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This week’s theme: Jazz and vocal versions of songs written by Irving Berlin. Featured artists include John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Ray Bryant, Max Roach, George Bryant, Charles McPherson, Jackie McLean, Rosemary Clooney,...
In a previous video I where talked about social anxiety in FFXIV, one of the top responses I heard was that folks wanted to roleplay, but either didn’t know how to start or were too afraid to try it. I pulled together a number of tips...
I'm doing (a very lax) Blaugust. This is 2/hopefully 31 posts in August. I was thinking about labyrinths recently and got a wave of nostalgia for the early 2000s. At this time I was being home educated by my mother, and one year (I...
The rain is heavy outside.I suppose the rain matches the mood and the mood matches the time.At least, for me. I think now is a good time for me to get this out. The wind picked up but so has the rain. Perhaps now is a good time for me to...
Still working on Emacs Config Gems part 3. Fell into a deep rabbit hole and got lost for a couple of days, then climbed out just to discover another one I have to explore next. I wanted to crunch the first few tweaks of my Emacs config...
[They did say it’s hard to see, not hard to hear.] HOW WOULD ANYONE EVER BE ABLE TO TELL THAT THIS DRONE IS THERE?1 Footnotes: Be sure to have your speakers on when watching the linked video. That video is also archived here. ↩︎ Link:...
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In the summer of 1961, a 19 year old model climbed out of a swimming pool at a Buckinghamshire country estate, and a British government started dying without anyone in the room realising it yet. By the time the fallout finished two years...
A couple of years ago, Sony re-released a movie that had flopped only a few months earlier. Morbius had died at the box office in April 2022, opening to $39.1m and then dropping 74% in its second weekend. But over the following weeks, a...
In 2023 I published a blog post The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard that included links to the release notes of some Mac OS X updates. Well, let's look at the release notes for the 10.6.1 update: […] It looks like the so-called...
If you are Canadian, chances are you have the day off today. Maybe you have no great plans other than to hang out in a hammock or beach yourself somewhere. And that’s fine. But if you are someone like me who likes to be productive even...
The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliament of 1388 eliminated everyone who was considered a corrupting influence on King Richard II. In fact, they rewarded...
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Robbie Hearst is a musician and writer based in Chicago.Do Not Research is a reader-supported arts organization. Since 2021, we highlight the work of a new writer, artist, filmmaker, poster or creative every week.In his influential book,...
Hello everyone 👋 This one started in the dumbest possible way: I wanted to check on my 3D printer from outside my house. I have a Bambu printer running in LAN-only mode, and I use OctoApp to control it from my phone. Works great at home....