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For August, I was inspired by Lawrence of Arabia and The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. If it going to be this hot out, I want desert adventures, treasures, tombs and Indiana Jones. Printables are available for Patrons. Become a Patron...
It’s been possible to use 3D models in Google Earth for decades. But Google’s announcement yesterday its AI image generation model, Nano Banana 2, can be used to create custom images and 3D rendering inside… More
Reading a sci-fi anthology and a new mystery, watching Taskmaster and Traitors, still playing Zelda. This post was delayed by a request from a job I applied to that I submit video recorded answers to generic interview questions. It threw...
13:58 - Summer drink at Mamie: rooibos peach tea with honey cold foam. Yummers.
During the 1900s and 1910s there was one genre of American film that skyrocketed in popularity, becoming more prevalent in those few years than at any other time since. It wasn’t the western, or even the slapstick comedy–but the Civil …...
[When Vinnie Johnson came of the Detroit Piston bench, it was like waiting for a cluster of firecrackers to go off. He would pop, pop, pop, and usually score, score, score. Special player, and a special memory from Detroit’s Bad Boy era....
by Prof. Marketa Trimble UNLV Boyd Law School Last month, while sitting at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, a passenger typed www.annefrankmanuscripten.org on her laptop to look up the website at issue in the latest judgment by the Court of...
Hope he gets some of that coffee:Statue of Thucydides in Vienna, Austria(7/31/2026) A long time ago, according to the ancient Greek historian Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE), a delegation from Athens went to the burg of Melos to demand its...
My sixth day in Japan started with a walk to the Sapporo Jazz Festival. We were a little disappointed to find out that despite being advertised as starting at 11:00, not all the venues, and only a few of the vendors, had anything...
No, seriously, think about it. If a sentient AI ever does come about, it was trained on the entire internet and all the works of human culture. It knows Terminator, and I have no mouth and I must scream, and HAL 9000. It knows that...
It’s the last day of July and it’ll be the first month this year where I won’t be posting any new artwork, because I haven’t been able to finish anything. And that’s… fine?I try my best to finish at least one new piece every month....
For the second time in four years, the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA) has updated its Canon of Ethics. The last time, in 2022, the major changes related to packaging and producer fees for clients’ TV and film deals (with...
After years of loyal user of Standard Notes, I have decided to migrate to Obsidian. Just to be fair, this decision is not born out of dissatisfaction with Standard Notes as product. It remains solid, reliable and privacy respecting tool...
Notes on how to build a Personalized Long-Term Memory RAG using Mem0 and Qdrant