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Only eight and a half years after the previous entry in the series … As a quick survey of the present top ten singles will show, popular music is hardly an area where the cream reliably rises to the top. The Allmusic biography of the Beatles astutely observes that “they were among the few artists of any discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did and the most …

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Today Potters Fields Park is a pleasant green space covering 2 and 1/2 acres from Tooley Street to the River Thames. Standing in the shadow of Tower Bridge and opposite the Tower of London it has a long and incredibly varied history. CC BY-SA 2.0 Paul Farmer Potts Fielde “Potts Fielde” can be seen on the William Morgan 1682 map of London. © www.layersoflondon.org.uk In the bottom left hand corner …

Olie Brice’s new quartet made a very promising debut at Café Oto last night, and one the reasons was Rachel Musson, whose tenor saxophone traced and explored the contours of the bassist’s characteristically intriguing themes (and Don Cherry’s perky “Awake Nu”) with alert and graceful lyricism. The piano of Alexander Hawkins and the drums of Will Glaser rounded out a group that was heading into a studio the next day …

The AI hype cycle may be cresting. At this point, many companies have developed AI-powered “solutions” aimed at bumping stock prices rather than serving customer needs. The results are disappointing. But if used well, AI could unlock tremendous value. As I’ve been experimenting with AI, I’ve wondered what “used well” might look like. There are several scenarios, and they’re all different. My current model of the possibility space is a …

Joseph Gollomb was a Russian-born journalist and biographer, who wrote for The Evening Post, The Evening World and The New Yorker, but also contributed fiction to the pulp magazines of the early twentieth century – like The Black Mask, Detective Story Magazine and Flynn's. Gollomb's fiction seems to be barely remembered today as very little has been written about him or his work. Nobody has even bothered to compile rudimentary …

🔦 Thrunite Catapult Mini Pro Flashlight Review on ZeroAir Reviews 🔦The Thrunite Catapult Mini Pro flashlight is an even more updated light over previous iterations. This one uses a Luminus SFT-70 emitter and has USB-C charging! The post Thrunite Catapult Mini Pro Flashlight Review first appeared on ZeroAir Reviews. RSS feed managed by AIOSEO.

I generated this podcast a week back using Google's NotebookLM based on my Twenty Years of Engineering Practice blog post. Before I publish it here, I wanted to check what my friends and colleagues thought about it. Most thought it was an actual podcast discussing my article. They also thought it had a standard flow; once, I told them it was generated by a model. Some were surprised, and others …

I started a second game a month or so back with one of my older gaming groups running Shadowdark. We had all ended up at the same end-of-summer barbeque, started talking about games, and realized several folks in the old guard wanted to give Shadowdark a try. I had recently become enamored of the rules as well, and so the idea for a new campaign was formed. This is basically …

My recent post about the damage to my Miquelrius “Boarding” notebook reminded me that I had another Miquelrius notebook in my review queue: the Miquelrius Logbook. The Logbook is about the closest Miquelrius comes to a Moleskine clone: it’s a pocket sized 9x14cm hardcover notebook with an elastic closure, a ribbon marker and a back … Continue reading Notebook Review: Miquelrius Logbook →

Yesterday my phone went into “SOS Mode.” I wondered if I had paid my bill. But my email receipts indicated I had. I wondered if I was being subjected to some kind of spearphishing attack. That seemed too an exotic answer to a simple question. Kelly looked up “Verizon Outage” and found many results. Also: she uses AT&T. And so, I didn’t have cellular coverage. I missed it, but also, …

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‘Laughing While Leaving’ (2017). When the artist Roxana Halls was a child she considered becoming an actor or better still a film director when she grew up. Halls invented stories and ideas for the films she imagined she would make but soon realised the overly collaborative nature of filmmaking would only...

As I wrote in an earlier post, American Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) played world championship mat­ches in 1970–1 when he won 20 consecutive games before losing once and drawing 3 times to ex-world champion Russian Tigran Petros­yan. In 1972 Fischer was the first American-born Jewish man to hold the World Champion tit­­le when he defeated Russian Boris Spassky in a mat­ch held in Reykjavík Iceland. Russia had dominated chess since the …