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Film If you've been wondering why wind has been whistling through this old place lately it's because all of the excitement has been happening on BlueSky where I've been live skeeting (jesus) a read through of Empire Magazine. All of it. You can see the story so far here. Part of the process has included retrospectively catching up on people or places mentioned in articles and while I'd usually do …

A few months ago, a veteran upland bird-hunter on Facebook asked people to list their favorite pocket knives. I have owned a few since I started carrying one at age 11 or whenever. Most popular brands have ridden in my jeans: Schrade, Case, Old Timer, Gerber, Buck, and so on.But then one day I needed a knife -- apparently I had donated my last one to Amtrak -- and I …

I put this East Indian rosewood/European spruce guitar to one side as I proceeded with my usual process of wet sanding and buffing four other guitar bodies, the motivation being that I wanted to compare wet sanding with the dry sanding alternative.There was an unavoidable delay as I waited for delivery of the Eagle Abrasives' Super Assilex and Super Buflex papers from Stewart MacDonald in the U.S., but as this …

(⏱️ ~8 min read) Once again I got swamped with work so I missed last month's Signal Boost / Links post, so here's a two-fer, for all the stuff I recommend that I found last & this month. Previous months' Signal Boosts: July/Aug 2024, June 2024, May 2024 This month's Signal Boosts: 🐦 Trans furry hyperpop conlang musical mockumentary ↪ 👋 DynamicLand is back, bay-beeeee ↪ 🍞 "I put a …

Still chipping away at this quilt I started on a whim in the spring.

Bronx Zoo, New York, NY, 2024

Some of the most impressive churches and historical sites are found along the Camino de Santiago routes that twist through the length of Europe. While tourists and pilgrims alike will be drawn to the grand cathedrals on the Camino de Santiago, I find the most special places are the tiny chapels, churches, and unplanned hidden...

I’m not sure if this will ever see the light of day, but what the hell, I’ll do it here in case I can turn it into a proper write up. At the moment, I’m only concerned with emulating Ed’s ‘multi’ workflow. If I get that working, I’ll hopefully have a leg up on implementing the other modes. Also, I’m assuming we’re working with an unset tempo to begin with. …

October's Pylon of the Month is from a fan of the website who encountered it whilst cycling from Zurich to Rapperswil. He notes that it is a tension tower where the line of cables changes direction vertically as it descends to the valley and lake below. A quick look at the open infrastructure map leads me to believe that it's a 132/110 kV line descending to the Rapperswil substation. If …

Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens. We will add more of the scans to this page later in the week.

Pre-made "skinny" stones being bulked with foam. Inspector Vulture approves.Shaped and coated with joint compound over paper mache'.Painted black and dry-brushed white.While I have several ideas for scratch-built monuments, this was another year to simply "bulk out" premade stones to give them more heft and believability. It is a simple process of building up the back and base of the stone with additional foam then coating with paper mache' and …

Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a fundamental dimensionality reduction technique using in Machine Learning. The general goal is to transform a -dimensional problem into a -dimensional one, where is smaller than . This can be used, for instance, to plot large dimensional data on a 2D or 3D plot, or to reduce the number of features in an effort to eliminate random noise in a machine learning problem (made …

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generative systems and the content deficit Brochure: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) 1970s Gift of the William Hough Collection Collection of SFO Museum 2007.011.285 Last week I spoke at the 2024 Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Lawrence, Kansas. The talk was an elaboration on some of the closing slides in the presentation that I did for a Museum Studies class at USF earlier this year. As usual it felt like …