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Hey people! Earlier this year, I shared the fourth movement – “Fugue” – from Benjamin Britten’s Suite for Harp, played by Lavinia Meijer. I thought today I could share another movement from this same suite, but played by a different...
I have been using Claude to help me build maps for a few months now and I have been very happy with the results which I think have been improving. I keep hearing about Claude Code and wondered what is the difference? The answer: a heck...
A technology professor in France provides an option for students to use chat bots in his exam and researches what happens. Here are the rules he set. # Use of Chatbots Tell the professor if you usually use chatbots (ChatGPT/LLM/whatever)...
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Actress Hayden Panettiere, known for roles in ‘Nashville,’ ‘Heroes,’ dies at 36. While she’d had issues with alcoholism over the years, releasing a memoir back in May about her struggles, no cause of death...
In today's episode, I read one of my favorite poems from Emily Dickinson: Hope is the thing with feathers (254). Source
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 46 miles / 74 km, about one hour of driving, from Mile 0 Park in Dawson Creek to Fort St John, British Columbia, Canada… where our truck’s front frame failed, causing...
I recently received the 14th issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, the excellent magazine series focused on men’s adventure magazines, now into its fourth year of publication. This is one of the issues I’ve been looking forward to, as they...
1. Computers don’t have to be electronic (Archimedes’ Antikythera Mechanism, a way to chart the position of the planets dating back to the ancient Greeks; here’s a video telling what it is and showing a working model [7 minutes]) 2....
Do you love PBR? Oh sorry, not the beer - I’m talking about precariously balanced rocks.Earth is a big place with lots of rocks, and so many of them are precariously balanced that there’s an entire Wikipedia page about them.Among the...
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Tommy John, whose surgery blazed a trail for countless players, died over the weekend at 83. The pitcher was the first to receive the procedure later named for him, replacing a torn elbow ligament and...
I almost didn't want to write this review. John of John has had a huge amount of hype attached to it for months now, and the people who love it seem to really love it. So it's not exactly fun to sit down and admit that I didn't get on...
The global rush to the Moon this century is catalyzed in major part by the presence of water ice, soil rich in oxygen and metals, and other such resources. The long-term bet is that extracting resources in-situ on Luna, using oxygen and...
I have a couple of writing projects I’ve started, and I’m just avoiding them thoroughly. Inching around the file. I can’t get near the page. Much of my avoidance is, I think, due to my overall discouragement with the publishing part, the...
The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis is the tenth book I've read from this year's Booker Prize longlist, and at this point I don't think I can talk about any of these books in isolation any more. The longlist feels really cohesive...