Source Somewhere in early Pleistocene South Africa… An adult hominin searches along a stream; the distressed calls from an abandoned infant have awakened its parental instincts; even if the baby has been abandoned by a rival clan, it cannot remain indifferent. Unfortunately, there is no baby, and it has instead walked into an ambush… This piece is actually inspired by a Mexican legend that is still repeated often to this day. A person is walking or riding a horse in the wilderness, and hears…

I'm intrigued! The current state of the art for these apps is a hot mess, so this is a welcome change. I'm looking forward to trying this.

Nate Silver’s latest is A supermajority wants to slow AI down, noting the general convulsion of fear provoked by the AI Guys’ it’ll-kill-us-all palpitations. From which: And then there’s a weird faction of AI denialists — people ostensibly on the left — who are convinced that AI is all a scam and therefore there isn’t much need for regulation. In parallel, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force, the people who standardize protocols so the Internet can work) is seeing a steady flow of…

If you are looking for a quick and simple supper for one, this Ham and Swiss Dutch Baby Pancake fits the bill perfectly. Its the perfect size for anyone who is wanting to cook something without any waste. It goes together very quickly using simple ingredients and can be on the table in less than half an hour! I was wanting something quick and easy for my supper. I didn't want anything that was going to be a lot of trouble and I didn't want a lot of leftovers. I also hadn't been shopping yet so…

Before you push the shutter button, before even you leave the house, everything has been decided. You might not have a list of photographs you expect to take on the day, but your visual values have already decided what will come out of your day. Building Vision exists before the encounter. When I walk out of the house to take a landscape, I have already something in mind: a location, a relationship between forms, an atmosphere, elements in the frame. Sometimes I know exactly what I’m looking…

Bow Roundabout update #24 It's now two years since TfL began major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout to prepare it for the opening of the Silvertown Tunnel, and 18 months since they supposedly finished. And yet there's still one part of the new layout THAT HAS NEVER OPENED, and now would you believe THEY'VE STARTED UNDOING IT AGAIN. The original works did three things... i) they trimmed the edges of the Bow Roundabout, widening it to three lanes on the west side. This works just great. ii) they…

(V) is still traveling, and (Z) has something like strep throat. The rapid test for the most common kind of strep throat came back negative, but tests for the other kinds are pending. (Z) needs one more day to rest and recover. We'll move the regular Friday post to Saturday, and then do another combined post on Sunday. Meanwhile, we had a couple of e-mails suggesting that if there's not going to be a posting, we should fill the gap with pictures of staff canine Tuco Hashbrown Chorizo "T.H.C."…

As I become more 'senior' I realise that the biggest contribution I can make to my team is to stop bothering them with my ideas.Here's why:Ideas are badIdeas are incredibly easy to have. People are having them all the time. I remember in agency-land we used to have this rhetoric about ideas being precious and then employ pairs of junior people on almost minimum wage to have hundreds of them per week.The hard things around ideas are:Deciding which ones to execute (ie sorting good from bad)…

It has become an (almost) daily habit for me to get up early, to find someone to sit with a coffee, to watch the world go by, and to play some music. And to stream it on YouTube. I like the imagined/possibility of an audience.Yesterday's outing to Regents Park failed as a stream, there wasn't enough signal for my phone. But I recorded it as well and I think it came out quite well. Restful tunes, humanity jogging by.

ive archived most of my older posts at this point but i want to archive ... more. not a fan of the voice i write in.. its too manicured...? i feel like anytime i write it has to match the tone ive already established .. augghhhfghhhh

What song always makes you feel better? I’ve always loved a song that builds, that layers in the instruments. I’ve always loved a great drum track. I’ve always loved interesting harmonies. I’ve always loved rock music. I’ve always loved a hint of tongue-in-cheek silliness. I’ve always loved Queen. And yeah, I’ll admit it, I’ve always loved a nice . “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music playlist…

Because I'm trying to spend less, when I shop I am often buying from big retailers. If I'm not hunting online, I'll probably be at PakNSave, or Mitre10, or another big box shop. But in the last few weeks I've shopped at little places several times. Why? Trip number one was at a little greengrocer a couple of blocks from my house. And that's most of the reason just there. I was out of fruit, there weren't any greens ready in the garden, and the other close alternative was the offensive…

Content Warning: This posts talks about suicide and depression.I made it to 27! It's a little strange, looking back at the post that started this blog in January. To think how much life has bloomed in the space between then and now - and that there is a world in which I would not be there to witness the grandness of it all. That is a hell of a sobering thought. I'm glad that I came out of the other end of that darkness. Historically, I have not had much joy during my birth month. That rings…

.:.[heather saturnia].:. ⇦ moonpr1sm → F o x F a b l e → → ⋋Ruber Rosis⋌ SWIFTY'S HQ! → Pamtre Berry | A Pokémon Fansite → *Stareon's Hideout*

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #123, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. I finished reading The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI today. Like Cory's last…

The reviews for the new iPhone Pro are in. John Gruber, Daring Fireball: The one and only trade-off compared to the year-ago 17 Pro, in my utterly subjective opinion, is that cosmic orange was an iconic super-fun color and neither burgundy nor glacier have that appeal. That’s it: orange. Every other difference between the 18 Pro and 17 Pro, every single one, is something that is objectively better about the 18 Pro. Faster performance, better thermals, better cameras, longer battery life.…

The Safari 27.0 release notes are live, it's a big one: Our Safari release notes have never been as long as they are for this version. The number of features alone rose from 58 to 83 since the first beta in June. The headline is MCP support. I've been using the Safari MCP all summer via Safari Technology Preview (STP) and it works as advertised. I was able to connect various agents via the MCP and they would happily perform all manner of web browsing activities using Safari. Most of the time I…

My alter ego is part of a photo show: tonight! I belong to a photo group that meets more-or-less monthly throughout the year, displaying and commenting on photographs that we have created. The show will be opening tonight, 6-8pm, at The Hopkins Center for the Arts, a swanky place with lots of gallery space. The show will run until October 24th, if you are in the area stop in!

