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I doubt if I am the only one who gets fatigued from the constant use of the phrase “magic bullet” in school reform. Most often the words disparagingly describe reforms that once pumped up hopes for solving serious school problems … Continue reading →
Carnival-like US Open – Flushing, New York Did you guess where we were going for our first New York City event? We headed to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. That’s where they host the US Open every year at the end of August. I’m only a modest tennis fan, but my wife […]
Molinard is a house whose name echoes my own; I find the "Miller" of Italy to be quite the interesting fragrance house. Fragonard, Molinard, and Galimard are all Grasse firms whose lineage stretches back into the 18th and 19th centuries, with Molinard citing 1849 on the purple boxes of its "Les Fleurs" range. I've always wanted to own the now-discontinued Violette EDT, and finally got a chance to
I love what Jason Calhoun has to say about this first song from his upcoming album revelations of divine love: I enjoy working with abstracted, gestural melody that isn’t necessarily connected to a traditional beat. The tapping ‘bass drum’ rhythm in ‘tolstoy tatsoi’ offers a subverted sense of rhythm which feels disjointed yet in place […] The post Jason Calhoun – revelations of divine love first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.
Ghost train is best train.
When I started blogging in 2004, I had one site where anything could go. Any topic. Short or long posts. It didn’t matter. I didn’t care to focus on one...
My uConsole computer finally arrived after a 10-month delay. I started kicking the tires by installing fun software on it, and quickly realized it’d run better if it looked cool. Here’s how I did it. Change the boot image Raspberry Pi OS uses Plymouth to make show a boot splashscreen. By default, it displays the image file at /usr/share/plymouth/themes/pix/splash.png. I’m sure there’s a “better” way to do this, but I simply replaced that file with my own 1280x720 image (to...
In June 2026, the Salish Lodge & Spa celebrated its 110th anniversary. Perched above the magnificent and sacred Snoqualmie Falls, the lodge opened in 1916 as Snoqualmie Falls Lodge. Since that time, millions of people have visited the 268-foot waterfall, so naturally there are plenty of postcards for people to remember their trips. This card... The post Snoqualmie Falls and Lodge Postcard by Ellis Postcard Co. – 145022 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
Spending the day with the grandkids. And today my grandson and I decided to climb a few trees. Actually he decided to climb a few trees. I just snapped the pictures. And it was good. Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my … Continue reading "Today I Climbed Trees"
Back in late 2022 when I built my current desktop computer, I opted for a mini-ITX case rather than the typical huge ATX case. I’d been interested in liquid cooling for a long time, and for such a small case, it seemed like the best fit. Liquid cooling promises superior cooling performance, quieter operation, and is better suited for compact builds which lack space for high air flow rate. Things didn’t work out that well: my PC has been quite noisy, and I had suspicions of...
emmaburnett.uk via bookshop.org It’s been two weeks since my novella was released, and the actions of my publisher, and the online response this has generated, have made it impossible for me to market my book. From what I can tell, the whole project has tanked.Emma is a friend of Foofaraw and is an absolutely wonderful writer. This is Emma’s first book and you should run to the Bookshop.org link and buy a copy in print or digital (or both like me). It sucks that she ends...
This post is by Phil. Some time ago I wrote some thoughts about “Neuromancer” ( https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/12/what-does-neuromancer-have-to-teach-us-about-the-role-of-ai-is-society/ ), which features two kinds of artificial intelligence, one of which seems like it could be realized with a Large Language Model, i.e. we … Continue reading →
After visiting the Yanesen area a month ago while walking between Ueno and Nippori, we made a re-visit, this time checking out the recommendations of some friends who live in the area. First stop on the list was armadillo bakes&coffee, a little cafe near Sendagi station.
The Lowe Institute published another of their excellent annual reports on Australian public sentiment. The polling results are unsurprising: Cactus spines are produced from specialized structures called areoles, a kind of highly reduced branch. Areoles are an identifying feature of cacti. As well as spines, areoles give rise to flowers, which are usually tubular and multipetaled. That’s clearly the wrong article. Let’s try again: Australians are wary of Donald Trump’s...
🇳🇴 Gotta say, that stadium collective boat row thingy is my favourite group football action since the Mexican wave.
For some reason my family has phenomenally crappy luck with Macbooks. Our second one in three years just died, right as my wife was needing to put together some slides with it. The thing is completely and utterly unresponsive, suffering the same mysterious fate as its predecessor three years ago. But that’s a story for another day once I have a chance to dig more into it. The main thing is that we were down a computer and my wife still needed something to get work done on....