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THE FRIDAY PIC is an installation shot from “Amerika,” the wonderful new projection by Javier Téllez at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, a two-year-old space in Greenwich Village in New York. In today’s …

[From Bed of Roses (dir. Gregory LaCava, 1933). Click for a larger view.] Mr. Stephen Paige (John Halliday) has no telephone number, so Lorry Evans (Constance Bennett) will call on him in person. Note the …

I’ll be honest with you. I don’t like my Birthday. September 9th has more often than not been the first day of school. Monday, Tuesday. Didn’t matter. Sometimes it would be on the weekend before, …

You know those last five seconds of a green light? The ones where the guy in front of you suddenly has to stop for a bit but just enough so that you can't escape? Yeah, …

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted software development, a new category of tools has emerged: repository-to-prompt converters. These utilities address the growing need to feed entire codebases into Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, …

Galicia, October 2024. From the video Am I consistent... or just repetitive?.

Below, a quick roundup of a few of the things I learned over the past few months. Observers have reported a large red spot on Jupiter since the 1660s. But according to a new analysis, …

A website for family, friends, and anyone who lands there to enjoy my photos. For a long time after quitting Instagram in 2021, my photos were nowhere to be seen. Sometimes I would post a …

Visits counter was a critical feature of every website just 20 years ago. In this tutorial, we will implement it with Rust Cloudflare Workers by adding persistence and dynamic behaviors to an otherwise static page. …

This post was written as a walking thought and it’s not quite well structured. I’m just trying to put my ideas into words. Come back to this blog post in a few years and see …

A Small Update Over the last couple of days, I have been hard at work tracking down more information about Bill and Steve's windmill-chasing activities (with apologies if that link sends you down a rabbit-hole; …

Blue Hour Eiffel Tower – Paris, France I was hoping to make it close to the Eiffel Tower during peak blue hour, and with some scrambling, I achieved my goal. I didn’t want just any …

The Japanese shoe shine bar chain and shoe care brand Brift H, founded by the first world champion of shoe shining Yuya Hasegawa, is now part of the Japanese high-end fashion giant United Arrows. A …

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Weeknotes, a stream-of-consciousness post about life, work, media and everything in between. Here’s what I’ve been up to: Life I have very little to report when it comes …

I took a little break from sharing to get used to my new normal. A week ago I had to have some blood work done and for the first time in my memory I engaged …