About 82 miles this week, maybe 15 of that ran. About 25.5 hours of movement on sidewalks, in the woods, across parking lots, in the streets. A daily average over 11.5 miles. Just over 3.5 hours per day on my feet instead of on my computer, or scrolling through something on my phone. Had some ankle pain earlier in the week, but thankfully that’s gone away. I think it came from some quicker downhill trail running, so I’m gonna ease off that a bit, as I want to make sure I can continue this…

by Joanna Sodeman-Taylor We’re coming to you live from the 64th New York Film Festival with the hottest ticket of the whole event: The Currents short film programs! Program #4 is cheekily subtitled “The Real World”, bringing to you four films with unique narrative and stylistic understanding to one very fair question: How many realities does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Especially at a moment in time where “reality” has become so easy to manufacture, and memories created and destroyed at a…

2026-10-04Hello!Huge discovery. I've been going on and on about making sure the edges of the photographic frame don't create any distractions. I knew this was a common technique in photography composition (or composition in general art), but I didn't have the search term or keyword to look into it any deeper.I found the term: the tangent! And now that I now what to look for, I can accelerate my learning journey.Sorry to anyone who doesn't care for the arts, by the way. I know there are some…

Christa Pike was set to be executed. Until she wasn't, but then it was ruled she could be one of the first women in many years to be legally killed in the state of Tennessee. Then, it went horribly awry, and two doses of a drug that were supposed to kill her failed. She is now on a ventilator and unconscious. In summary, an attempt to kill someone failed, so now she's being kept on life support. America, if we fail to kill you, we'll barely keep you alive! In all seriousness, however, this goes…

Brice Marden, Three Deliberate Greys for Jasper Johns, 1970, oil and beeswax on canvas, 183.2 x 382.8 cm overall, purchased in 1971 by the National Gallery of Canada Shoutout to Abigail Kabaker for guiding Dexter Dalwood’s LRB review of the Jasper Johns show in Bilbao into my timeline. Dalwood’s kicker is an anecdote that now floats free of attribution: “In 1970, the minimalist painter Brice Marden painted a monumental canvas, Three Deliberate Greys for Jasper Johns, and called Johns to ask him…

I had a crash about two weeks ago… on my bike. (Yes, crash not accident.) It sucked, but it’s all my own fault, so at least no one else was involved. Luckily, I caught it all on video! On the way to work I had cut through the cemetery to avoid taking the lane on Burleigh where it’s currently down to one lane due to construction, and coming out of the cemetery I turned a little to tight into the bike lane and went down. Now, since the bike lane is not 100% completed, there’s dirt/mud on either…

A great novel if you like murder, sex between men, grudges, West Virginia, and long sentences. “His eyes were as bright as ever, perhaps brighter, the disc of the pupil appearing to move like a white fire, but his face in general gave the impression of belonging to someone who never expected anything again.” Purdy’s an unusual writer. Beloved by a few, hated by many reviewers, unknown to almost everyone. Didn’t really start writing until he was 40 (he was a Spanish professor at Lawrence College…

The (un)installation bug from the previous post was an overeager directory delete, but a more common problem I’ve seen is this one. Here’s an example from iTunes 2.0: The installer tries to erase a previous version of iTunes using (with root privileges) the rm -rf command. However it doesn’t take into account that volume names can contain spaces. […] When the diskname (partition name) starts with a space the following happens: rm -rf /Volumes/ harddiskname/iTunes.app 2> /dev/null So rm removes…

People often have a sense that all the low-hanging scientific fruit has been picked, or that all the fruit that’s left can only be picked by huge teams with lots of funding. But in fact, there are still lots of projects that are just the right scale for Indie Science. Good ideas too — the big labs miss them because they seem low-prestige, because a null result would be embarrassing, or because they’re not a funding priority. Yet the subjects considered “prestigious” are always changing, as are…

This weekend has been alright, but today and yesterday were a bit boring. Just kinda been laying around, and things have gone by a bit too fast. It's fine, but yet again I just don't feel like going to work. But it's fine, just gotta take things slow, and not let myself get stressed out for no reason.

The AirCo DeHavilland DH2 was a "pusher" scout, introduced into RFC service in February of 1916 in response to the depredations of the Fokker Eindekkers with their interrupted forward-firing machine guns. Though in fact it had been in development for some time, before the so-called Fokker Scourge eventuated.Not having access to a reliable interruptor or synchronizer for their guns, the British simply put the engine and propeller behind the gun instead of in front of it. It thoroughly outclassed…

So I just got the email that Bluesky suspended me for three days for the following post: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg deserve to die more than any two men have ever deserved to die. Any sane society would hang them and then hang everyone who ever associated with them. So you know, if you follow me on that failing social network, expect to see me returned in three days unless they decide they want to perma me instead out of dumb spite. I wanna be clear: I knew I was going to catch account…

