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This is one of multiple I have been writing for the next issue of the Grenzland zine. Harlon Szhugivelli, professional nutterCitizenRequired Skills: NoneRequired Equipment: NoneA conspiracy theorist (Harlon Szhugivelli) approaches the...
Working out some more equations for the convex shapes of hexagons problem.
Click here to book tickets (Click on this photograph to enlarge it) Can you spot Sheila Bell in this photograph of the residents of Great Eastern Buildings celebrating Victory in Europe Day at the Grey Eagle in Quaker St on 2nd May 1945?...
Last Thursday, I went to check out Evergreen Coffee ShopFrom where we live it is about a 30 minute walkI really wanted to try their lunch but decided to go early since the weather has turned blazing and humid and try their morning set...
Plain text tasks, pencil notes, digital caveman-ism, and some OBTF love I’m enjoying a bounty of family life at the moment! It truly is a delight. It’s also a time when most of the spare spaces of my calendar and brain are comfortably...
THE FRIGHTENED CITY (1961) was my second film to watch from the Kino Lorber Brit Noir Collection I, following CAGE OF GOLD (1950).THE FRIGHTENED CITY stars Herbert Lom and Sean Connery in a tale of the London crime underworld.Lom and...
Flipping Through the Past I recently dug out my old CaseLogic (tm) CD binder and thought it would be fun to flip through it and comment on some of my past purchases and obsessions. To explain the contents, let's first establish a (very)...
In a highly uncharacteristic move, I recently purchased a brand new device: an Xteink X4 e-reader. The X4 is a minimalist e-reader that is the size of an old smartphone, but much thinner and lighter. Speaking of smartphones, a portable...
The excellent graphic novelPrime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutationsby Andrew Granville and Jennifer Granville, illustrated by Robert J Lewis,(I wrote a review of this graphic novel, for SIGACT News, here.)has an appendix,...
I am teaching two new NYU classes this fall. One of them is History of 20th Century American Popular Music, which I wrote about recently. The other is Pop Music Analysis for Non-Majors. I enjoy teaching new classes, even though they...
Markdown - 2 lines # Contact forms Is any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address. Minimal HTML - 10 lines <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Contact forms</title> </head>...
Silos near Downtown Prosper, Texas, greet the morning sun. The post Prosperous Silos appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Have you noticed that every third article now seems to be about some variation of “phone addiction” or “internet addiction” or (my least favorite) “dopamine addiction”? Can we stop beating this dead horse? I saw The Social Dillema back...
Over the last few centuries the world has seen many huge changes. Our rate of big changes became much higher than before, and for most such changes we can find a parameter (or combo) re which it represents unprecedented change....
The famous San Diego Comic-Con is just a couple weeks away, and if you were hoping to go but don’t have tickets yet, well, you’re far too late. These sell out months in advance. (But if you happen to be in San Diego during this time,...