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The Consistency Journal is an experiment. There are signs of early momentum, but I don’t know how it’s going to go. It started off as a pet, and now it’s more like livestock. Creative Doing was an experiment. I started interesting...
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?” Is it… Hope? It’s true that season announcements from Shakespeare’s Globe in recent times have had me reaching for the bottle rather than tickets, but with the autumn/winter/spring...
More of my posts about photography: I'm still in search of the perfect camera If money was no object I'd buy this camera OM System OM 3 - why I like it so much The most important thing to consider when buying a new camera
Last month I presented a bit of research on how our bodies’ chemicals appear to drive, direct, and dictate (ie ‘condition’) our behaviour by trying to maximize the body’s feelings of pleasure and minimize its feelings of pain. They do...
Hello, loves! Knowing the fix, let’s install it properly. Then maybe an idea. Yesterday, during the two hours of thrashing that I didn’t document in detail, and even during the morning, where we figured out what the defect was, I put in...
Belt Fed Potato Cannon Spits Spuds | Hackaday I appreciate few things more than taking an absurd idea to perfection.
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Clearly after Ana and I read Inky Wandering’s post, we both had the same thought! I broke mine into two groups of five. The first are the lower end pens that I just can’t quit. The second batch are the slightly higher end and more...
Recently, a pair of researchers made a massive breakthrough in the foundations of physics. In their paper, they describe how gravity is an emergent property. More specifically, they say that the origin of gravity is entropy. And not just...
Sutton Attwater has a folklore PhD, a 1972 Volkswagen bus, and absolutely no chill about the possibility that the woods are full of things we haven’t named yet. There’s a fresh one up right now. Sightings, history, the whole obsessive...
Boeing's PDP-7/340 Most of my career has been involved in various ways with computer graphics. Below the fold I recount the story of how I got started in the field just as it was getting started. To give you some idea of just how early...
Uncle Tupelo - French Village Drive-in, East St. Louis, Missouri, July 1987 / Lincoln Theater, Belleville, Illinois, 1988Paying your dues as an up-and-coming midwestern rock band sometimes means playing an East St. Louis drive-in in...
As you grow in life, you have to learn to leave people behind. The idea of keeping the same friends is romantic. It looks good too. But it carries a fatal flaw that most people overlook. Your rise in stature also reveals your evolution...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 56-57: In the fall of 1999, as Yeltsin was getting ready to step down and promote Putin as his successor, the president of Ukraine,...
We spent our holiday weekend in a nearby mountain village with a group of friends. On Friday evening we met at one person's home for food and drink. We then met the following morning for the charming local parade where we likewise...