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ID's recent sports-crime series had an outside shot at doing something different, and didn't take it.
481 posts in 4 years. Last year
“The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us." - Friedrich Nietzsche LLMs are incredible tools for generating code, and the frontier models can often build complete...
Today sees my 26th review for Elizabeth Ferrars, yet this is still only about a third of her output, so I won’t be running out of her books anytime soon. One thing I have noticed in certain corners of 1970s and 80s crime fiction is a...
My initial thought was that FlipToons was an inoffensive filler that I had an unfortunately bad experience with. Having played a second time, I am revising my opinion. It offends. Rating — Avoid. FlipToons 2 sucked the joy out of my life...
Sometimes what starts out as a cute idea for a cake can go very, VERY wrong.That's where I come in.Ready?I *think* this is a groom's cake. Let that visual sink in for a moment.(Get it? "Sink in?") Because it only gets worse from THIS...
Sent to us as part of Kimberly’s Laban Pens - A Quick Comparison, the Laban Taroko is an excellent offering from this Taiwanese maker. I have one Taroko in their Pinnacle material, with a Fine Steel nib, to give away this week, so read...
More experienced (aka older) readers might recall the Knowledge Management movement of the 1990s and 2000s. In short, better tagging and organizing of data would make finding and applying knowledge easier and be a competitive advantage....
My Australian Census is complete. A lot easier doing it online compared to when we used to fill in paper forms like animals.
Release Information Artist Talk Less, Say More Title England Without Rain Date February 26, 2012 Download Bandcamp Introduction In my 2013 review of England Without Rain I concluded by saying: Possibly the biggest compliment I can pay it...
Giant foxtail a.k.a. Japanese bristlegrass, Joncaire Street, 6 August 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 11 August 2026 On a walk last week on Joncaire Street near Schenley Park I was struck by the size and diversity of the weeds by the...
did it even make sense to compose an anti-technology manifesto on an internet-connected device? Would I be able to resist the pull of email, news, and “research” in a time of unbearable stress? No, I needed to write my book the old way....
What you most want is what you most can't have. And what you most can't have is what you already had... and lost. You might be wondering how I know that you're awesome! Because I know you read this via RSS.
Privilege comes and privilege goes. I've had stretches in my life where I lived frugally out of necessity, not because I had a hidden virtue. Later in life, with debts paid off, we managed to save some dough for retirement. Well,...
It is a brave children's show which starts with the song "I'm a smooth muthafukker"… This is sort of a live-action XKCD cartoon. A frenetic troupe of performers are decked with hand-drawn portraits and then… well, it is somewhere between...