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I’m officially on my summer break. My last singing workshop was just over two weeks ago. But that doesn’t mean I’m taking it easy or lazing by the pool. Here’s what I’ve been up to. Most people don’t realise how much behind-the-scenes...
Current stage of pregnancy: week 12 GA; week 10 FA; 12,5 cigarettes since the beginning of pregnancy Baby update✴We're almost done with week 12. I think I finally have a bump. The fold between the belly and pubis area is filling up, my...
My mother taught me to read using a set of word cards. I can see her holding them up in front of me in the corner of the vicarage dining room in the winter-dark. I see myself as very small. Four, perhaps. Many significant things happened...
I just went through the queue of submissions to blogroll.org and probably deleted 95% of what was in there. This is not unusual, and has become more and more common lately. A big reason for this is clearly AI. The amount of slop...
Simon Willison has an amazing personal benchmark that he uses on any new AI model that comes out: "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" The outputs are as funny as they are informative about the AI model. The pelican is very...
Flirtations advert, Record Retailer, 29 May 1969, page 21 Originally formed as The Gypsies with three sisters – Betty, Ernestine and Shirley Pearce plus their friend Viola Billups, New York-based The Flirtations were originally brought...
There are a lot of people now making software for the first time. In many ways it's wonderful. We have to admit however, that the raw volume of bad software has gone up.We seem to call that bad software slop these days. Well, we seem to...
Andy Warhol is unavoidable. Still present. Despite being quite dead since 1987. Now he resides in some artistic firmament. Beyond our sphere. Floating free in a cloud of familiarity. Remembered for 15 minutes, Brillo Pads, Campbell's...
Translated by Bryan Karetnyk August is Women in Translation Month and I’ve chosen to start with a collection of short stories by an author often described as Japan’s first professional woman writer of the modern era. Born Higuchi Natsuko...
Okay. This got out of hand.
1961 war, dir. J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn: IMDb. The guns on the Greek island have to be destroyed, and only a small team…
After a week in Japan, with stories new and old, it’s time for a change of destination in our Women in Translation Month travels as we head off to Germany. It’s the 1960s, and the economy is booming, meaning there are plenty of...
Subject: Final reminders Dear Nature Wonder Wishing Family, We’re so excited to have your child with us at Nature Wonder Wishing Camp next week. Please make sure that you read the parent guidebook and the camp code of conduct. You can...
A little over a year ago the mountain by my house caught on fire, and I was really upset about it - because it was most likely caused by illegal fireworks. At the time I wrote a post here about it, and included a couple of pictures. I...
Duncan Rawlinson created this work using artificial intelligence to explore a ceramic rupture. A rigid green door-slab has blown free, releasing a thick red flow studded with intact yellow vessels. The torrent carries cups and bowls...