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She is swimming upward, damning the way of lifeThe path grows murkier as the sand mixes inShe curses rocks that stab with the strength of a knifeThe trees are not anchors to her knowing chagrinHer vision is tiring,In denial of truthThe dark skies deepen,as she ascends with fervorThe journey now extends,The climb seeming longerHer misguided pursuit defying all orderShe starts to lose her will,The pull getting strongerLosing grip, she’s defeatedShe lays down in...
A week in ancient Athens, exploring the Acropolis and Agora.
We spent a lot of the week with Charlotte’s family in Matlock, starting with a BBQ after they arrived (and just before the nationwide alert 😬) we had a lovely time and I think they enjoyed staying with us. We had booked the week off and it was a great idea, not trying to squeeze any work in. We walked over to Matlock Bath one of the days, hired pedal-boats on the river, and ate chips. The heat was a bit much really but the walk was nice anyway. On Tuesday we came second in...
A week in modern Athens, a worn down yet beautifully vibrant city.
Sitting by a pool. Some people I know; some I don’t. Mixed vibes. Nice weather. Limbo. Disco. Fished today. No bites. Notifications on my phone. Expecting someone to reach out to me. Just a group chat for a geography game. Self imposed loneliness. Want to connect but cannot. Want to be more but cannot. Buy a course. Buy my course. Take a workshop. Purchase a book on how to connect. Patience. Melt into my chair. Disappear. All these people. Yet I am alone. Even the people I...
The idea of “low-hanging fruit” describes something which may be obvious in hindsight which anyone could have discovered, or at least was easier than assumed, but for whatever reason no one noticed until it was pointed out. This elicits the reaction, “Oh…why didn’t I think of that?” Or in mathematics, the recent wave of AI-generated proofs has shown that some conjectures were not as intractable as previously thought. The actual difficulty was that mathematicians did not...
Gun and typewriterBy 1971 Celso Ad Castillo had written and directed a number of features when he was tapped by Fernando Poe Jr. to direct a biopic on one Teodoro Asedillo, a former schoolteacher and police chief turned revolutionary during the American Occupation. Apparently the two were feeling each other out. Ad Castillo may be a veteran filmmaker, having written eighteen scripts and nine features previously, but FPJ (as Poe is popularly known) had at this point...
At the back of my mind this week was the sense that nothing had gone badly wrong, chronic fatigue-wise. I appeared to be living a reasonable normal life doing the things I wanted to do at a pace and capacity that didn’t feel constrained, so maybe I’d cracked it? (For the unaware I’ve been working on pacing to reduce the severity of post-exertion crashes, basically relearning how to be in the world as a disabled person). It was getting a bit spooky as I got through another...
In a city full of “manele”, drugs and illegal car races you don’t survive unless you know how to pay. Sometimes with other’s lives. Young people today are trying to adapt to a world without consciousness, a world of money, unscrupulous businesses. A film-adrenaline with accents of black humor, irony at the society which is run by large rubble and where life is just a currency. One of the good Romanian crime movies, and one of the few movies made in Romania in the early 00s...
The Guardian managed to write almost three thousand words about the history of the modern industrialized two-day weekend—published on a Sunday—without using the word “Sabbath” once. Remarkable.
Time to check in again on Big Finish’s offerings starring the Third Doctor. As with last time, we’re still in the era when Big Finish were reluctant to recast characters whose actors had died (or, in the case of Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, simply hadn’t agreed to work with them), which means we’re still in Companion Chronicles territory. When it came to doing these, Big Finish didn’t really have a wealth of options. Though they’d work with all the members of the UNIT...
The most widely read political theorists of history have arrived at the conclusion that control of natural resources is the greatest asset a budding state can have. Many a war has been fought over access to oil, fisheries, and land. The stupid pricks didn't realize they should've just hopped to World 532, it's only got 139 people online right now. “when they depend upon their own resources and can employ force, they seldom fail. Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have...
