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Back in January, I raved about the first volume of Solvej Balleās seven-part On the Calculation of Volume, translated from Danish by Barbara J. Haveland. Uncharacteristically, it has only taken me a handful of months to read the second ā and
VOL 6, NO 1 ā
No good read goes unpublished. / Iāve had a very strange three months where a little novel I wrote nearly a decade ago suddenly became a Canadian best seller, sending me onto radio programs, TV and live events around the country, and it was all thanks to a beautiful man called āDangle.ā An unexpected...
TL;DL has a new look. Inspired by classic broadsheet newspapers, the redesigned site puts episode summaries in a layout that's calmer to read and easier toā¦
Something more wonderful has been happening for the last couple of days: the number of people who reached me by email reached (or is about to reach) double digits for the first time sinceā¦ well, since I started having a blog, I think. Oh, and I say āmore wonderfulā because getting the communication Iām already...
OpenAI, in a nameless blog post: Mass shootings, threats against public officials, bombing attempts, and attacks on communities and individuals are an unacceptable and grave reality in todayās world. These incidents are a reminder of how real the threat of violence isāand how quickly violent intent can move from...
In more and more places recently I have seen that people tend to have 1 hyperfixated hobby, 1 thing they spend all their money on and because of that they end up having better art or photography or cycling gear than me or better resources for programing. But even if I put all my resources(labour and capital) into...
I got off to a later start this morning for reasons (I swear I wasnāt being lazy), but still managed to begin my run in the morning, which was important because it was yet again going to be warmer than usual and my body is still adjusting to early June temperatures happening in late April. ... Read more
I was asked today how to make square crops in Acorn while keeping the aspect ratio when you resize the square. Itās pretty easy to do if you know a couple of keyboard shortcuts. First, press the 'c' and 's' keys in quick oder (this is short for ācrop squareā). This will automatically add a square crop to your image....
Yesterday the Open Journal of Astrophysics published a paper by Porredon et al which will feature in the usual Saturday round-up. That paper, which is based on the First Data Release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reminded me that I should mention that DESI recently reached an amazing milestone...
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