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All previous photos on this blog were taken by me. Lately, I've been experimenting with Google Gemini to create images for presentations and desktop wallpapers. Since AI-generated artwork isn't subject to copyright, you are welcome to...
I realize that I haven't been posting photos for a while, but I thought I would start by putting up a photo of the Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest. We spent two lovely weeks in Europe with one whole week in Budapest. The...
An old friend from work is joining me in the ranks of we, the gratefully unemployed and idle pensioners. To mark the event, I was invited on a small pubcrawl the other day playing my role as, I suppose, the ghost of retirement to come. A...
So Queen Victoria’s a vampire and the Devil wants to visit a church bazaar…That’s a glimpse into the world of Demons and Democracy. It’s a funny and spicy book, with a wonderful cast of characters, some human but mostly not. My friend...
This is a game I feel I shouldn't like, but I end up quite enjoying it. It's almost a heavy game, with lots of stuff to do. An island with many never-seen-before creatures has been discovered. Many scientists flock to it to discover new...
I'm super bored, and someone on discord is talking about their menagerie of queer friends and partners that they spend time with and I'm not above saying I'm jealoussssss. Where does one even find so many queer folk?! I've gone to the...
Attention conservation notice: I got a rhizome of this at the Lakeshore AVS Spring Sale 2026. It is my first eucodonia. A sort of funny Dr. Seuss plant. Huge foliage and tiny little flowers. A sort of streptocarpus with massive leaves....
Oh yes, I think I’m going to enjoy this game very much.
I recently spent another week in the Vancouver area, as one does when one used to live there, and family and friends are there. As usual, I visited a mix of the familiar, the changed, and the new. Click to view a larger version of any...
To set the stage for the last part of my survey on Adam Smith’s use of probability theory in The Wealth of Nations, which I will resume on Monday, August 31st, below are links to some of the ground we have covered thus far: Was Adam...
Here are the zines I got in the mail this month. 📬 Pocket Thoughts #38 includes original superhero comics. Carrier Pigeon Quarterly - Summer 2026 The Lost Art of Free Will is a lovely little zine. I like the two-toned purple. The Crafty...
there's this one song -- "world of white", from bit depth's album "herdbound" -- that's been stuck in my head for a while now. ...well, okay, not the entire song, just the 2nd verse: kick up my hooves, charge at the monster in the dark...
Whenever I tell people I have fainted before and will faint again if I am not careful, they get weirdly fascinated? for some reason? And then I find myself having to say, 'No, this isn't cool actually. I really cannot tell you how awful...
During an email exchange, I was reminded that I should finally make my Japan logs. Many of the pictures were already conglamerated into folders for school logs but I tried to add some that were unique! I may add more later.
! Pulp playing at Live in Wythenshawe Park, earlier tonight.