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One of my professors back in film school had this grotty turn of phrase—"the deflowering of the gaze,"[1] by which he meant to describe the feeling of how, once you learned to analyze movie (or even worse, to make them) you never really...
I’ve been cleaning and putting away a lot of pens as they run out of ink lately. Now I’m at a point I think is a good place. My three metal Kaweco Sports pens Lamy 2000 Pilot Custom 823 TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR FC Pocket 66
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Aiding the Enemy. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is...
Skalah and Novelist at the ElephantGreat new track from up and coming Skalah with grime veteran Novelist. 'I'm from the town, I'm from the zone, I'm from the South of the Thames...I'm a navy boy in a navy world, I represent Brockley and...
Magical musical musings care of the marvellous John Matthews. The Durutti Column formed in Manchester in 1978 and were one of the first acts signed by Tony Wilson to Factory records. Originally a short-lived group, over the last 40 years...
After the cops nab father Peter Graves (star of Parts: The Clonus Horror), false priest Robert Mitchum moves in and takes care of mother Shelley Winters, then starts working on the kids to reveal their bank robber dad’s missing loot...
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This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut, held August 16, 2026. This was the club's first work of fiction, and much of the discussion is about what that mode makes possible: getting inside the...
After spending 2 posts talking about how badly these local AI models are doing on my machine, I did want to show a example of the model performing surprisingly well. Using qwen 3.5 I asked it to describe the following image: A photo...
Sort of a follow-up to my previous post: I went jogging for the first time in ten years. I mentioned at the end of that post that my knee was hurting the day after my first jog, but as the day went on the pain went away. That had me...
In 2023, I was in need of a new laptop that should hopefully last me for a while. While looking at my options, I was seduced by Framework’s promise of a repairable and upgradable laptop that supports Linux out-of-the-box without weird...
I fed some of my songs through Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to see what would happen. That may sound like the precursor to a joke --a joke that will allow me to spend several paragraphs detailing the hilarious, whacked-out observations...
I bought a Zune, but not just any Zune, the Halo 3 edition Zune. You might be asking yourself, "why?". You probably know by now that my favorite games are the original Bungie-era Halo games. Halo 3 of course being my favorite. And as my...
I occasionally hear middle-aged people wax nostalgic about how great college was. Often, they say it was the best time of their life. This has always seemed odd to me. I'm sure many people are happiest in university, but I have a hard...
In the late 80s, a manager at Microsoft named Paul Maritz sent an email to a colleague suggesting they “eat their own dogfood.” What he meant was that LAN Manager, a product he oversaw, should get more internal use. How could they build...