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Caitie Karasik’s story “Rob Bumble” contains a fabulous first date, roly-poly bugs, a favorite onion, and some deep longing .Here she shares just one thing about the piece:“More than one early reader thought ‘Rob Bumble’ was a memoir piece! It’s pulling from snippets of moments and feelings I’ve known, and I like using a very confessional style of writing, but I've never crashed a funeral. Yet. We’ll see how the …

I was thinking about these weekly things I write and whether there are themes are not. Mainly because I thought last week’s was pretty theme-y. Thematic perhaps. All about ones relationship with the ancillaries surrounding beer. Sorta. I tell myself that by writing these summaries I am tracing, following patterns. But I rarely go back and look. Behind the scenes, there are no graphs being added to every seven days. …

In this post, I’m sharing my personal thoughts on the Automattic vs. WP Engine trademark dispute. These views are my own and may not reflect those of my employer or anyone else on my team. Additionally, this should not be seen as a comprehensive retelling of the events from the past few weeks. Much has happened even during the period I’ve spent writing and rewriting this post. I wrote this …

Not long ago, Find a Grave added yet another way to search its memorial pages: By key words or names in the biography section.As shown above, I tested this search by looking for a name in my husband's family tree: Frank Bentley Curtis. Actually, I already knew this name appears in at least three generations descended from my husband's 3d great-grandfather, William Tyler Bentley (1795-1873) and 3d great-grandmother, Olivia Morgan …

It’s been even longer that we heard from Naked Roommate than from Dummy. Based in California too, but in Oakland, they put out their excellent debut Do the Duvet way back in the year of our pandemic 2020. Now they’re back with Pass the Loofah, recorded over three years and with the help of two new members Geoff Saba and Jeanne Oss. This time the record is only coming out …

Yet another lens that I bought because it was cheap and available. I had been shooting sports with an APS-C camera, so a lens that would act as a 600mm f5.6 was worth a punt. It’s an old-fashioned lens with a preset aperture. This means you dial-in the aperture you need and then, just before shooting, twist another ring that stops the lens down to this pre-set. This is about …

Krathon was my fifth or sixth typhoon in Taiwan, and the first that came with emergency messaging, starting at 7:28am today:The 12:01 message reads: “Kaohsiung Municipal Government has issued an emergency evacuation notice. Typhoon Krathon is expected to land in the Cijin and Siaogang areas of the city around 12:30. There will be disaster-level strong winds. Please take refuge indoors as soon as possible. If staying in temporary buildings or …

We couldn’t celebrate Ina’s memoir release week without a roast chicken! And Edy Massih’s Spatchcock Sumac Chicken offers a flavorful twist on this classic dish. The bird is generously coated with a rub of sumac, cumin, and Baharat – Edy’s version is a blend of allspice, black pepper, coriander, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and cardamom. After roasting until golden brown and cooked through, the chicken is bathed in a zesty mixture …

It’s September 2023 and six students are preparing to start Royal Hastings University’s new Multimedia Art course. The course is led by Gela Nathaniel who has personally selected her students from different backgrounds to ensure a range of skills and artistic knowledge. There’s Jem Badhuri, an ambitious and enthusiastic young woman who works mainly in sculpture and sound; Alyson Lang, already an experienced and talented artist; Jonathan Danners, whose family …

This is going to be a book review and it is not going to be a nice one and I am definitely not going to be recommending this book. Not for the first time I have to serious ask why publishers don’t employ fact checkers and in this case whether the prominent authors, who glowing recommend this book in blurbs on the cover, actually read the book before writing those …

Launching a hang glider from McCarty's Bluff, Rising Fawn, Georgia. Clarence Spindler and his Rock City barn. U.S, Highway 41, Gibson County, Indiana. Goat herder, rural Bulgaria. What do the above photographs have in common?Answer: they are all scans from film originals.I've been a photographer for 56 years. For the first 35 of those years I shot film. And although I've done some significant work (to me, at least) since …

PC I wish I were as ambitious as Robert “R_Games” Purmalis. His idea was to make a System Shock-like game, entirely on his own. Thankfully, he also had the sense to keep his scope small, creating a tight, few-hours-long claustrophobic im-sim, that tells a neat, contained story, with a ton of atmosphere. Zero Protocol isn’t shy about its influences, and wears them on its sleeves. Here, you wake up as …

We’ve been here before. Me, and MMI watch, you, dear reader. I’ve had the opportunity to review several of MMI’s offerings and have regularly found them to be good value,… The post MMI Cuttlechron appeared first on The Time Bum.

Next week, we’ll be kicking off a new speaker series in Vancouver called Infer. The goal of the meetup is to bring together folks who are doing great AI engineering work, so we can learn from one another. The format will be familiar to folks that have attended my previous meetups: two speakers, often one of whom will be visiting from out of town, with time to chat afterward. Events …

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