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Ever heard of Camogli, Italy? This little beach town is one of my favorite gems in Italy — a gorgeous seaside town on the Ligurian Coast that makes a perfect alternative to Cinque Terre. Located on the western side of the Portofino Peninsula, Camogli is just 15 miles from busy Genoa. It’s small enough to visit on a day trip from other Ligurian towns, but I think it’s one of …

This is an old post which I'm re-posting because David Lynch died. A stray observation here--that his work frequently nailed the distinctive spot where you don't know whether to laugh or be terrified, has come up for me over and over in the years since it went up.Mood and MoralityThis is about achieving a mood in a game (or in a movie or book or whatever).A basic rule of aesthetics …

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In the Andes Mountains today, water managers are using both ancient and modern approaches to improve supplies of this vital resource. Novel methods, including those based on Indigenous knowledge, are needed to help meet the challenges of population growth and a warming climate. I’ve been interested in water supply issues for decades, starting in my teens when I began whitewater kayaking in California rivers. Those years, during the 1960s and …

By David Tuller, DrPH Last February, The BMJ published a paper called “Clinical effectiveness of an online supervised group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme for adults with post-covid-19 condition (REGAIN study): multicentre randomised controlled trial,” from McGregor et al. The study purported to have proven that this multi-disciplinary intervention was “clinically effective” in reducing … Trial By Error: BMJ Has Corrected the REGAIN Trial Paper–But Not the Editorial or …

RIP, David Lynch. Too soon, dreamer.

LLevo tiempo desarrollando una serie de herramientas en Python para automatizar mi trabajo. Lo que empezó como un simple script con unas funciones ya lleva más de 500 líneas. Cada vez se hace más grande y salen más problemas porque tengo que usarlo en muchos proyectos, cada uno con sus particularidades. Al final ha ocurrido lo inevitable decenas de scripts parcheados y que cada vez que tengo que modificar , …

Also Goldman says private markets are the new public markets and Hindenburg quits.

Nature photography is one of life’s most enjoyable and rewarding passions, but it can also be incredibly challenging and, at times, bearably frustrating. I’ve dedicated many years of my life to an endless pursuit of capturing stunning images of the natural world, and over that time, I’ve learned a lot. After making countless mistakes and […]

[Published here with the author’s permission. For more of Meister’s work, visit wynwordpress.com] How to Write an Effective Prison Grievance by David Meister, author of MEISTER MANUAL For Prisoners’ Lawsuits. A grievance—a complicated complaint process imposed on incarcerated individuals who depend absolutely on their captors for even the most basic of life’s necessities. (Jails, prisons, … Continue reading "“How To Write an Effective Prison Grievance” by David Meister, author of …

The beta testing release cycle continues, this time with iOS 18.3 beta 3, iPadOS 18.3 beta 3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3 beta 3, each being made available to users participating in the beta testing programs from Apple. No major new features are arriving in these beta versions, though macOS Sequoia 15.3 will bring Genmoji creation ... Read More

16 January 2025 A messy spreadsheet: Metrics for UK retail investment/saving/digital wealth fintechs. I’ve been collecting revenue, user, profit, asset etc numbers for companies like Chip, Freetrade, InvestEngine, Moneybox, Plum in the UK retail investment/saving/digital wealth fintech space. Some of them are brokers, some savings apps, but they’re increasingly overlapping. It’s a bit of a mess, there are certainly gaps and errors, I’ll update it every now and then. The …

Over the Christmas and New Year holidays, we experienced our first snowfall in Munich. It wasn’t that deep, but it did settle for a few days, transforming the landscape of the fields nearby into something magical. Old Church of St. John the Baptist Mini icicles on fences A factory poking its nose above the snow-covered trees Hydrant and water pipeline markers in the middle of a field A frozen pond …

IGF finalists were announced yesterday. I don't have a pile of reviews queued up for this year, but I can at least post my quick comments. (The only new review in this post:) Thank Goodness You're Here! by Coal Supper -- game site A diminutive, violent, nonverbal salesman goes to Yorkshire. Run around punching things and solving puzzles. This got nominated for approximately everything. Look, TGYH! is fundamentally a trivial …