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Top stuff from English jazzman John Surman. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize A lovely album with a mix of avant-garde/free/spiritual/post bop. A majority is on the free side though. It’s bombastic and chaotic at times and slower paced and more melodic in parts. There are plenty of different interesting passages throughout. It keeps …

The beat goes on. We gathered last night at Migration Brewing on N Williams Ave. (Photos: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) Well it finally happened. After 84 weeks in a row, our run on Ankeny Rainbow Road has come to an end… at least for now. Bike Happy Hour will no longer gather every Wednesday at Gorges Beer/Ankeny Tap & Table; but we’re still coming together. Last night we tried out a new …

Chelan Cafe is a mom & pop diner in an awful place. Named for the state’s largest lake, and more immediately for the street it’s on, it’s literally in the shadow of a freeway. The setting, then, is concrete pillars, with a layer of grime and soot, while cars, buses, and trucks hurry by, even […]

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Specifically in this case a Tenor Baritone guitar? I mean, I already have a tenor guitar (more than one), and I have a baritone guitar too. Why would I need a tenor baritone? That’s just silly. And yet. Here is one anyway. A mystery, it is. Anyway, hi. How are you? — JS

Apple’s manufacturing investments in India are translating into significant additional investments elsewhere across India’s manufacturing economy and wider transport ecosystem. Apple is making waves India is rising, and Apple’s iPhone economy is helping that rise happen. The company is thought to want to make a third of all its smartphones in India over the next couple of years, but manufacturing at that kind of scale requires other things, including local …

author Steven Johnson used Gemini Pro to make an interactive fiction game out of his latest book and wrote about it #

The Arabian Heritage Collection by Areej Le Doré is a deliberately minimalist collection, focused on the three materials that are not only critical to Arabian or mukhallat style perfumery but happen to be the recurring motifs of each Areej Le Doré collection – ambergris (Al Ambar), oud (Al Oud) and sandalwood (Al Sandal). As always, when I smell an Areej Le Doré collection, I try to evaluate what I am …

… The only thing more vexing than being a Trump critic is being a Trump ally. – Jonathan Martin, “Here Are the GOP Senators Best Positioned to Take on Trump,” Politico, November 21, 2024.

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit has affirmed summary judgment of non-infringement in DoggyPhone LLC v. Tomofun LLC, agreeing to narrowly construe the claim as requiring direct rather than indirect causation. The case involves U.S. Patent 9,723,813, which covers an "Internet Canine Communication System" that allows pet owners to remotely interact with and deliver treats to their dogs. DoggyPhone accused Tomofun's popular Furbo device of infringement, but both the district …

The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is …

Mike Masnick, writing for MSNBC: Turns out for the “Twitter Files” crew, “creeping authoritarianism” isn’t so creepy when it’s your team doing the creeping. Before, we were told that White House officials’ merely reaching out to social media companies about election misinformation was a democracy-ending threat. Now, the world’s richest man has openly used his platform to boost one candidate, ridden that campaign’s success into the White House himself, and …

[And now for a piece from the 21st Century perspective for new visitors] What is Galactic Journey? It's a time machine, sure, but what does that mean? Galactic Journey is so staggeringly big, so comprehensive, that I suspect even our fans don't know all of its facets. We review every SFF story that comes out, … Continue reading What is the Galactic Journey? → The post What is the Galactic …

I joined my Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) co-hosts – Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, and Lydia Cao (with Yong Zhao unable to attend due to travel) – to deliver a keynote at the Global Learning for an Open World Conference. SLL has been a labor of love over the past five years, with more than […]

More rain today and gale force wind. Both burners on red this morning. Both jets blocked. Had both going again by 8.20. A lot of fowl from H Hall to burn. Did all filters.