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I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching old Modern Jazz Quartet concerts, as a quartet and as individuals. This is one of my favourites. Milt Jackson, just a few months before he died at 76.
Outside of work, which is always busy, there are is a myriad of little things to get done. Working at home makes this easier, for sure, but I have found that some days just end up being busier than others. Today is a good example. It’s...
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with fLaMEd 🔥, whose blog can be found at flamedfury.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a...
Not THE famous ABC conjecture, but a conjecture of mine with Mohammed Aljohani and John Bamberg. A simple counting argument shows that, in any vertex-transitive graph, the product of the clique number and the independence number is at...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 374-375: LONDON, DECEMBER 22, 1881 The following telegram was received at the [New York] Herald’s...
Listen now | Welcome to the 16th episode of the 18th season of the Retroist Podcast.
Sexual likes, dislikes, kinks and fetishes emerge by mysterious paths from the murky swamp we carry deep in our brains, and there’s no known way to reroute those pathways once they’re established. – “Out of the Dark” Sleazebag takes it...
29 May 2026 Happy Friday! Here’s a selection of peregrine resourcefulness in Ohio, California, and London (UK). video embedded from Diane Wu Photography on Facebook (embedded from FAB Peregrines on X)
Worthy Read is an ongoing segment where I share a bit of Internet writing I really dug, and I feel like is worth your precious time. Brian Phillips / The Ringer: Anyway, the pope’s encyclical is an impressive document, and I strongly...
People say that the best thing about travel is how it teaches you about yourself. After one month on the road in southern Italy, I can confidently say that I have truly learned a lot, and that lot is this: … Continue reading →
The most successful ideology of the 20th century is still right for the 21st.
I had a rather rare moth in the moth trap last night. An Eastern Bordered Straw, Heliothis nubigera. This species is known only as a rare immigrant species that first turned up in the UK in 1958, according to the UK Moths site. Just...
How does the Phase Pod work as a wearable device in the world of Star Trek: Section 31? Continue reading →