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I got a little bit riled up the other day, and I realized that it might be worth sharing because the thing that riled me is a longstanding pattern in academia (at least in Canada, anyway). It’s a way I think we sabotage ourselves, and we...
The shooting sports have come and gone steadily over the past two centuries. Back in the 1890s, Schuetzen matches (which, ironically, are making a bit of a comeback) and festivals reached their golden age and drew entire towns to bask in...
HOTEL LAUTREAMONT John Ashbery 1. Research has shown that ballads were produced by all of society working as a team. They didn’t just happen. There was no guesswork. The people, then, knew what they wanted and how to get it. We see the...
Sometimes after watching the daily news, we’re all the Lady In Blue.
IBM training manual from 1979 When LLMs were really hitting their stride I started experimenting with them, like many others, to see where they could help me. I wanted to see how I could leverage them at work and in my free time. I’ve...
High Queen of Faerie, yet exiled to the mortal realm, Jude is determined to reclaim what is hers. I liked this even less than the previous one. The protagonist continues to be annoyingly overwrought, and her decisions continue to be...
Despite his past as a troublemaker being involved in public brawls, even being imprisoned in the Tower for a time because of one, John Northampton became an Alderman for the Cordwainer Ward in 1375 to 1377, and was a member of Common in...
For several years, Google's product help forums have been littered with people trying to download a .ics event from their email, only to receive the error "Unable to launch event" when trying to add it to Google Calendar. It doesn't...
They were here two minutes ago. I saw them, I held them in my hand. I knew I would loose them, but still I couldn't hold on. Had to let go, catch the boiling pan. When I looked back. Pooff. Nowhere to be found. They'll come back. But in...
Now I can stop lying about not having seen Throne of Blood. Status, which has been doing some really good work lately, was unusually generous with their recent newsletter on the Warner/Paramount deal. They convened a panel of antitrust...
It is not the end of summer but end of July has me thinking of it
A friend recently told me about a wine dinner he attended devoted to Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, a region in East Central Italy in the foothills of the Apennines. My first reaction was mild surprise. This is a region known for affordable...
Yesterday was one of those days when maintenance tasks went more smoothly than anticipated. It's almost August, the time for car safety inspections so that the annual car registration can be paid--in time to do the payments by mail,...
For millennia we have pondered on the deceptively simple question of "What is it all for?". Some have claimed to find the answer, while others say there isn't one at all. We are here because of complete happenstance with no purpose to...
First performed at Vienna’s Burgtheater in 1790, Barefoot Opera’s production of Mozart & Da Ponte’s Così fan tutte?! at the Arcola Theatre (running as part of the 2026 Grimeborn Festival) is an altogether more stripped back version than...