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June 1, 2026 I believe that Summer has arrived! watch, it will snow tomorrow… Although this painting is of clouds later in the year, I could certainly pretend that the beautiful green landscape is mid-summer. Those are greens vivid...
Photo by me. Poetry by WS Merwin
That is the title of a new book by Anthony Gottlieb on the life and ideas of the great but perplexing 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Right now, I am on Chapter 3, which is titled “The teacher who taught himself.” …...
One hundred years ago this month, Mary Pickford sent Grace Kingsley a letter from Montecantini, Italy all about her travels with her husband, Douglas Fairbanks: You would be most happy to see the delightful reception we have met with all...
Perfume PosseX at X Finishing this early Monday morning. Our heatwave has receded and we’re due rain later. The flowers have really enjoyed themselves. The village has smelled incredible with all the honeysuckle weaving through hedges....
Here it comes, the next entry in the Final ’90s Countdown of YOUR top votes for the best comics of an otherwise maligned decade in the industry. We’re almost done with the one-vote getters, and it’s kind of a two-fer here: Stormwatch...
Books lead on to other books… When I was offered the chance to review Denis Johnson‘s “Jesus’ Son” for Shiny New Books (I’ll link when this is live), I was reminded that I had also intended to read his “Train Dreams” for some years. As I...
Fighters Megamix stumbles right from the start. By default I have to make Virtua Fighter‘s legendary cast abide by Fighting …
In the previous article we took apart the select statement and saw how it’s really two features in one, with the compiler rewriting the easy shapes away and only the hard cases falling through to the runtime’s selectgo . The recurring...