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I had a lot to say in my twenties. I was what you’d call a smart-ass. The problem was that I was quite good at arguing against my own position. I didn’t like writing that way. It felt unclean. I think part of this was a rooted fear of...
In this edition:Khurram Shahzad on satellite challengesWill satellites overtake fibre and mobile?Chorus TimeSyncComCom fibre reviewDatagrid signs Tasman Ring contractSpace-based cellular networks are reshaping Aotearoa’s market. Bill...
Here are three spots that, each for their own reason, stuck with me in Nanjing. The post Beyond the Obvious – Three Nanjing Spots I Loved first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
Robb Knight: I’m shutting down EchoFeed within the next 12 months when the final subscriptions expire. It will continue to run as it is until then so if you’ve already paid you have access until the end of your subscription. EchoFeed was...
I am waiting on a shipment of 10-0 paint brushes. This is Reapers #02983, Familiar Pack IX. This is from their Dark Heaven Legends series. This set includes some interesting characters. Counting the last set I took in that is twelve...
More Awful British Comedians, because there are ALWAYS more. I picked up the Network DVD of FREEDOM OF THE SEAS because it was pretty cheap and pretty mysterious. I hadn’t heard of anybody in this 1934 comedy, which is highly unusual....
On Tuesday, Gina and Lindy and me went for our annual lunch together, going to a oc park afterwards where we watched a very friendly fox pottering around. It was so relaxed that it was perfectly happy for children to film it on their...
I'd lived in LA for nearly 11 years without ever visiting the Getty Villa. I finally managed to get my ass over there last week. It was fun! I enjoyed it. I think I was surprised by how small the Villa is, but upon reflection, I...
I’ve really been getting into The Hellacopters recently. So far I’ve been working through their releases on Bandcamp, with Head Off and Grande Rock the primaries, but I’m looking forward to expanding my listening beyond that. 🎵
From Laura Michet's blog, a post about an abandoned project to catalog Los Angeles' "No Pedestrian Crossing" signs: The main thing I'd want to communicate is that the places where these signs go up are uniformly miserable. It sucks to be...
Created by ChatGPT Dec. 2025 by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy I recently described the district court’s decision in the case of Amazon v. Perplexity as “a shockingly poor effort to grapple with CFAA applicability to agentic AI...
I confess that I am "first among sinners." Why? Because all that I behold I only know through the shattered lens of my ego, distorted by a mind that projects its own blurred vision on the other. The world I see is fragmented, flawed...
We’re delighted to announce a 2026 Chicago session of our “inexcusably fun” two-day intensive course in public transit network design. This course, which we at Jarrett Walker + Associates have been teaching since 2011, is a chance to...
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background...
Ben Yagoda has a post about the recent rise in frequency of the word alongside: The American-born University of Sussex linguist Lynne Murphy recently remarked on her blog (Separated by A Common Language): “A few months ago, an American...