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The road to Dirē Dawa is a long one: an eight-hour drive from Addis Ababa, or so we are told. We left Addis Ababa at dawn, our bus rattling through empty streets shadowed by new-build office blocks. As with almost everywhere currently in Ethiopia, the pavements were piled with concrete rubble, the result of Prime … Continue reading "The Road to Dirē Dawa"

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Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code and on Morse Code with flags. Left, redesigned with a bigger font, for aging eyes. Our website has a …

Now that we have another Noirvember under our collective belts, it’s time to get back to our regularly scheduled programming. Here’s what’s on deck on TCM in the month of December in the pre-Code and film noir departments… Satiny Pick: December 2nd My Satiny pick for December is They Call It Sin (1932), one of the many Loretta Young pre-Codes of which I just can’t get enough. (After 1934, I …

SON OF A ...! You can tell American politics is having a deleterious effect on me because of two behaviors reflecting low mood: In a late-night Wikipedia session I let myself get nerd-sniped into trying to solve an old unsolved geometry problem that's a distraction from my already needless project that is well underway. I'll save the details for a later post or video, but something struck me as "that …

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Our 16th year, 17th outing (it's complicated with doubles for 3 years and skipping the pandemic years…) completed two weeks ago, and it is high time I post my thoughts. There are two parts this post breaks into: the day itself and the amazing talks, and the lead up and its future. The day Due to my role up front and emceeing between the talks, quite often the actual day …

My grandma died in August. She was 98 ½. 98 ½! A phenomenal run. She outlived Castro, but not Jimmy Carter. She was my last grandparent. My mom’s parents died when I was a kid, and my dad’s dad died over a decade ago. That left grandma, but she had a lot left in her. At one point I hadn’t been home for Christmas for a few years due to …

The third book in Edward Kellett’s series, we’ve now reached 1993 and 1994 – a period of change for The Bill as a third weekly episode was added to the schedule. As with the previous volumes, each of the two sections (dedicated to 1993 and 1994) begin by highlighting a number of key episodes (which are ideal picks for anyone keen to sample the programme, but who might balk at …

One thing I like to do is make fires. It’s often considered a less socially-acceptable pastime than my other wood-destruction hobbies like writing and woodworking, but each of these ways of killing trees teaches me something vital, and perhaps none is more full of portentous metaphors than building a wood fire in a fireplace or for a campfire. Here, then, are a few key lessons that may have additional resonance …

I’ll be in London this December to launch the new book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies, and to discuss some of my other work. There will be multiple in-person events in London. If you’re in the UK and you’d like to attend, here are the dates and, where applicable, sign-up instructions: Everyday Analysis Event on the … Continue reading December London Tour Dates →

Generative AI features have a large climate impact and water consumption. We can weigh that impact against those features' benefits, but what if they are left unused? If lots of people don't in fact use the thing? That seems like lots of avoidable waste. Which matters, we're in a climate emergency and we're dangerously far from that 1.5 degrees target. I know, we all want people to use features we …

Chase issues a cobranded credit card with Air Canada Aeroplan. It has a very interesting feature called Pay Yourself Back. This card isn’t especially popular in the US, but I have gotten pretty good value out of it over the past year. Although I live 900 meters inside the US, my home airport is Vancouver. Being a cardholder allows a free checked bag, even on basic economy fares. The card …