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After Saragossa Manuscript, another Wojciech Has movie full of madness, beautifully filmed, and based on an eccentric novel, which didn’t really work for me. Jan Nowicki (Barrier) goes to a time-warping hospital to find his not-dead-yet...
Perfume PosseThwarted: Erno Laszlo Pop-up in LA So I spent this Saturday thwarted. I woke up early to go to the bank, which is now in the valley. My accounts had lapsed from non use since they had moved but I wanted to reopen. In any...
This semester, I am giving four lectures in a third-year undergraduate course on statistical mechanics. Last year, I gave a guest lecture on the Ising model.The first thing I want to emphasise is that the whole course is built around...
There are I few “easy” pastry skills that I have yet to master. Marbling is one of them. I’m not mad at the way my Coconut-Milk-Chocolate Marble Cake looks, but you can see on the inside that it is more chunked than marbled. I guess that...
Mothership Month is coming November 1 - November 30, back to our regularly scheduled time slot. With one big caveat: No crowdfunding this year. I don’t know how you all feel, but I’m exhausted. We’re not saying we’ll never do a group...
This morning, I went to get a bunch of lab tests done at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (for a nephrologist consultation tomorrow) and discovered that a lot of the phlebotomists recognized me, greeted me enthusiastically by name, and...
My previous post explored the first of three passages in The Wealth of Nations in which Adam Smith explicitly refers to the concept of probabilty. Today, I want to discuss another such passage: the retaliatory tariff passage in Book IV,...
2026, it's turning out to be a year for many changes as forks in the road of life have become evident.The TW200 had become unreliable to me for quite a while now. Yesterday, she started to have charging issues again and it looks like the...
I found this odd leather octopus at a Renaissance Fair a few years back. Now it lives in my home office. Selfie a day for a year, day 7: Aug 25, 2026 edition.
Radio Free Fedi, in partnership with NHAM, is hosting another summer festival to celebrate independent musicians who are active on the Fediverse! The Sockpuppet portion of the festival will be streamed from our Owncast instance, but...
The first recording today starts with the end of Louie. There’s a trail for Dirtgirlworld. Then it’s Kerwhizz – Daredevil Dreamway. Media Centre Description: Children’s quiz. The teams find themselves in a raceworld which is particularly...
Perhaps a bit inspired having just listened to Jim Groom’s edupunk presentation in Hamburg and his retelling of the ds106 ethos, I realize it’s been a while since I blog narrated the making of a digital remix. This seems poignant given...
Perhaps a bit inspired having just listened to Jim Groom’s edupunk presentation in Hamburg and his retelling of the ds106 ethos, I realize it’s been a while since I blog narrated the making of a digital remix. This seems poignant given...
Former CBC and CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson passed on this month, at the age of 92. He presented Canadian news for more than four decades, the longest uninterrupted stretch of anyone in North America. I remember him for a period in...
I’m on book six of Dune. But, I’m just now finding out the story runs eight books. (Have Frank/Brian Herbert not heard of trilogies?) Finding focus when working with coding agents, flying too close to the multitasking sun. But, it turns...