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My studio We’re two weeks into the new year, but I feel like I’m still in first gear: there has been no “hitting the ground running” — or any other similar corporate-speak — here. In addition to the necessity of restarting after Christmas and New Year, it's also the month of my birthday which seems to interrupt the flow of the month. I am slowly starting to plan out the …

I knew there were serious problems with at least one of the statistics as soon as I skimmed the newspaper article. Paragraph 2 of Magruder (2024) states:But since 2000, church attendance has dropped in the U.S., from 42% of Americans worshipping every week or so back then, to 30% today, according to a 2024 Gallup poll. Only 11% of Americans report being in the pews monthly, and 56% seldom or …

I grew up on Iliff Street, right in the middle of the ashes that up until a few nights ago, was a sunkissed neighborhood known as Pacific Palisades. It was 1978, and I remember my dad climbing up on our roof with a garden hose. Every couple of hours, he would wet the house down, top-to-bottom, and everything surrounding it. I don’t remember everybody doing this, but my Dad is …

BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.3 has been released: wifi_da-1.3.sit (StuffIt 3 archive) SHA256: 40b49ef83b6512bde571171aa42e90419a8577efa895cfaeb19bf18a0c82d4deSHA1: b8fa941eb104c0f925436cc8fbc3018a3ded5b96 This update brings internationalization support for Macs running non-English installations, and a number of bug fixes. Changes in this version: Fix a handful of bugs Add a log window that can be toggled by clicking on the signal icon Add localization for strings shown in the UI for Macs running non-English installations, which was initiated …

I’m overloaded with work and deadlines, and unable to complete anything new. So please enjoy this classic Tet Zoo article from the archives, originally published at ver 2 back in 2008 (an archived version is here)… Caption: Dynamosaurus imperiosus wasn’t named for great material, namely an incomplete mandible with teeth, some cervical and dorsal vertebrae, and parts of the pelvis and hindlimb. This was originally accessioned at the AMNH in …

‘Many in Europe avoid describing Russia’s sabotage campaign outside Ukraine as war because they’d rather not have to do anything in response….’ ( Phillips Payson O’Brien via The Atlantic )

I have Bob Dylan on the brain, because my socials are saturated with ads for the Timothee Chalamet movie, and because MusicRadar used the movie as the news hook for a column about Bob. I rewatched Don’t Look Back for the first time in forever. It’s a sign of my advancing age that Bob came across as unnecessarily obnoxious, especially to the poor Time Magazine reporter. But the music still …

Recently, Owen Madden started a book club, and he wants you to join. A professional cabinetmaker from upstate New York, Madden works as shop foreman at Rowan Woodwork. “At our shop, we have a monthly meetup, and I get to meet some of the most talented woodworkers and artists,” Madden says. “Most of the conversations anchor around something learned from a book, at which point I write down that book …

January 13, 2024 Tip of the Week Why Lobbing is Good For You, Why Lobbing is Bad For You. Weekend Coaching I coached in four group sessions over the weekend, totaling 6.5 hours. I spent about half of them feeding multiball, half as a practice partner/coach. I think I blocked about 10,000 shots over the weekend! If I block like this in tournaments, I’ll never lose. I also had some …

“I don’t make a film because I’m against something. For that matter, I don’t make a film because I’m for something — don’t make propaganda. If anything, all the films[...] The post <em>Cruising</em>: The Boys in (Black and) Blue appeared first on Bright Lights Film Journal.

A pattern variation. After writing the articles Collecting and handling result values and Short-circuiting an asynchronous traversal, I realized that it might be valuable to describe a more disciplined variation of the Impureim Sandwich pattern. The book Design Patterns describes each pattern over a number of sections. There's a description of the overall motivation, the structure of the pattern, UML diagrams, examples code, and more. One section discusses various implementation …

YouTube has so many interviews with great photographers these days. ↬ ∙ Tagged in Photography.

As expected the first week of the New Year for me back at work wasn't too busy with a lot of my colleagues still on leave. I've been spending the quiet periods between tasks seeing whether establishing an accessibility advocates network within the organisation is viable. It's slow take-up so far, and demanding much patience. I learnt just towards the end of the week of the recent tragic passing of …

from Stephen Downes’ novel Mural Photo-embedded literature—novels and books of poetry which use photographs as an essential element of the “text”—is a core interest of mine and has been something I have written about extensively on Vertigo since I started it in 2007. In 2024, I managed to see or be informed about a number of newly published examples of such books by writers from Australia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, England, Ireland, …

2025 is here. Now that 2024 is complete, I can look and see how much I made doing things outside of normal employment. This will be the second year I’ve done it in the beginning of January instead of the end of December, and the ninth year of doing it in general. Here are the past eight income reports: 2023 End of Year Side Income Report 2022 End of Year …