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I just finished Book 1 of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad and she’s done incredible work. The language is so accessible. This is the most readable translation of classical literature that I’ve ever read. Highly recommend already. 📚
As a science journalist whose medium of choice is text (“text is king”), the very first sense of what I am going to write about in a science article is often an emotion in my head. A feeling. Sure, science’s identity is most pronounced...
In the 90s I always wanted a VIA passenger train or RDC for my HO scale collection…This latest arrival in a Rapido N scale example - I bought the CP Rail just because I liked the Hockey Mask front end and have had a soft spot for the...
What’s going on, Internet? Love Story is my favourite Taylor Swift song, I’m defintely a sucker for her earlier stuff. I’m an Offspring fan too, so this cover they performed at the recent Hellfest (never heard of it tbh) is pretty much...
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved base conversion and string analysis. (Note that this ends today.)
Some scans in this article contain racist caricatures.Shortly after the closure of Buzz, D. C. Thomson decided to have another go at launching a new weekly humour comic for children. It would do things a bit differently from its...
As promised a few weeks ago, I’ll try to force myself to have a break from writing through August in order to build up my backlog so I can ensure more high quality content again starting on September. It is also as a good way to let my...
Duncan Rawlinson created this artwork using artificial intelligence and contemporary digital techniques. Billowing clouds in coral and peach tones rise above layered mountain ridges, their forms softened into a painterly haze. The sky...
For my birthday in June this year, my parents fulfilled one wish I had: they gifted me a new pair of headphones of my choice. I have a pair of AirPods Pro 2 that I had been using extensively and exclusively since 2023 up until then and...
Learned about the Moro painter and sculptor Abdulmari Imao through an essay on Facebook about the commercialization and dumbing down of art in local spaces (which I will look for again). The lines between our environment shaping us and...
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It's August! Somehow the year is already 2/3rds over. The World Gaza: Huh, Hamas has reportedly agreed to disarmement. Let's see if that goes anywhere. Iran: On again, off again, maybe there's talks, maybe more countries are getting...
I've written a couple of posts in the past about how my home network and home automation setup is laid out, but it has been changing so much over time that it's now time for an updated post! This time I'll put everything together on the...