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I’m excited to announce that I’ll be playing at Bristol Beacon’s Housewarming party! It’s the venue’s reopening celebration after yonks being closed for refurbishments. The event is FREE (but you need tickets) all day from 11am - 2am on 2nd december, 2023. I’ll be performing at MIDNIGHT which is way past my bedtime these days so please come with all your energy so I can feast on your vybezzz and …

Last week, I wrote about my experience at a meditation retreat, in which a man fainted and reminded me of the preciousness of life. Another lesson I learned that day came from observing the leader of the retreat, Marc Lesser. He was sharing wisdom from the classic book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. As he spoke, I was reminded of a retreat of his I had attended more than four years …

Introduction Antimatter is a platform for teaching and learning through memes. Teachers use Antimatter to invite students to create memes based on their current unit as a means of what teachers call formative assessment, because, in the classroom as in life, in order to create a good story, joke, or puzzle, you have to really understand the subject matter. Antimatter was founded in January 2021, before DALL·E and other foundational …

IntroductionI wish it were possible to look up any medical issue without being exposed to the most graphic photographs ever taken by man or beast. —Velveteen, Post on akko.wtf While browsing the WICG discussion forms, I stumbled upon a proposal for a standardized <spoiler> element in HTML5. I made two comments, and stopped myself before writing a third; this called for a blog post. I think HTML should have a …

Pre-registration is the best and possibly only solution to p-hacking. Ten years ago, pre-registrations were virtually unheard of in psychology, but they have become increasingly common since then. I was curious just how common they have become, and so I collected some data. This post shares the results. The data From the Web of Science... The post [115] Preregistration Prevalence appeared first on Data Colada.

Wishful Thinking Postcard: Finnair, Sud Aviation Caravelle 1970s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges Collection of SFO Museum 2015.166.0701 I spoke at the 2023 Museum Computer Network conference, in Philadelphia, last week and presented a talk titled Wishful Thinking – A critical discussion of "extended reality" technologies in the cultural heritage sector. These are my notes for the talk. This is what I was planning to say sticking to these notes …

One of the most endearing and enduring pop journeys of the last few years has been the epistolary odyssey undertaken by the redoubtable members of Team Philpott, who have been firing off missives to some of the most famous and infamous musicians of the last forty years, feigning confusion and asking for clarification on the lyrical content of their most memorable hits. The enquiries are amusing in and of themselves …

A shared future is a lovely thing to contemplate. A shared_future, on the other hand, is a slippery beast.Promises and Futures are great ways of transferring ownership of objects between...

Ten Years Ago. Original article: Daily Alta California, 22 March 1857 — Daily Alta California FRED'K MacCRELLISH & CO. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1857. [ARTICLE] Ten years ago, on just such a bright, beautiful Sabbath morning as this is, we took an early breakfast in one of the dilapidated rooms in the old barracks at the Presidio, and started with a dear friend, for a morning walk, to the …

Love is sacrifice, sacred land life-affirming (Gunnison River Valley, Colorado; 1948—1970): Crying can soothe us. All the more reason to let Shelley Read take you on this absolutely beautiful and sad journey. “There is a kind of sadness that transcends sadness, that runs like hot syrup into every crevice of your being . . . This is the sadness that changed everything.” Sadness is the pathos, beauty the richness in …

Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved. January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved. February 1990 ft. Italia Bold C82 is the website of Nicholas Rougeux, a Chicago-based designer and data artist. One of the many great things one can find on C82 is his collection of train tickets sold by Metra. Every …

I’ve been writing about eyewear quite a bit this year. And as I mentioned recently, I’ve noticed that more men seem to be approaching spectacles as a collector’s item rather than a purely functional product. While I might not be quite at that level (…yet), I definitely know that managing a pile of glasses in random cases is a bit unwieldily. The best solution that I’ve come up with is …

Using a Fire Stick I bought a TV a few months ago. I hadn’t had one for a while, but I was ready to make a home theater at the time of purchase. I already had a 3.1 audio system ready, with a 4K capable Yamaha receiver. Not to mention, a trusty rooted Amazon Fire Stick 4K that had been collecting dust since the last time I had a TV. …

Hello, friends! Recently I was tapped by the owners of Hionfi Vintage Stereo Shop in Syracuse, New York to help them sell a jazz collection they recently acquired. After lots of cleaning, grading, and photo-taking, I present to you the best of the crop, all for sale now in the DG Mono Web ... More→

In Japan, riding a steam train through outer space is a melancholy symbol of the human journey. Like the gentle drift of the sakura petal, the whistle of a train means a transition in life. That human quality... those melancholy, bittersweet coming of age lessons... were inherited from renowned writer Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad, whose own life was a tragic and all-too