Knot in 3D. The short, simple title printed on the side of this game’s case is both a neat little pun as well as the entire premise of the experience residing on the tape within. I am going to make a knot. In 3D. But it’s also not actually in 3D, in the digitally constructed visual sense. Clever stuff. But that can’t be it, surely? That has to be something more, some little trick or neat idea waiting to be discovered, some hidden depth to be revealed. Ah, no. The “manual”, all single side of…

6% ABV is a reasonable strength for an IPA. Today I've got two new releases from DOT Brew, both in that style at that strength.The first boasts of its specific hops, and is called Citra Strata Citra. It's bright yellow and a little on the hazy side, though I suspect isn't supposed to appear fully murked. Double the Citra is apparent from the aroma, which is predominantly zesty lemon, with only a little of Strata's softer tropicals. The first sip brought a surprise: this is thin. I was expecting…

Another week in the bag and a lot of metal to get into. It’s also Bandcamp Friday so let’s get out there and show some support. Hails! Imperious Mortality - death - DenmarkIntestinal Sodomy - death - USAAnima - death - BulgariaViled - death - EcuadorDeconsekrated - death - ChileUngraceful - death - USAExsudation - death - CanadaHekatoxen - death - FinlandNihilus - tech death - IndiaDissimulator - tech death/thrash - CanadaWays to the Grave - death/prog - USAOrigin’Hell - death/thrash -…

If your landscape sketch doesn’t turn out the way you want, it doesn’t mean you’ve chosen a bad subject or that you can’t sketch. Often flat-looking or confusing paintings come from not having a clear structure for your landscape sketch. To capture what interests you in a scene and show it on paper, you can ... Read more Source

01 Apple · INDEX · 03 Miniature Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper When I was growing up we had a vintage black bakelite telephone with a handset similar to this one. The cord was straight with a woven covering like household irons of the same era. I’ve taken artistic license in giving this phone a curly cord.

Source The Japanese huchen, also known as the Sakhalin taimen, is a large anadromous salmonid emblematic of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, where it is called ito. This beautiful specimen was caught—and then released—by big-fish hunter Kozo Okubo. Sakhalin Taimen Before the web, the only thing you might find on this fish would be its name and location. Everything has changed. This is a rare sea going taimen. Source Its range is limited and it is in trouble. I saw some videos where a guy, I…

Two sources this week ended on the same question, what can you do with consciousness exploration. Here is what it did.

Good morning, an early start today with a bumper update! Pre-coffee here, but I won’t object if you get yourself one now, let’s take a look at the workbench this week…The weathering book is slowly progressing, things are shaping up nicely and I’ve enjoyed quite a number of the projects included. Many of these will be for sale when the book is finished, I must add, and a full list will appear in time. I picked up this Bachmann class 47, the penultimate locomotive to weather, because of the Lima…

In this year his most famous student sported only yet some bumfluff, but the future great beard was already reading much and “dilligent”. And his self-consciously handsome teacher… well so much was set out for the future here: translating almost all of the Bard, meeting with Hörner, teaching on Homer, promoting Quixote, chatting elephants, juggernauts, India/EIC-hatreds, with GWFH as ‘the enemy camp’, cosmopolitainism, university politics, criticism and more. Before then, AW Schlegel was the…

I have built myself an /elsewhere page to collect my public work (other than this blog and VerseNotes).

I sat down with the folks at AI21 Labs for their YAAP podcast at the AI:Engineer World Fair, and we went deep on something I've been chewing on for most of this year: almost every decision in computing for the last forty years was made with a human in the loop, as the reader, the writer, or the operator. What happens when that stops being true?YAAP by AI21 Labs — "Your Code Doesn't Need to Be Readable Anymore" (21 minutes)Here's the gist, written up properly, plus chapter links at the bottom if…

Well, it finally happened: I became German this week. Even writing this out is surreal. It is a culmination of years of living far away from my family, choosing another culture that is similar but truly different in almost every conceivable way, and living day by day knowing that my entire identify and livelihood was tied to my having a job and being a productive member of German society. Over the years, that last point has really started to grind against my inner peace: it is beyond a…

There's something wonderfully comforting about a hot sandwich, and this one is truly special. Built on a soft potato roll and layered with lots of deli turkey, smoky bacon, rich cheddar and a ranch mayonnaise, it delivers that perfect balance of flavours that makes every bite feel indulgent and satisfying.Perfectly sized for one in my quest to create delicious small-batch meals that feel every bit as hearty and joyful as cooking for a crowd. Wrapped in foil and baked until the cheese melts and…

