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Today I was thinking about a plant. Weird, right? I keep a lot of houseplants, have a number of favorites, and attach deep meaning to a few of them. Of these, my peace lily is perhaps the most meaningful, due to the circumstances around...
Widow's Bay on Apple TV is excellent. Jaws meets Parks And Rec meets The X-Files.
I first learned of Cambridge University sociology professor Jason Arday a few weeks ago when I read an article about his life, career, accusations of plagiarism and alleged fabulist tendencies. I didn’t take the plagiarism accusations...
There's a parasitic marketing technique all over X right now, and I think the fastest way to kill it is to give it a name with adequate stigma attached.Stolen Authority.The name comes from Stolen Valor, which is wearing medals or a...
So there I was, standing in the paper goods aisle of the Piggly Wiggly at 8:45 on a Tuesday evening, having a full-blown crisis over two ply versus three ply. Now, when you’re seven, you think adulthood is going to be magnificent. You...
In an effort to document my life, the things I do throughout the day, and just kind of see where my time goes, I decided to start documenting my routine. Because I’m not working full-time, I have a lot of time where I’m just either doing...
The fireman has left the building.
Portrait of a Budding Marxist Post Nutrition Label Content Type: text Read Time: 7 min Topics: ai, capitalism This is almost certainly hot and mostly incoherent, poorly organized thoughtvomit. The phrase "democratization of art" is a...
The first post in the recent series of posts on Hadamard matrices describes a way of constructing new Hadamard matrices from two other Hadamard matrices by taking their Kronecker product. Starting with a Hadamard matrix H0 and a Hadamard...
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There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback.An anonymous Saxon poet known only as Poeta Saxo, writing in Annales de gestis Caroli magni...
My main gardening goals for today were accomplished this morning! First thing was to harvest the green cabbages. I almost forgot to get a “before” picture, so the first image is after I’d already cut away a couple of cabbage heads. I got...
With 7 principles for keeping your app-data safe I love the idea of embracing the tendency to switch tools as a feature, rather than something to be avoided. Maxim said — I’ve tried keeping tasks directly in Obsidian, using Todoist...
I used to write PAGES of fanfiction. Why is it so hard to write one (1) essay now???
Clifford D. Simak’s speech “Face of Science Fiction” appeared in Minnesota Libraries, vol. XVII, no. 7. (September 1953). He originally gave it to the Minneapolis Branch Library staff. I have not found evidence that the speech appeared...