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Now that the offer letter is signed and everybody at the school has been notified, I’m happy to share that next year I’ll be the librarian at my son’s elementary school!

Welcome to my 179th gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers.1. Maths AdvanceI blogged about Maths Advance in Gems 173 - it's a website …

My seventh-grade daughter had a dystopian fiction unit in her humanities class this year, so we went to the bookstore and I failed to induce her to buy PARABLE OF THE SOWER; she wanted THE …

Join me in person on Sunday 23 April, 3-4pm in The Round George’s function room, 14-15 Sutherland Avenue, Brighton, BN2 0EQ. You will have an opportunity to ASK ME ANYTHING! about the project. And together …

Better service will resume in a few weeks once the 15-mile race and its anxieties has passed. On Saturday, I ran/hiked from the quarry car park on Old Military Road over Clachnaben to Mount Battock …

Hey y’all, just a short point of order: You should go get the Palestinian Relief Bundle over at Itch.io. Not only is it an incredible bundle of 373 independently-made games, books and other pieces of …

Dear friends, loiterers and random Spring bloomers It’s First Sunday, This Sunday and time for a colourful wander…. Meet 2pm outside Manchester Art Gallery on Mosely Street this Sunday 7th April. Together we we explore …

by Homa Mojtabai. After your début novel bombs you wonder what went wrong. At least you have a job even if it’s teaching composition to college kids on academic probation, which means a lot of …

As part of the NY Art Book Fair, there will be a conversation between Ben Morea (Black Mask, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker) and Donald Nicholson Smith (King Mob, Situationist International). Details below.

Joseph Branciforte pops up on my computer monitor as we begin our chat. He’s in an austere studio chamber, pristine and wooden, with racks of audio gear and a familiar Juno-60 behind him, all by …

My current generative artwork-in-progress includes text, but I don’t want to use a font. In browser based art work, using a “web safe” font could produce inconsistent results, while including a font file would mean …

I just had surgery to repair an incisional hernia near where my appendix used to be. By “just” I mean Thursday week ago. I am recovering well, thank you, though it did knock me for …

Talk about optimism! In 1905, the Cincinnati Post ran a contest looking for ideas on how Cincinnati could increase its population to 600,000 in time for the 1910 census, only five years hence.Although Cincinnati was …

This is a small utility that I wrote to compliment git bisect. git bisect is a fantastic tool. In the most basic usage you give it one “good” commit (a commit that doesn’t yet include …

Naomi Hartono: The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working. The loss of that code …