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I wrote and deleted a whole post about Witch Hat Atelier that consisted of several paragraphs describing ways in which I'm mildly dissatisfied with it--the pacing, the flatness or at least simplicity of characters and their interactions,...
By Ted Gioia. It's absolutely great, and the sort of great book that makes me expect to live a richer life now that I've read it. One small example: this article I saw while I was reading the book makes a lot more sense than it otherwise...
I get invited to the most unexpected events. The more astonished I am that someone would want me at a thing, the more likely I am to accept. That’s how you open the tap to being invited to even more things later. Practice saying yes when...
I'm digging into why my GPT-2 style models score worse on an instruction-following eval than OpenAI's original weights; I gave the details in this post. While I was writing up the results of my first experiment into possible causes, I...
Phew. Wipe away that sweat and tell us what you’ve been up to! Here are some of my recent diversions… Reading: Ann Patchett’s Whistler (her newest novel) and The Dutch House, back to back. Art: Shape of Dreams: Leonora Carrington at...
Just over half-way through Bonhoeffer.
Servings: 2 Portionen , Prep Time: 5 Minuten Ingredients 1 Block Räuchertofu 1 EL Öl 1 EL Helle Sojasoße 1/2 TL Kreuzkümmel Instructions Perfekt auf Wraps, als "Dönerfleisch", oder als "Bacon" zum Abendbrot. Räuchertofu mit einem...
This post focuses on three of the stars of the beloved TV series PERRY MASON (1957-66), who coincidentally are all buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.The great character actor Ray Collins, who among other things was a member of Orson...
Everything is fried to a crisp. That's it, that's the month. Updates here 26 posts finally got a community page together. Also Redacted, a Loch Ness Archive, and 1934 Inverness Progresses elsewhere started a new story. Have I finished...
A Shadow Over Santa Rosa and The Devil at the Dinner Table: Hitchcock’s Most Polite Nightmare Shadow of a Doubt 1943 has always felt to me like the Hitchcock film that smiles the most sweetly, all the while it’s quietly tightening the...
Nau maiYesterday we flew from Tokyo to Vancouver. I really wanted to try the big, fluffy Japanese pancakes and I made it my mission for the morning. At 10:45am I was queued outside A Happy Pancake in Shibuya, waiting for my chance to...
From a 1971 issue of Melody MakerStill, there are two turntables - plus bonus feature of a built-in cassette recorder!This slight return is picking up on the earlier post about the extensive prehistory of discotheques and "disco music" -...
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place to describe every detail of what we did...
Bonn | Queen Kelly | Rudolph Valentino | Metropolis | Pordenone | Faust | & more… It’s a long hot summer of silent cinema, my friends. The temperatures are stuck in the roaring twenties and so are we. Here’s a quick roundup of the silent...
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