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“If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.” –Billy Wilder When Chiyo and Shiho appear at Ooarai, Miho is a little nervous at the prospect of her mother inspecting the school. Chiyo,...
Marcus Aurelius wrote his famous book Meditations strictly for himself, with zero regard for style, structure, or an audience. I explain why this private approach allowed him to stay grounded and avoid buying into his own hype as an...
From Friday's post: Bookmarking was important. It still is. Bookmarking is about agency, choice, discovery, and archiving. This sort of thing is antithetical to algorithmic culture, which tells you what you like and curates a reality for...
Paul Kafasis, writing on the Rogue Amoeba blog: With last year’s release of MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple made a mess of app icons. In the first betas of MacOS 27 (Golden Gate), however, there are signs of a turnaround. We’re urging Apple to...
What now? What did the forces want her to do next? Leave the house, try to get away in the darkness? No. The murderer was out there, watching, waiting; he would see her if she tried to leave, and she couldn't outrun a man through the...
Book review for The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. I rated it 5 stars The Wager is a non-fiction book covering the improbable story of the 1741 shipwreck and mutiny of the crew from the English warship HMS...
Not as many vehicles as some shows, but then Sandown has always been the show for vehicular stuff, while PW really is about figures, although there were enough in the end to split them into two posts, land stuff this time!! I'd like to...
You notice white spots on your zucchini leaves. A few days later, it's spreading. Then the whole plant looks like a powdered donut. You have powdery mildew. Or more specifically, your squash plant has it. And your zucchini. And maybe...
The Fourier series is a great tool for analyzing periodic functions. But what about functions that don’t repeat? We’ve seen that we can compute Fourier series for a non-periodic function defined on a finite interval, as long as we don’t...
Met Life Building – New York, New York I mentioned the Met Life building in passing about a week ago when I featured the facade of Grand Central Station. This was formally the Pan Am building until 1992. This is on the opposite side of...
So, finished with camping outside of Bryce Canyon at lunch time then drove up through John’s Valley, which is a 40 mile valley of beauty, Meadows and mountains on both sides. The road culminated and a 6 mile back-and-forth left and right...
Part 1, Part 2This will likely be the last one of these for a while: got thoroughly burnt out on the whole thing as I was drafting it, and I’ve stopped listening to all of these in the months since I started compiling the post. At some...
Tamron 12-20mm F2.8 for Sony and NikonI love this lens. Full frame and fully wide, this lens is sharp and straight and bright and just a wonderful bit of design. Tamron are doing really good things in the zoom space these days.
A few days after my 50th birthday (on May 26th) I set out to walk (and run) 10 miles total per day. Well, 50 days later I’ve covered 555 miles. A total of 341 miles in the last 30 days, averaging 11.4 miles per day. I hit 12 miles per...
So here's a day in the life of a busy, relatively unpopular, local musician. A high-achieving amateur, I like to say. I have my yearly—well, right now it's a yearly, but it needs to be happening more often because I'm enjoying...