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(Continued from my previous posts on Catacombs, which you probably should read before this one if you want the full background.) Last weekend, I received a message from Marcel Ingram Lansing that one of the most sought-after Commodore...
You might be wondering how anyone can grow from being an advanced learner to becoming an expert. It might seem like an impossible step to climb. According to the traditional Japanese approach of Shu Ha Ri, a vital step in the learning...
Australia Felix, Arthur Streeton, oil on canvas, 35 x 59 in. (90 x 151 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Australia Felix is Latin for “dortunate...
We often forget how inexpensive it is (often free, in fact) it is to completely make someone’s day/week/year or, even, give them a memory they will cherish for life.
News just in from 2009: “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter.” – Techcrunch. Well that didn’t exactly age well. And now there’s an RSS resurgence in the air – from Dave Winer, of course, who made RSS immortal by...
09:15 Began the morning reading through some wonderful words from my RSS feed. Tells me the experiment of being extremely picky with my subscriptions is working. 17:03 It has been a busy Saturday, with a great home-cooked lunch in...
We’ve been having our regular family disagreement about thinning our bookshelves, which made this article timely: How and why to cull your book collection [via Kottke.org]. On reflection, our bookshelves are very much a working library,...
Memories……
A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Marcia Muller EDITH PIÑERO GREEN – Rotten Apples. Dearborn V. Pinch #1. E. P. Dutton, hardcover, 1977. Berkley, paperback, 1982. Dearborn V. Pinch is described by one of Ms. Green’s publishers as “the world’s...
The frontier labs regularly run promotions like “hey there’s a long weekend or holiday soon! Tokens or this new model is half-off until the next business day back.” I don’t like the nudge to “always be prompting”, working with the models...
This week I finally caught up with a film which has long been on my "to watch" list, BLACK WIDOW (1954).BLACK WIDOW isn't the 2021 Marvel movie, which I saw and reviewed upon its release, but rather a '50s murder mystery with a terrific...
DETROIT is a lovely little two player game from Japan. You compete to build three cars. You share a factory floor, where some spaces are common while some are for you only. You have six game pieces, and you need to move them all through...
We’ve seen an email that Caroline Haines sent to all 125 City of London councillors on Friday, 10 July 2026, about a report on our local authority’s historical entanglement in the transatlantic slave trade. The City council clearly views...
@Laszlo Beautiful!