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On Thursday Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024. From Apple Newsroom: CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64,1 up 12 percent year over year …

Not quite an example of critics totally missing the significance of an epochal record in real time, as this does get a measured 3 and a half stars out of five from Gaz, with Entertainment! further described as "erratically brilliant". Included in the series more because the critique comes from a well-informed position (SWP member conversant with Brecht etc) yet advances a stance contrary to the now historically sanctioned viewpoint …

The post 2024 KC Art Market appeared first on Schliefkevision - Paintings & Art Classes. Hey Kansas City! It’s time to plan for the schliefkevision Art Market 2024! Kansas City t-shirts, oil paintings, drawings, Kansas City prayer candles and more art oddities will be on sale! Come on out the first weekend of December and pick up some cool, unique and original gifts for yourself and others! Kansas City Art… …

I’ve been working on the broughlike pretty steadily since my last update. The gameplay loop is pretty much unchanged, but I’ve added a fair bit of polish, and fixed a lot of bugs. I think it is honestly sort of boring to play, but I am excited to have this as the starting point for future projects…can you smell the roguelike!? I can! The major fixes and improvements that I’ve …

I love hackable URLs. A hackable URL is a URL that makes sense to a human reader, and where the human reader can guess what to change to get to another page. For example, if you look at the URL of this very blog post, https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/11/02/eleventy-11ty-year-year-month-and-year-month-day-indexes/, what would you expect happens if you hack the URL to any of the following values? https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/11/02/ lists all posts that were published on …

I haven’t seen much of London in October. I’ve been away every weekend in October, partly in the UK and partly visiting friends overseas. And now we’re in November, the clocks have gone back, but temperatures haven’t plummeted yet. London feels busy – pubs still have crowds outside. Finally, the UK’s first Labour budget for 15 years The big UK political/market news of the month was the new government’s mucn …

If you visit Canary Wharf regularly, you would have noticed activity for a few months around the middle dock. Now all has been revealed with the opening of Eden Dock. In a pioneering partnership with the Eden Project, Canary Wharf have turned part of the historic Middle Dock, into Eden Dock, a waterfront oasis of interconnected pontoons and aquatic islands. Eden Dock with its plants and the soothing sound of …

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 →

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.