clean up firstI had to clean up the shop and put things away. It seems that I only have a clear and clean workbench top when I start a new project.hmm........I can't bring myself to shitcan these leftover slats. There has to be something I can make with them. Nothing was rattling around the brain bucket so I'll have to find a interim home for them until then.another pileI really thought something would pop up besides a box but nada. This cherry is too nice looking to go to the landfill. Finding…

From Wendell Berry’s May 2022 Sabbath poem: But the old man knows, contrarily, that this world was made by love. He knows it because that love came to him one time in the person of a girl and it abides in the girl’s great-grandmotherhood. He knows the world was made by love because of his experience of faithful love. As below, so above–an inversion of the Hermetic saying. Faithful love makes it easier to believe in cosmic love, not because we make God in our image, but because faithful love…

Our Moon as imaged by the Galileo spacecraft flying past it on December 7, 1992. Image: NASAMany people think that the Moon is just a gray ball of rock in our sky. Surprisingly, many scientists seem to share this notion. I once had a physicist tell me the Moon is scientifically boring. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. So I wrote this article to summarize the immense scientific and exploratory value of Earth’s cosmic companion.Firstly, consider that the bootprints of Apollo astronauts…

The trussed ceiling of Exhibit Hall B at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas features an intricate structural design, showcasing a network of interconnected beams that provide both stability and aesthetic appeal. This architectural detail not only supports the expansive space but also contributes to the hall’s modern and functional atmosphere. The post The Vague Comfort of Repetition appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Shout out to user Jumpman over at Gaming Alexandra for this one. A while back I wrote about the development of Namco’s classic shooter Xevious. Check the article out here if you missed it. Along the way, I noted that Xevious was the first classic arcade gaming to be advertised directly to the public on American TV networks. It was unusual for arcade games to be advertised on the TV, a first for Atari and the industry it seems. This trade magazine advertisement announced the media campaign.…

My feet might be wrecked this morning (I do not recommend Skechers footwear) but here is a collection of 16 images (out of the 4000 I took!) from the GT & GB3 Racing from Brands Hatch, UK. Sunday 27th September. All images shot on my OM1-II and 40-150 f/2.8 Pro.

RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL In the UK, the god who rules is Flood, much like the Economy dominates the USA. The other seven must carve their domains back from the hungry and careless sea, as it rolls fat on misery and abortive Dunkirk fleets spurting for France. When fear settles here, we reflexively allow our minds to leap back in time, like hedgehogs curling - the arrival of the New Gods made everyone really scared, so the mind leapt…

This album's taking a lot longer to mix than the other one. It's a bit like altering a garment and then having to alter it again because it doesn't quite fit yet. Yesterday, I had a crisis of confidence and felt that I was creating the most massive turkey the world had ever heard. Today, it's more of a chicken and I hope to have a beautiful egret by the time it's finished!When you make an album there is always at least one tricky track that feels like it's a dud; you have to work at it, and to…

As someone who’s been a keyboard shortcut tzar at a few companies, I developed a certain kinship with the unknown and unnamed others who have the same job elsewhere. It’s a fun but weird challenge, rewarding and unrewarding at the same time, a job of maneuvering a little dinghy between the winds of Motor Memory, the waves of Change Management, and the storms of Shortcut Conventions That Came Before You. It’s a job where you quickly learn you can never really win – but at least you can try not…

Week notes didn’t really do the trick for me so I though I’d try something different. Welcome to the first edition of the Studio Log!This will be a (hopefully) recurring series of posts with a focus on art and creative work. Exactly what shape this series will take in the long run I’m still not sure. And because life is busy I’m not making any promises as to the frequency of these posts. I’ll post them when I feel like it.And as a fun little addition I’ve decided to make this series of posts…

I’m an autumnal sort of gal; I like the days short & chilly, the leaves a riot of color, and the nights filled with warm beverages & savory scents. – “Diary #326” We don’t want to be “legalized & regulated”; we just want to be left alone. Even credulous reporters now feel compelled to at least mention Amnesty. Yellow journalism about young women from PBS and the New York Times. The prosecutor couldn’t exercise his discretion & decline to press charges. Judge thinks it’s her job to convince…

In January 2015, I don’t think I got a single good night of sleep. My grandmother had been in the hospital while I was away on a New Year’s vacation with my girlfriend at the time. My family back home hadn’t told me how serious the situation was. After my grandmother passed away, my mind kept going back to the same question: What if I hadn’t gone on that vacation? The relationship wasn’t in a good place either. So that created a new set of questions. What if I had ended it earlier? What if I…

Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of​ carefully planned announcements​ and reports from OpenAI that try to establish how unnerving and powerful (not to mention ​felonious​) their LLM-powered agent systems have become. They then handed the baton to Anthropic, whose employees began ​publicly debating​ the exact probability that these technologies would lead to human extinction. They delivered this all with an…

Last two weeks Copenhagen I missed my weeknotes last week due to being away in Copenhagen for a few days. Other than adding to the prevailing narrative that Copenhagen is a nice place, a few specific notes for here. Firstly, I wrote last year about learning that the Baltic Sea is effectively brackish water, and so I was pleased to spot this salinity map in the local aquarium, Den Blå Planet: This is a topic that is once again close to mind as I realise that from space you can't really tell…

Quandary IV: If the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the foundation of all Vaiṣṇava literature, why does it describe Krishna’s pastimes with the gopīs in so little detail? The five chapters on the rāsa-līlā, the rāsa-pañcādhyāyī, have only 172 verses, yet later writings expand them into thousands. If the Bhāgavatam is our main pramāṇa (means of evidence) in krishna-bhakti, why doesn’t it elaborate on these pastimes itself, and where does all that later detail come from? Response: Our tradition has…

