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If you don’t know, my maternal family is from Jamaica so my roots to the island and its cultures are very strong. So I was ecstatic to find out about SpriteWrench, a “one man micro-studio” based in Kingston, Jamaica, headed by Glen...
Nota bene: I credit my colleague and friend John Alcorn with the phrase “negative invisible hand”. As I mentioned in my previous post, Addition #11 of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet provides many reasons why the herring bounty is a scam....
Diamond Rainbows is the fifth album from the Julie July Band and their fourth album of original material. Their first, back in 2018, was a tribute to the late Sandy Denny, representing a foundational plank of their live show. Although...
China’s 龙(龍) and the West’s dragon are not the same creature. They were pressed into a single word by an act of Bible translation.Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary to China, spent years on a complete Chinese Bible,...
On June 19th I was in the Carberry-Brandon area of Manitoba and had a free evening. Little did I know how many rainbows I'd encounter!
Ricoh GRIIIx; cropped to 65X24 ratio. (click to enlarge)I’ve written two other posts about this camera and if you want to know all of my opinions of it—both the positives and negatives—you can read those here and here. I’m not going to...
From around 1910, the Valentine & Sons Publishing Company gives us “Battery Park” as a postcard: It took me a moment to understand what we’re seeing here. The brown building with the strange spire is One Broadway before its extensive...
🔖📝 Read Will Doing “Morning Pages” for 30 Days Make Me More Creative? by Grace Abbott (The Good Trade). I love Abbott’s recommendation to follow your energy rather than holding to a rigid externally-imposed structure.
Over the weekend, I released rssCloud Server 4.0 and wanted to discuss how I added WebSub support to the server. WebSub is an alternative protocol that has the same purpose as rssCloud: to notify subscribers of real-time updates. Back in...
Hanging onto this roundup of the best recent poetry from The Guardian in anticipation of participating in the sealey challenge in August. 📚
The World Cup run for the United States Men's National Team came to an end last night in a manner harsh fro the players, but befitting the autocrat who tried to influence the game.Before the game and the controversy that would overshadow...
I'm getting stuck in draft hell... I need to make simpler posts again... I've been yearning for a proper car-pg, something with a slow, difficult campaign/career mode. Most people would point to blackbox era NFS or PS2/3 era Grand...
Yes, AI will take your job, except for a small subset of people: plumbers, surgeons and the like. Oh, and politicians, executives, and board members. You Stand in the Way of Profit You might argue, “but AI can’t do my job as good as me!”...
I finally got my first spam Webmention on this site A spam post from Bluesky that bridged over as a Webmention I chanced across this on one of my weeknotes, which seems to have already been deleted by Bluesky moderation or the poster by...
Heavy snow falls on the Joseph Addison Thatcher Memorial Fountain in Denver, Colorado’s City Park. The post Snowy Statue appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.