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This is a fun experiment that started as a way to generate deterministic "usernames" for Nostr npub keys (see the last section). English is really hard to deal with even for simple syllables, so the result is not as good as I'd want it...
the sea was wet as wet could be, the sands were dry as dry. you could not see a cloud, because no cloud was in the sky: no birds were flying overhead — there were no birds to fly. — lewis carrol verbal, mental, literal, philosophical,...
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Ninety percent of wildfires start within a half mile of a road. The Trump administration wants to build more of them.
Mark Thompson joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Peter Parker discreetly declining to be one of the everybody who was Kung Fu fighting in Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge.
Our Germany-dwelling Texas-bred friend Stuart Clayton alerted me to the existence of québecois faque, “eye dialect spelling of fait que,” which means “So, therefore, in that case.” Stu sez “Here’s a tie-up to France French ‘du coup’...
...uhm, what lines? Uhh, why... these: Ὁμήρου Ὀδύσσεια αʹ · 1–21 1 ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ 2 πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν· 3 πολλῶν δʼ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω, 4 πολλὰ δʼ ὅ γʼ ἐν...
A near-Herculean feat of transcription, if I do say so! Read it here.
Listen to my new mixtape on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube “Fogust Groove” is a mixtape I made of a bunch of yacht rock and blue-eyed soul I played for my kids while we were driving around the coast of California last week: I first...
Portrait of a Slow Runner Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text Read Time: 7 min Topics: Weight loss and trauma I've lost about 10 pounds this month. It is intentional, especially after my ER visit last month, but it's been a weird...
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Earlier this week my interview for the blog series Over/Under went live. You can find it over on Hyde's Lazybear blog.It was nice to be asked to participate in something like this for the first time. I've seen interview series on other...
I spent years being patient about the wrong things, waiting for my time to come. I kneel in front of the haystack, sifting, sifting, sifting. I sort each strand of hay with a devoted precision - did I think the needle would surface on...
Mrs. Helen Adeline Whitehurst, a witness for Arbuckle at his third trial, has been mentioned here and there in the Spite Work blog. This passage, from the work-in-progress, is a narrative of her testimony on April 3, 1922. She is a...
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1166/the-aesthetic-rebellion