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Relative Dormancy Star Trek: TNG will always be my measure of a tablet. We’re still not there yet. Paid a visit to the Field Museum in Chicago. Vibe.

You aren’t alone, Ben. Am I alone in preferring an offline, analogue, tactile reading experience? Is there something here, or is the future of media entirely, irrevocably digital? Sitting back and reading paper is magnificent.

A quick post about some quirky geology today. Geodes are crystal-filled masses inside a larger body of rock. They are awesome. Scientists generally know how they form. Voids or bubbles in volcanic or sedimentary rock (particularly basalt/lava) were inundated with hot, mineral rich, fluids circulating in the ground. Crystals grew from the fluids – like rock candy grows on a string in a saturated sugar solution. Geodes are typically small. …

Nicky Campbell: “Woah. Welcome to indisputably the nation's top pop show. What an opener we've got for you tonight. They're frenetic, flamboyant, fun loving, the lot. You can tell from their name that they come from Germany. They're here tonight with Harlem Desire. The one and only, the two and only, London Boys.” [21] LONDON BOYS: harlem desire. Stanley Appel doesn't like starting Top of the Pops with the host …

AT. LONG. LAST. This part of the challenge was always going to be a difficult owing to the amount of Barbel and indeed Chub present. I have spent over the course of 10 trips (including this trip) 168 hours of angling with 62 Barbel caught, the 62nd being the one I was after, everything in between has been enjoyable and testing in equal measure. A wonderful part of the world, …

Hey You,First off, we're sorry for the delay in getting this newsletter to you—our busy summer months are catching up with us! But we’re here now, and October is packed with so much happening in Aberdeen’s cultural scene that we couldn’t let you miss out. Despite the shorter days and the cooler weather, the city is full of creative energy, and we’re excited to bring you all the latest news.In …

Orcs are bred for war and have faces only a mother could love. Screenshot from the Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

buttermilk vanilla cake with fudgy cocoa frosting and sprinkles Win of the week: finally got around to baking the cake I’ve been wanting: vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles 🧁 (from Snacking Cakes) Looking forward to: chilling this weekend Stuff I did: 9.25 hours consulting — finally kicked off the new project! Lots of yardwork ✂ Two doctor trips for my annual wellness checkup and bloodwork Walked at the …

The HTML Framework is constantly evolving and it's hard to keep up. In this article, I'll cover the steps involved in building a fully-interactive, stateful counter control (complete with increment and decrement buttons) in just one line of code, using the latest version (version 5, which just came out in 2008). Let's dig in! Steps Installation: $ npm install the following packages: react, react-dom, babel Locate your /node_modules folder and …

This is a guest post by David Quantick. Covers of the first U.S. editions of Daisy Ashford’s The Young Visiters and Ring Lardner’s The Young Immigrunts. “My parents are both married and ½ of them are very good looking.” This is the story of two very different writers, one an American comic writer of genius, playwright and sportswriter, the other a young English girl with terrible spelling. The American was …

I was aware of The Geysers, a geothermal field about 35 miles north of my home in Santa Rosa, but I never gave it much thought until my first bike ride through the area. Then I learned a number of interesting things. It’s the world’s largest geothermal field, producing more than 700 megawatts. It accounts for 20% of California’s renewable energy. The naturally-occurring steam was used up almost 30 years …

Is this a young Kelly Bert Manning at BC Systems Corp circa 1980? A former staffer thinks so. The device is probably an IBM 026 keypunch or a model of the same vintage. My father died four years and three months ago after a struggle with cancer. None of us had the heart to write an obituary in the early days of the COVID epidemic. This is my attempt to …

Fall is here and I’m excited for my October class at Pete Galbert’s. I’ll burrow into the shop for the winter, then we’re going to do it again in spring. Registration for a class at Pete’s March 10-15 opens up … Continue reading →

Tuesday A new month. In the city there are blue coats, black coats, tan coats and a boxy fake fur jacket with shoulders so wide it could be concealing an actual box. Question: Who grew the sunflowers at One Exchange Square? I’ve been wondering about this for weeks. One Exchange Square is a never ending building site. Scaffolding, tarpaulins, hoardings and tall boards conceal it. And all summer, peeking out …

I think the reason Bresson’s films resist singular interpretations is that they are composed of multiple, overlapping perspectives. His films contain elements of humanism, nihilism, absurdism, existentialism, transcendentalism, and numerous[...] The post Bresson, Schrader, and the Fool: Transcendental and Materialist Interpretations in the Films of Robert Bresson appeared first on Bright Lights Film Journal.