Francesca Gino’s lawsuit against Harvard is still ongoing. (The trial, if it gets to that, is scheduled for December 2026) While the case drags on, both sides keep filing documents with the court, and most of those documents are publicly available (htm). This post is about a recent filing: Document #222 (pdf). (this post is...
Our last pre-revolution building, for the last day before July 4, 2026, is one that just made it before the construction cut-off date of July 4, 1776: 273 Water Street was constructed in 1773. This is a house, built for Joseph Rose, used by him and his family until 1807, and with many owners, uses, and alterations after that. The original house was mostly wood-frame, with a brick front facade and a gable roof. The biggest alteration was after a fire in 1904, when the gable was removed and two…
Every judge of your work can be escaped or fooled except one. The advice was go collect your nos. Send so many asks that rejection stops costing anything, and the yeses fall out of the pile. It works, where the asks are cheap. But it smuggles an assumption past you: that a no is a verdict worth collecting in the first place — a single, honest instrument that means the same thing every time it fires. It isn’t. There are four parties who can tell you no, and they are four different instruments…
Mubi is the best described member of a small "Mubic" subgroup consisting of Masmedje, Kajakse, and Zerenkel. The other members are much more poorly described, but enough can be gleaned from published materials to show that they share essentially the same system of subject pronominal suffix series with different syntactic functions. For Masmedje, a short text is provided in Marti et al. (2007), from which much can be gleaned using Jungraithmayr's Mubi grammar. Sentence 3 is particularly…
No one asked for this but hey — good things must be shared! On our recent trip to Switzerland, my wife and I made it a point to try the local produce, as “Made in Switzerland” seemed to be a point of pride. We had heard that Switzerland especially known for its dairy products - milk, cheese, and chocolate being some of its most famous items. Many people know about Swiss chocolate and cheese, but what about the main ingredient in both — milk?! I will say that I have never tasted richer and more…
After I light up, mothically speaking, I usually have a scout about the garden for moths that are activating as it gets dark but not necessarily heading for the trap. I almost stepped on a Pipistrelle bat swooping low to grab one of the little creatures. I got to the ivy at the back of the garden and spotted a Yellow Shell and a couple of Least Carpet nectaring on the nearby wild ragwort. Then, a dark moth was caught in the torchlight. I managed to pot him as he landed, turned out it was a…
“Women the world can lean on” First seen in 2019, Emma Rice’s adaptation of Malory Towers is back on the road this year as part of her selection of revivals hitting theatres across the country. The stage version of Enid Blyton’s beloved book series fittingly has an all-female cast, comprising Robyn Sinclair, Molly Cheesley, Anna Soden, Bethany Wooding, Zoë West, Stephanie Hockley, Eden Barrie & Emily Panes – it also features the legendary Sheila Hancock as the voice of Miss Grayling. This week…
A very fine month indeed, in all sorts of ways. There was a cinema visit, a birthday party, many meals with friends, and a growing sense of contentment with the life I am privileged to enjoy Highlights of the month: Guerilla gardening, still surviving Moved from idno to micro.blog BBQs on the terrace Snagged a lovely bamboo stick for Qi Gong Dogsitting for a weekend Open studios at the Spanish Academy Wandering the old neighbourhood for three hours while the car was serviced Almost private…
For years I was firmly in the mechanical keyboard camp, and specifically a 60% person. No numpad, no function row, no arrow cluster, just the keys I actually used, in a footprint small enough to leave room for the mouse. A handful of boards came and went, but they all had the same shape: clacky, and a bit of a statement piece on the desk. There’s still a couple in the photo on my now page, left over from that era. Lately though, I’ve drifted somewhere unexpected: low-profile, and further than…
Finished reading Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur. Highly recommended, if you couldn’t tell by all my quotations from it. The great gift of strange books like this is a fresh pair of eyes. There’s always something invigorating in a Jungian perspective, even when I don’t end up fully adopting it.