Most of my photos are never seen by anyone. Not even my family and friends. I take a fair number of them, though nothing like what I shot twenty years ago, and only a tiny fraction ever makes it out of my computer. A photo per post on Substack, another as a postcard every month, a few in a zine every once in a while, that’s pretty much it. I didn’t grow up in a social media world, I don’t feel that I need to constantly share to exist. The rest lives on hard drives. I edit them, sometimes print…

I am not sure why I suddenly had the idea that I needed to look more into “design”. I think I was reading the absolutely beautiful magazine The Road Rat - which is a study in great design and in many ways is as much a design or photography magazine as a car-one. I have always loved cars and especially loved great and/quirky designs. This love of great design goes beyond cars and merges into bikes, furniture, buildings etc.

Yesterday I went to four museums run by outer SW London boroughs. You can only do all four on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Below is my summary addressed across seven categories. I also awarded a score out of five to help me decide which is best. Museum of Richmond Open: Tue-Fri 11-5, Sat 10-4 (closed Sun, Mon) Address: 2nd Floor, Old Town Hall, Richmond, TW9 1TP Website: museumofrichmond.com Building: Top floor of the Old Town Hall, bang in the town centre near Richmond Bridge. Feels very…

The Iran War: New Revelation Makes Clear This Thing Isn't Going to End Anytime Soon There have been three big developments on the Iran front in the last 48 hours or so. If you are someone who is hoping for an end to hostilities with Iran—and we assume that describes nearly all Americans—then you're not going to like this item. Click here for full story

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A fire ring at an archaeological site, an unleashed dog where dogs are prohibited, and a reminder that protecting public lands means more than saying we value them. The tragedy of the commons, backcountry edition. Read More ... Continue reading Tragedy of The Commons at PMags.com.

🔗 Ownership If I ask you “can you own this?” or “can you take care of this?” or “are you on it?” — what I’m doing is I’m asking you to own it, to own the solution of a problem from end to end. From “we have a problem” to “we don’t have to think about it again.” A great example of the kinds of things you need to consider when you own a thing. There's heaps and they're all important.Comment by email

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I never realized I hate apples. Done in Procreate on a crusty old iPad Pro. With more time I’d fix up the leaf. Or swear off apples. One or the other. Thirty more to go!

Hi Crowd! Christian nationalists are dumb. No really. A new study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion finds that “Americans with lower scores on a vocabulary test commonly used to measure cognitive ability are more likely to endorse Christian nationalist beliefs, even when accounting for their overall level of education.” This builds on previous research showing significant knowledge gaps in Christian nationalist adults which is most often explained by “motivated…

So this week I was nominated for an award and on the one hand, I intend to milk this incredibly from now until December 2, which is when there’s a gala awards dinner and I’ll need to use my “oh, very well done, you deserved it” face talking to the winner. But that’s one hand and this is the other. Alan Plater once said about awards for writers that if you buy enough tickets, eventually you win the raffle. Mind you, he also said “don’t let the BAFTAs get you down.” I realise with a truly…

With this narra/Sitka spruce 00 and East Indian rosewood/sinker redwood OM about to enter the ugly stage as I install bindings, I thought it was an opportune time to photograph them. With ebony bindings in place, I'm sure they'll emerge from this process looking very smart!Cheers, Pete

I was part of two conversations recently that covered two extremes of what we are talking about when we discuss AI and schooling. The first was an episode of the AIR|GPT podcast where we discussed the disaster that is Alpha School. We had actually talked about the Alpha School model in a previous episode but […] Source

I brought my C=TAR to Bergen for an hour of live SID music. Enjoy game soundtracks by the old masters along with some of my own tunes from recent years.

Penitent Saint Peter by Jusepe de Ribera, 16321Back to my childhood fear of mannequins, how I couldn't enter a department store without bursting into tears. My mortified parents would scoop me up and cover my eyes, encouraging me to be brave. Today I stand in museums and happily marvel at ancient statues, awed by fleshy marble. Why are mannequins scary but sculptures are sublime? Maybe because mannequins have wigs. There's also the uncanny valley aspect, the sinister feeling of something…

I’d been use Chezmoi to manage config files for quite a while. A couple years ago I started use mise as a task runner, then adopted it for tool management. And now I’ve started using it for file management. It’s so good. I still think Chezmoi’s great, but mise watches for changes and automatically git commits them, which is the part I always forgot to do myself until the files had drifted beyond repair.