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A while back I had lunch with Jeremy Fox, of Dynamic Ecology, and since we each had a book part-way done, we were talking about that. His became the excellent The Ecology of Ecologists; mine was the 3rd edition of The Scientist’s Guide...
Some 50 years ago this month, two sister sluggers, the 8-inch-gunned heavy cruisers USS Des Moines (CA-134) and Newport News (CA-148), rest on red lead row in Philadelphia, August 1976 USN Photo K-117046. The massive Des Moines, tipping...
While the huge (37 ounces, unloaded) H&K Mk23 SOCOM freakbeast in .45ACP is well known in the West, at least in video game use, the Bundeswehr’s similar (in concept) P12 flies largely under the radar. You know, this bad boy: The beefy...
In previous videos, I’ve talked a lot about BIMI sender logos, often in the abstract. Many people do seem to understand what a BIMI logo is, by now. All well and good, but I did recently have somebody ask me, okay, well, I think I kind...
I deleted two notebooks of audio research during this project, but not at once. Notebook 1 failed after four days on April 30. I wrote down what had gone wrong and started over that day. Notebook 2 failed for a different reason on May 6,...
Marco Arment has released a new app focused on reminding people like me. I have ADHD. Probably. My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was...
If grief is the price of loving, then I’ll grieve you like 2008 summer nights —bumpy card ridespeeing in bottlescool salty air and damp grassbarbecue and coconut waterprismatic lights strewn across the skymusic from home-burned CDsworn...
Two years ago, for a short period in the summer, we had two juvenile Cooper’s hawks call a couple of trees in our backyard home. Juvenile hawks are still learning to be adults. So they usually make a lot of noise as part of this process....
In 1924 Weird Tales published seven issues. The first five were edited by Edwin Baird; Farnsworth Wright began his editorship, which would endure into the year 1940, in November. I can now announce that I have read at least one story...
I enjoying walking. I enjoy just moving my legs, one at a time. A while back, I realized (don’t we all at some point in our lives) that I may not be able to walk well in the future. So, while I still can, maybe I should do more walking....
Winfrid, son of Warnefrid, was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that was the kingdom of the Lombards. His parents, Warnefrid and Theodolinda, were well-to-do, and Winfrid grew up...
If, however, prose is LLM-generated, this social contract becomes ripped up: a reader cannot assume that the writer understands their ideas because they might not so much have read the product of the LLM that they tasked to write it. If...
I take a lot of pleasure in running my own services. Self-hosting is a lot of fun and I keep accumulating more and more things on my server, from a feed reader to uptime monitoring (as backup to larm.dev), not to mention all of my toy...
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Emily Wilson on the Odyssey Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the...