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Release Information Artist Talk Less, Say More Title England Without Rain Date February 26, 2012 Download Bandcamp Introduction In my 2013 review of England Without Rain I concluded by saying: Possibly the biggest compliment I can pay it...
Giant foxtail a.k.a. Japanese bristlegrass, Joncaire Street, 6 August 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 11 August 2026 On a walk last week on Joncaire Street near Schenley Park I was struck by the size and diversity of the weeds by the...
did it even make sense to compose an anti-technology manifesto on an internet-connected device? Would I be able to resist the pull of email, news, and “research” in a time of unbearable stress? No, I needed to write my book the old way....
What you most want is what you most can't have. And what you most can't have is what you already had... and lost. You might be wondering how I know that you're awesome! Because I know you read this via RSS.
Privilege comes and privilege goes. I've had stretches in my life where I lived frugally out of necessity, not because I had a hidden virtue. Later in life, with debts paid off, we managed to save some dough for retirement. Well,...
It is a brave children's show which starts with the song "I'm a smooth muthafukker"… This is sort of a live-action XKCD cartoon. A frenetic troupe of performers are decked with hand-drawn portraits and then… well, it is somewhere between...
Manuel in a recent blogpost: I also don’t consider myself a writer. Which is funny because when I get asked to describe what I do the most succinct definition I often use is “writer of code and words” since that is what I spend my time...
“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.” — Bill Watterson
If you’ve only ever seen an orc who’s green, you must have nice stuff. Perhaps you live in a big castle or swing a fancy sword or even merely have the rippling muscles or towering intellect the orcs always wished for themselves. It is...
Well, it's been going begging since they first appeared around 2015, and as they are now widespread in convenience store/corner shops and a lot of petrol/service stations/garages, I'm sure more puerile title puns will be forthcoming!...
Finally setup an OTA antenna in my attic. Channels is a key part of that setup, and it’s seriously great. It’s serves as the UI and DVR for watching/recording live TV and does it all so well. Commercial skipping, 30 second fast forward,...
I suppose I can say that I am in a holding pattern.I am waiting and facing a temporary moment in time. But then again, I understand that all of this and all of what we see, and all of what we think and what we feel is temporary.Well,...
ic: this creator on pinterest Over the last few months, I have been surreptitiously attempting a new project, which I have named the "what if" project. To be honest, I am somewhat reinventing the wheel here, it's not a new concept (for...
Schematist is a general purpose JSON Schema DSL that emits Draft 2020-12 schemas. Describe an API payload, a config file, a contract between two services, or the structured output you want back from a model. Trapping that inside another...
I spotted Bubbles in my basic referrers this morning, and my heart lit up. A little directory, surfacing blog posts from actual bloggers, what in the old web is going on?! This isn’t the first time I’ve spotted a resurgence in indie /...