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Anyone who knows me, follows me on social media or reads this blog knows how much I love metal. Like everyone however, I have diverse musical interests and cannot live on death metal alone. For that reason every weekend I like to sit...
There’s a pizza shop near my home with a sign out front that says “Coming Soon.” When I drove by it this morning I thought about how you would model the time until an event happens that is “coming soon.” Suppose I look at the sign one...
Mathematical Discourse is a new online, peer-reviewed mathematics journal, publishing videos of mathematics research talks of the highest quality. Our inaugural scientific and editorial boards are listed at the end of this message. Our...
My right hip joint is now a metallic wonder, a titanium replacement in 2012 for the joint nature gave me, which had excruciatingly degenerated from osteoarthritis. I love the name titanium: it trips off the tongue, and as a proud gay man...
Ever since moving to the southwest of Berlin, a day out in Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg feels like a mini holiday. Today we’re bringing back God coffee beans, Japanese rice, and a heavenly smelling loaf of sourdough. It was a good day....
I wanted to quickly see which of my song titles are already in which playlists, and to quickly add them to other playlists or remove them etc. There is just no view that does this inside Jellyfin, and neither in Music Assistant nor...
Years and years and years and years ago... Lester Square and me organised what we called Music Halls, but what were really Music Free For Alls (time limit ten minutes to avoid boring acts). we put one on at the London Musicians...
Favorited Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter by Wouter Groeneveld (Brainbaking) This type of thing is always highly fascinating to me. Using artefacts, here 17th century letters that survived to present day by happenstance and thus not...
On 12 February 1979, an unknown 20-year-old dancer walked into a New York photography studio to earn a few dollars posing for an evening class. She gave her name as Madonna Ciccone. Six years later, the resulting photographs would spark...
We drove to Orange County yesterday. Kelly went to work, and I stole away to the beach at Huntington. I enjoy the scene at Huntington Beach, and I’ve been treated well by the folks in the water each time. Yesterday as I was walking out,...
“Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger…” — Ephesians 4:26 Today’s devotional talks about anger between people in a relationship. Anger happens. We’ve all felt it before. I like the scripture above that...
In spring 2025 I had a crisis of faith. I thought about what the technology I'm helping to create might do to our future, and got scared. My worries kept intruding on my daily activities to the point where I needed to seek professional...
This update covers Sunday 08-16-26 through Saturday 08-22-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 This week’s musical theme: Devo, “Big Mess." 📕 Most of the week has been overtaken with thoughts of my friend A., as he is hospitalized in...
obligatory one month without social media on my phone substack essay (contrarian edition) (Apologies for a substack link but this one is worth it.) Quit your phone and change the nature of time and the universe! What amazes me so much...
St James' Church in Tedstone Delemere Herefordshire We are the Village Green Preservation Society (Ooh, ooh, ooh) The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society. When researching churches, sites like National Churches Trust and...