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Here’s some good juju. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize I’ve been after the classic Hancocks,...
Clementine Helm BeyrichOn a grey Berlin morning in the winter of 1863, a young girl named Anna quietly entered her foster mother’s study.She expected to find Clementine Helm bent over the draft of a gentle domestic tale—something proper,...
Had a thought about technology yesterday:The moment we used plant twine to attach a chipped stone to a stick, AI became inevitable.There is only one "technology".There's randomness in which branches uncover on the tree and how far down...
Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613), His Wife. With Additions of New Characters: And many other Witty Conceits never before Printed. The Seventeenth Impression (London: Printed for John Playfere, 1664), fols. G6-G7 (?): A Melancholly Man Is...
Looking back 15, 10 and 5 years… August 2011 did not see much camera use from me, but I did get out for a leg stretcher in the Santa Fe mountains to see the aftermath of the Pacheco Fire. Perhaps this one’s apropos as the slopes further...
Vacation has officially started. 🥳 We made it to another ocean (after 21 weeks). The weather forecast for the coming week is not super great, but I take it – it was dry long enough. And some clouds in the sky make for more dramatic...
By the way, we ate here. Lunch was delicious. bistro 1640 And no, no photos of my meal this time. I simply forgot.
I swear on my mother’s grave, I am not giving the stiff finger to Frank here. Honest. I was just pointing to his name when the OH snapped a photo … little muppet
Spending a weekend with your boyfriend’s parents is remarkably emotion packed as well as insightful. My heart is swinging like a pendulum from feelings of gratitude to frustration that my own family dynamics will never look or feel like...
There are two long encomia / eulogies on St Colluthus. The first of these exists in English already. The second, by Bishop Phoebammon or Phoibamon, acting as deputy in the 6th century for the exiled Patriarch Theodosius II, was included...
Here’s a response Claude came up with recently. I was asking it to review some of the code it had been writing for my “Open Vibe Code” Elite clone - you can play it here in your browser, it’s surprisingly good. “Twenty-seven echoes; most...
Better late than never?Some might argue it's actually better not to bother but, hey, I've been doing a London Pub of the Year for 14 years now, and for ten of those years I haven't even been living in London. It'll take a lot to stop me,...
As reported by Ars Technica, security researcher Cory Solovewicz owns the domains noreply.net and noreply.us. Every day, he sees nearly 700 inbound email attempts to addresses on those domains. That is a massive amount of misdirected...
It's an irony of my life that while I wanted as much or more than anything to belong to some kind of larger institution that shared my values, I have instead become more of an intellectual lone wolf every decade. So it is what while I...
Book title: The Girl with a Thousand Faces Author: Sunyi Dean Rating: 4.25/5 What a clever book. The way it plays with timelines and perspectives keeps changing how you see everything. Also, there were a few proper "HA" moments. And as...