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Thanks to the Fediverse integration of Flipboard I just saw the post from National Geographic where they link “Grace for the World: Recreating Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican“. At first I thought it was mainly about how...
So I spent the last two days at two different conventions. Saturday, of course, I was at Eau Claire Comic Con here in town, selling copies of my novels and comics. It was a good time overall -- saw some old friends, made some sales, and...
I've been wanting to get back into sketching after so many years of apathy, or worse, fear that I will just be bad, and that I was always bad. Well, I am bad. Whatever sketchbooks I did fill up, or digital art I did make, was under the...
An archive of hand-turned yoyo prototypes.
Walk it out. We’re walking past Stüssy again on Prince Street. There’s a center funnel between two parts of a roped queue, with hordes of bored-looking, phone-staring, monogamously-dressed androgynous youth. Loafers, white Nike socks,...
This weekend I spent hours tweaking little cosmetic and technical aspects of this blog. I finally managed to change the HTML of the footnotes, which I am happy to say is now an <aside> element and not a <section> element anymore....
I’m a man of habit. I do the same things every day, I eat the same things every week, I wear the same three colors all the time. I also have bad habits, like everyone does, and my bad habits are just as entrenched into my lifestyle as...
Hey there! 👋 Good morning! ☕️ How has your summer been? Mine was packed. We did some travel including our Quebec - Montreal - Stowe - Bismarck trip. I paired up with AI and Vibe Coded POAP2RSS, a service I have wished existed for years...
A weekend run takes an unexpected turn when a familiar route is suddenly blocked.
The United States was founded on political violence and has been further forged by its flames throughout our history. To appeal to our better virtues and to hope for a brighter future is admirable, but cognitive dissonance is a...
10:30 am good sad sad good sunday 09 14 2025 this morning, started watching the film Triangle of Sadness (2022, written & directed by Ruben Östlund) on dvd and yeah, soo good. brilliant n intensely fu...
Table of Contents Using business cards Designing the face of the card First draft Second draft Third draft Fourth draft Fifth draft Sixth draft Seventh draft Eighth draft Designing the back of the card Design one: Just keep it Design...
这篇书摘分享了词作人周耀辉回忆母亲的散文集《纸上染了蓝》。文章通过摘录书中的片段，展现了作者对母亲的深沉怀念，以及对生命、亲情和道别的独特思考。尽管主题是逝去，但文字哀而不伤，充满歌词般的美感与触动。读者可以从中感受到作者与母亲之间深厚的情感联结，以及对人生经历的哲学反思。
Consideration of Anders Kølle's tech criticism via information theory
Enough with the whining. Silvia and I have decided to kickstart the process that will ultimately lead us to share a dual citizenship. We came back to the UK two years ago, after failing to find common ground with our home country, and...
#arte #historiadelArte #pintura #podcast #ElSueñodelArtista Hace realmente algunas cuántas semanas que no grababa un nuevo episodio para el podcast de igual nombre que este blog muchas por situaciaciones ajenas a mi voluntad que casi me...
Ayer me comí una mora. Vi un zarzal que todavía tenía algunas que no estaban secas, localicé una más o menos gordita, la cogí, la lavé bien lavada con agua fresca, y me la comí. Y estaba rica. Dulzona, no especialmente jugosa pero sin...
It's that time of year again. Summer has elided into autumn, and that sure calendrical marker, the Last Night of the Proms, has been and gone. Watching it on television, I found this year's event rather underwhelming – too many musical...
Things that happened the week of September 7-13, 2025
over the past week, i have reformatted & wiped my lenovo thinkpad t480s a total of 6 times. windows (to dual boot with nixOS) custom microwin install (to dual boot with nixOS) nixOS with encrypted btrfs (by itself). arch linux with...
I remember the feeling of the light shining around and through the curtains. Then there was music: melodies in chirp. I wanted to close my eyes and go back to sleep for just a while longer, enjoying the warmth of my bed, but I didn’t...
Testing out an avatar from a gist Wild! Found this code snippet here How neat. Giant Umaru for me thanks to live2d L2Dwidget.init({ "model": { //"jsonPath":...
I'm still playing catch-up with the monthly reading updates. Thus, it is September and I'm still on May. Fingers crossed I meet myself in the present before the end of this year... This wasn't a month that particularly reflected my...
UPDATE 2025-09-16 09:17 +0300: There now is a dedicated “selfies” section on my website: https://protesilaos.com/selfies. A while back I noticed that I did not have a single selfie in my phone’s camera roll:...
Roshan: Fix bot summary [[File:AI Conception of Beadman.png|thumb|The expression is pretty spot-on though the Beadman's fashion sense had deteriorated by the time I met him]] A recent Reddit story that I read today reminded of a time...
The fellowship was created in 2011 to honour the memory of late Australian writer and biographer Hazel Rowley, who died in the same year. Past recipients of the fellowship, which supports the work of Australian biography writers, include...
In which I curse Microsoft