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Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......An advance review copy MURDER AT THE MOVIES: A MOVIE PALACE MYSTERY by Alicia Malone of Turner Classic Movies has just arrived in my mailbox. It will be published by...
A follow-up to One Million Worlds. One million characters took too long to generate so I went down an order of magnitude. The median planet population has 100,000 people, after all. Thank you to MTB and Ms. Quixotic for suggesting...
I miss spending time in France during the summer. However, I'm afraid the summers I remember are gone forever because, as you may know, global heating has hit Western Europe and France harder than many other places. Also, each time I...
Cabin, October 14, 1979, photographed by Marian Zazeela, via Mela Foundation First, La Monte Young is not related to Brigham Young. Not a grandson, not a great great nephew, not a third cousin, none of that. It was such a standard part...
I got a new book to read 😄 It’s a physical paper analog thing you hold in your hands. It’s like a book from the 80s. It’s like going back…to the future! Or something like that. Seriously though, it’s a hardback and inside are color photos!
StarringMichael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy RichterDirectorCurry BarkerOverviewBe careful who you wish for…After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless...
Founders, chief product officers (CPOs), and chief marketing officers (CMOs) spend a lot of time talking with and listening to customers. As they should.And, by and large, they do it well. But there's one common mistake that many smart,...
OK, I've been working on this one for a while. Not a while like "since my last post", more like "since the pandemic." Check this beauty out: If you want to play around and generate your own, jump right in! If you learn about what it is...
Over the last couple of weeks I've been working on two different small games. Both are ideas that have been kicking around in my head for a while and now felt like a good time to work on them.One is an existing project written long...
As we previously reported, the leadership of the City of London Corporation (= Council) in 2024 commissioned a report from Professor William Pettigrew on “Assessing the Connections between the Transatlantic Traffic in Enslaved African...
"Part two, side three/four" was the only part of Heir to the Empire in the casette basket. The phrase "church of the air" speaks to me. I would not buy this record, though.
The woman is Anna (of a couple episodes of Les Vampires), and she runs a bar on an otherwise uninhabited island (how does she restock?) with her young son and shellshocked husband. A ship full of sailors and workers arrive on the island...
Doing some cable accounting in the network cubbyhole, I found that the previous homeowner here had run a cat5 cable with an ethernet plug at one end to a phone socket at the other end — my office! One RJ45 jack later, I have wired...
Though my work is primarily in classical wave optics, I maintain an avid interest in quantum physics (see my posts here and here for example) and especially all the weird implications of it, including the various attempts to make the...
Everyone I know loves Taiwan. I’d been holding out on visiting for some years until I was on a group walk and encountered a friend of a friend who had interned at Bytedance and grown up in Taiwan and politely informed me that I should...