Lead photo by Joao Canziani Confidante Angie Smith Heidi: After 25 years working in photography, what inspired you to launch Confidante, and what gap did you see in the way creative teams find images? Tell us about the name, too. Angie: I moved to Mexico City in late 2022 and that set off a number of monumental life changes. I moved to an entirely different country, got married and then helped my husband beat cancer. Before moving to Mexico, I had been an editorial photographer for about 20…

Guys, if you ever want a 3D sculpted cake like this: ...and your baker claims she can make a cupcake cake (patooie!) look just like it, DO NOT BELIEVE HER. On the plus side, I hear hippo skin rugs are all the rage now in child therapy sessions. *** They asked for a book cake of The Great Gatsby: NAILED IT. *** You know, when *I* was a kid they didn't have all these new-fangled flavored fillings: *** "Ok, ma'am, your cake has room for three lines of text.""Great! I'd like 'Mazel Tov' on the…

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, ch. 2 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Romans 8:13 ESV

2026-10-27Hello! Yes, I'm getting my money's worth from my trip to New York City. So many interesting photos came from that walk — it really helped.Along with my other experiments with exposure, I tried to create the radial blur effect in camera. I think it's also called the "zoom-blur" effect, but that term has been dominated by conferencing platforms trying to hide the background of their webcam view...I stopped here because I found the violet-blue flower color to be visually striking. With…

Okay methods geeks …. this one’s for you! I was asked to contribute a book chapter on the development of our six-step model for doing foresight work, known to the Houston Foresight family as Framework Foresight. It’s important to understand that we are part of a larger foresight ecosystem. Framework Foresight is the Houston version […] The post Six Steps of Foresight first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

If you are reading a monster manual, fiend folio, creature compendium or similarly alliterative literature, invariably organized alphabetically, monsters will start to blur together the deeper into the alphabet you get. I understand that a marrow isn’t a mermaid, but honestly is there enough of a difference to justify a separate page or should we just use the stats of a sea-bear for both? However, two monsters toward the end of any alphabetical almanac of abominations are so different that even…

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The Last Quarter Moon is Monday November 2. Occultation of Beta Tauri 29th. Daytime occultation of Jupiter Tuesday November 3. Saturn is past opposition, but still magnificent in telescopes. The waning Moon is between Mars and Jupiter low in the morning sky on the 3rd. In the evening. Mercury is lost in the twilight. The Last Quarter Moon is Monday November 2. The Moon at perigee, when it is closest to the Earth, on October 29, difficult occultation of Beta Tauri is also on the 29th. Daytime…

Anthropic is a frustrating company. Sometimes it will do things I greatly appreciate, including at substantial cost. They have taken bold stands, have a unique governance structure and have hired and worked to establish a relatively strong (but I think still inadequate) safety culture. Other times, it will do things that are deeply disappointing. It produces very good models. That too is not entirely a good thing. One can both be the best given the alternatives, and insufficient to meet the…

Getty Images files for bankruptcy how to make fruit leather notebook company Hobonichi’s history, design and future Went to see The Owl Service play at the Fickle Pickle last week and I may have bought quite a lot of CDs from the merch table: OPERATIONS: Planning to get at least a dozen pages out the door today.STATUS: Fell back a bit last night, lost too much time to processing stuff on the phone. In my defense, I am in the middle of handling a lot of bank-related stuff, and I lost a lot of…

"It's not tragic to die doing what you love." A new FBI agent (Keanu Reeves) goes undercover with a surfing gang, who are suspected to be responsible for a recent string of bank robberies. He befriends their charismatic front man (Patrick Swayze) and gets into the surfing lifestyle himself. Keanu as a buttoned up FBI agent makes no sense, so it’s funny that they put him in a film where he has to “pretend” to be a surfer dude. It kind of does track in a film where the unusual dynamic between…

## The Big Idea A feature answers the request in front of you. A capability answers the requests you haven't gotten yet. Knowing which to build is a skill - and most of us learn it the hard way. ## The feature request that was really a capability At [Craftwork](https://craftwork.com), we visit some sales leads in person before we quote their project. I'd just built a map view of our leads, and the team was using it. Then a request came in: could the map highlight leads with on-site visits _this…

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STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE RECIPE REVIEW Roasted Halibut with Potato Chip Crust · Simply Ina, page 119 ★★★★★ 4.8/5 Flavor | 5/5 Effort | Easy Ingredient availability | Moderate Make again? | Absolutely Make It Ahead | NoBest for | Weeknights / Casual Entertaining Season | Year-round Dietary fit | Nut-free / Pescatarian / No pork Tips: 1. If you can’t find fresh halibut, look for frozen. And no need to splurge on halibut! Thick cod or haddock fillets would work beautifully here, too. Just adjust the…

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It’s 4:40 p.m. in January and the sun has already packed up and left. Your boots are still wet from this morning, and the driveway needs shoveling again. Sound familiar? That’s Canada for you. Winter doesn’t show up for a weekend, it moves in like a roommate who never pays rent. So how do people […] The post How Canadians Entertain Themselves Through Six Months of Winter first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