The Smith family are on the hunt for a new chair but chaos ensues at the department store during a big sale. There’s matrimonial war at the lingerie counter and the child of the family dabbles in a felony crime spree. Home Media Availability: Stream via YouTube All Sales Final Mack Sennett is associated with […]
we've finally reached the halfway point through august, where "back to school" signs make a lot more sense to see and i check the weather app every day to see if the temperatures are starting to trend downward. right now it is a cooler 80F just in time for this 80TH weekly retro. this week i finished a book, wrote about art mentioned in another, and tried to stick to my art and workout routines as much as possible as i went through the motions of my period. this week...
It’s the middle of the month. I think I’ve posted 12 times? Considering I was aiming for 15, pretty good going. I’m really tired. Happenings My wife started her new job this week, and it’s going well, so I’ve been on childcare most days. I started teaching my eldest child to read, using some handed-down early reading books. He’s doing really well; after 4 short sessions he can read one of them all the way through. It made me really happy. Next week we start the next one....
On the wall at Osteria in Philly: The post “One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well if one has not eaten well.” first appeared on Uncorrected.
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Work Is depressing, I don't really want to write too much. Still have far too much to do, far too little time to do it in, and cannot get on with delivering my strategic objectives while being drawn increasingly into the weeds - despite being instructed to get out of them. With what? Projects I've been working with Claude adding polish to a few personal projects that I've built. Very much taking inspiration from Kev's Pure Blog project, all of these projects are designed...
Werner Herzog has spent six decades making films about people who chase impossible goals in places that don't want them there: a man dragging a steamship over a mountain, conquistadors floating to their deaths on a raft in the Amazon, scientists holed up at the bottom of the world. Long before any of that, he was living the same story himself. Between finishing school and shooting his first real film, Herzog followed a girlfriend to a slum in Manchester, tried to walk into...
Ego Hunter is amazing one-shot scenario for the equally amazing Eclipse Phase roleplaying game: The PCs are all different forks (copies) of the same person who, upon returning home to be merged back into their alpha, discover that their alpha has instead been killed. I loved the adventure so much that I remixed it, creating prep notes and maps that expanded the adventure material and also reorganizing material and creating player handouts to make the running the adventure...
23:09 - Not sure if I'm feeling like shit because I'm overwhelmed with everything or if it's because I forgot to take my meds today. Cried for "no reason" again. I don't know.
Nitsuh Abebe, the new NY Times On Language columnist (see this post), has a new column (archived) on the word scam. Most of it is about how the word is more popular than ever and has expanded its remit to cover “any system, however legitimate, that ends with somebody profiting at your expense”; while mildly interesting, this is just another example of language change at work, and you’d have to be a dedicated peever to work up much outrage about it. But he includes a...
It looks like AI scrapers have been using a surreptitious method of making their marauding presence appear legitimate, this time by appending a bogus query parameter, or tracking tag, to the URL of the webpage they are targeting. In the last month or so, I have seen a stack of page visit items looking something like this: https://disassociated.com/?ref=yourwebsitepage/213page/page/page/14page/16page/page/2page… I’ve replaced the actual website name with the generic...
August 2026. Frome. Pub 6, or 7 (seven) for those on our Frome Roam who had popped off to Palmers Bottle Shop after Just Ales. I can tell you nothing about Palmers, which means it is guaranteed to make the next GBG. The pace was relentless, and some of our group went MIA, or possibly AWOL. Most of us made the Lamb and Fountain, my highlight of the day, the archetypal West Country cider pub. Once again, I refer you to Kentish Paul’s blog for the detail on this heritage pub...
The result of the latest Classics Club Spin has been revealed today. The idea of the Spin was to list twenty books from my Classics Club list, number them 1 to 20, and the number announced by the Classics Club represents the book I have to read before 4th October 2026. The number that has been selected is… 18 And this means the book I need to read is… The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans’ deeps....