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The first time I saw this I was a teenager, and it was the 70s, so all their fancy tools and gadgets and computers and alien life could not have landed harder. When Dr. Leavitt missed that "No growth" slide I almost lost it. So fun....
Jeremy Brett Under Review:She Is Here. Nicola Griffith. PM Press, February 2026. Nicola Griffith has always struck me as an intensely physical author, by which I mean that she imbues her work with an incredible sense of place. For...
When I walked the coast around Fort William I was keen to walk to the highest point of Scotland (and indeed the UK), Ben Nevis, which is what I did. Although I didn’t originally walk to the highest point of … Continue reading →
Read: Same as it ever was by Claire Lombardo ★★★ 📚 but the strangest thing I remember about having young children is how interminably the time moves, just these days upon days upon days, and every single one of them feels a million years...
Tokens refreshed!
Spring is in full swing here in Ohio and it has been both very beautiful and very allergy-inducing. One of the more beautiful aspects is that there is apparently a ton of American Wisteria wrapped around my pergola by the garage, and I...
Three weeks ago we modeled vote choice with candidates C = {Left, Right, Other} as a multinomial logit: P[voter i chooses candidate c from C] = exp(f(X_ic)) / sum_c’ exp(f(X_ic’)) We saw this model implies independence from irrelevant...
So, I’ve had these Pozidriv screws for a while, and I’ve never found a bit that actually fits them. They all seem “too pointy”. And if you try to google this stuff, you find a gazillion pages saying “well, Philips is different from...