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A full-window simulation of Langton’s ant on a torus.
Drinking a Moeder Overste by Brasserie Lefebvre.
I haven’t posted for a while, it’s been a busy few weeks. In a nutshell, It’s been my birthday and my wedding anniversary, my eldest’s GCSE results revealed, and we went for a short break. My 46th BirthdayNot a milestone or one I’m...
I lost count of how many times I looked—and photographed—Mount Krn over the past decade. It’s impossible to miss, standing right there in the background of almost all my walks around the valleys, with its 2245 meters and its...
Among the most familiar of creatures in the entire pantheon of legend and mythology is the unicorn, an animal so ubiquitous that you won’t need me to provide a description of what it’s meant to look like. Caption: here’s where we’re at...
Clear "Game of the Year" for 1994. Ravenloft is in active rotation, so it's time for another look at what's coming up. My sense is that this list is going to be relatively quick, but I've been fooled before. As a reminder, this...
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. Henry Hill in GoodFellas (narration) Table of ContentsWhy GoodFellas?The MovieConcluding Thoughts Why GoodFellas? GoodFellas is the fourth movie in the list of movies I am...
Threadfin Butterflyfishes are almost always seen in pairs. They are quite common, but not numerous around here.
There's nothing new to say in any of these "Americans Can't Read" pieces, yet still I read them with morbid fascination. To zoom through the typical argument: if you count subtitled TikToks and Temu product descriptions, everyone still...
Spent a little bit of time this morning cleaning up my Feedbin subscriptions. I’m trying to be more intentional with my free time and Youtube is a colossal time suck for me. I’m pretty good at keeping Instagram at bay, but Youtube gets...
The American indie-pop band half•alive ( h•a to their friends) are not a band that you just simply listen to. You really must watch them as well. The video for their new EP (people still make them? Yay!) is a point in case. The songs are...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 126-127: For centuries Nusantaria’s seafaring skills and island geography protected it from outsiders. But in 1025,...
I started teaching Saturday morning tai chi at a local gym a couple of months back. I’m loving it. 💖☯️ Selfie a day for a year, day 11: Aug 29, 2026 edition.
Sonic Anonymous Be Good Tonight Sonic Anonymous is positioned as ‘weird, existential, late-night synth pop for the burnt-out generation’. Here on Be Good Tonight, we have an introspective piece dealing with grief and fatigue. Opening...