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Two friends, upon learning that I wanted to get into Clarice Lispector, advised me not to start with Near to the Wild Heart. Having now finished the book, I think I understand why. The two parallels that come to mind — less in terms of...
Being honest, last week was a mostly uneventful one. I continued reading "The Last Continent" by Terry Pratchett. This is one I've been looking forward to for a long time and it hasn't let me down. Strewth, the parody of Australia is...
Brennan wrote about phoneblogging and I have thoughts! Mostly: If you took away my tablet and laptop so I had only my phone it would make no difference to my blogging or any other writing output. I almost exclusively phoneblog. If I'm on...
Words: Chris Arnsby 25/07/1991 Mark Goodier: “Hi. Good evening. Welcome to the UK’s number one hit music show, Top of the Pops with stereo sound on Radio 1FM. We’ve got Danni Minogue on tonight, we have Cher, we also have OMD, and we...
Packing, step 1: remove all the TSA-unsafe stuff from my backpack while still at home.
by ell Play a different hole of mini-golf in your browser every day. You can see other people playing as well, and share your play with friends if you’re into that.
These are some of the questions I’ve been asked when I’ve talked to friends and family about my researching into asking AI/LLM chatbots for advice. A repository contains not only the paper’s rough draft, but the whole workflow and...
Over the last week, I designed and performed a small pilot experiment looking at how the generic chatbot AI interfaces handled people asking for the kinds of advice they might otherwise ask their therapist. I created it as a...
The media keeps pushing this narrative that the crypto industry “won” or “bought out” democracy, despite every shred of evidence showing otherwise. For example, Richard Hanania wrote, “The crypto industry is taking regulatory capture to...
If you can't tell, I've been trying to scratch an itch. What is this itch exactly? To be honest with you, I don't know the specific answer to that. I just know what I've been orbiting and circling: I love trying to solve the existential...
i've noticed that some people are genuinely able to celebrate their achievements, both the big milestones and the small moments: graduations, marriages, anniversaries, reaching a goal... for me, it's different. when i finish something,...
August has arrived and while we seem to be still waiting for truly hot and dry weather to arrive on the south coast of British Columbia, the community calendar moves on. This is the season in which three particular community events...
Welcome to my July 2026 Brutally Honest Earnings Report, where the long-term goal remains unchanged: trying to cover all my gear and travel costs entirely through stock income.
I was forced to upgrade my phone recently as my old one no longer supported security updates, which meant I couldn’t use it for work. On the plus side, the new phone has a superior camera so I’ve been having fun photographing the pigeons...
Ooof, this is a tough one. Mark Lanegan (of the Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, and an extensive solo career) did a cover of Alice In Chains’ Nutshell about six years ago: a song about addiction—but really, what AiC song isn’t...