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I've contributed a chapter looking at Doctor Who's unexpected moment of massive popularity over the summer of 1979 to the Doctor Who Appreciation Society's new book, Doctor Who 70-79.
From Sunday's New York Times, I learned of "the maelstrom unleashed" by the writer Rachel Cusk's divorce memoir. I might not have noticed this but for the Charybdis of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. How does one unleash or leash a...
While I’m still preparing next na_game_tool release (still a couple of codecs to RE and implement!), I’ve finally encountered a very rare beast—wavelet game video codec! Gunmetal features SBV format with the minimum header (frame table...
Your CV is out of date. Your LinkedIn isn’t. A CV is maintained by hand. Once a year, badly, the night before you need it. A profile maintains itself: you add the role when you start it, the skill when you learn it, the certificate the...
You might be surprised, but this is a different version of this. Here is the version I got from an Australian friend. If you look at that review, you’ll notice a key difference; one that I’m sad and rather surprised was omitted as it was...
When Life Is Overdirect linkThe Fraley TrioGlen Fraley, Lead, Guitar / Dorothy Fraley, Alto / Patty Fraley, SopranoBassett Recording ServiceSpringfield, OhioB-1386The Fraley Trio had a previous record in 1962. For details see Gloryland...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 67-73: We do not yet know how products from Nusantaria came to arrive at the plush homes of a literate, urbanized...
What is known about Whimsey in a Bottle carver Daniel Rose comes from "Genius in a Bottle" by Susan D. Jones, or at least the website devoted to same. The book is sold out, but the extensive website provides all you would want to know...
Finished reading: The Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero (new cover) by Rick Riordan 📚
Last week, I was packing to leave for my 72-hour staycation when my phone rang. I kept packing because I was exhausted and ready to check out from the daily grind. A few minutes later, I saw a text notification and figured I should check...
LEDE ONWe’re nearing the end of summer (often defined as ending with Labor Day here in the US). Many of you have been vacationing in inflationville, and are getting ready to head back to work. So here’s the question: how many photos did...
Quite a few pairs of pears. All small, hard and inedible. There are too many for a) the good of the tree b) the quality of the fruit and c) my tollerance to all things pear like. A cull was carried out and umpteen of the blighters have...
I was amused when I opened this new arrival to see a reproduction of the picture which is currently being used as this month’s blog header. The coincidence confirms that this is my kind of book, being a collection of paintings, drawings...
Once upon a time typesetting mathematics was very expensive. It took a skilled operator hours and hours to get multi-line mathematics setting right. Now we’ve developed software which careful mathematicians can utilize themselves to...
An I’iwi belts out a song from the branch of a tree on the Pu’u O’o Trail off Saddle Road.