Consider a Microsoft 365 migration where all the email arrives, but the accounting team cannot send invoices from its shared mailbox. The files are in the destination, but the office manager’s saved links do not open. Staff can sign in through a browser, while their usual desktop applications still need attention.The migration report might look good. The client still has work it cannot do, and the MSP has a support queue that should have been part of the project plan.In my December 2025 weekly…

Red Bench (2015)My little SSG CMS has changed the way I feel about writing on this blog. I'm sure it's a reaction to Text File Fatigue. I've hit a wall with looking at everything I read and write via Emacs. I'm bored with it, so writing in this clean, simple little web UI is refreshing. Speaking of subscriptions, subscription fatigue has a been a thing with me for a while. My rule now is that unless you're providing me with infrastructure, storage, or some other service that has ongoing costs…

I’ve been a fan of Gene since the mid-nineties and have seen them live many times, always in the UK. This week I travelled to València, in the east of Spain, to Visorfest, a festival for 80s/90s bands, to see them abroad for the first time. I flew out on Thursday evening with Andy, enjoyed some local beers and tapas, followed by lunch the next day in Colón Market. The festival site was next to the beach in very warm temperatures, and sensibly timed to start at 6:30pm as the sun was setting,…

Montgomery Clift Beset by Hollywood Hillbillies He's Come to Straighten OutWide Worlds: Wild River and PattonMere Five Year Age Difference Separated Clift and Co-Star Jo Van FleetWILD RIVER (1960) --- Montgomery Clift ideally cast here. He’d have been less so prior to the road accident that changed his face, manner, and suitability for parts he had prior to the catastrophe. Before-after represents two distinct actors, and I never thought the after was ruin or decline for Clift. His skills still…

Manton Reece sharing the flow behind his blog posts:This flow:1. Have a thought. 2. Start writing a short post about it. 3. . It’s not working. Expand into a full-length blog post. 4. . Still no good. Delete the draft and copy the text into a note. 5. . Months later, pull the draft into a better blog post about a larger topic. In other words, always write things down.My process is, and probably always will be, the reverse. Have a thought, think about it for a bit, and write it down before it…

Gotta love in-laws. I was taking another look at Daniel Harvey Timberlake Mosse (the father-in-law of my husband's 1c4r) because the 135th anniversary of his death is on September 28, 1891. Daniel was born in Kentucky in 1816. Daniel married Mildred Yarbrough Pickett in Ogle County, Illinois, in 1838. It wasn't difficult to find a transcription of the marriage register showing this wedding. You can see an excerpt at top of this post. To decipher it: According to the abbreviations listing (at…

Matt Hill’s Wrecks because Matt’s a good friend, but also because he’s a fantastic writer, not to mention one of the few still stubbornly carrying the flame of sf as a serious speculative literature. Based purely on the blurb and the conceit, I suspect there’s more than a bit of Ballard homage going on here… Mary Shelley’s The Last Man because I’ve never read it, but also because Last Man discourse is back in the mix thanks to Fukuyama’s new book. Now, Shelley’s Last Man of course long precedes…

Hello all, here is what I think about the current drama going around the indieweb. 2026/09/hidden_blogs2.png And this has been my thoughts about the drama. Until next time!

This is the report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. . (If we missed something, let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: Animal Thought by Laura Danón. Shaaban Robert’s Virtue Ethics by Dismas Masolo. Aesthetics and Race by Monique Roelofs. Revised: Fideism by Richard Amesbury. Moral Phenomenology by John Drummond and Mark Timmons. Karl…

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Yesterday, we had worship in the picnic pavilion at Faith Lutheran in Bristol, Tennessee. It was a bit chilly, but we continued on with worship as planned. For more on worship, I wrote this blog post, or you can go straight to the recording of the sermon.We had a potluck lunch with ice cream sundaes (Sundaes on Sunday!) after worship. I looked across the field behind the pavilion with rolled hay and not for the first time did I think, I have fallen into a Norman Rockwell painting--and I mean…

Today’s TDC says The Last Museum says it is “the largest search engine for museum art. It uses semantic search, allowing you to search for artworks by theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine”. Visit the Last Museum and have a look around – pretty amazing, huh? Share something that you found with us, or make some art based on what you find and share that. I spent ages looking around, first at Scottish culture and then searching for specific terms. Amusingly, a search for…

Together with the excellent podcast interview Matt and Mike did for iPad Productivity they also wrote a profile on me for their iPad Stories - iPad Power users which I encourage you to check out - you’ll learn more about my background. How my love affair with remote working and freedom laptops gave me started and culminated with the joy of using the iPad - dive in on the iPadProductivity.com web site, below some highlights: Highlights from my “iPad Power User” profile… Here are the main points…

It goes without saying that this week, we celebrate John Coltrane on his centennial. One thing that commentators have been noting is how diverse his output is during his solo career. Over about a decade, he produced albums that literally transformed free and avant-garde music and recordings that dug deep into hard bop, modal, and bluesy traditions. In some cases, such as Ballads (1963) critics alleged that Coltrane succumbed to pressure from record labels, in this case Impulse!, to produce…

You can say what you will about me, but I was correct on two things since my last post. I had a couple of rough days after my medical procedure on Friday Sep 18 and really did not feel like sitting down and writing in the first few days following it. There was nothing wrong, […]