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I have just finished reading Seething Lane by Jack Jewers, a novel in which Samuel Pepys is reinvented as a sleuth, swashbuckler and firefighter, acting on behalf of Charles II to investigate the murder of a libertine aristocrat. First...
OTD in 2008, I began blogging about family history. I was a decade into my genealogy research and my first blog post was about great-grandpa Meyer Elias Mahler (1855?-1910). In the 18 years since that initial post, I learned lots more...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences and thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Jurassic Park Dinosaurs are cool. The original released not long before...
One of the useful arguments in the debate around decentralisation, blockchain and the #openweb is also one of the simplest – We do not actually live in a trustless world, we live in a world built on different kinds of trust. This is why...
It’s exactly a year since I pointed out that the Open Journal of Astrophysics had saved the astrophysics research community worldwide a sum in excess of a million dollars in publication costs. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for...
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is about bookish places I’ve visited! I think the emphasis is more generally on cool places from books, author residences, etc, but somehow that’s not a thing that really excites me and I can’t think of...
So ganz ist der Crypto Betrug ja nie weggegangen, er hat sich nur verschoben. Heute vor allem hin zur Bestechungsmethode für die US Regierung und illegales Glücksspiel (“Prediction Markets”). Aber vor einigen Monaten wurde ich doch...
A very strong wind last night and today. Cutting off brash in the wood and burning it. Bona got a new car. Ted Williams caught after eggs.
Like I did for the first half of the year, here is my list of events I attend from August 2026 on. Some of these I help to organise, some are run by good friends, and at some of them you’ll find me with a camera in my hands. Maybe more...
1957 horror, dir. Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins: IMDb. Karswell's enemies seem to die very conveniently for him; but of course there's no such thing as magic.
Surely, you have enjoyed that cinematic classic, “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Surely you remember the toga party at Delta House. Surely you savored the jumpin’ jive of Otis Day & The Knights. If so, you will recall John Belushi, as...
Jacques Goudstikker's gallery, 1927-40Amsterdam. WikiJacques Goudstikker (1897–1940) was born in Amsterdam, son of a Jewish art dealer. He studied at the Commercial School in Amsterdam, then in Leiden and Utrecht. In 1919 he joined his...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this wide black-and-white view across an Ontario field as storm clouds massed overhead. A single tree rises from the distant treeline, anchoring the composition beneath the shifting cloud formations. The...
“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you...