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I've been thinking, especially since the recent Spotify layoffs, that I'm due to delete my Spotify account. I haven't paid for it in years, and I have also significantly reduced my usage. The other thing is that I've had this draft for ages and procrastinated on this topic. Luckily, today, I stumbled across this post from Raed explaining their reasonings for deleting their account. I thought, "Yeah, see, I had …

I don’t know about you folks, but the feed in the social media formerly known as twitter is currently dominated by “cute poop” ads (who seem to have displaced the chemtrailers) and flat earthers. The former is a mildly puzzling Japanese phenomenon, while the latter appears to be dominated by people who have not progressed past a pre-Babylonian view of the world, but who possess P1000 cameras they don’t know …

This past Saturday: finished the #InsideTrail Redtail Ridge 30k #trailRace in 6:00:59.A few notes:This was my first trail race of 2024, and first in over 6 months, since last year’s Marin Ultra Challenge 50k and Broken Arrow 23k races in June¹. Saw pal Henri after changing into my trail shoes in the Lake Chabot Regional Park parking lot. The storms had scared many away, fewer than 100 showed up to …

How we relate to the smell of a perfume can change over time. I purchased Myrrh Casati by Mona di Orio in 2014. There was something about it I couldn't relate to, which is why it was relegated to the back shelf in a fragrance storage closet. After reading mixed fragrance reviews, the only tangible sentiment I had for the luxury perfume was buyer’s remorse. Ten years later, the

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The Lawyer Turns out, the two "heroes" of the Southern Baptist 'Conservative Resurgence' were: a tone-deaf autocrat who specialized in using DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender) to bully sexual assault victims and protect his friends & protegesa deeply cynical lawyer who used his position of power to actively groom and sexually assault young men over decades It's become clear that not only was Paul Pressler (the lawyer) passed …

The audience for a screening of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1923) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Colonial Theatre in Keene, N.H. Wow! A screening of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' on Sunday, Feb. 18 was blessed with a very large and thoroughly engaged audience.From the reaction to the film, you could tell you were intent on having a good time.And that shouldn't be a surprise, as the …

Reluctant Recovery

It is 1920 in Littlehampton and Edith Swan has been receiving letters. They are of an obscene nature but she, and her family (she lives, as a spinster, with her father and mother), must forebear. After all, did not our Lord and Saviour also suffer? And yet, surely the wicked should be punished here on […]

WANNA BE IN MOVIES? REALLY? BRRRR! We open in a chilly Suffolk cottage in the rain (I am tonight probably the only person here to have come direct from a chilly Suffolk cottage, in rain. Call it Method Criticking). But in this case there is a sinister banging on the door, which opens to reveal – aaaagh! Jonathan Hyde as a gloriously convincing Vincent Price, veteran horrror movie star in …

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Watch on YouTube The beautiful and moving film "The Creator" (2023) is nominated for the Academy Award for visual effects, and I had the honor of hosting a panel with the nominated team as well as director Gareth Edwards.I was thrilled to be asked to moderate this panel, which included visual effects supervisors Jay Cooper, Andrew Roberts and Ian Comley, as well as physical effects supervisor Neil Corbould.A general time …

The Moon runs about two hours, but it’s got enough story for eight. About the only way to tell all the story it’s got overflowing would be a miniseries remake. And even then, you could probably toss on another couple of episodes to even it all out. The film concerns South Korea’s second attempt at a moon landing. Their first attempt blew up five years before this one. Moon takes …

Cloud 11 is a mixed-use development on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok that is being styled as a creator economy hub. The complex is comprised of four towers on top of a mega podium that will include an elevated urban garden. Cloud 11 is opposite True Digital Park, and this area in Phra Khanong is being promoted as a digital innovation district.. Location Location: 888 Sukhumvit Rd, Phra Khanong, Bangkok, Thailand. …

I read A Global Design System by Big Medium’s, Brad Frost recently and it’s inspired thoughts that have been swimming around in my brain for quite a while: the precarious safety of web documentation. I think we’re sleepwalking into a disaster. I want to start an earnest and serious conversation about how we, the web community, can fight back and preserve some of the most valuable content we need to …