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Checking in for 2024-03-25: Buckle up. This is a big update. Yesterday I felt like I was going to explode. I compared it to the video game "Dig Dug", which has been an interesting litmus …

Overview If you’re new to the Fret Science Patreon, looking for an older lesson, or just trying to get a sense of what kind of content is here, this index is a great place to …

This remarkable image — In Love’s Garden: “The Peach Blossom” (from 1904) — appeared on my Pinterest feed this morning: (#1) A peach blossom, with a bit of stem attached, and a female face, adored …

As part of my current hydroculture experiments, I am using a lot of PVC piping. And while it can be cut with regular woodworking tooling, it can be a bit brittle and crack or even …

The following is an excerpt from Chris’ newest book, “American Peasant.” The book is an introduction to a style of peasant furniture and decoration that is almost unheard of in the Americas. Built primarily with …

My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My …

We just closed down Relay’s 2024 St. Jude campaign. Thanks to your generosity, we were able to raise $1,078,348 to further St. Jude’s mission of finding cures and saving children. From the bottom of our …

This post is the second one of a pair devoted to photographs I took on a trip in January 2023 to Tuscaloosa with son Amos. Here's the intro from part one:In October 2014 I posted …

A guide to the Soekarno–Hatta Line – the Jakarta airport train. Travel information, tickets, and which stations are best for visitors. The Soekarno–Hatta Airport Commuter Line (formerly the Soekarno–Hatta Airport Rail Link) is the airport …

I had a lovely day with Luca shortly before Laghi’s closed. I took him to London to decompress, to Termini because I knew he would love it, then to The Devonshire for a Guinness, then …

If you look at the Banks's Brewery website, it describes, in a timeline, the various breweries taken over by the company. For most of the time the owning company was Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries and …

The Hat Yai – Songkhla Railway is a proposal to revive the old Hat Yai to Songkhla railway line in Southern Thailand. The distance between Hat Yai and Songkhla is about 29 km. Songkhla is …

I wrote earlier this year about potential use-cases for AI, including things like “the rubber duck” and “the tireless intern”. In this post, Drew Breunig outlines three much clearer and more tangible categories of use-case: …

Cornelis Cort, The Last Judgment Triptych, engraving on laid paper, plate: 33.5 × 49.2 cm (13 3/16 × 19 3/8 in.) sheet: 37.5 × 52.1 cm (14 3/4 × 20 1/2 in.), 1570 1560, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52407.html. …

This photograph captures the stark and imposing facade of an abandoned shopping mall. The once-bustling entrance, with its large tinted windows and boarded-up doors, evokes a sense of urban decay and forgotten spaces. A faded …