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Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are composed of letters and how each of those individual letters has been designed to...
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 16, § 183 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): All this might stem from the fact that poetry by nature is untranslatable. For in it thoughts and words...
No £40. The bloke to fit the new electricity meter turned up within the quoted 2 hour window - although...
We explored the hell out of Nanjing for nine days, which is a lifetime in travellers’ time. The post Nanjing in Eight Stops – Centuries of History and Nine Days of Exploring first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
I received yet another email for Sean Conner but this time, it wasn't at Gmail! It was surprising because it was sent from my friend Lorie who currently lives in Pennsylvania, about the new Area Director for Toastmasters, which is funny,...
Chris Siebenmann uses iPhone as an alarm clock, and his reasons are largely why I too, I keep my old iPhone (which is no longer supported by the Oligarchic Cell Phone Company) as an alarm clock (and why I don't have a new iPhone that is...
Paul Lacroix, detail of Asparagus, Tomatoes, and a Squash, 1865. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. …in which I make my public radio debut. Earlier this week, journalist Edgar B. Herwick III interviewed me for the daily show The...
Every day, all day long, for the most part, there are some kids from down the street that hang out on the corner. All day long the make trucks beep. Trucks coming from one direction tend to be right about in front of our house when they...
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai
Finishing off birthday weeks with my own birthday (today). I am going back to a restaurant that I went to on monday with my friends/siblings tonight. (A small ramen business that re-opened up recently where I contributed to their mural...
Finished reading: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚 Good book, it’s really eye opening to see all the ways things have been enshittified. Going to have to think some about what...
Another thing I wanted for the jungle this year is a bird. Specifically a toucan. So I modeled one: And then assembled it: Ha ha…yes…yes… It's interesting to compare these side by side. Some of the sharp angles of the model are smoothed,...
Oh, right, it’s Wednesday again. Time for the weekly “Boston area shows” post. Imminent gigs and recent announcements. Yeah. But I’m just sitting over here bumming out about the apparent death of long-running, highly-esteemed music blog...
About a week ago, I wrote about the iPhone SE3 I just bought renewed, in excellent condition, for $130. Today I realized that is less than the $150 sale price I paid for my AirPods Pro 2. I also realized that at their normal $250 price,...
There's been a lot of talk about superhero fatigue, and that Marvel Cinematic Universe having become less and less of a selling point in and of itself (and I agree the cross-movie mega-story has been completely unmoored and ponderous...