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A quote from Michael Coveny’s Guardian obituary of Sheila Ballantine (1928–2026), who was in Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturio Ui with Leonard Rossiter and Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests, among much, much else. Ballantine...
I'm being good and getting back to my monday blogging. I just wrapped up work which I did at home today because I ordered a switch 2 that is suppposed to be delivered today and I wanted to be there when it showed up so it wouldn't get...
My wife and I are watching the tenth season of Shetland (and looking forward to the eleventh, while mourning the recently announced departure of lead actress Alison O’Donnell), and I was delighted to see that one of the characters, a...
Oh my, 2011 was so long ago. This just came up in my memories, and now I feel ancient, I don’t even know him anymore.
Looks are Deceiving.Last year, Davidoff released an international travel exclusive fragrance called Indigo. I saw reviews for it in a few places, and a couple of YouTube reviews, but feedback on it is scarce, likely due to its limited...
Oh my gosh. Out yesterday on my bike to complete a 200km. I have been doing a least one long ride each month for the past couple of years. Occasionally much longer. I did not enjoy yesterdays ride at all. That is quite unusual. Something...
Because one healthcare horror story per day isn’t enough, I want to tell you the story of how I’ve been trying for over two months to get my uncle’s electric wheelchair repaired. It’s still broken. It still hasn’t even been picked up by...
John Gruber: Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection. Count me among those unsurprised that a purveyor of slop — fine artisanal slop, but slop nevertheless — was not an upstanding citizen. I...
Tempest Storm spent almost 60 years on stage, but her offstage life reads like a highlight reel of mid-century America's most dangerous men. She danced her way from a Georgia cotton farm to the top of the Vegas Strip, and along the way...
Recently, I took a training course to learn about electricity. On paper, at the end of the training, the student is expected to be able to set up a single-phase home electrical installation, and to bring an existing electrical...
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A useful pattern for LLM classification at scale is to let it hallucinate plausible, fake entities. Then resolve to real ones.
Imperfect, but interesting. The Harder They Come is a Jamaican film with a foot each in two different camps; one is a clear-eyed look at life among the Jamaican poor (there’s fantastic music everywhere, but there’s also a whole lot of...
There are several Forest Lawn cemetery locations in Southern California, including the beautifully maintained Forest Lawn Cypress, in North Orange County.Unlike the Forest Lawn locations in Los Angeles County, there are only a few...