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I recently found the home-made version of Avalon Hill's Knights of the Air that I made back in the '80s. This was way back before computers and scanners were readily available to anyone who wasn't a hard-core computer nerd, and digital...
Trevor McKendrick asked for favorite recent applications of AI. Here are some of mine: I have a large corpus in which I want to find the most frequently occurring facts. I've built a system that (i) attempts to extract the facts from...
Over the last week or so, I’ve read and enjoyed Nikos Bakirtzis’s new book, Architecture and Sacred Landscape in Byzantium: Making Prodromos Monastery on Mount Menoikeion (2026). I don’t read as much in Byzantine history, architecture,...
I wonder what came first: did social media algorithms train us to become more radical in our opinions, or are they simply reflecting something that was already happening? In times of uncertainty, and ours are certainly uncertain, our...
I wonder how this happened — it’s a cheque from CD Universe from 2003 that I found while rooting through some old boxes. It’s TWENTY TWO AND 25/100 DOLLARS and I didn’t cash it, probably because the fee for cashing it would have been...
The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter. There isn't much left to do on the honey can you project. I just have to finish the drawer, put on the top and the three shelves and I'll be done. A couple of days to slap on some...
The Truman Show’s commentary on the media’s commercialization of the individual was trenchant at the time, bolstered by its broad appeal and strong, universal storytelling. But its impact has been followed by a series of long, deepening...
“Ruins confound the normative spacings of things, practices and people. They open up possibilities for regulated urban bodies to escape their shackles in expressive pursuits and sensual experience, foreground alternative aesthetics about...
The evergreen forest of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park‘s Prospect Canyon. The post In Prospect Canyon appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
For many years I have loved Phoebe Atwood Taylor’s 8-book Leonidas Witherall series (published under the penname Alice Tilton), but I must admit I have never quite got hooked on her longer Asey Mayo series. However, Penguin recently...
This post was last edited 14 minutes ago. Due to fortunate personal circumstances, my family and I were able to be away from our home for nearly two months. For me, this meant not having access to my desktop PC, my servers and other...
I’ve read several standalone novels by Louise Douglas and enjoyed them all, but haven’t tried any of the books in her detective series set in France until now. This is the fourth in the series so I hoped it wouldn’t matter that I hadn’t...
This is a part of a series of blog posts on self-hosting atproto components. The previous ones are [Self-hosting your PDS] and Self-hosting and Tangled. atcr.io is a container registry on atproto, it’s a place where you can push your...
Since the last update to ChatGPT voice, I’ve been enjoying talking to it while driving, and since I have a daily commute of about 30 minutes, I’ve been talking with it a lot. It’s great to bounce ideas, get philosophical, learn new...
This week’s group post asks us about our motivation to blog, and Krikket gives us a set of prompts. Here they are, with my answers. Q: What tricks do you use to keep yourself motivated when something feels impossible? Bricolage. Roughly...