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Perfume PosseLate Spring/Almost Summer Recent Reading My laptop is seriously misbehaving. It is around 11 years old … In any case, I’m putting this post up so it will appear on Monday with the hope it actually will. And next I need to...
Today’s choice is a book I actually read a few months back, but at the time I decided just to enjoy it and leave the review for another day. That day has finally arrived, and after a leisurely reread a couple of days ago, I’m ready to...
In July of 2009, nearly 17 years ago, our writing group held Round 26 - another chance to try out hands at poetry. That spring had been quite a rainy one, and it got me thinking about how my thoughts and perspectives on rain had changed...
Work is progressing on a few new ‘zines… One about audax, based on an old post Stamp Collecting, that came about after being asked to give a talk about audax at the Glasgow Zine Fest last month. A 35mm photozine based on a ride in...
🤬 I hate being forced to use Windows at work. Every so often, a program in the background crashes, requiring me to restart my PC, which doesn't work, forcing me to do a hard shutdown. This morning, after doing such a restart, my...
Piketty gets wacky; Tokenmaxxing fails; Trump, drones, and Ukraine; Tariffs on China, again; India's growth; Borjas again
Part IV of a IV part series. The organisations capturing real value from AI are not better at AI; they are better at running organisations. The specific moves boards and executives can make to join them—and why nine years of evidence...
June 8, 2026 So what is our glamorous Gothic researcher up to? Let’s enjoy her favorite painting for a moment; it’s easy to just skip right past the paintings to get to the wardrobes, and that’s a pity. I take AGES to choose these...
The LEGO Group has produced a wide range of vehicles but, as far as I could see, bicycles have so far been relegated to accessories for figures; nothing brick-built. This trend has been broken in a spectacular way, with the humongous...
The LEGO Group has produced a wide range of vehicles but, as far as I could see, bicycles have so far been relegated to accessories for figures; nothing brick-built. This trend has been broken in a spectacular way, with the humongous...
Listen, this is one humdinger of a cover. Drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith, it effectively depicts the state of the Thing as it had been at this time…alienated and alone, separated from the rest of the Fantastic Four. You would think the...
Books CONTINUE to lead to other books!! My reading of Peter Ackroyd’s “London Under” was inspired by Nicholas Royle’s “Finders, Keepers“; and there’s a bit of a story attached to today’s book! In Ackroyd’s chapters about the London...