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As someone who’s spent more than half of my life outside my native country, I’m always interested in the experiences of folk who go back to their roots, and that’s the case in today’s choice, a recent novel from New Zealand, sent my way by Scribe Publications. Going home will always bring back memories of happier times, but what happens when you’re unhappy with how life is going in your new country, and are ripe for a change? While it’s tempting to think that a move back home might solve all…

Castle Lord Masahiro Motoki (lead of Gemini and Bird People In China) betrays the country’s bigwig warlord and imprisons his messenger (Cloud scammer Masaki Suda). Lord MM hopes for victory with help from some alliances, but the movie isn’t focused on military strategy but minor mysteries that plague the lord until he has to ask his imprisoned envoy for help: a murder, a transformed severed head, a missing teapot. All this non-action culminates in an extended confession by the lord’s wife…

THE HUMAN COMEDY (1943), one of MGM's most beautiful pieces of '40s Americana, was recently released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.William Saroyan won the Best Original Story Oscar for this "slice of life" tale about a small California town. The movie was nominated for four other Academy Awards, including Best Picture and a well-deserved Best Oscar nomination for Mickey Rooney.Howard Estabrook and the uncredited Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay based on Saroyan's story;…

Did you know that October 5 is “James Bond Day”? I didn’t, until everyone started talking about it today on Reddit. Supposedly this because Dr. No premiered in London on October 5, 1962.So, take the day off work, have a martini, and blow-up the lair of an international terrorist. You know, usual holiday stuff.

I saw Linkin Park: Unshatter this weekend with my daughter. Oh man. We ugly-cry-laughed our way through the whole thing. It’s emotional and fun and heartfelt and sad and wholesome and hopeful. And it rocks very hard. The film is directed by Joe Hahn, the band’s DJ, and it follows them from their first tentative studio sessions in 2022 through the release of From Zero and the big show in São Paulo. There’s old vault footage, there are interviews with the band and with fans, and there is a lot of…

parramatta zine fair was last weekend and i had a great time. my zine collection has already outgrown the folder i currently keep them in, but i have no room to make a mini zine shelf so they'll have to stay (delicately) shoved in there for now. i also attended angelhub which was a cool event - good vibe and loved the mini gallery they had set up. i have now migrated this blog onto my main domain of ilovetoxicwaste.net cuz i didn't really see any point in why i split it off into two things in…

Starting a new job has meant I haven’t been getting out to shoot as much as I’d like. I’m slowly getting back into the habit. Here’s a grab bag of photos from the last few months. 🔗 ∙ Tagged in My Photos.

So well put. The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

An American soldier embraces the latest technology and petitions to become an air scout in a newfangled aeroplane. This proves fortunate as soon after, the United States of Europe declares war. Home Media Availability: Released on Bluray and via streaming Up in his flying machine Heavier-than-air flight had made the jump from science fiction to […]

Can this be me? I would love to have the life our cats are living. 😁 Today, the plan was to do the Costco shopping trip. Last night, my older daughter let us know she was feeling like she was coming down with something and would be avoiding contact as much as possible to avoid … Continue reading A non-day

Now that I have everything I need to make my own sheets to stick in my plotter I need to find out what paper I want to use to make inserts for it. This is one of the times where I wish it used standard paper sizes. But there are really good reasons I didn’t go with the A5 size. The narrow size is the perfect size to be able to fit the binder in the sling I have with me everywhere. In the same way my TN did. So after doing some calculations, research and drawing the ideal option for cutting…

The first recording starts with the end of Escape from Scorpion Island. There’s a trail for Ultimate Summer. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Arizona. Steve Backshall meets a Great Horned Owl. He also works with some Harris Hawks. They spend a lot of time looking for a Puma, but don’t find one. He finds a Gila Monster by mistake, the first one he’s ever seen. Another unexpected and very much not deadly find is a tortoise. Finally they find the predator they were looking for – a rattlesnake. Media Centre…

Was it the University of Cambridge economist A. C. Pigou (pictured below) who unwittingly inspired Ronald Coase’s notion of reciprocal harms? We spent most of last week tracing the origins of Ronald Coase’s axiom that harms are a reciprocal problem: the counter-intuitive idea that victims are just as responsible for harms as wrongdoers. Among other possibilities, potential precursors include (1) Wesley Hohfeld’s theory of legal relations, (2) what economist Jim Buchanan has called the “LSE…

StarringNathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, and Adam BaldwinOverviewYou can't take the sky from me.In the year 2517, the universe is a vast frontier where lawlessness reigns and adventure awaits! Join Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his ragtag crew aboard the spaceship Serenity as they navigate the fringes of society, battling the oppressive Alliance and facing off against ruthless bounty hunters.Review Firefly Sometimes you just need the comfort of the verse. Captain Mal and…

This week Nobel Prizes will be announced. Predicting the awardees is a fun annual exercise. It is also good to reflect on what has been achieved, including outside our own areas, and big advances from the past we may now take for granted.Before writing this I looked at suggestions from readers of Doug Natelson's blog, Nanoscale views, an article in Physics World, predictions from Clarivate based on citations, and recent recipients of the Wolf Prize.Not surprisingly, this post is not that…