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With a long-term project winding down recently, I’ve been reflecting on some of the takeaways from that engagement. I hadn’t been looking for such a large or long-term project but it turns out I really enjoyed that level of...
The great historian David McCullough (1933-2022) won the Pulitzer prize for biography twice, for his books on Truman and John Adams, but he also wrote best-selling books on the Panama Canal, the Johnstown Flood, the Brooklyn Bridge, the...
The latest release from Kaweco has been a source of fascination and, for some, disappointment. The Kaweco Sport Marble Ocean with EF Nib ($37) features a marbled plastic barrel that features teal blues, greens and clear areas. Because...
This was a score. Why? Well, I hit Grocery Outlet yesterday in search of noodles to review (it happens from time to time) and saw these. I had to do a double take – the multipack was $1.99. Why so cheap? Expiring next month. No prob lem...
The undisputed queen of short-form viral video comedy snacks takes to the stage. Well, swims to the stage. The Mermaid is a delightful and gentle amble through the confusing world of a girl who just wants to become a mermaid. Less...
We'd been long term Octopus Agile customers even though it wasn't tailored to us as we don't have solar or battery storage. I'd started to think about looking at alternatives but never got very far with it. Switch to EDF using my link,...
I’ve started to look at the modern critical edition of the texts around St Colluthus. This was printed a decade ago in 2013 in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (CSCO) volume 650, edited by Gesa Schenke.1 The texts were...
Sniff. Sniff. Cautiously peeking out of the CogDogBlog that seems to be back in working operation after a broken period. The on switch is on, as if anyone noticed. It was an extended period of seeing the trusty old blog respond with...
A very very short read. I don't share Brown's pessimism about AI, but this story dates back to 1954 (!) and is a fun read. Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him...
Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack.This week’s Q&A is tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on our...
After a brutal week of travel, I’m feeling quite behind in everything: reading, writing, deadlines, the start of the semester, and recharging my batteries before a hectic fall. The late summer bustle, set against a fatigue-tinted...
AI has turned everyone into a product manager. You can think of an idea and bring it to life at a speed that was unheard of in the past. Never before in the entire history of human beings have we been able to manifest what we imagined...
Does the fact that 82 percent of The Traitors: New Blood cast want to be traitors indicate a problem with the game? Or is it just that it's more fun to sneak around in a cloak?
Welcome to another episode of The Von Pip Podcast. It’s been a little while, but I’m back with another hour of music, old favourites and various things I’ve stumbled across and thought, “well that’s a bit good.” This time around there’s...
This is a deceptively tricky question. Sales numbers are almost impossible to come by. For a publisher, revealing an author’s sales is almost tantamount to revealing their income, so the one source which would really know is constrained...