As AI technology gets adopted at a never-seen pace, we also need more people to work on AI Safety to make sure that AI applications are actually safe and aligned. Because AI generates content and decisions faster than humans, this is a very interesting research problem: humans cannot verify AI alone, so we need smarter technology to do it. In the interview below Ryan Kidd, the CEO of MATS, talks about the efforts they (and others) are doing to train people in AI Safety. Throughout the…

Plenty of criminals are stupid and contemptible. Among the lowest of the low are the ones who hate police officers and prosecutors personally. They are too dim to comprehend an honest officer who is just doing his job. And so they sometimes seek revenge in ways that make no sense even from the standpoint of heartless self-interest.President Donald Trump’s administration evidently has a similar mindset. It has fired personnel in the FBI, the Justice Department and the military who, in previous…

It is hard to write a book in the second person. It is even harder to make it this good. It would have been easier to write a salacious cash-in with a dozen shocking revelations in each chapter. Instead, Andrew Hankinson attempts to use Raoul Moat's own words to build up a picture of the man. You have nine days and your whole life to prove you are more than a callous murderer. Go. It is written with sympathy, but without being sympathetic. A stream of consciousness interrupted only occasionally…

And ah, the fading light of the falling sun going down after another day here in Purgatory.Beauty goes anywhere it chooses. I know this as much as I know there is a sky above and the ground below. I know that the moon has shown its face differently and currently, the autumn moon holds a few colors, which are enough to change a sullen moment into a hopeful idea that life can change at any given moment.I do believe in beauty.And like I said, beauty can go anywhere it chooses because no matter how…

My personal definition of animism: the whole dang thing is alive and talking.

Tafoni – you may not have heard the term but the chance are, if you have visited an ocean shore, (or less likely a desert!) that you have seen them with your own eyes. Essentially they are caves (mostly in miniature) and their formation can often result in beautiful patterns. Yet why are they formed in the first place? Image Credit Flickr User Dawn Endico Image Credit Flickr user Dawn Endico Found in all types of climates, tafoni are most common in tidal areas and, conversely, in deserts. There…

Today’s TDC says Read a nursery rhyme aloud in a bad snobby accent. Now, last week when we were out for a drink a pal told me I always sound posh, so here’s a nursery rhyme in my own acccent This is a rhyme mum said to us every time she dried our hair – I can’t find this exact version online. I still say it to myself every time I dry my own hair. Rub a dub dub Rub a dub dub Three men in a tub The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker All wrapped up in a rotten potater Green peas, tuppence a…

Here we go again. Today Fujifilm introduced the instax MiniEVO 2, yet another in their long line of instant cameras. Like the instax Pal 2 that was introduced earlier this fall, we again get the panda-style legacy look popularized by the X100 models and now popping up nearly everywhere in Fujifilm’s lineups.First off, good on Fujifilm for establishing clear branding. Nikon has pretty much gone for a DSLR branding (other than the Zfc, Zf, ZR), and Sony seems to have mostly locked in an Alpha…

It’s really hard to write about this game without spoiling anything. If you plan to play it, do yourself a favor and go in completely blind. I’ll hide any story stuff behind a spoiler wall, but I’ll talk a bit about the mechanics and how they differ from the main game. I’ve written and gushed about the main game, so it seems only natural to write about the DLC too. Let’s start by talking about the scope a bit. The main game had you flying around a whole solar system, piecing together story…

before the teeny dovetailsThe finish is done and the Soss hinges are getting secured. There is a 'space' on both sides of the hinges for a screw and I'm only using one screw on the box and one on the lid. hmm......Hindsight sucks pond scum. It would appear it would have behooved me to screw the lid first and then the box. I stopped here and went to the VA to get the Rx pulmonary put in this friday past. This got done before I started the next box.The trip from the front door of the VA to the…

If you have an expression in n Boolean variables, how long does it take to find out whether some assignment of values to the variables makes the expression true? There is an obvious upper bound: you can find out in 2n steps by exhaustive search, trying all possible ways of setting each variable to true or false. You can often do better than exhaustive search for a particular problem, but can you always do better, even in the worst case? The Monien–Speckenmeyer branching algorithm, published in…

In the kitchen, I’ve got this humongous sansevieria plant… Well, actually, it’s a number of plants in the same pot: This sansevieria variety has only a single leaf per plant, and then it propagates by setting out a new rhizome that then has a single leaf. Allegedly. So when I bought it a decade ago, it was just one little leaf that poked up, and I’ve been repotting it gradually until it’s now reached the biggest size of this series of terracotta pots (which is the only series I use — having the…

I bookmarked a story in the Times Higher a couple of weeks ago, with the intention of doing a post about it, and then promptly forgot. Such is the effect of old age. Anyway the story is about the the fact that Lancaster University is undertaking a disciplinary investigation into one of its staff, Mike Ryder, who wrote a blog post of his own with the title Why are universities so bad at marketing? I’ve linked to it in order to boost its readership. He’s also done a video with the same title: The…