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Willem Dafoe plays a Greek shipping magnate in The Birthday Party, another barbed critique of life among the obscenely rich. Basing his movie on a 2007 novel by Panos Karnezis, writer/director Miguel Angel Jimenez creates a fictionalized...
Link: Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try, by Sophie Culpepper in Nieman LabI’ve been more excited about this announcement than any other development in either social media...
Was waiting to pick the spouse up not too long ago from an event she had at the Oread. Decided to snap a photo for an edit.
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(warning: raunchy vocabulary, but surmounting the raunch is the point; still, over the line for kids and the sexually modest) Well, a two-word phrase. Which I very carefully framed — in yesterday’s posting “Getting picked” — in this...
Yesterday Levent Alpöge announced that he and his colleagues had discovered a new Hadamard matrix using Claude AI. That motivated a post I wrote this morning on how to construct Hadamard matrices. I mentioned in that post that these...
Photo by David Schultz on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...
The school year is in full swing now. My schedule is, on paper, pretty decent this year. I am going to stay optimistic that the year will at least be decent (I’m working on reframing how I see things). But every first day of the school...
I had a friend who smoked when I was in my twenties. One day she left a cigarette pack at my apartment, and because I was young and was testing boundaries, I grabbed the pack, went out on my balcony and smoked a cigarette. Of course, not...
STEFANIE MATTESON – Murder at Teatime. Charlotte Graham #2. Diamond, paperback original; 1st printing, March 1991. This second installment of the adventures of actress and movie star Charlotte Graham takes place in Maine, where a...
other things said my collecting of insidious offsets Yesterday :: Thursday, 13th August 2026
When I got started in my career I called myself a web designer. I was fresh out of my MFA program and teaching part-time in an Interior Architecture department. I felt closer to design than technology at the time.In those early days of...
Little Blue Pigeon, Denver, CO(Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X) My only regret visiting Little Blue Pigeon is I know it is going to show amazing and beautiful growth in the coming months and years....
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 31st July 2026 It has been a long five years since the last record, 2021’s ‘Deconsecrate’, from Portland Oregon’s progressive black/death metal kingpins Aenigmatum. Well, kingpins when they are...
Planning a hike on Rhode Island’s ~75-mile North-South Trail? Here’s a practical guide to maps, camping, water, resupply, transportation, road walks, side quests, and the other logistics needed to put together an NST hike. Read More ......