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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The last hereditary Welsh prince, Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis castle as a craggy fort in the 13th century; the estate was his reward for abandoning Wales to the rule of the English monarchy. But...
other things said cowling Yesterday :: Wednesday, 12th of August 2026
Flowers in a Crystal Vase, Edouard Manet, oil on canvas, 13 x 19 in. (33 x 25 cm). In the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Manet is best known for his figurative work, of course, but I particularly enjoy his still life...
According to one of my uncles, the terms “right” and “left” derive from the fact that conservatism is correct while liberalism is wrong. You know, because we say “that’s right” to mean “that’s correct” and “that’s left” when we’ve...
Put Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris, and J.K. Simmons in the same movie, and you’ve created interest - at least among those who value capable acting. In The Brink of War, Daniels plays Ronald Reagan; Harris appears as Mikhail Gorbachev, and...
I wondered about having a dinosaur (and a Victorian-dressed one, at that) narrate a volume on computers, but as soon as Science Comics: Computers: How Digital Hardware Works opened with her talking about this being her second choice (the...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 51-54: At least initially, few of the elite saw reason to confront the Japanese. A majority of senators joined...
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Queen of the Serpentine. It’s another case of two recordings, one from ITV4 and another from CITV. This time they’re the same length. Media Centre Description: Popular...
Thus far this week (see here, here, and here), we have reviewed Adam Smith’s tedious and painstaking reconstruction of the rise and fall of the East India Company. What lessons can we learn from this epic episode in the history of...
Wild shouts, barks, yelps and handclaps accompany a fierce acoustic strum. Machines strike up a big, banging mid-tempo march, and an insane, insistent accordion leads a deranged, drunken dance. Party whistles blow and it’s on. Less a...
“Hey, I escaped the ropes of time once more.” Between shorter beginning and end chapters, the hourlong middle is a diary of a week spent with family in Lithuania, in a hundred numbered chapters. Handheld scenes, sometimes nicely composed...
Still thinking about this… watched Resurrection a few months ago, and have been meaning to re-watch Holy Motors. As these churn over in my memory, they feel like cinematic siblings. Also, that last act of Resurrection is in my permanent...
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I praised the note-taking app Bear before for its memory; the app would always remember your last-visited note and the precise place within it, even if it had every right to forget it. But there is a general problem here: memory that...
From @danielpunkass.micro.blog on making things: A lot of people like to make things, and making things is great. But if you want to be a software developer, you have to enjoy fixing things. If you don’t enjoy fixing things, you’ll never...