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A vigorous exchange of ideas about public issues characterized the panels I virtually attended at this year's Iowa Ideas conference organized by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. It's the ninth edition of the conference, but my first. Previously classes or professional travel kept me away; our obscenely summer-like weather almost kept me away this year, but after a day trip to Backbone State Park I eventually showed up to three panels. …

Dorking and Horsham MRCs held a joint show again. Not a bad idea at all for a small club to pool resources is like this, especially when hall hire is so expensive. Sean and Allan and Lucas were exhibiting at the show so I have plenty of photos. However, the show publicity was very poor, so I may have labelled some photos incorrectly! We’ll start with Sean’s Forrestone. Allan was …

This week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed actress Anna Kendrick for my House Call column in the Mansion section (go here). Anna stars in and directs one of the year's most interesting and chilling films, Woman of the Hour. Based on a true story, Anna uses a serial-killer thriller to explore the loathsome way in which our culture treated women in the 1970s. TV's The Dating Game was …

Opened an anchor bug a couple weeks ago. The most bizarre thing was happening with the auto flip feature of anchor positioning. See the Pen Hot text-emphasis by Adam Argyle (@argyleink) on CodePen. or so I thought… prob # When I had like > 1000px viewport, the anchored element would flip-block like I wanted. But… when I went to smaller viewports, it just stopped working. What in the world does …

Siri and Selma have been nagging us for months. They want to go to London. So we set off. Selma had diligently researched and planned that we would first go to the Millennium Bridge, which connects modern with old London and art with spirituality. This elegant pedestrian suspension bridge links the Tate Modern to St ...

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I wouldn’t have made the connection myself, but I was reminded that today is National Coming Out Day, which this year marks 20 years that I’ve been out.1 It feels like much longer. And I wish it were longer, since I highly recommend coming out in your teens or twenties if at all possible. Earlier this week, I was trying to find digital photos of an old project I’d worked …

My pal Saul sent me the weirdest and funnest treat I have *ever* received: A “Not Fried Chicken” Ice Cream Bucket by Life Raft Treats. It looks just like a fried chicken drumstick, but it’s actually an intricate ice cream creation, complete with waffle ice cream, a chocolate-covered cookie “bone” and a coating of white chocolate and crushed corn flakes! This made me LAUGH!

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Slowly going back through the post Wilder years. Ultra is pretty great.

I turned 44 today. It's been a great year all round. It's been a year of focus on trifold - family, work, and self. I am pretty happy about turning 44; it is just another number this time. Here is my graph for the current year. It's a bit different than last year. You can read this blog using RSS Feed. But if you are the person who loves getting …

Tomi Lahren should be fired for her outright fascism. But cohost Emily Compagno nodded in agreement as Lahren argued that democracy and the Jan. 6 coup attempt only matter to the privileged.

I was happy to see John Hopfield was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on neural networks. The award is based on this paper from 1982Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilitiesOne thing I find beautiful about the paper is how Hopfield drew on ideas about spin glasses (many competing interactions lead to many ground states and a complex energy landscape).A central insight is …

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Tim Boucher’s “Organic Data Weaving” seamlessly merges the organic vitality of nature with the abstract logic of digital hyperreality. Woven willow sculptures, embodying the natural profusion of growth, stand alongside AI-generated projections that evolve across the gallery walls. The dynamic interplay between the physicality of willow forms and the insubstantiality of digital projections invites viewers to contemplate the convergence of artificial and organic intelligence. The woven willow structures reflect the …