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Theodora McCormick Du Bois (1890-1986) is a new-to-me-author who wrote across several genres including mystery fiction and romance, as well as sci-fi and fantasy. In terms of numbers mystery fiction was probably her most prolific genre....
A large part of Cephalo’s ascent in the ranks of Japanese shoegaze was the rate at which they released material, starting with their debut EP Wind Surfing School in mid-2024 and the full-length Fluorite Code at the end of that year. They...
It’s almost midnight. I’ll tell you a secret.You are the candle. God is the moth.Image by Matt Collishaw @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman;...
This morning, I stumbled across these words of wisdom by Juhani Pallasmaa. I quote him every week on my architectural tours of the Audain Art Museum. He believed that architecture “domesticates limitless space and endless time,” giving...
The trade deadline for ancient civilizations is approaching. I am traded for Aeneas.
Hey Buddy, Come Anytime
Smart businesses are realizing they don’t have to blow their budgets on frontier AI. At least, that’s the conclusion of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Models come in different levels of cleverness, and the “smartest” cost...
I’ve been to Japan twice. But I never thought to try any fancy Japanese fruit while I was there. As it turns out, though, I don’t need to take a 14-hour flight to do that, as you can get hold of expensive Japanese fruit in London. And I...
psd: July 18th, 19th 20th July 1985, Bradford Yorkshire #1 by David Hockney, taken from Richard Carter’s write-up of a visit to the Pieced Together exhibition.
Note: Having just spent the morning writing a short essay about the Twenty-Second Amendment, I was dismayed to find that Jeffrey Gordon had just posted a much more thoughtful piece on the same subject. Accordingly, I have cut away the...
I often recommend starting to write even though you don't know what to write about. It usually helps. A few words, a sentence, and then you're off. But sometimes it's just a complete blank. Not a single word wants to get written. There's...
David Hockney in photographing and assembling a joiner of the Science and Media Museum - then The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television - in Bradford in 1985, from the exhibition Pieced Together.
Leaders are often conflicted people. Marcus Aurelius wrote about the common humanity of all rational beings in "Meditations" while commanding invasions. Abraham Lincoln thought of slavery as morally wrong, yet his "pa...
I’ve written very little on my blog about so-called Artificial Intelligence, an old term applied to a relatively new technology, Large Language Models (LLM). I don’t think I have anything new to say about the subject, and my first-hand...
We’ve started a five player campaign of Urban Shadows 2e and I couldn’t be more excited. The first edition is an all-timer, easily in my top five-or-so, sometimes higher depending on the week you ask me. Run it at least a dozen times in...