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You ain’t got time for all this – the latest newsletter edition from yours truly. Some of my recent writing, remixed. Some all new links. If you’re seeing this on your computer screen, you might like it!
“Diacritics.”It’s high summer in NYC. The Knicks won, there was a parade, etc. The World Cup is happening in a parallel universe; I thought I’d be more invested. The heat has gone placid, smoothing out into a breezy lightness. And now...
We went from silence to telephony, and then from Netflix to TikTok; the marvels keep arriving and keep mattering less. The culture that consumes them shows the classic late-Sensate symptom, a falling return on stimulation, more screens...
Somehow when I wasn’t paying attention to the drug TV shows and the Russian-made genre flicks, Bob Odenkirk became an action star in his sixties. Here he’s a traveling fill-in lawman, and while halfheartedly playing sheriff for some...
Perfume PosseI Came, I Saw, I Complained. (What I did on my birthday) Saturday was the big day, and I did.. nothing. I read a book. Just sat outside and read a book. “Lucia in London”, which I had not read in ages. I also bought a small...
Japanese artist Daisuke Tajima has built a career drawing cities that seem to exist somewhere between science fiction and reality. His sprawling black-and-white landscapes are packed with towering structures, tangled infrastructure and...
Photograph from Hawaii. Good example of how much data you can pull out of a full frame RAW file— here's more like what it looked like in-camera.This isn't what the photograph "really" looks like, though. A RAW file is a matrix of...
Photograph from Hawaii. Good example of how much data you can pull out of a full frame RAW file— here's more like what it looked like in-camera.This isn't what the photograph "really" looks like, though. A RAW file is a matrix of...
Most of the criticisms and rebuttals in this post are applicable to before 2024. By 2025, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs had become thoroughly mainstream and many skeptics have come around to the fact that these drugs are highly effective and...
An ideal winter warmer, hit UK comedy Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) makes its Australian premiere in sturdy form, with a terrific triple-threat local cast earning a cavalcade of laughs. Penned by Isobel McArthur, after Jane Austen,...
The most frustrating aspect of regular expressions is that implementations vary. Features supported in one tool may not be supported at all in another tool, or they may be supported with slightly different syntax. I learned regular...
These Chocolate-Tipped Cream-Puff Pocky Sticks are a fun homemade take on the favorite Japanese sweet snack. Thin lengths of piped choux pastry make the sticks, which are baked and then coated in chocolate glaze. While I did actually...
Music took me through several life changing experiences. This article goes through the arch that culminated with one of the most exciting periods of my life1. The Sound of Lisbon First contact My first consequential contact with music...
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – May’s Egg-cellent Adventure. The friends are visiting a place where they collect and look after pokemon eggs. Team Rocket find out, and hatch a plan which starts with them putting a...