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In one of Judge Alsup’s last rulings before he retired, after a bench trial he rejected LegalForce’s trademark claims over the LawFirms logo (the first logo was pre-litigation; the defendant switched to the second logo during the...
I was in the City on Thursday evening for a tech event. I first had to navigate my way through the rabbit warren behind Liverpool Street station, where workers were already fully into their Thirsty Thursday drinks. I'd forgotten how like...
UK, 2009. Newton leaned forward, putting his elbows carefully on the table. “Nathan. Nathan. I was afraid of you then. I am afraid now. I have been afraid of all manner of things every moment I have spent on this planet, on this...
Today I learned that the East Fork of the White River (which runs south of town) is called Aankwaahsakwa Siipiiwi by the Miami people. This translates to “Driftwood River”–which is a far better name that East Fork of the White River!
Energized after our morning climb up Striped Butte, we'd pretty much wrapped up everything I'd planned for our three days in Butte Valley. Still, a big part of a visit to this Shangri-La is the 4wd route through Mengel Pass and Goler...
My latest project is turning my Bazzite-based living-room PC into a multimedia console. It is currently using a 3D-printed case, but I am planning to switch to a Fractal Design Ridge, add a new PSU, a new CPU cooler, and a Flirc USB...
Our new album, **OXYGEN**, is yours now. 🩵
Reflections on a coaching session this morning with Annalise Lewis from Manifesto.
Darrin Mottler's Human to Theropod ComparisonThe wind always arrives first.It sweeps across the red cliffs of eastern Utah, brushing your shoulders like a quiet invitation as you step out onto the stone. The La Sal Mountains rise blue...
I have too many books, especially in digital form. Whenever a book piques my interest, I immediately seek it out, acquire it by any means possible, and at least read its table of contents. This of course results in piles of books that I...
One tradeoff with being prolific is bloat. If you’re being prolific, and someone was to sort through your body of work, they’d find some good stuff amongst a bunch of pretty bad stuff. In other words, it’s a lot of work for them to sort...
Anatoly Liberman tells us at his etymological Oxford University Press blog, that the word brochure derives from the French verb brocher, to sew a book, to stitch it together. Thus etymologically all brochures should be stitched. And...