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Photograph by John Trawick. Photography Contest, Honorable Mention. Spider web – made visible by early morning dew at Lake Murray Reservoir, San Diego, California. Nikon D7100. To see comments on this post click below:

This week in aural skills, we’re working on various harmonic tropes based on IV-I root movements. This chord progression is technically called the plagal cadence, but is more memorably nicknamed the “Amen” cadence because it’s a traditional European hymn ending. (It has nothing to do with the Amen break, though they do sound good together.) The plagal cadence is the mirror image of the classical V-I authentic cadence. Where does …

If you're catching a plane to London or New York you're making a serious journey that is typically planned days, weeks or months in advance. Unless you're in the top 1% such a trip would be made rarely. On account of its significance, cost and rareness you're happy to rearrange your life schedule around it. Because of that it doesn't much matter much if flights are only a few times …

As part of a short series of blog posts related to script-editing we asked experienced Story Producer Alexis Hood to share some advice on getting started on the editorial side of television, in both development work and production. When you’re starting out, the TV world can feel incredibly intimidating, and difficult to get your head around. If you’re reading this and wondering whether you’ll ever be able to break in …

Bookmarked Every Accusation a Confession by A.R. Moxon (The Reframe) I think what abusers need most is not for people to believe the lie that they are good—though they certainly will take that if they can get it. What they need most is for people to believe false equivalencies; that no matter how bad the abusers are, everyone else is just as bad. That no matter what their intentions are, …

WHAT I SMELL: Rougewood opens with a juicy combination of ripened warmed berries and grapefruit and with some added peach blossom it’s beautifully decadent and rather lusty without being too heavy or carnal. Soon, a sweetened caramel note is added to give the fragrance a bit of sugared depth. However, the caramel is soft and never veers off the dulce meter. Finally, a sharpened woody note makes it’s way in …

Alex Mundy has blown the cobwebs off a great performance by the Crims from 1982. . . CliKc here for more information and download

My daily setup is a little unusual- I rock a dual monitors on my desk, but each monitor is driven by a different machine- my work computer on the left, and my personal machine on the right. Historically, I was one of the brave heroes who actually paid for Synergy. But I was thrilled when apple announced Universal Control, a system-level way to share a mouse and keyboard between devices, …

February 19, 2024 Tip of the Week The Laziness of Simple Serves. USATT’s Illegal Chair, USATT Assemblies, and Those Pesky Bylaws I sent another email to the USATT Board regarding this. (I blogged about the issue last week, including a link to my previous email.) Just to be clear, I have zero expectation that anything will come of this – too many enablers on the Board. The point is they …

packapunchpanda on Instagram tried lifting the weights of various Pokémon that Ash Ketchum has carried in the anime. I didn’t realise how heavy some of these Pokémon were and how easy Ash made it look!

Note: This post has been corrected to reflect that the TOU change was made on February 16 (not February 18 as originally stated). A little over a year ago, controversy arose over a provision of Findaway Voices’ distribution agreement that granted Apple a license to use rights holders’ audiobook files for “machine learning”, aka AI training. (Findaway Voices, if you’re not familiar with it, is an audiobook creation service that’s …

# Theory Everyone Should Blog, and That Includes You, a manifesto. I recently read a post (sorry, have already lost the link) that emphasized that you should just pick a way to blog (a static site you built? WordPress? something else?) and then stop messing with it and just get writing. Personally, I also enjoy a good amount of fiddling with my site; that's part of the joy. I migrated …

This is not my usual ALA report because the Council meetings at LibLearnX were brief and I was occupied with some legislation I’d been working on. Here are some important notes for those who are interested in ALA topics. 1. American Library Association Updates Core Values This was a 2.5 year process culminating in massaging the existing lengthy list of core values into five: access, equity, intellectual freedom and privacy, …

Some in the space industry have long believed that reusable rockets could tap a large market for high-speed point-to-point transportation. Jeff Foust reports on how the US military is exploring a "Rocket Cargo" program that could do just that, if it can overcome technical and other obstacles.

Mediavolo is a band like no other. Based in Brest, France, they offer insight into the human condition with honest and patient attention. Back in 2014, I interviewed core members Géraldine Le Cocq and Jacques Henry, adding my own throughts on their discography as it then stood. Away Within is their first full-length release since that time, and I was recently honored to write the liner notes for it. The …