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After reading some posts on Steve Grunwell’s blog, I was admiring his theme and how much I liked it. I have been running the WP22 theme, but his is better. It’s called “Lovecraft” and Steve was kind enough to share the link. So here we have it – what do you think? It’s immediately better to my eye. I also swapped in a new header image from Morro Bay. Not …

Even in the largest landscapes, the small scenes bring the world alive. No amount of time would be enough to spend noticing, contemplating and interpreting all the fine details of the Grand Canyon Bright Angel Shale and talus River cobble Brittlebrush My black and white photography is generally opportunistic, but as soon as we saw this bighorn silhouetted on the skyline, I knew it would be a monochrome shot: On …

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Axios: Apple is selling Apple News ads directly for the first time. Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It's pitching new ad units that it hopes will maximize revenue for itself and its publishing partners. I've been meaning to write about this for a while now, and since this popped up on Axios, now is a good …

A few months back, I played in SFPursuit, a San Francisco challenge hunt. Uhm, where "challenge hunt" is a phrase I made up just now for "Something like a puzzlehunt, but most of the activities aren't puzzle-y, but they are still challenging." One of the activities involved looking over a physical book that had been created for the hunt. A few bookstores across San Francisco had one copy each of …

‘While it was dark, I climbed up and put remote control cameras in the tree. I’d never have got the shot if I’d been up there. An orangutan always knows you’re there’I was following orangutans in Borneo with my wife, Cheryl Knott, a primatologist who has spent 30 years working in Gunung Palung national park, in the Indonesian part of Borneo. I am a biologist by background, and did my …

The communities of Alexandria, Hilltop and the Kingdom have joined forces to oppose the Saviors, but they have been betrayed by one group of potential allies whilst another, Oceanside, tries to stay out of the fighting. An early victory isolates the Sanctuary and allows Rick's forces to go on the offensive against the isolated Savior secondary bases, but Negan remains a dangerous and resourceful foe. As the tides of war …

Even though I love, and use, RSS daily to read things from the human focused web, also known as the indie web, I’ve been taking some time to dive into alt media. By alt media, I mean the 1990’s definition of alt media, where people actually stood against injustice instead of bowing down to their billionaire investors. I consume more podcasts than the average human, and I listen to a …

• 4-star hike • 3 mile out-and-back • Easy | Gain 400 feet • Agawam, MA | Pioneer Valley . MA Fire Towers Views from the derelict 1959 fire tower. Provin Mountain is peak of marginal prominence on the Metacomet Ridge - a long rocky range that spans the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut west of the Connecticut River. This hike boasts some of the best features of this range, …

We learned yesterday that we lost game designer Kory Heath. Sad news—my dear friend and collaborator, Kory Heath, after enduring years of chronic pain and depression, ended his life. He was a genius, also funny, kind, patient. I'm so grateful we could spend so many years, laughs, and tears together, and that he knew he was deeply loved by all of his friends. [email protected], Nov 19 Photo by Andrew Petrarca, …

A rebuilding of the back catalogue of an art gallery, Garage Rotterdam, from Django, to WordPress.

I'm thinking about war this morning, specifically Russia and Ukraine. Many people seem to write off the nuclear possibilities, I don't think they have a clue. Do people really want to push someone with more than enough capability to use it? I really don't get it. Don't get me wrong, I feel for the Ukrainian people, I really do. But at some point peace must be made. I feel they …

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 …

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. …