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Japan, 1998. I’m currently in the middle of a Nicolas Roeg rewatch season after acquiring a blu-ray of the recently reissued Castaway, Roeg’s 1986 adaptation of Lucy Irvine’s memoir (which shouldn’t be confused with 2000’s Cast Away). In...
Reading multiple stories about how AI demand has made hard drive, GPU and RAM prices all skyrocket, I decided to pull the trigger and upgrade my laptop to something that will handle video editing better than the one I’ve currently got....
We tend to imagine great scientists as permanently inspired, waking each morning with clarity, purpose, and brilliance ready to pour onto the page. Charles Darwin was not that man. At least, not every day. On 1 October 1861, two years...
Sorry to say that, sadly, I lost one of my three guinea pigs on Friday. Butters was suddenly sick/not eating and went down very fast. Unfortunately, Bon-Bon may also be...
“Preserve your memories: They’re all that’s left you.” — Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends “The thing about time is that time isn’t really real.” — James Taylor, Secret O’ Life “How come I miss what I never knew?” — James Taylor, … Continue...
Hard to believe this sticker is 16 years old, and references a MySpace page.
— I missed last week here, and in the mode of Julia Childe, I won’t apologize. Being Canadian though, it’s hard not to say sorry :) — Article I’m reading this Sunday morning before dashing around to get ready for work, is “To Share is...
Simon & Schuster announces the establishment of a global distribution service to facilitate world-wide sales of their books. Publishing Perspectives quotes Perminder Mann, CEO of Simon & Schuster U.K. and International: “One of Simon...
by Gillian A.M. Mitchell Introduction: ‘What Kind of Life?’ (BBC Television for Schools and Colleges, 1971) Brian Latham (Charles Bolton), a senior member of the Mill Street Youth Club in the northern industrial town of Cambury, is...
Yet another new format for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars! Marshal Knight is recapping season 11 for us, and has the tea about which of the three queens have a shot in this first bracket, and whihc
AI can’t tell you what to build.
Dave Winer posted an important piece of text yesterday under the title Transcript of AOC’s answer. This is the American politician and congresswoman from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s response to an interviewer’s question of...
“very far away there are reasons, connections, networks, invisible things working on us and we don’t understand a thing about them.” A small village in rural France in the early 2000s, some forty years after the brutal Algerian War of...