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All the Way for the Win was just published by Penteract Press — today! It’s available for sale from their online store. This book of poetry begins by narrating the birth of the universe and concludes after describing the eradication of the last human-authored poetic text. While it doesn’t deal with everything in between, it’s mean to touch on many aspects of human history and experience. The poems in the …

To read this excellent edition and translation of John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s De Anima is to encounter two things at once: an intellectual landscape remote from both ancient hylomorphism and post-medieval European philosophy and a bridge between the two.[1] Like Aristotle, Buridan thinks that all living things are animated by souls. But these souls are in many ways unlike the souls of Aristotle’s De anima. According to Buridan, the …

I don't normally do blog challenges, but I got pinged by ~hyde with the call, so here goes: Why did you start blogging in the first place? I don't remember a specific thing that got me started. My first post talked about students and learning and technology, so it was probably something I heard during a professional development at school. This was my first year teaching and the school was …

Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to progress uneventfully. I first started using the word “uneventful” when my traditional chinese medicine physician asked if I had any symptoms between my visits: there were rare times when I would tell her I didn’t have any symptoms in the couple of weeks since I last saw …

We're less than a week from the opening of the new film Wolf Man, a reimagining of the classic character. From everything I've seen (I've been trying to stay very spoiler free) we are definitely in for a different take on the story rather than a remake of the 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. film. I'm actually really excited for the movie and, to help find an outlet for that excitement, …

The Soviet documentary maker Roman Karmen at Điện Biên Phủ in 1954 From this English language Doco: His film on Vietnam here: https://en.qdnd.vn/culture-sports/culture/unforgettable-time-with-director-roman-karmen-in-viet-bac-562800 Mai Lộc And all the other films Karmen makes – Spain, China, Berlin, Cuba, Chile – right up to filming Burt Lancaster in Moscow’s Red Square.

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … What shows do they make you think of? I made some more after that too. Can you hear it? Everything needs painting still, of course There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to …

While in Palo Alto for the holidays, I stumbled on a piece of public art I didn’t previously know about: the Linus Pauling Commemorative Ceramic Mural, created in 2000 by Ross Drago. It’s a set of individually decorated ceramic tiles, installed on a wall along the sidewalk on the north side of Oregon Expressway, near its corner with El Camino Real. It’s not an area that attracts much foot traffic. …

By C. D. Rose. Zsuzanna Gahse, Mountainish, tr. Katy Derbyshire (Prototype, 2024) Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Mountainish is a slim book with short, numbered sections rather than chapters, and whose blurb promises the reader ‘a multi-layered typology of all things mountainish.’ These days, on receiving such a book, a reader might easily anticipate what they’re in for: reflections on all manner of interesting ephemera; odd encounters with random strangers who’ll tell oblique …

Watch a half-hour video in which we discuss comedy craft with the directors of 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.'

Hello you fine Internet folks,AMD held a keynote at CES 2025 about their upcoming products in the form of dual CCD V-Cache for Zen 5 CPUs, Fire Range, Kraken, Strix Halo, along with the surprising lack of anything RDNA4 and FSR4 other than it's coming later this quarter.Starting with the dual CCD V-Cache Zen 5 CPUs and the layout is the same as Zen 4 with V-Cache so there is …

Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that moved away from WP Engine. I think this is a bit gauche, but it seems like fair marketing given everything that’s going on. It should …

‘If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president….’ (Robert Kagan via The Atlantic)

Versace's Eros EDT (2012) always struck me as a disappointment—cheap, crass, weak, overly sweet, and cynical. Some hailed it as "groundbreaking" upon its release, but I wasn’t convinced. It felt like an interesting fougère concept hampered by poor execution and a budget that fell short of its ambitions. Whatever Aurelien Guichard intended to achieve was lost in the lackluster production. I

I score higher in the US (84 points) that the EU (49 points) on the visited-places map. There are a lot of state though.