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I've just posted a new piece at Tolkien Oddments substack. Here is the beginning. You can read the entire piece freely at this link.More on MadlenerLast summer, I published a piece in The Journal of Tolkien Research on “Josef Madlener’s...
Knowledge and skills are the power. One can be self-reliant and seize a brighter future with the right capacity, even without status and wealth. Yet, its foundation — education — is extremely fragile and a prime example of today's global...
I wrote this short essay about the “pursuit of happiness” for the editorial page of the StarTribune newspaper, where it was published on July 3. _____ Opinion | What did the founders mean by the pursuit of happiness? The authors of our...
Alexander Pushkin is widely credited as the creator of modern Russian language. And rightfully so: everything produced after Pushkin is easily readable today. Everything written before his age, can be read only with some effort1. He did...
John Mattos is an award winning illustrator with an impressive client list, based in California, who I first featured back in 2008.He works in a beautiful Art Deco influenced style that takes advantage of the crispness and smooth areas...
💡Typhon is an embedded, persistent, ACID database engine written in .NET that speaks the native language of game servers and real-time simulations: entities, components, and systems. It delivers full transactional safety with MVCC...
ON THIS DAY in 1971, Pamela Courson found Doors frontman Jim Morrison dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment. The cause of death was heart failure. No autopsy was performed. Morrison was 27. A year before, a teenaged me had watched...
Photo by Millenary Watches on Unsplash In Rejecting the Luxury of Hobbies I talked about the “investor” types of people. The people that seem to feel that participating in a hobby based around collecting should not affect their bottom...
Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired. “We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us...
Alf Dubs on the performative cruelty of Mahmood’s immigration agenda. This was even before she decided to enlist the public to decide asylum cases or tax refugees for the time they’re forced to wait for a decision. What the Palestine...
The Venezuelan earthquake lifted the Trinidad & Tobago coastline by nearly 20 feet. Carbon capture can’t conceivably curb climate change. How the “Wedges” climate change paper became a big oil marketing tool. UK newspapers have already...
Mimnermus, fragment 1, line 1 (tr. Douglas E. Gerber): What life is there, what pleasure without golden Aphrodite? τίς δὲ βίος, τί δὲ τερπνὸν ἄτερ χρυσέης Ἀφροδίτης; Horace, Epistles 1.6.65-66 (tr. Colin Macleod): If, as Mimnermus holds,...
Usual caveat emptor here: what I‘m writing here is my personal opinion, and while it does relate to a field my current employer (Meta) has interest in, it does not represent the views of my current, past, or future employers. Yes we all...
Mere are bluish gobliny folk sometimes capable of psychic magic. They live on a moon orbiting a gas giant. All Mere are subjects of the Divine Emperor, and dwell on the Continent, a landmass at the center of the exterior hemisphere. The...
I am writing this post after last night's kerfuffle, just another day of trying to help Windows home users. I happen to be writing this while installing ProSeries on a new computer for one of my clients, which somehow has an installation...