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Lewis and Clark at the mouth of the Columbia River, 1805. LC-USZ62-50631 While everyone knows the legend of the Girandoni .46 cal. 20-shot repeating air rifle carried by the Lewis & Clark Expedition on their 28-month exploration of the...
So we have often touched on the whole “41 for Freedom” Polaris FBM SSBNs that were cranked out during the Duck and Cover era to help win the Cold War in an amazing nine years and four months from the first keel ordered on Dec. 31, 1957,...
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the week of Jul 27 – Aug 2. Stats Stories Finished: 3 Submissions Currently Out: 10 Submissions...
Picasso: ”Man Looking In a Mirror” (1969) You pick up the large, heavy volume that is Pushcart L: 2026 and flip through some of the first pieces, scanning to see what’s in store this year. You see the first story is set in 1999. A few...
A while ago, MongoDB purchased VoyageAI for 220 million dollars. Since then, they have released a couple of dedicated embedding models. For example, you can read their blog post on voyage-context-4.The key premise in those sorts of...
Go's standard library has a slices package with a function called Backward. It lets you iterate over the elements of a slice in reverse order: // Backward returns an iterator over index-value pairs in the slice, // traversing it backward...
this past weekend my wife and i met her cousin sue at cafe mutton, our niece's restaurant in hudson, ny... after a delicious and wonderfully flavorful lunch... after lunch we drove over to the main drag of hudson and went window...
Most of our suffering is useless. Eckhart Tolle wrote a line in Stillness Speaks that I often think of: “Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.” He is of course referring to the mental suffering that so many of us go...
Carolyn Lord is a California watercolor artist who paints with bold, strongly geometric compositions, and colors that range from vivid to subtle. Within her elegantly simplified shapes you will often find fascinating variations in...
I enjoy coffee. Any coffee. My usual intake is 2 cups a day. I go up to 3 cups if I am feeling sad and just want something comfortable. Also, I do sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and cannot get back to sleep. Should I cut...
So, the availability of the MacBook Air from Apple is now “constrained”. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman “heard the company is prioritizing sales of the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, in part to clear the way for an M6 refresh coming this...
If a screen doesn’t have a connection to the internet, that’s great. If a screen want to connect to the internet, but doesn’t need to, do not give it the wifi password. If a screen need to be connected to the internet to be useful,...
In #OMN usage, #mainstreaming is the process by which radical ideas are absorbed, softened and neutralised by mainstream institutions. The language survives, the branding survives, even some of the practices survive – but the political...
The enormous two-day event that was DinoCon 2026 – the second of our dinosaur-focused comic con-style meetings – is over, and wow. It went so well, the attendance being around twice that of our first event of last year. Caption: a...
Hong Kong is so rich in details and keeps many layers of information I’d like to unveil with time. Fascinating place. I didn’t plan to stay for many days. In my dreams I would like to spend months there, writing high above in a quiet...