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  1. Persiflage, , more info

    Giving a good mathematics talk
    Last week, Tadashi Tokieda came to Chicago to give a colloquium. If you have seen him speak, you will not be surprised to learn that it was absolutely delightful talk. I carried the talk around with me in my mind … Continue reading →
    By Persiflage, 49 words
  2. Henrique Dias - Home, , more info

    Recently in October '24
    October is now two days away. Halloween is gone - which I always enjoying mentioning despite never doing anything for it -, and my birthday too. I’m now 25, a quarter of a century, a very interesting-feeling number. Some would say it’s now closer to the 30s than to the 20s. Let’s recap what’s happened this last month! ✍️ Website During this past month, I made quite a few updates …
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  3. Model Railroad Minutiae, , more info

    Tree bark shed
    This rough looking shed was made using boards made from tree bark from my yard. The part of the bark I used was from the inside of the bark - the part next to the tree. It took a lot of time to make the boards since I had to cut them out, slice them down and sand them. The only commercial parts are the details around the shed. Above …
    By Stan Knotts, 129 words
  4. TRISTAN LOUTH-ROBINS, , more info

    October 2024: Soundwalking, presenting, producing, gardening and folking around
    Following a creatively quiet September, here’s a round-up of what I got up to during October Soundwalking and presenting This month involved a couple of activities I hadn’t done in quite a while – giving a presentation on my work and facilitating a soundwalk. Waite Arboretum soundwalk Cover page of the handout I made for this year’s participants About a week ago, my workplace had its annual ‘HSME’ (i.e. health …
    By tristanlouthrobins, 2,883 words
  5. ohhey[blog], , more info

    October 2024 Reading
    Only one book read this month. School is pretty busy, so I'm working many evenings on grades and other teaching related tasks. I'm able to read a few nights a week before I go to sleep. The Book of M - Peng Shepherd I picked this up after I finished reading The Cartographers, which I read in September. This book took a long time to develop and felt like the …
    By Brian, 159 words
  6. EvermoreStudio, , more info

    Jack-O-Lantern 2024
    My 2024 virtual jack-o-lantern was created in Nomad Sculpt, then rendered and animated in Blender. Seen here with my virtual jack-o-lanterns from 2022 and 2023. The post Jack-O-Lantern 2024 appeared first on Evermore Stud.io.
    By Andrew Crawford, 36 words
  7. Tips and Advice — Monty Don, , more info

    November 2024
    Spanish GardensI am delighted to announce the publication of my latest book Spanish Gardens. Spanish Gardens is a detailed record of my travels throughout the country as I visited the country as a relative newcomer. The book explores how Spain has evolved from the darker days after the civil war to its successful transition to democracy over fifty years ago, tracing those changes through its gardens - from the more …
    By Adam Don, 2,866 words
  8. Ace Linguist, , more info

    Podcast Appearance: "In a Manner of Speaking"
    Hello, happy to report that I have made another appearance on Paul Meier's fantastic podcast, "In a Manner Of Speaking"! Paul, Cameron and I discussed British and American accents in popular music, which is a topic that I've been interested in discussing for a long time. I hope you'll listen and enjoy the podcast; we had a tremendous time making it.
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  9. The Scythe Association – Latest News, , more info

    Scything with a View in Shropshire
    This week long event of scything across the Shropshire Hills included getting a lot of bracken cut plus a few meadows along the way. It culminated in a competition and BBQ. The results from the scything competition 18 entries on a 4x4m square NameClassBladeTimeQuality Peter BlackwellM*9502:438 Phil HoldenM Q*7505:268.5 Hannah HoldenF*7005:168 Ted WaldronM8503:395.5 Shane O’ReillyM V*8504:106 Jim McVittieM V 75*7504:507 Mike TowrieM7504:185.5 Andy HydeM V6007:158 John BowbrickM6007:497.5 Steve MarshM7505:014 Jayne …
    By Richard Brown, 185 words
  10. Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books, , more info

    The Wood at Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke
    I liked Clarke's previous novel, Piranesi (I reviewed it here on Jan. 12, 2022), so the idea of a new book by her attracted my attention. Disappointment after disappointment followed. First, I learned the book is only sixty-three pages: so, a novella at best. But then I got a copy. Nineteen of those pages are publishing matter, or illustrations without text. Eleven pages have only a small amount of text, …
    By Bibliopolitan, 222 words
  11. Lost Boy, , more info

    What does community-driven data governance look like?
    Some idle thoughts for a Friday afternoon. I was just taking a look at Source.Plus a dataset of public domain images for training Foundation models. It’s a project of Spawning.ai which is working to build “data governance for generative AI”. I have some thoughts on the tools they’re building, but that’s not what I’m writing about here. It was this statement which caught my attention: “Through the Source.Plus platform, we …
    By Leigh Dodds, 445 words
  12. Imagico.de | blog, , more info

    More map symbols
    In addition to the point barrier symbols i also re-designed and extended quite a few of the existing symbols in the style for human built structures of all kinds. Starting point was that i wanted to port back some of the changes in OSM-Carto that happened after i created the AC-Style. But i did not want to use these designs as is. Instead i wanted to re-evaluate the design decisions …
    By chris, 1,804 words
  13. The Architect’s Newspaper, , more info

    Entry period begins for 2025 Mass Timber Competition: Building Sustainable Schools
    Eligible project teams are encouraged to submit proposals for the 2025 Mass Timber Competition: Building Sustainable Schools, funded by the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and the USDA Forest Service, with support from the Center for Green The post Entry period begins for 2025 Mass Timber Competition: Building Sustainable Schools appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
    By Paige Davidson, 66 words
  14. Chen Hui Jing, , more info

    Chill day just HTML-ing and CSS-ing
    I have not had as many chances to build websites lately because for a little over the past 100 days, I’ve been in a non-developer role at work. It’s not really my cup of tea, but I committed to filling the role and therefore I must give my best. However, I really would very much prefer to be building websites. And so, when my friend, Kathy Giori, reached out about …
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  15. Apocalypse Now, , more info

    Video Essays, 2024
    Here is a round-up of all of my video essay work available for public consumption made in the last calendar year. The big project was An Aim Not Devoid of Merit, a look at the complete works of Steven Spielberg, created with Tucker Johnson. I added several titles to my ongoing series Other West, about offbeat westerns: John Frankenheimer's Andersonville, Jordan Peele's Nope, and Bruce Beresford's Black Robe. I released …
    By Scout Tafoya, 304 words