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The hardest weeks to write about are the ones in which it feels like nothing happened. The new management took over at the workspace in Peckham Levels. I decided to stay on, but as they’ve abolished the pay-by-the-day option, I had to choose a dedicated desk or nothing. I chose the dedicated desk as it’s not much more than I was paying for my frequent attendance anyway. The bean-to-cup coffee …

Roden Readers — The first memory I have of Enrique Allen is from the campus of Stanford. He had just graduated from the d.school and was teaching part-time. We were about to start working together. He was all bounding lightness. That’s the first image: Jumping, huge bright smile, long black hair, wide open face, totally open heart. Bounding lightness. The lightness stood in contrast to his bigness as a human; …

Three Years Without God without colorThis all started from a suggestion by amateur film archivist / historian / enthusiast / restorer Jojo de Vera-- 'amateur' only in the sense that he's not paid for what he passionately works for and believes in and has a vast store of knowledge and expertise about that I often call upon for advice. Jojo asked if I was interested in seeing Tatlong Taong Walang …

Perfume PosseSacre Bleu by Aftelier Perfumes NEW! NEW! NEW! Hi there Posse Perfumistas. Mandy Aftel’s latest package arrived and the feeling is always joyful. Mandy has single handedly inspired a generation of perfumers. Almost all the modern natural perfume houses pay at least some tribute to Mandy’s help and… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseSacre Bleu by Aftelier Perfumes NEW! NEW! NEW!

Once you've made an etching plate, you may be ready to print an edition - or you might want to proof it to decide on further edits. Taking a print is the only way you’ll be able to see how your plate is progressing. This blog is part of a series featuring tips and techniques to get you started with aluminium or zinc plate etching. This post will demonstrate two …

I realize, after 18 years as a part of it, that the rules of the food internet in the week before the American cooking superbowl we call Thanksgiving dictate that everything should relate back to turkey, stuffing, or pie. But friends, we have that abundantly covered in the archives, and the newsletter. So let me tell you what I’ve been making a lot lately to feed myself what I crave, …

This is the fourth installment of a thirty-part series of articles by Frederick J. "Monte" Monteagle for the Martinez News-Gazette, written January - February, 1977. I'll publish each one as an individual blog post. MF Two Lynchings For One Price [This outstanding series on the felling of a magnificent Bay Area redwood forest 1853-55 in what is now mostly Redwood Regional Park in appearing periodically in installments.] During the frenetic …

Things are certainly going to look different in the climate change debate following the U.S. election. But progress on reducing emissions will continue. The post With Trump in the White House, expect the states to take charge on climate progress appeared first on Canadian Climate Institute.

Recently, I was going through some of my old emails from 2009. That’s from before Dirty Feed was even launched. In fact, those of you with very long memories may remember that Dirty Feed didn’t even start out as Dirty Feed; it was originally called “Transistorised” for most of the launch year of 2010, after an old Kenny Everett line about “transistorised people”. Transistorised doesn’t work at all as a …

Over the years I’ve picked up various tweaks for my nvim configuration. One of them is template file support. This article is a short introduction to what they are, how do they work and how I recently extended them to support snippet expansion.

Q and I visited Singapore, exploring the city's mix of colonial and modern architecture, abundant greenery, and world-class art and culture.

How many times have I travelled through Chicago? A least a dozen, it being a major airline hub for Midwesterners like myself and all. I’ve even travelled through it by train a couple times. Since I’m almost as passionate about … Continue reading →

There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke to Steve Pikelny, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://FastCashMoneyPlus.biz and Jesus pamphlet collector aka steviep about his newest art project FinSexy to explore the uncomfortable intersection between AI, findom and crypto. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like …

Quartets of datasets are trendy now, so here’s one for collinearity diagnostics. These four data sets have two candidate predictors \(x\) and \(z\) and outcome \(y\), and have very strong correlation (over 0.95) between \(x\) and \(z\). I will use the car package for variance inflation factors set.seed(2024-11-21) library(car) ## Loading required package: carData Redundancy In the first example, \(Y\perp X\mid Z\), so for prediction it is ok to drop …

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. Donate to #TeamEvie and the Literally Healing program at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Go to either TinyURL.com/giveTE for a monetary donation or TinyURL.com/TeamE24, pick a book and make sure to pick Team Evie as the shipping location. I’ll have more ways to donate soon, so watch the feed. In this episode we …