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Precode: Double Harness, Explorers of the World, Jolson Socks Winchell, and "The Five Stages of Love"DOUBLE HARNESS (1933) --- Double Harness meditates on marriage and how it’s better avoided by men about town like William …

This is the sixth in a series of posts on the reasons I will not be voting to return the former president to the White House. My focus here is not to support his opponent …

A while ago, my stepdad asked for me to check out a mobile game called Truck Star. He’s driven trucks and car haulers most of his life, so he wanted to know if I think …

Today, lots of trains, but starting with the usual weather forecasts! DAY 3 – Sunny but chilly but becoming cloudy and windy. Today was around trip by boat to St Goar with a 3 1/2 …

Saturday morning at Moorewood Colliery. And down at the coal canal, Pete & Dud are chatting to Boatman Brian about his new unsinkable narrowboat which is made almost entirely from balsa wood by a company …

October 2024. Langley Mill. You left me in Ripley, waiting at a bus stop with half a punters pie and gentlefolk bemoaning the bus service back to Nottingham. “It’s always SUMTHIN’ !”. They were also, …

Let’s be clear. By “empty feeling” I mean not bloated from either last weekend‘s turkey dinners and pumpkin pie or those mini Crispie Crunch bars yet to come. October is a bit of feed fest …

I am a great fan of pencils. I love to use them for marking but also to write and take note. The only thing that always annoyed me is pencil sharpeners.I always found very hard …

I had a great life as a pilot but back in the day "real men" didn't wear hearing protection. It was not just ramp noise but airborne with a pair of TIO 540's next to …

Dear readers,It is a rare thing for Art of the Title to publish an editor’s note but the time has come to provide an update. Many of you are likely unaware that, since 2018, Art …

1. Close Your Eyesby Victor Erice"The unluckiest filmmaker in the world," was how Ben Sachs described Victor Erice. The funding cut or witheld entirely for projects realized and unrealized, years without financing, dear friends dying …

Joe Fuqua made clever use of classic movie monsters for a series of Midjourney images called "Monsters Should Have Hobbies." Here are my favorite images of the group. Fuqua has come up with many creative …

I quote Lance's blog post (here) about Computing and the Nobelsa) On Wednesday October 9th half of the Chemistry Nobel was awarded to computer scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the protein-folding prediction algorithm …

Moshe Vardi wrote a short interesting essay “What is theoretical computer science?” (It followed by interesting posts on Facebook.) Moshe argues that Thinking of theoretical computer science (TCS) as a branch of mathematics is harmful …

For a long time there has been a tension in graph drawing between theoretical and practical methods. Typical theoretical results show that graphs in certain special classes can be drawn with guaranteed bounds on certain …