In 1995, R.L. Barth published the chapbook Samuel Johnson: Selected Latin Poems Translated by Various Hands, with contributions by ten poets including Len Krisak who adapts Johnson’s “In Rivum a Mola Stoana Lichfieldiae diffuentem.” Krisak titles it “The River by the Mill of Stowe, In Lichfield, Where the Waters Flow”: “The river wanders still, and still as glass, It passes through that boyhood’s grassy meadow where My little limbs, with little skill, would flail the air That settled on its…

Hi Crowd! It’s a lovely day here in Canada, future associate member of the EU. Sorry US neighbors (or neighbours) but things just weren’t working out between us and we’ve moved on. But don’t feel lonely, Mitch McConnell is back in action out there putting in the work for you so I’m sure everything will be fine. Speaking of things not working, I’m shutting down Quicky. Not because it didn’t work, it actually worked really well and did exactly what I hoped it would do, and I really like the…

After a rabbit hole of playing with the minimum L-shaped seams of Mrs Perkins' Quilts, I submitted the related sequence to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) for consideration. Then, I washed, pressed, cut, sewed, ripped stitches, then sewed, then pressed a mini-quilt for the 13x13 Mrs Perkins' Quilt – and here it is:If you'd like to see some low-light "in the making" images, they are below. I chose to do this as a mini-quilt, by hand. I thought about making it a pillow or bag,…

Where to start? There were quite a few layouts that caught my eye. A favourite was the double layout, St Andrews and Guard Bridge. I especially liked the viaduct of Guard Bridge and the way the line curves away into the backscene. Kernow Consolidated is cleverly built on two levels, with a fine viaduct, and captures the atmosphere of South and East Cornwall. Pauline McKenna’s Muhlenfelder captures German trains in the landscape. Bordesley North was part of the 2mm Association roadshow, and is a…

weather: ☀️ ok critters: swallowtails; monarchs; scrub jays A NEW CAT TOUCHES THE BEACON a new little spotty wildcat, the tilcayo, was identified in bolivia recently (by scientists--it seems indigenous people already knew about it) "i didn't know we had new cats," said S. "i thought it was new beetles for the rest of time." me too, really wait these autumn signifiers barely signifywe in southern california have got to stop participating in the new england autumn aesthetic industrial complex.…

This is David, your decidedly human web crawler (and this week especially: your tireless podcast pre-listener). You're reading the Weekly Filet, the newsletter for curious minds who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!». It's great to have you.In case you missed it: I've introduced Friends of the Filet – for those who believe in the necessary rebellion as much as I do. Learn more and join here.1. Why Experts Keep Getting the Economy So WrongIn recent years,…

With Andy and Louise's BBC Gardener's World Live layout in the current issue of Garden Rail, I should show you this souvenir of the show - the Golden Fishplate. Laying all the track for this mammoth project took many days, but by Wednesday afternoon, a few hours before the judges were due to arrive, Andy finally connected up the last bit of the circuit. With a clean fishplate, the golden (OK, brass) one. We all cheered, and then went back to work. At the end of the show, we pulled the tracks…

Hello friends! We are well and truly in the thick of it now, with the latest Fire Emblem dropping to critical acclaim across the board. The first Onimusha game in 20 years continues Capcom's hot streak. The next six weeks or so will be drop a cavalcade of highly anticipated games just in time for the end of the year, and somewhere in the middle of it all, a bunch of indies will be floating out there waiting for you to discover them. I am getting ready for an international trip back to…

Huge. Carbon Brief: Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time

Time to reveal the latest book from Bear Alley Books.I have been a fan of Sexton Blake for years... and it seems to be a family trait. My Mum tells me that she used to read Sexton Blake stories that had been bought by her Mum to read. The first Blake story I ever read was 'The Slaying of Julian Summers' by Richard Williams, which my Dad had left lying around.I knew Sexton Blake a few years before

Feel that fuzz. Yes, when you toss on a brand new sweatshirt just smile and enjoy the smooth silky softness rubbing against your skin. There are no lint balls, fraying sleeves, or crinkled tags scratching at your neck. It’s just the cottony soft freshness of a brand new friend. Of course, we both know the washer and dryer will slowly murder our sweatshirts over time. That’s why if you’re like me you try and stretch out that cozy first wear feeling as long as possible. You keep wearing it and…

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, September 21 through Sunday, September 27! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes: When the event will take place What the event is Where the event will take place Who is holding the event This week’s events Monday, September 21 Tuesday, September 22 Wednesday, September 23 Thursday, September 24 Friday, September 25 Saturday,…