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Super late week notes, I know. It's almost another week. I wasn't going to write anything this week but I figured, well, who cares.The process of creating a concept art portfolio is way harder than I thought. Not that putting a portfolio together is difficult, but trying to do so and realizing you still lacks a lot of important fundamental skills. Now I'm here, running against time. But it's been …

After seven years, I have uncovered the philosophy behind why I write this blog.

New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was marked by serious challenges to everyday life—graffiti-covered subways, rampant vandalism, piles of uncollected garbage, and high crime rates. Noise, drugs, and other social issues added to the city’s struggles, making the streets chaotic and unpredictable. Sidewalks were often littered with dog waste, waiting to catch both […]

Apart from​ flashes of utopianism, Derrida’s conception of politics was quite old-fashioned, perhaps pre-Kantian: for him, politics was concerned not with designing a new society but with responding to random conflicts thrown up by the ordinary chaos of social existence.

I have adopted uv for a lot of Python development. I'm also a heavy user of direnv, which I like as a tool for setting up project-specific environments. Much like Hynek describes, I've found uv sync to be fast enough to put into the chdir path for new directories. Here's how I'm doing it. Direnv Libraries First, it turns out you can pretty easily define custom direnv functions like the …

Rescuing a couple of photos from my camera roll: 🐶 A coyote in Golden Gate Park around sunrise. This coyote lay down on some lawn; in the low light, some joggers went past without noticing. That coyote just looked like an unruly hank of grass. I didn't get a photo of that, but did snap a pic of that fur blending into some wood chips. 🏠 "Elizabeth" house on Belvedere …

The potato’s many nutritional benefits are common knowledge, but once upon a time, the noble spud did more than simply provide vitamins, minerals and fiber: . . . in a certain district in Kentucky some forty years ago. . . a traveling preacher named Bowman, a strong, muscular man, was conducting a series of religious Read More

Our route from Mount Carleton, New Brunswick to Castine, Maine Longtime sailing friends Marianne and Wyllys spend their summers in Castine, Maine. Wyllys’ family has owned an oceanside cottage there since the 1950s and when they learned we were in Canada, they graciously extended an invitation for a visit. It didn’t take us long to say yes. Marianne and Wyllys, longtime cruising friends and our hosts in Castine (Used with …

Trappistenhuis Den Herberg in Waasmunster is a volkscafé offering Trappist beers, Geuze, and sourdough bread made with Chimay yeast. The post Trappistenhuis Den Herberg appeared first on Belgian Smaak.

Starting with a sentiment that we can all agree on, this bunch of brutal Japanese Punk Rockers takes no prisoners,play it loud until you too become Deef.Old Punk Rocker Heroes such as the terminally awful John Lydon,are almost as bad as their fans,and should do us all a favor and voluntarily turn themselves in at the sadly fictional local extermination camps for gobshite Rockers.Turning from enemy of the state number …

Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This Month, we are featuring Seleus Blelis who writes at Silver Screen Classics and Nostalgia.1. Why do you blog?Ever since my introduction to classic cinema starting with the iconic "Frankenstein" (1931), I've wanted to share my thoughts and opinions about these brilliant glimpses into film culture - and this was in 1978, when I was …

Montreal metro, last winter. If our attention for long-form reading was already faltering because of texts, social media, and the delivery of online reading material to us in shorter and shorter bits, not to mention our often-frenetic lives, the pandemic drove a decisive nail into that coffin. During those difficult years of fear and isolation, I heard many people say that although they wanted to read books, they found they …

This is a speculative post, with a bit of a hypothesis. Where I live in British Columbia there is a provincial election campaign on. It is happening in the midst of a kind of permanent federal campaign that, although not officially begun, has been manufactured by the Conservative Party of Canada as they try to topple the Liberal Party minority government. Political branding is all the rage at the moment, …

Today marks a full year of Jumblie puzzles! I made the theme “appreciative” for a reason: I am so grateful for all the love the game has gotten over the past year. Without burying the lede too much: I’m going to stop making Jumblie puzzles now. The game will still work, daily, it will just loop from now on, where it starts from Puzzle #1 after Puzzle #365. How the …