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Anora For all its anxiety inducing set pieces, the most masterful thing about Sean Baker's electric "Anora" is that all the controlled chaos only makes the quiet, reflective moments that much more powerful. As the title character, Mikey Madison gives a ferociously alive portrayal of a woman caught up in a spiral of very messed-up hide and seek when her newlywed Russian husband goes missing, and his very powerful family's …

Got binoculars? That's all you'll need to see Uranus at its brightest this month and next.

Continuing where we left off last time, here's the green box section of the reference doc. I've split it up into the box as it was inherited, and then added a subheading for each of the main sources of stuff as it comes up later. Some of these items will ring a bell from my previous green box posts; proof that I do occasionally use my own work.We also get …

When I was little, our parents took us on a trip to Spain every year. From where we live, that trip took, depending on the destination, up to 1500 km. Suffice to say, for a seven-year-old boy and his two little sisters, to get there, there was first a seemingly endless highway to endure, partially softened by the synths of Pink Floyd set on repeat on my OG Sony Walkman. …

A group of scientists think they’ve found the answer to what caused the disappearance of most of the megafauna species that lived near the La Brea Tar Pits. They took sediment cores from several sites near the tar pits and measured the quantities and composition of pollen and the amount of charcoal present–an indicator of fire frequency. They radio-carbon dated the layers of the core. They also used radio-carbon dates …

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When flames erupted at a house in Santiago, Chile, the dedicated firefighters of the Third Fire Company of Ñuñoa immediately responded to the call. Firefighter Joseth Abel Espinosa’s GoPro footage providees a rare firsthand look at what it’s like to be on the front lines of firefighting, vital work that...

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Argues that following the traces of mosquitoes can provide valuable insights into the history of quarantine in the twentieth century, the relationship between medical knowledge and public health, and their ideological entanglements.

Here’s the video update from the last two weeks of work on the red bus.

Things I love to see in my product include how certain users make use of the data structures, forms, tables, etc., to perform actions that aren’t originally possible within the product itself. For example, imagine I have a data structure for categories, where there is a table of categories and a form to create a new category. These categories can be associated with products, where a product belongs to a …

A client emailed me a screenshot of a table rather than pasting the table as text into an email. I thought about using an LLM to convert it to text, but the table is confidential client information and so I shouldn’t upload it anywhere. I searched for a command line utility to do OCR and found tesseract. I installed it with sudo apt install tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr-eng and ran it …

This ad for Enna Jetticks shoes from 1965 reminded me of a section of the book The Thoughtful Dresser by novelist and fashion writer, Linda Grant. “I can think of nothing worse than to have been a middle aged woman who loved fashion in the 1960s, because fashion hated middle-aged women.” (146) If the middle-aged felt left out, then what about the elderly? The message in this ad was (I …

About a year after we got the first Straw-Man book, we get the second from Barry Reese. This series is set in modern times within Reese’s Sovereign City universe, in a small town known as Grove’s Folly that is near Sovereign City. However, other than a reference to one of Lazarus Gray‘s associates, none of […]

If you had told me, 20 years ago, that I would one day look forward to a real winter again I would have laughed at you. Yet, here I am, looking forward to the winter and all it brings. Here’s to us getting the chance to make the best of it.