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Our writing group was slowing down. It was again a whole year between rounds - but we weren't dead! After six years of writing several stories per year, we were all losing a bit of excitement I think. But our yearly Halloween round kept...
Last Monday I took a trip on the River Stour In Kent, to look at wildlife, in particular to look for beavers. The trip was organised by Grove Ferry River Trips (contact details below), who provide the boat and the skipper plus a very...
The uncertainty that surrounds the rest of Diageo doesn't seem to be affecting the folks at Guinness: the one bit of the drinks multinational which looks to be washing its face, and no doubt the faces of Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan...
Another lovely day again with warm sunshine. Think I am out of the dog house at last. Thank goodness. Started to clean the borders up the drive. Did wasps nest.
You Don't Need the Title to Signify What This Art Represents, Which is Why I Don't Include It.Among the One Hundred: The ProfessionalsWhere it comes to first capturing favorites, timing is all. I came to The Professionals, rather it came...
Last month, a Brown professor wrote about discovering that a majority of his students had used AI to cheat on his take-home exam. He was irate about this “scandal,” despite the university seemingly doing little to respond. I attended a...
I tried to define what a Cassandra should be, but could only come up with what it shouldn’t be, and that’s pessimism-as-a-service, or seniority-driven friction. Every time you deploy a heterodox opinion in your company’s channels, you’re...
1 ''Jack Rabbit Slims TwistContest'' - You Never Can Tell - Jerome Patrick Hoban - Chuck Berry (Pulp Fiction) 2 Little Green Bag - George Baker (Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 3 Fool For Love - Sandy Rogers...
Today I picked up The Dark of Hot Springs Island again($15 digital, $60 physical, published by Swordfish Islands, written by Jacob Hurst, Gabriel Hernandez, Evan Peterson and Donnie Garcia). I’ve had it for a while. It’s a system-neutral...
NoteThis was supposed to be one post, but it grew so long that I had to split it up. Here are/will be the others. For my trip to Berlin, my plan was to check out some museums there about German history and Jewish culture, and of course...
I left a promise unpaid at the end of the first essay in this series: the combined harvester never claimed to think, and the AI model does, which is the one genuinely novel element in the present anxiety. This essay pays this debt, and...
"In Spite of Ourselves (feat. Iris DeMent)" by John Prine Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that captures the feeling of being understood.- In Spite of Ourselves by John Prine and Iris...
August 17, 2026 Last weekend, Belovedest and I walked down to the Art Institute of Chicago to see a current exhibit: Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury. As you almost certainly have figured out by now, I’m a big fan of abstract art…...
This builds on the ideas in my digital aura series, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have read it to follow along. I start by justifying why audiences want authentication of art and other cultural works, but AI detectors aren’t the...
Here are five free Mac applications you've most likely never come across. A project template/scaffolding automator, a local music player, resize batch images, a posture app that takes Advantage of the AirPods motion sensors, plus a...