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Living questions Instead of chasing after easy answers, the poet Rilke urged a young artist to “live the questions”. Sound advice maybe, but which questions really matter, and how can we go about living them? “I beg you … to have...
I’ve been a bit busy today marking repeat examinations, so I’ve only got time for a short post. Yesterday, while working on something else, I got to wondering why it is that people often touch or stroke or scratch or hold their chin...
On August 8th, we celebrated this year’s HTML Day. (Or more accurately, many people around the world did. I tried to put together an event for our local community but failed to garner enough interest from speakers and partners and had to...
Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Even working incrementally, I think it’s too soon to be generalizing the Bee Denizen. Discuss, decide, do. I don’t think I can clearly define why I think it’s too soon to start moving toward a...
Happy Monday, once more! And that means it’s time for Fantasy with Friends: all the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about fantastical plants: What fantasy plants have stuck in your...
I’m just starting out with bird photography, and I’ve compiled a short-list of birds I want to take photos of, to have some sort of goal when I’m out there and what to look out for. It also helps if I have a few birds I’ve looked up to...
KEY TO THE LOWER LEVELThe lower level of the complex is rough and unfinished. The walls are irregular and coarse, not at all like the more finished walls of the level above (except for Areas 38 and 39). The corridors are roughly 10'...
A calm small town named Marta at the Lago di Bolsena. Saw a little egret for the first time: beautiful!
As you may be able to guess from my lack of blog content recently, I have been struggling. Not only struggling to catch anything blog-worthy, but struggling in this weather, I am not cut out for hot weather, I think that’s why I love...
H. Warner Munn (1903-81) was an author of horror and fantasy works, and a member of the Lovecraft circle of friends. He is probably best known for his early work for Weird Tales. His most well-known works are “Tales of the Werewolf Clan”...
Please, just give me a newsletter. Or an RSS feed. Or even better– both, so I can make a choice. There are things I don't want to miss. Stuff I want to keep track of. Stuff and things that, when they pop into my purview, aren't going to...
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 206 miles / 332 km, about four hours of driving, from a boondocking spot in the parking lot of Mount Begbie Fire Lookout near 70 Mile House to MamaYeh RV Park & Campground...
When the Swedish movie director Karin af Klintberg, known for her documentaries, was asked about the secret to her success, she replied: "I don't measure my work in quantity, but..." Here we go again, I thought. The usual talk about...
It’s been possible for quite a while to increase the framerate of SNES Star Fox. Even during the SNES’ hardware release period, an updated version of the SuperFX chip that made it’s then-amazing 3D visuals possible was made that doubled...