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In this post we’ll get acquainted with Sara Teasdale's poem “Spring Rain”, first published in 1917. In many ways typical of her style of writing, the poem is simple yet deep, using imagery from the natural world to reflect on the poet’s...
by Elisa Giudici Park Chan Wook and Chloe Zhao © Elisa Giudici What kind of festival the 79th Annual Cannes Film Festival will be is something the films in Competition and the side sections will ultimately determine. But there’s little...
A sparkline is a little line-graph with no axes or other unnecessary details. They're useful for getting quick understanding of what the data is showing. They're also really easy to create programmatically. This uses the SVG "polyline"...
A few days recently where I found myself unable to think through a problem that was, objectively, pretty straightforward. The thinking was just muddled. In both cases, all it took was a good night of sleep and a run to clear it. This got...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan,...
I admit, I asked ChatGPT to help me with today’s TDC. I asked it to give me ideas for “two nonsensical but logical sets” to use for a Venn Diagram and then refined it to ask for one with “funny … Continue reading →
Advancing and retreating glaciers during Ice Ages crushed rock into dust. Meltwater pulses that occurred when climate cycles shifted to warm stages washed this dust into rivers. Then, when climate cycles shifted to arid stages and rivers...
I bought a Skådis pegboard from IKEA, and now I can have my modest collection of Aviationtags on display. It's actually only half of all the Aviationtags I have. I use the rest as luggage tags.
Writing acknowledgements is always gratifying if a bit bitter-sweet. For me, at least, it marks the end of a project and I get more joy from the doing than the having. Yesterday morning, I wrote the acknowledgements for my book on oil,...