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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...
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Jim Dandy18 versions of the song penned by Lincoln Chaseand recorded first by Lavern Baker (Atlantic Records)
blech:A collection of frames from Woldgate Woods, Winter, 2010, by David Hockney.I saw this and some of the related works at the Hockney retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco over a decade ago, and I still think of them...
It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to...
Tomorrow it will be August! So once again, it’s time for Savor of the Month! For newcomers: At the start of every month I announce one specific thing or theme to look out for, pay attention to, appreciate. The idea is to convert...
The first question on the mind of Bartz claimants is going to be "When will I get paid?" In technical legal terms, It Depends. The first, and perhaps most obvious, barrier would be an appeal. But who can appeal, and when? Even that is...
I asked the internet about which products are built without any AI, and a few have already been mentioned in the comments (go check out it – new Pagecord beta feature!). It's a pretty interesting topic! I think if you have the passion,...
My walk takes me through the warm but somewhat gloomy streets of Milan. I sit in the garden and read and then drink tea in a cafe. We decide to find breakfast at Stazione Porta Garibaldi. Our taxi driver speaks a limited version of all...