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Preview of a two-part Substack post on jazz and hip hop poetics. The next two posts here will explore some background to two book chapters I worked on in the past few years, both just published in edited collections. In the next post,...
almost doneThere were two white holidays on the inside I painted and two dings showing some primer on the outside. It will be a while before I can move this into the boneyard. I haven't gotten around to arranging it.leg stockMade a...
I’m focusing my writing these days on getting the first draft of my book – Going East: An unconventional bike ride across Canada finished. I’ve started providing updates over at my Going East Blog – and ask that you follow me over there...
We explain how Flare now uses OAuth to connect MCP clients, the CLI, and the API with scoped permissions instead of broad long-lived tokens. The new flow makes setup faster, adds read-only and project-level access control, and gives you...
The sun sets on the mountainous landscape along the Talimena National Scenic Byway, Arkansas. The post Dusk in the Arkansas Mountains appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
As a retired career officer in the United States Navy, I have strong opinions about what's going on in our nation's military today. In the past, I have often shared them here. Today, it's harder to do so. Not because I worry about...
In recent years, I’ve been quite pleased with how many of the reasonably-priced products in the personal audio market sound quite good. My most recent favourite for reasonably-priced, high-res audio Bluetooth headphones would be the QCY...
Image was taken with a Fujifilm X-E5 and XF 16-50mm WR lens
Changed a Thinkpad’s battery by holding one switch, the battery detached and the other was clicked into its place. 🥰
To start with, both my wife and I have alerts turned off because when they did a test in 2023 we had a one month old baby and didn't want her to be disturbed. Leaving it off because I assumed this would be abused, as I believe it has in...
August’s Pylon of the Month comes from the Sperrin Mountains in Northern Ireland where I spent a few enjoyable days earlier in the month. After the sustained heat in the south of England, it was almost pleasurable to be rained on and to...
During my time on the omg.lol IRC channel (a place I find inspiration for many posts, it seems!), Skippy shared an interesting website, The Website Specification. Now, I have to admit the site has a certain questionable aesthetic, but...
Body-worn cameras are…used…to present the police to the public in the most favorable way possible. – Christopher Schneider Shame, Shame (#1455) I’ve been skeptical of the notion of body cameras as a police “reform” for well over a...
“Pile of chairs”Closeup of Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel), Circle of Rogier van der Weyden, possibly Vranke van der Stockt (Netherlandish, ca. 1420–1495) While working on Don Weber’s profile for The Stick Chair Journal No. 4, Don told...