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On the Shinkansen passing through Hiroshima I think about events of twenty plus years ago and possible other lives. When I was young I never understood the phrases uttered by…

Summary: A brief poem in memory of a morning when the Divine had yet to paint the canvas of the day. Ereyesterday morning fog blanketed the world of the day…

<img src="https://linuximpact.com/media/posts/97/oregon_trail.jpg" alt="Two wagons around a campfire against a purple sky" /> We were sad when Nora died. We'd enjoyed spending time with her for over a month, across a…

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages,…

Been having a lot of moments lately where I sit down to do something creative and I can’t manage to get anything down. I try to at least spend a…

DefenderOfBasic: “one of the most popular tools I ever made was this thing to explain how JPEG images are created out of these mathematical patterns … made in a couple…

. Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is in stores now. Reviews so far: Ian Colford in The Seaboard Review Jean Marc Ah-Sen in Quill & QuireAlison Manley in…

We’re here to make a case for black and white movies. We know our position makes us sound like a Luddite, which we are, let’s face it. The whole thing…

GIRL’S NIGHT by Lisa Allen Lisa Allen lives in the suburbs of Kansas City and holds MFAs in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction. With Poet Rebecca Connors, she is the co-founder/director…

Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (Norway, 1966)

Professor (Communication and Media Studies)

I’ve now used Bullet Journaling for organising my personal and professional tasks since the first Corona lockdown happened in Austria in March 2020. One of the great thing about using…

I’ve been thinking about all the generative AI slop that’s appearing, especially with tools like “Reimagine”, and I think it’s going to be a great thing for the open web.…

Book 9 of my 26 books for 2024 goal! (If you notice that book 8 is missing on the list, that was a private review of an upcoming book for…

I have had some work trips lately. Each time I have tried to hit the local Hard Off. It has been very fruitful, if a little bit expensive. My vinyl…

Me at CenterFold 2024, holding my Geometric Vase. Image by Kay Eng. My model exhibition Quentin Trollip, Dáša Ševerová, John Scully (event organizer), and me at CenterFold 2024. Image by…

Having dispatched punctuation and book news, we’re on to pocket calculators! Incredibly, half a century or more after their appearance, there is still news to be had on the subject.…

  A book called ‘The Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song’ edited by R.H. Cromek and published 1810, contains this “Account of Billy Blin'" with some entertaining stories.  "This is…

A return to active discovery.

I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about…