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I have to run further and further in Framingham to find new streets, unless Kira and I drive over to Saxonville. I have managed to do a run everyday for 99 days with a total distance of 316 miles with runs in five different states –...
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. 2001: The Family Computer 3. 2004: Exploring the Web 4. 2007: Living There 5. 2012: When Everything Started Changing 6. 2026: Logging On Today 7. The Internet I Miss 8. Closing 1. Introduction The...
The Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum is a free museum in the Sumida area, built in 1931 to commemorate the Kanto Earthquake of 1923. With the additional devastation that Tokyo suffered in air raids during WW2, the museum now has exhibits...
One of the items on my to-buy list when I went to Seoul late last year was S.NATURE’s Aqua Squalane Moisturizing Cream. At the time, I was searching for a new moisturizer that will be suit my oily, dehydrated and sensitive skin. I...
A new PNAS Nexus paper has shed light on a major source of hidden energy waste on the bitcoin network. Here, miners compete to solve a complex mathematical puzzle. The miner that solves a puzzle first is rewarded by the network with a...
Poor Sweetie! A couple of the volunteers from the rescue dropped Sweetie off today. The isolation shelter was ready for her. She will be there for a few more days – she’s 10 days post spay, but mostly to get used to being back in a...
The theory of evolution explains the origin of biological diversity and levels of similarity between species. A characteristic of emergence is that many iterations of a simple law (natural selection of the fittest to reproduce) can...
Today, we’ve had rain off and on throughout, with a brief period where the sun actually came out. As I write this, we are under a severe thunderstorm alert, which is a whole lot better than the tornado alerts other areas were getting....
Percussion, in the ECM imagination, rarely behaves as ornament or engine alone. On ECM Special V: New Music in Percussion, rhythm functions as a conduit for revelation, each struck surface opening into an interior geography where hands...
At first I thought the sunblasted video of Rick Owens’ 2027 collection, presented last week on the shadeless place of the Palais de Tokyo in the midst of the 40-degree Saharan omega heatdeath of Europe, felt like a prequel to Mad Max,...
My grandpa died today. I didn’t want that to be true. I wanted a few more years. I wanted a few more moments. I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready. I’m not ready. God help me be ready.
On reflection, I am now a bit more optimistic about solving cultural drift, *if* we can get broadly human-level AI, or ems, before our current civilization falls. My hope is that while most folks seem strongly against letting capitalism...
Andrew Wyke (Sir Laurence Olivier), a genteel upper-class mystery writer, has invited a younger man, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) to his country mansion for a chat. Tindle’s a bit unsure why, though – they met after Wyke discovered Tindle...
As I am writing this, I am very distraught by the news that my good friend has passed away from fourth stage skin cancer. My last meeting with him was last year in Thailand. We had lunch and dinner; we always talked about the family and...
So with today’s writing prompt, I’m meant to answer “What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right?” Which is hilarious. Because my gut isn’t some wise, mystical oracle. My gut is just a tight little ball of...