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“Do people like us read too many books about people like us? “ From The Lisbon Traviata, Act II. Thank you to Tim Dunn especially and please check out the show if you are in the hudson valley. link here
Two weeks ago, I got a bacterial infection on one of my fingers (paronychia—don’t google it). I ignored the problem for a couple of days, then when it started to become unignorable, I finally looked for a dermatologist at 7pm on...
Frederick Cayley Robinson was an Engliah painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He carried some of the style and approaches from the late 19th into the early 20th, even as they were fading in...
I picked up for a pound a weird DVD combining some olde Scottish musical shorts and a couple of short silent comedies starring and made by Rikki Fulton in the 50s. I figured I’d get intertitles and also some Awful British Comedian...
I really liked Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls so when I saw a copy of Girls In Their Married Bliss for £1 in a local charity shop, I snapped it up even though it had the worst cover you could possibly imagine. This is the second and...
It’s fun being on the “trailing edge” of technology, when you get to catch-up on things you’ve always wanted to find out about, at a price you can afford. To that extent, I’ve been collecting optical media and drives, enjoying the...
As I mentioned last week, the Department of Physics will be hosting an Eclipse Event, this week on Wednesday August 12th. This sold out very quickly so we expect a good turnout. In the last few days we have been featured prominently in...
Photo of Tracy Arm after megatsunami on 10 August 2025 (from Wikimedia) 9 August 2026 A year ago, on 10 August 2025, a mega tsunami flooded the Tracy Arm fjord south of Juneau, Alaska. It began at the foot of the South Sawyer Glacier....
This was a work-heavy week. I also fell sick in the latter half of the week (a cold, blaming the weather). I’ve almost recovered now. This Friday, I finished reading Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky. I really enjoyed it (having read...
Vera by Laura Casparybook published 1943film released 1944 My old friend Sergio Angelini has a wonderful podcast called Tipping My Fedora (following on from his blog of that name) looking at All Things Noir. Tipping My Fedora | Sergio...
Ivory has this feature where, when you remove an account from your client, you can also link to the admin UI to delete it. I thought that, because I'm the admin on my instance, it would let me delete that account, but no it was deleting...
The “valley of ashes” as portrayed in a graphic-novel adaptation of The Great Gatsby: A pile of coal ash in the dump created in the swamp adjacent to the Flushing River, circa 1920: The site was drained and cleaned up for the 1939-40...
i did make another zine this past fortnight but otherwise feel like i haven't worked much because fallen aces episode 2 came out and i haven't done much else but play that. i'm a big fan of the game, so i was very excited when it finally...
Sunday Asides #107 OpenAI recently hosted a brand trip, which had mixed results according to social media. Most of the backlash was wrapped in general anti-AI rhetoric, but I find it funny (and odd) how so many modern influencers view...