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Not only do I want to bring back the photologs, but I'd also like to go back to covering the books I read each month here. I still don't want to meticulously log things, but I like writing about what I read. August is almost over and I...
We watched "Murder Building" (Le Crime du 3e Étage) yesterday. With my daughter, at "Chloe", an open-air cinema. Nice moovie, beautiful night, we had a great time.
On the morning of 8 May 1902, a Caribbean city of roughly 28,000 people was wiped off the map in under three minutes. The eruption of Mount Pelée remains the deadliest volcanic disaster of the twentieth century, and by most tallies only...
As I've mentioned a couple of times before1, I'm slowly setting up a system to organize my stuff, mostly digital but also analog. I don't want to move work to the background, so I'm not exactly doing so steadily; today, since it's...
Some time ago I visited a used book fair and came across this awesome piece of 80s scifi-asthetic.This book is a collection of short stories by the Polish author Stanisław Lem originally published in 1964. Its English title is The...
It’s done. Took a while but have now transitioned everything from Youtube over to Feedbin. I will give YouTube their props for creating RSS feeds for everyone’s account, so it was easy. Meta of course locks Instagram in and has no...
I’ve been away on holiday, so sorry if these weeknotes are a little late. I was a little busy holidaying. We were in Porthtowan, a little town on the north coast of Cornwall, staying in a cottage right by the beach with my parents. I...
In the recent days YouTube decided to put some Playstation Portable videos in my feed and it got me wondering in which box mine was collecting dust and what's the current state of custom firmwares. After all these years I still find that...
Canadian Goose Weathervane in original paint. Mid 20th century. I believe the hole in the middle resulted from a knothole falling out. The bird happened to have two bb-shots in the head on the other side… they looked like eyes. Private...
Apparently I watched a lot of movies in the last month, and that’s all I have to say about that. 📬 In this issue: Zines Media fare Zines I started writing a short story for the next issue of Planetesimal. I’m still working through my...
🤘 I went to see Iron Maiden for the fist time this weekend! It's something I've always wanted to do but never had the chance. The funny thing is that I never thought it would be possible for me to see them. You know this “Run For Your...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 134, 147: Nusantarians, protected by their seas and ships, were relatively safe on their islands from more populous...
Spider webs – possibly the most beautiful and intricate animal structures of the natural world. However, some spiders are not content with a simple web. They go one step further. They decorate their own webs and today they are featured...
Joel Dryden, in a CBC News article with the headline “On the Road With Pro-Independence Albertans, One Small Town at a Time”: The restaurant owner, who gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, has hit the road this summer to talk...
So, farewell the Mulberry Tree. When I arrived at the music school this morning I noticed it was half standing/half fallen leaning on one of its limbs. Presumably a consequence of the great storm on Thursday. I plucked some delicious...