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Anew era in television begins this week, as Merv Griffin enters the late-night talk show fray with his debut on CBS. (Guests for that first show: Joe Namath, Woody Allen, Leslie Uggams.) Merv's hardly a stranger to the game, having...
Cool and clear, with bluebird and cardinal song. The leaves of the tulip tree sapling in my yard are nearly white with dew. I grease my boots.
Fine-tuning a language model for your own purposes is easier than it has ever been. The technical side is a couple of hours of understanding and a few minutes of compute. While your friendly neighborhood agent handles most of the...
Back in 2023, Cody Fry first teamed up with the Blue Devils for his track Caves in their Drum Corps International competitive field show. If a collaboration works, then it’s worth revisiting, and so today we have the pleasure of seeing...
“And now, I need Agatha Christie.“ I wrote, and said that, to myself when I closed the latest book that I read; a popular work of “murder mysteries” which somehow signed as horrors, and a confirmation that one should start writing on...
I'm really not sure what to make of this book. It was recommended by my book club as something between tragedy and comedy. The characters are excruciatingly well written - if you (or your friends) shoplifted Impulse body-spray back in...
1. Deprioritization is a decision, not a drift I spent a chunk of Friday declining recurring meetings. Every standing invite is an automatic withdrawal from your attention that renews forever until someone stops it — and the ones that...
Yesterday I wrote about how Ed Sheeran stopped using his phone back in 2015. There’s a second half to that story he told at the concert. A few years ago, Ed was sued over “Thinking Out Loud.” The family of Marvin Gaye’s co-writer accused...
Butterfly camouflaged on the brick windowsill (photo by Mary DeVaughn) Question mark butterfly (photo by Mary DeVaughn) photos by Mary DeVaughn 15 August 2026 Seen this week were … Butterflies: On Friday morning, 14 August, I got a...
Soundtrack to this post. The fixture list came out in June and I have had this date in my head ever since. Saturday 15 August, half twelve, Boundary Park. Oldham v Port Vale, one of the two games chosen to start the whole EFL season off,...
Happy Bookstore Romance Day! 📚💓
The Seven Sisters Saga What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Prelude to Whitespace Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club starts listening to The Seven Sisters Saga,...
As I enter a new chapter of my life, I keep wanting to become more "disciplined" - better at my job, better at writing, better at making money. When I dissect my thought process, though, I realize that, most of the times, my discipline...
By Gina Marie FunkWitch Pleas PublishingOSR/5e/DCCLevel 5 As the ashes of the last battle between Sydonia’s Sidereal Sailors and the Unseen Web settle, the Gods of the Pantheon stir within Mentius. And into this crucible of epic...