An electric meter at the Prada Marfa art installation by artists Elmgreen & Dragset near Marfa, Texas. The post Today’s Mood: Half Dead, Defective & Rejected appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
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SOLDIERING AND SACRIFICE . This is one of the RSC’s big hitters: five stars everywhere ,and promoted more as comedy than the romantic-chivalric classic it is, Rostand’s 19c tragic epic in hexamers, set in Franco-Spanish wars of the 17c. So, having missed the press night of this adaptation (by Simon Evans and the poet Debris Stevenson), I bought a proper ticket. Can’t miss Adrian Lester, even with the famous Cyrano false nose – and it’s always good to check how these acclaimed shows actually…
A couple of months ago I improved some of our dialogs and this time I worked on some more. Did you know that you can just paste the clipboard’s content into the Dolphin file manager or on the desktop to create a new file from it? Just paste your clipboard’s content to create a new file Tobias Fella added a proper “platform message dialog” for Qt to use. This replaces the hideous Qt Quick message dialogs you could see in some places. With that, we are also finally able to play our message box…
So this is a bit of a regular feature – I’m going to share piece of tech that I’ve been enjoying that doesn’t suck. Because let’s be honest, technology sucks. Here’s something that’s good, fun, and doesn’t take the piss with their terms & conditions. Late last year I’ve stuck in a new system in my house – the Evercade Alpha. I’ve always wanted an arcade machine in my house, and – whilst not an original – this in the office will do. It feels incredibly well made, and I’m able to pull off dragon…
A glance at the Wikipedia entry for Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac shows that it has been astonishingly successful with dozens of stage, film, television, and opera performances. I saw last night the roistering Royal Shakespeare Company production with an astonishing performance by Adrian Lester as Cyrano, and I found myself wondering why the play has been so successful. A provisional answer lies in the fact that I can remember a television version that I now know I watched in…
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Andy Baio, whose blog can be found at waxy.org. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club members. If you enjoy P&B, consider becoming one for as little as 1 dollar a month. Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? Hi, my name’s Andy Baio. I’m a writer and coder living in Portland, Oregon. You might know me from my blog,…
Very late this week, but hey, I never promised an SLA on these weeknotes. Starmer quit as prime minister – or, more accurately, announced his intention to do so – having apparently realised several months later than the rest of the country that he wasn’t going to make it anywhere near the next election. I know there’s no great talent pool in the parliamentary Labour party to draw from, but I still I don’t feel great about the fact that the next PM-designate is just being shooed in based on a…
by BobDaHacker Wow! This is a mistake I’d probably have done on my first semester in college. Not when working for FIFA. Though I do wonder if real humans wrote that code before the fix. My guess is no. I gotta say this person has a lot of self-control.
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 15-16: On the eve of his all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin would claim that it was the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin in particular, who had created a Ukrainian state and, indeed, modern Ukraine itself. Even a cursory acquaintance with the history of the Russian Revolution and the concomitant fall of the Russian Empire indicates that the modern Ukrainian state came into…
A choppy night. The wind swung to the north and strengthened. SPARTINA was exposed to wind and chop coming down about the mile-long fetch of Cape Lookout Bight. A bumpy night, got some sleep somehow.Sleep in, wake to a cool north wind. Hot chocolate and freeze-dried scrambled eggs for breakfast.9:35 sails up with a single reef in the main. 1.8 downwind following the channel that heads south then curves around the shoals. 9:50 round up to shake out the reef. 10:00 jibe to Barden Inlet, making…
dry fittedFeeling a little better today, still sore and painful with movement, but I could manage it. Chopping the pins took me almost an hour. A concession on my part to minimize antagonizing the pain center. It laid flat on the bench with no rocking but the tails and pins weren't fully seated. last oneI didn't forget to do the cutout for the base. Clamped two sides together and drilled a 1" hole. one more last thingUsed rasps to smooth out the undulations for the bandsaw. A few swipes with…
Today’s question is, “What do you do to improve your sleep?” and frankly, I find the question offensive. But if you must know, my current sleep strategy consists of being a night owl until about 3:00 AM, getting a light dusting of unconsciousness, and then waking up for work feeling like I was hit by a bus. If I’m lucky, those three hours of rest are accompanied by vivid, highly stressful anxiety dreams where I’m trying to pass a math test I didn’t study for while being chased by an irate…
Also Available on PatreonOn the June 2026 Monthly Update I talk about what’s been going on with the site and podcast, but also some other things going on in my life and some random thoughts I have. They include:AtmosfearMcFeastMr. MouthAction ParkJaws and Mayor VaughnAmity the TV Series?XTeink (Tiny E-ink Tablet)Progress City PrimerThe Burger King The Planet of the Apes - A Com… Read more
I would never have guessed that so many people online not only don’t know what a Socratic question is, but are so insecure about their ignorance they call such questions “stupid”. But last week a parade of clowns on Bluesky declared that such a question I posed was not only “stupid”, but also not a Socratic question at all because…they believe all Socratic questions follow some kind of rigid and predictable form, I guess. Given that they could simply have consulted the Wikipedia entry I linked…
by Iris Meredith Really good article about literal and metaphorical midwinters and (tech) work.
You’ll probably have heard that PlayStation announced a cease on physical disc production from January 2028. Naturally, there have been plenty of memes but people are generally pissed off by the news. There are petitions, a growth in jailbreaking PS5’s, silence from industry trade body, and signposting the wider ramifications of the decision. I wasn’t going to write about this too much beyond joining in with the memes but hearing stories about what physical media has meant to people in their…
Three special events took place on the Fourth of July in my and my husband's combined family tree:Samuel Schwartz (1883-1954), my maternal great uncle, was born on July 4th in what was Ungvar, Hungary (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine). He came to America in 1904, became a naturalized US citizen in 1909, and got married in Bridgeport, Connecticut, less than a week later. I've been in touch with his grandchildren, my 2d cousins.Thomas Jefferson Isaiah Haskell Wood (1848-1861), in my husband's Wood family…
For all the hype and controversy around AI, I keep coming back to a simple thought: AI is still software. A machine. Not as deterministic as I’d like it to be, but still a machine. So I try to think about it in very unromantic terms and use it for the kind of work machines are good at: cleaning up structure, keeping formats and metadata consistent, turning loose instructions into organized documents, and doing the boring connective tissue work between apps. Inspired by the now-obsolete Arc Max…
