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Sheryl and I spent the weekend in Halifax to watch Camren compete at Dalhousie and to enjoy the city the way we enjoy most: lots of walking, with coffee roasters and bakeries as our waypoints. The extreme weather and exhaustion cancelled those plans, so we spent our free time at IKEA and Costco, which isn’t quite the same at all. Dinner out was the first pub with a table and …

One of the highlights of Thanksgiving in the United States is the food, as seen through the lens of Google Trends. Turkey gets an especially high peak, which I’d wager is partly from people who have to find a recipe for something they make only once or less each year. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I am thankful for you and hope you get to eat lots. Tags: food, Google Trends, Thanksgiving

The Board upheld a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark shown below, for vehicle radiators and air conditioner parts, finding confusion likely with the registered mark REACH for "Motor vehicles, namely, automobiles, trucks, vans, sport utility vehicles and structural parts therefor; trucks and structural parts therefor; vans and structural parts therefor." Applicant Reach International argued that, under the Strategic Partners approach, its prior registration for a similar mark should …

Being ghosted is a phenomenon that nobody wants to experience but retailers and hospitality companies are doing exactly that to many thousands of people, which is very damaging to their brands. This occurs when people are applying for jobs and the candidate invariably hears nothing back. Even when the applicant is massively qualified for the role. The best most people can expect is to initially receive an automated response stating …

🍿 I’ve watched still more made-for-TV holiday movies: Jingle Bell Run Meet Me Next Christmas Hot Frosty Hot Frosty taught me that no matter how built a dude is, no matter how kind he is, if he’s a himbo, I will not find him attractive.

My final read of the month is my fourth one for German Literature Month; I would have liked to have squeeze in more for that event, and *did* have a plan to spend time with a particular chunkster. However, it wasn’t chiming with my mood and then a lovely review copy arrived from Recovered Books which fitted in with GLM and frankly I couldn’t resist! The title is “Red House …

originally published on: instagram she said she accidentally took the photo – i thought it was poignant how she held on to my foot the entire hour or so i was having my root canal. if this isn’t true love, i don’t know what is.

Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily life. I've touched on my design ethos before, but this feels like something more personal. It's a lightweight breakdown of who I am, both as a designer and a human, shaped by the values, mantras, principles, people, and quotes that influence what I create and how I try to live. But consider …

The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262546836, English, 288 pages, 2023, USA ‘The distinction between image capture and image creation is now increasingly blurred’, writes Joanna Zylinska in the introduction to The Perception Machine. This is already one of the pivotal arguments in the current debate on photography. Indeed, the digitisation of all visual elements and the computation that goes with it has transcended the definition and role of photography, which is …

To combat trespass on the line, a couple of scary locomotives with terrifying fibreglass faces have been bought in to scare small children and probably some adults away from the line. As they patrol the route, they emit an unnerving canned laughter sound which will make even the most hardened cry “Mummy mummy, please make those cackling hysterical voices go away, they remind me of when you locked us in …

In the spirit of experimentation, I’ve tried out something a bit different and that is a new format: I’ve put together a mini class that I hope you will enjoy: “Sharpen your observation with blind contour drawing” is all about quick and fun exercises to boost your observation skills and hand-eye coordination. In just 10 ... Read more Source

We preempt your regularly scheduled program… Originally, thisun was gonna be about me, your Old Uncle, turning my SeeStar S50, Suzie, and 10-inch Dob, Zelda, loose on the fall globulars chapter in UAG (“The Urban Astronomer’s Guide,” for the uninitiated). Then, as it sometimes does, everything—well, a couple of things—changed. Thanks to the kindness of a friend of mine, Jack Estes, who is also a longtime friend of this here …

Double Maths First Thing is guaranteed Christmas-free. Humbug! Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to find and spread mathematical joy. This week’s interesting bit of analysis (and please don’t tell Dave Gale I did some statistics), gives a plausible answer to a question on Hacker News: if a statistic (employee performance) is normally distributed, why would a company’s distribution be Pareto? I’m quite …

Mr Stan Hieronymus visited Ireland in September and I was happy to be able to meet for a couple of pints in Dublin shortly after he arrived. I was good enough to take a couple of cans which he had shipped over off his hands, to save him shlepping them around the country.First, and perhaps least remarkable, is the 2024 Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest, this year a collaboration with Gutmann of …

“Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in” There are two stories that were big inspirations for Union. One was Dune and the other was the Silmarillion. In the game you start with an end point, a singular character who did something important, and then work backwards to figure out who their ancestors are and where they came …