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Desert Brat 2026-08-12 rawr
In our previous post we looked at fixing a super 8 film projector. While watching filme with a real projector has its own charm, it is inconvenient to say the least. First of all you make the entire room properly dark or you can't see...
Power Cat 2026-08-12 zap
Mark Liberman’s Log post inspired me to discuss the very interesting word solidus ‘slash (mark).’ It developed from the name of a gold coin of the Roman Empire, which gave rise to the Latin name for a variety of medieval coins, mostly...
Specula is an agentic system that automates the process of software bug finding through authoring and model-checking a spec for the code. It derives TLA+ specifications automatically from the code, checks code-spec conformance through...
With more people talking about the idea of a dead internet, I find weird comfort in the gaming site Blue’s News, which served as my homepage over 20 years ago and looks pretty much exactly the same now as it did then: You can almost...
Advanced publicity for The End of Oak Street blames a mysterious cosmic event for transporting a typical American suburban neighborhood to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Anne Hathaway, who seems to be everywhere this summer, and...
Tom Peteet: Do You Speak Creatinine or Cystatin C? Some good advice for internists from an internist here. Peteet used to have a blog, but now of course there is a Substack page which is slowly transforming into a social media platform....
The latest contribution to The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is an ostensibly non-fiction article, from the June 1929 issue of Ghost Stories. Henry Ward Beecher (L) and Isaac K. Funk (R) — the central characters of this “true...
23:23 - If you like electronic pop and understand kindergarten-level Mandarin I highly recommend listening to Chinese American Bear. They are so fun and sweet. Currently listening to "Home" and it might be my fav song on the album.
There are at least four different Heated Rivalry shows at the Fringe this year. Earlier this week we saw Edinburgh Fringe - Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody!. This is different because it is the unauthorized musical parody. Oh, and it...
Like a lot of people, in 1990 I bought Queensryche’s fourth album, Empire, because the song “Silent Lucidity” was such an effective clone of that big, spacey Pink Floyd sound. I’ve said before that if you dropped the song onto either of...
I saw the total eclipse in 1999 down at Lake Balaton in Hungary. Today was the closest we had in the UK since then, and we had about 93% totality in Gloucestershire. Went up to Uley Bury to view it. I had a home made eclipse viewer, as...
Hey, so, it’s Wednesday, when I try to share a couple of Boston-centric lists: One with area (mostly indie-ish, rock-ish?) shows happening in the next seven days, and another with new show announcements. So I guess I’ll do that. But...
I've got to admit, I thought I'd be well past the point in posting my reviews from Fantasia where I talked about how I saw something else because this was already listed as a coming attraction at the Coolidge so I knew I'd be able to see...