...

Keep the windows open when using Vim on a Domes-Tos system.

[Domestos is a brand name for bleach, and Vim is a scouring powder that was popular decades ago]

There is a lot of coastline and not that many police/coastguards. In fact we have been closing down the coastguard stations since satellite tracking of commercial shipping became the norm.

(I come from a part of the UK that was notorious for smuggling, wrecking and other forms of piracy).