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When the dinner party wraps up, the quilting bee buzzes off, or your friends all grab their coats and head down to catch a cab, it’s time to take a second to stand alone in the center of your place, smile slowly, and finally just blast...
Having played Quartermaster General: East Front recently, Han and I moved on to play the South Front version. The South Front of World War 2 refers to the Mediterranean theatre. The game has a long map that stretches from Gibraltar in...
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We went to Xinjiang again! Yes, again. Last year we went to the north. This year to the south. But before then we spent a few days around Shennongjia, where I saw this little mouse munching on grass. And then we went to the lakes, where...
I do put "my email" in geminispace and on the open web and make no effort to obfuscate it. Why did I use quotes above? I have a lot of email addresses: definitely dozens, and probably over a hundred. In my view, the trick to being...
Whether you're picking, buying or receiving them, this is the apex of vegetable season. And so begins the roller coaster ride of thrills and terror as they pile up in the garden, kitchen and fridge. Vegetables, vegetables, everywhere...
The day before her 70th birthday, she had to rush to the ER. She had planned the birthday party for months. But a blood pressure spike almost ruined it. She was discharged the same day. But she was so anxious that she didn’t enjoy her...
Jasper Johns, Litanies of The Chariot, 1961, dimensions? funny you should ask I’ve had this tiny Jasper Johns drawing about Duchamp in my tabs for months now, but I guess I’m finally going to post it now because the Wolfgang Tillmans...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 157-158, 164: Economic and social failures combine with demography to create the issue for which Filipino...
Recently, a friend suggested that I write a Chuck Klosterman-esque essay explaining looksmaxxers and in suggesting that I would not do something like that, I made a joke about why I would not do something like that. The relevant section...
Lucid Gravity – New York, New York When roaming around the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan, we happened upon a Lucid showroom. I had to go in. Are you familiar with Lucid? It’s an American electric car company based in California, and...
In recent months there has been a proliferation of AI-generated proofs of various old and new results, some of which have been formalized in the proof assistant language Lean. However, checking that a given Lean repository actually...
I have seen other Breton butter cakes with a jam filling, but this Breton Buckwheat Butter Cake is slim and simple. As Dorie says, it’s kind of like a cakey version of shortbread. Buckwheat flour gives it a hint of earthiness, and I did...
I don’t think I’ll do Week 33 justice because I’m writing about it while wading through Week 34 emotions. There’s a big chunk about handshakes for some reason. Two guys got chatting on the subway when the older of the pair asked about...
Na segunda-feira, 17 de agosto, decidi ir ao cinema sozinho para assistir "A Morte de Robin Hood". Confesso que achei que fosse ser legal, mas eu não esperava que fosse tão violento. É um filme excepcionalmente sanguinolento. Gostei...