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Is it really possible that pretty much every single college and university around the country will, this fall, be welcoming its best-ever, most qualified, most curious, most diverse set of first-year students? Seems unlikely. In an...
10-08-26. A bright day but no outstanding items on the must-see wish-list. Not great enough weather to inspire a big day out so I kept it local and jogged up to Holyrood, which I realised I'd been neglecting for a while. Hadn't been...
I think Sheffield might be my new favourite city. It’s managed to become cool without ruining itself in the process, refusing to polish away the bits that make it interesting whilst building a city that feels lived in rather than...
I absolutely love the Great British Bake Off so, when I saw this book challenge I though 'yeah, sign me up for that one.' ON YOUR MARKS – A Book You Can’t Wait To Read I can't wait to read The Last Mandarin, a fast-paced, all-too-real...
As I read Trump say he’s in no hurry to end the war with Iran, I was reminded again of this post from Adam Kotsko: My overarching question throughout the second Trump administration has been: why hasn’t the other shoe dropped? … I...
Back in 2014, when I pulled out some old Bratt miniatures and painted them anew, I didn't imagine that it was the start of a Confrontation obsession that has lasted twelve years. In that time, I have reacquired some old Confrontation...
Last week, Kevin Powell posted on Bluesky about the most common typo you make when writing CSS. Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co One of the questions I’m asking is the most common typo that you make when writing CSS, and several people have...
Hey people! Earlier this year, I shared the fourth movement – “Fugue” – from Benjamin Britten’s Suite for Harp, played by Lavinia Meijer. I thought today I could share another movement from this same suite, but played by a different...
I have been using Claude to help me build maps for a few months now and I have been very happy with the results which I think have been improving. I keep hearing about Claude Code and wondered what is the difference? The answer: a heck...
A technology professor in France provides an option for students to use chat bots in his exam and researches what happens. Here are the rules he set. # Use of Chatbots Tell the professor if you usually use chatbots (ChatGPT/LLM/whatever)...
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Actress Hayden Panettiere, known for roles in ‘Nashville,’ ‘Heroes,’ dies at 36. While she’d had issues with alcoholism over the years, releasing a memoir back in May about her struggles, no cause of death...
In today's episode, I read one of my favorite poems from Emily Dickinson: Hope is the thing with feathers (254). Source
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 46 miles / 74 km, about one hour of driving, from Mile 0 Park in Dawson Creek to Fort St John, British Columbia, Canada… where our truck’s front frame failed, causing...
I recently received the 14th issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, the excellent magazine series focused on men’s adventure magazines, now into its fourth year of publication. This is one of the issues I’ve been looking forward to, as they...