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A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.
Hi everyone. I used to participate in the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop regularly, but since the original blog on which it was hosted was abandoned in favor of a number of individual hosts’ blogs, I struggled to find it and, when I...
I was randomly curious the other day, and looked up bands from New York City on Wikipedia. I noted down every one I recognized; it’s a very musically diverse list, and there were a few surprises, at least for me. Do you see anything that...
I spent a little time this morning with the already published bits of my Antiquities series--GRANATA and CLOVEN that take their roots in mythology. Part of it was a revisit after seeing a couple screenings of Chrisopher Nolan's take on...
So I take photos for reference, not really for publication, and the slight angle and the framing are just, sorry ig: Louise Lawler, Pollock and Tureen (Traced) 1984/2013, installed big at MoMA Louise Lawler’s Pollock and Tureen (Traced),...
Recently, I come home from work and dissolve into nothingness. I lie in bed and stare at the ceiling and I wait. I don't know what I'm waiting for - perhaps for the next 12 hours to pass so I can be useful again at my corporate job?...
Find Your Star, paper collage, 2026 A compilation of thoughts, feelings, and reflections. The illusions we have about other people are proportionate to the illusions we have about ourselves. I am at once encouraged and extremely...
Ask the Chinese how they do it, but they ride down pedestrian overpass stairs as needed. The post My New World, Illustrated by the People of Beijing – July 2026 Edition first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
Nau mai Yesterday we traveled from Hong Kong, China, to Tokyo, Japan. I wanted to start my day with some Hong Kong French Toast. The morning was hot and thick and wet in the air and as I walked through the streets towards the Lin Lin...
Some moments are intensely vivid and pleasant. Other moments are intensely and vividly unpleasant, or, more commonly, unmemorable and weakly depressing for no reason. The types of experience can be separated, on lucky occasions, by a...
The board book Letters to the Great Pumpkin is fairly straightforward on its goals. Linus decides that a letter-writing campaign is just the thing to get that legendary gourd to appear in his pumpkin patch, and various Peanuts characters...
Nau maiYesterday we played our first headline show in Hong Kong. To get to the breakfast at Hotel Eaton in Hong Kong you must take the glass elevator from your room high up in the top levels of the building all the way down to the...
As a follow up to my previous post about the not-yet-ready Flickr iOS app, as of version 5.0.3 they have reverted the app to the previous code. There’s more info on their help page for the app “refresh”: We know the new app hasn’t met...
It freaks people out to hear my daughter has her "own phone", a fact she is frequently telling everybody, but it is not a cellular phone and it doesn't even have a screen, instead it is a corded phone that lives in my office. It is a...
Claude Opus 5 is a weirder than usual release to evaluate, for two reasons. The most obvious is that Fable 5 already exists. Opus 5 is pitched not as the world’s most advanced AI model, but as a way to mostly match Fable performance,...