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I believe you when you say I am good for a while a good day, I think until someone else paints a different picture not ugly in an obvious way only slightly unsettling enough to make me doubt if I am the monster in this story and someone...
Smaller images for the webTo prepare my images for my website to be smaller and progressively loaded, I had been using `imagemagick`. But my computer is now too old to properly install it with homebrew or macports, so I had to find...
A Bit of Housekeeping 7 August, 2026 I plan to get back to blogging as usual soon, but here are a few notes about this site that I wanted to share with you. Update on the Move As I mentioned in a previous post, Random Notes will be...
Dear You, Knowing almost exclusively the title, I dove in expecting an enjoyable but typical sci-fi romp, featuring a twisting tale of a futuristic war long in the past. I was delightfully mistaken. Instead, I was regaled with a...
Rivers’ bold treatment of the classics. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Stellar title with Rivers...
A retrospective included with the August 2022 issue of Musica Jazz, tracing the distinct, bittersweet trumpet voice of the late Polish master across a slew of ECM recordings. The title Songs seems almost provocatively plain for an artist...
Stationery Fest was a big event in many ways, and Myke and I were on site in Brooklyn, New York, to take it all in. We run through our entire experience, the pros and cons, the panels we hosted, and our wide-ranging acquisitions. Then...
I've been meaning to walk up here for a while but I keep forgetting or falling asleep. It's quite nice.50 words · 2 images
The Z323 said goodbye It all started last Wednesday. I wanted to listen to some lo-fi music while coding. I turned on my speakers, and nothing happened. I tried turning them off and on again: nothing. I even plugged them into another...
“They’ve gone, gone to a new place,we yearn for them, they must’ve forgotten us.Come home, come to your country, come on back.You’ll be back when we’re not around”– Translated from a Pothwari sher by Ch. Muneer Hussain In June, I went to...
I did it! I read everything Comico The Comic Company ever published! You can share my pain over there, on the Comico blog, if you haven’t already been doing. Tsk tsk!
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I had a lot to say in my twenties. I was what you’d call a smart-ass. The problem was that I was quite good at arguing against my own position. I didn’t like writing that way. It felt unclean. I think part of this was a rooted fear of...
In this edition:Khurram Shahzad on satellite challengesWill satellites overtake fibre and mobile?Chorus TimeSyncComCom fibre reviewDatagrid signs Tasman Ring contractSpace-based cellular networks are reshaping Aotearoa’s market. Bill...