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Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month. A short Saturday break from my Python series to talk about Saoirse Ronan. She's quickly become one of my favourite actors...
Yesterday, I found a comeback post after a 14-year pause. 14 years! OK, I didn’t read the full post. Maybe the author explained why. But it made me think of my burnout story: Work burnout made me stop exercising, eating well, and...
I have long respected those artisans, modellers, artists who master not only the application of paint to reflect dirt, but who master sheen too, to create a model that just sings with colour. Texture, shadow and wear and tear implied by...
Conspiracy thrillers are rarely interested in subtlety.They thrive on momentum, on ever-escalating revelations and on the intoxicating possibility that everything is connected if only you can find the right thread to pull. Voloz...
Although the subject of robots becoming self-aware is something that we are all a little overused to right now (especially with Ann Droid, courtesy of the BBC), having watched Andy, I felt I had to share it for several reasons. Created...
Acting is one of the few professions where rejection is not an occasional setback but an expected part of the job description. Actors are asked to walk into rooms, perform confidence, absorb judgement and then return the next day to do...
I have cut down a lot on how much bottled inks I have. Mostly by using up what I have over buying anything new. Currently I have seven bottles. One almost empty, one close to empty. Three half full. Two full or more or less full. Funny...
Welcome to this week’s newsletter! This week on the blog the most popular posts were: Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, The Destined Heroes Playstyle, Close and Distant Playstyles, Dolmenwood Resources for You and A Dolmenwood...
Not every Fringe day needs to begin with a bang.Sometimes the ideal morning show is something gentler: a production that eases you into the festival rather than demanding emotional devastation before coffee has properly taken effect. The...
Tuesday This morning the park is damp with dew. It’s light relief from the dry crunch the grass has been making recently. A regular I’ve chatted to over the years throws a ball for his rescue dog and the dog races to catch it. Every time...
Two chairs by the river edge. That edge should be at the grass.
I guess the only thing I could ask you to do is if none of this makes any sense to you... Just read it again. Except this time please imagine that I really am innocent. And then maybe it'll make sense to you. Considering the avalanche of...
Charter schools in the U.S. are over three decades old. Advocates for wider parental choice of schools lobbied state legislatures and local school boards to authorize a different way to organize a tax-supported public school with its own...
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using photography and artificial intelligence. The work captures an indigo droplet striking water, producing concentric rings and radial structures similar to spherical harmonics—the patterns that...
1968 war, dir. Brian G. Hutton, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood: IMDb. The captured general has to be got out of the impregnable fortress. Or does he?