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Wildfire smoke in Niagara region, St. Catharines, ON, 15 July 2026 (photo from Wikimedia) 19 July 2026 As I wrote on Friday 17 July, wildfire smoke has been plaguing the northeastern U.S. and the Great Lakes region in the U.S. and...
Thank you to editor Steliana Cristina Voicu for selecting my haiku for Enchanted Garden: Issue 16! Source
Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1. Part 2 of this post then covers Alex Turner’s...
A long-lasting concern in communicating transit to the public is how to best package the information: whether to do something like the iconic London Underground map with its complete ignoring of geographical reality or just slap the...
I’m currently on a weight loss journey—I’ll tell more about that in a future post. But I just heard a statement once again that confused me for a long time: When you’re losing weight, you need to be careful that your body doesn’t burn...
Is this the silliest giveaway I’ve ever done on The Pen Addict? Possibly. But it is Summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and you need protection from the sun. Who better to handle that other than JetDo, the cute JetPens mascot! I have...
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. Porky Draws gives us (by which I mean, gives the world, not us particularly, we’re just pointing to it as usual) an...
I miss my 120 Minutes CDs. Like many people, I was lured in by the iPod. I could have all of my music on a little machine? I wouldn’t need to store anything? Sign me up! In the early 00s, I was already sick of moving boxes around. I did...
I made an Instagram recipe for a McGriddle sausage cake, but modified it to be muffins. I recommend making these in silicone muffin cases, or greasing the muffin cases really well, they stuck hard to paper muffin cases. I used a Mexican...
Not only do you get to enjoy 5 recent dgp titles chosen randomly for you and get a sampling of the work we publish at a great discounted price, but each blind book box also comes with bookmarks, postcards, prints, stickers and more. You...
A shot from our stop in Milan on our trip 🏍️ Back from holiday and tomorrow I will return to work1. This weekend has been about those practical “Returned from holiday” type jobs. Holiday washing has been done. House has been cleaned and...
It is necessary to address anthropomorphism and here is the best place to do so since I'm musing on bovines for my other writing. I was called a 'f*cking cow' by a dear friend in 2011, celebrating the publication of my first book about...
As you might have noticed, there’s been another heatwave in the UK, and we’ve noticed signs of drinkers and pubs adapting to this new reality. At The King’s Head the other week we found ourselves sitting next to a group of rather elegant...
§ Monday was Caroline’s and my two-year anniversary. I took off work and we spent a nice relaxing day together. For dinner we went back to the boat shaped restaurant we ate at last year while the in-laws watched the baby. § Thursday was...