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Let's see: what do we have this week? Well, you might notice that the anchor of the CBS evening news this week is Ron Cochran, and if you're an eagle-eyed reader, you'll probably recognize him more for his time as anchor of the ABC...
I was in work the other day, chatting to a guy who's one level above me, and around 20 years my senior. I was moaning talking about my kids and how I try to make time for them despite having a stressful, busy job. His reply was something...
Yesterday, I shared my article There’s no membership card for IndieWeb and got the following comment from Dale: Great article, I agree 99%. I do take issue, however, with your spiel that the IndieWeb is a recursive effort to ultimately...
I came across this line recently and thought it was profound. “Always reaching, already enough.” It speaks to the power of holding two opposite ideas at once. When you’re secure enough in yourself, you can keep reaching, knowing it might...
Yesterday was a Fremont Market day. We’re not getting rich but we are continuing to learn. The lesson from yesterday was, people buy comics. We’ve got zines, posters, cards and original art. We’ve sold a little of each. Yesterday we...
I’ve mentioned several times on this blog that there are many crows in Maynooth. By “crows” I mean members of the family Corvidae, including rooks, jackdaws and magpies as well as crows themselves, of which the hooded crow is the most...
Fairy fingers (Clavaria fragilis), Frick Park, 22 Aug 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 24 August 2026 Sometimes fungi catch my eye. In Frick Park on Saturday we found small ghostly, upright fingers emerging from the leaf litter. These are...
Probably named after Monsieur and Madame Verdurin, the prominent bourgeois couple and salon hosts, from Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, Verdurin only released one 7″ as a band. Which is a shame. The band formed by Olivier...
On our recent trip to the Edinburgh Fringe, I was bemused by just how little effort performers put in to finding out why people had selected their show. Taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe is ridiculously expensive with some performers...
How LLMs Set My Fiction Free. Writing no longer felt like experimenting. AI made it fun again. Christopher Sorrentino
From D.E. Rising and The Standard Dispatch & Mail:As announced by Electrek today, Tesla has officially discontinued its Solar Roof tile program, with sources confirming that Tesla had informed its network of installers that the roof...
For most of his life, Scotty Bowers was nobody in particular: a gas station attendant, then a bartender, a man who mowed lawns and did odd jobs around Los Angeles for decades. In 2012, at 88 years old, he published a memoir claiming that...
I’m tapping this out on the phone on the train back home at Monday lunchtime, after a weekend in Essex with my sister doing more sorting out of the old family home. We had three four-drawer filing cabinets remaining before we’d complete...
The 1883 book “Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings” included a story about what we today would call a “poltergeist” which appeared to center around an enigmatic farm servant. While the tale purports to be true, at this distance of...
Wannes Bellaert, PhD researcher and academic assistant, Ghent University Photo credit: OSeveno, via Wikimedia Commons Once again a new Europol legal framework On the 24th of June 2026, the European Commission proposed a new legal...