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At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
PowerPoint makes us stupid. — Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander Classic 2010 NYT We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint.
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Days will indeed get shorter from tomorrow, although this does not mean that sunset will happen earlier tomorrow than it does today. In fact it is a little later. Nor does it mean that sunrise will happen later tomorrow; in fact it is a...
I went birding today. It was fine. I have 22,000 steps as I type this and for most of the day the surgery area was a non-factor. It’s slightly itchy right now, and I’ll almost certainly need to sleep with the covers down due to its...
One of the most painful arguments I keep having with fellow techies is the question of whether you can distinguish between human-written and AI-generated text.
A decade after Fidel Castro’s revolution reshaped the island, Cuba in the 1970s was a country still finding its footing, caught between the optimism of a new social order and the harsh realities of economic isolation. Photographer Manel...
While still knowing just how much He loves me Illustration by the wonderful Gillian Eilidh O’Mara, who is also a wonderful writer. Someone once said there’s a sure way to know if you are a humble person: If you think you are, you’re not!...
Its not such a clever thing to treat trees like trinkets, but this one became a tourist attraction, and tourism, of course, often kills what it loves.
I’ve been thinking about genre again, pondering Romance and horror as two sides of a coin. I compared notes* with a friend who reads a lot of horror, and we were surprised how much they served as mirrors. One imagines the worst that...