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Two weeks from today, I'll be getting ready to drive down to Spartanburg for a day of meetings, faculty workshops, and not just one but two meals. Those of you who have never worked in a place with a day of meetings and faculty...
Serpentine Drive in Schenley Park, today, 23 July 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 23 July 2026: A look back 7 years, 2019-2026 Seven years ago this month I was walking through Schenley Park to the Squirrel Hill business district when my...
Money helped unify trading and debt. Why don't we step back and pay with actual debt itself when we have these brilliant business machines in our pockets.
Activewear entrepreneur Stan Dex hosted a press conference Tuesday to unveil Lalalime, a premium athletic apparel brand for women focused on clothing for errands, light movement classes, and being seen leaving light movement classes....
The Search for Freedom CanadaIndependently developed and published as sharewareReleased 1994 for DOS Date Started: 19 September 2025Date Ended: 16 January 2026Total Hours: 72Difficulty: Easy-Moderate (2.5/5) Final Rating: (to come later)...
From 1912, a postcard showing Central Park: Pretty. If you know Central Park a bit, you may be asking “Where’s Swan Bridge?”[1] If you know Central Park well, you may be saying “There is no Swan Bridge.”[2] And if you know the park...
The Ni Moth (Trichoplusia ni) is a rare migrant to the UK. At first glance, it’s not too dissimilar to the more common migrant the Silver Y (Autographa gamma). They’re both plusia-type moths, noctuids in the group Plusiinae. While the...
I bought a photo print of a bumblebee orchid for my SIL's birthday which is the same day as my wife's. I doubt I'll get it finished and to him by that day but it'll be close. That is what I got whacked out today post one day from my...
Wildfire smoke glows in the late-evening sun in the mountains near Taos, New Mexico. The post Smoky Mountain appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
It’s been a while since I wrote one of these, so I thought it would be interesting to record how miserable fascinating things have been of late – and what better time to do so and get my mind off stuff while I recover from another bout...
The Living IdolRobert SwitzerNew York: Signet, 1957128 pagesRobert Switzer's second book, The Living Idol is a novelization of a Hollywood film. I read a lot of these in my youth; Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of...
Clear and cold at sunrise. The dawn chorus is down to field sparrow, common yellowthroat and goldfinches. Distant crows. A truck jake-breaking through the gap. A red-eyed vireo starts up.
12:20 - Receiving rejection emails always suck, especially now that they're generic and impersonal. However, seeing a kind message in my guestbook makes me feel like I'm doing something right. Thank you, folks of the internet. <3
I often wax lyrical about bargain hunting among investment trusts trading at a discount – that is, trusts whose shares trade for less than Net Asset Value (NAV). Think buying £1 coins for 90p. We’ve also written reams over the years on...
Before large language models, people who worried about AI safety often talked about the “boxing problem”. It goes like this. Suppose some genius figures out artificial intelligence in a late-night coding session on their laptop. Because...