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My new album is out, on most/all? of the streaming platforms. It’s a collection of dark ambient/minimalist music that I wrote to have something relaxing & quiet to meditate to/breath to/fall asleep to. Find it on: Apple Music Amazon Music Bandcamp Pandora Spotify Tidal & iTunes probably too, but I’m not sure how to link to those. I released my last EP about a year ago and wrote at the …

Happy 2024, everyone! I don’t know if there’s some symbolism behind this year’s J.C. Leyendecker New Year’s baby that I’m missing, or if it’s just a baby knight riding a mechanical horse and using a feather as a lance. Any insights would be welcomed. Elsewhere, Life waxes whimsical, a skating duo rings in the new year at St. Nicholas,* Fruit, Garden and Home (soon to be retitled, much more sensibly, …

This year I want to continue my introduction to bodybuilding and round out my fitness regimen with regular cardio. For January and February, I'll finish the "Start From Scratch" series of workouts. I will also start running three days a week again. I'll be taking progress photos. By July, I want to see distinct muscle definition in the mirror. I also want to try and get my VO2 max consistently …

Solely by happenstance, this observation surfaced out of my memory during the past week: "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." An unexpected message for the New Year? And who might be the source of this thought? Perhaps Schopenhauer or Leopardi, those cheerful, happy-go-lucky characters? Or, further back in time, should we look to Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius? And what of the poets? For instance, one might imagine …

The historian Arno Mayer, who had such an influence on my work and eventually became a friend, has died at 97. He wrote books on everything from the French Revolution to the First World War to the Holocaust to the creation of the State of Israel. He was one of a cohort of brilliant scholars at Princeton University who made the study of history, in which I majored as an …

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. The cover shows the Hasse diagram for the partially ordered set of partitions show Young diagrams fit inside a 4 row by 3 column rectangle. For more on these beautiful structures, see Robert Donley’s latest installment in his multipart series on partitions on Page 8. For our interview, we continue with the …

I’ve been writing these posts since 2015, and, especially in recent years, I keep asking the same question: what is time anyway? This year is no different. Or, it is different because there are new griefs and fears and time is moving in ways both slow and fast and it slips through my fingers before I know what to do. Part of this feeling comes from the year’s circumstances. I …

The CT90 exhaust system, although similar in appearance to the one used on the 6v C90, has different internals with fewer baffles and the addition of a Krizman spark arrester. The very early 'trial' models had a pea shooter exhaust exiting under the swing arm but in the mid 60s this was updated to an upswept version that exits close to the seat to help when crossing water (the model …

This is probably going to be short as this year is perhaps the most unproductive year I've ever had.As usual, I start this off with a compilation of monthly "highlights" that I've already listed in my monthly newsletter.January ⌨️ Got my first wireless mechanical keyboard. 👨‍🎨 Made a diagram with Excalidraw. 📹 Made a nice video. 🎮 Played around with some pretty cool UI (1) (2). February 💉 4th jab. …

❚ ONE OF THE GREATEST post-war crusading journalists has died after a lifetime of championing frank journalism and regularly criticising the mainstream media. In 2002, John Pilger said that “many journalists now are no more than channellers and echoers of … Continue reading →

Jay Gent wrote on We Are Cult: 2023: We Are Cult – A Year In Review ❉ Here’s a rundown of the 75 most popular articles we published in 2023! It’s been a vintage We Are Cult year for news, reviews and interviews covering some of the past twelve months’ most interesting independent, cult and classic media releases in pretty much every format bar 8-track cartridge and zoetrope, as well …

when you had sat down to just randomly looking at his scores while he was cooking. so you have a go and you get it wrong and he says and you hear him smiling, he says the one to the left. and so you work your way through the first line...and then he tells you to play them as chords and he comes over and shows it to you and …

WIP: Remains a work-in-progress for the year 2024. K My daughters are fascinated by strange things. Of course, the younger one is influenced by what her sister does. Five years ago, the elder one asked me to get Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. I started reading it, and left it. This year, I decided to finish reading the stories. Kwaidan (怪談) is a 1904 ghost …

Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬, 1599–1652 Great Ford on the Yellow River So, if the class makes1 I will be doing Late Imperial China in Spring. I was going to do a few weeks of basic stuff, do some Sanyan Stories, set up their research projects, and at the end do the Glory of The Qing and have them read Soulstealers. This is a pretty social and cultural and economic class, and …

[warning - a bit of long post] Well, here we are! The end of 2023! It seems like only yesterday that we were starting to hear some whispers about this thing called "ChatGPT," but it was in fact about a year ago, and as you know we moved pretty quickly through that hype cycle. Don't worry, this entire YIR (year in review) won't be about ChatGPT 😂. As I was …