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It’s been a while since the last update, summer, holidays, birthdays, etc have all taken precedent over the last few months but there been progress! We’ve laid a lot of sleepers! I did make full use of child labour too! Abbie’s made a decent job of the sleepers she’s laid, probably between a third and a half of this board. My wife Kerry was helping me thread chairs as some …

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 …

A study from Harvard University found a clear link between an increased PFAS contamination risk in communities of color compared to the rest of the population. The military bases, airports, and other facilities found at cities' peripheries discard significant amounts of PFAS in the environment, contaminating groundwater and eventually contaminating public and private wells. 30% of the San Francisco Bay population consists of Blacks, Hispanics, and other ethnic minorities and …

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 …

Blik has been one of our favorites for years, creating fun, funky wall decals, wall tiles and wallpaper. They’ve now partnered with Kapitza, a London-based duo, to create one-of-a-kind lenticular wall art. And it’s amazing. Available in a range of patterns and sizes, the wall art is 3D and double-faceted, making it change pattern and color depending on what angle you view it from. The effect is fantastic, bringing a …

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 …

Not that [Sen. Roger Wicker] or most any other GOP senator will want to break from Trump. But as the once and future president has proven for nearly a decade, and is proving anew since the election, 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 …