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Poets & Writers & BooksRoll of NickelsJanuary 2, 2025
2024 saw the publication of nine interviews here on the blog - seven originally published over at Read Local BC and one each from Arc Poetry Magazine (with Matt Rader) and The…
PersonalIdeapadJanuary 1, 2025
Somehow this marks twenty years of travelogues. As I mentioned last fall, part of longevity is just sticking to it. One of the shortcomings of this format is that I…
Graphics & DesignOn VerticalityJanuary 1, 2025
Ever since humans descended from the trees and out onto the savannah, we’ve gazed upward in wonder at the sky and the stars. Until fairly recently in our history, this…
TechnologyRodney Brooks – Robots, AI, and other stuffJanuary 1, 2025
[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social and see my publications etc., at https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks] This is my seventh annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning…
Digital GardensDerek’s Digital GardenDecember 31, 2024
It’s time for break
PersonalCIMPLEDecember 30, 2024
TV Show of the Day: Shrinking (Season 2) Health Update of the Day: I spent last week in the hospital because of a high fever and tests and will find…
Graphics & DesignSimon CollisonDecember 28, 2024
Here’s my 21st annual roundup. Despite pledging to reduce this obsessive cataloguing, I continue to go all in because exceptional new music just keeps on coming. Appreciate these roundups? I…
TravelsExploring Nature in New HampshireDecember 28, 2024
You might want to make a nice cup of coffee or hot chocolate for this post, because it is a cold one. The inch or so of rain we had…
HistoryMatt LakemanDecember 26, 2024
I spent a week in Trinidad and Tobago (which I’ll call “TT”), mostly in Port of Spain (the capital) and the northern mountain region of Trinidad. My major source this…
Research & ScienceCyclostationary Signal ProcessingDecember 23, 2024
Hey ... I ... Oh-oh ... I'm still alive... (Alive by Pearl Jam)
TravelsRoad to the SeaDecember 22, 2024
Our 2024 sailing year stated waaaay back in Santa Rosalia, Mexico. Soon after we met up with my brother and his wife for a week long visit in the Bay…
TechnologyGarbage CollectorDecember 22, 2024
Cela n’aura échappé à personne depuis quelques années, mais l’intelligence artificielle est désormais sur toutes les lèvres et tous les claviers. Ce qu’on appelle communément ainsi en ce moment, ou…
TechnologyOpen IndieDecember 18, 2024
I'm writing this mostly for the sake of my own mental accounting, so I can look back at this years from now and gauge whether my assumptions or position has…
PersonalMario VillalobosDecember 17, 2024
My favorite end-of-year recap is back! All this has done is make me miss baseball.
Art & ArtistsThe School of the Transfer of EnergyDecember 14, 2024
What I See: Go On Shepherd and Lamb by Sam Kee My good friend Sam Kee wrote a nice essay about my little shepherd print. I marvel at how and what…
TravelsLuxagrafDecember 11, 2024
Snow brings a stillness to the world. Life hides away, burrowed under, tucked in. Sound is muted, lost in the hush of falling flakes. Only the soft brush of wind…
TechnologyDuck Rowing – by Fred McCannDecember 6, 2024
I’ve been unhappy with Apple’s desktop Macs for a very long time. The last desktop Mac that I actually both wanted to buy and loved owning was a PowerMac G4,…
PersonalChris AldrichDecember 6, 2024
Today I spent a few hours cleaning, oiling, and adjusting my new (to me) Remington Standard typewriter. Remington Fold-A-Matic Fortunately, before I had started I was aware of a possibly…
PersonalJohan HalseDecember 2, 2024
Everyone keeps turning their noses up about developers having "hot takes" online but you know that article? Yeah, that one. You're all talking about that one because they cranked their…
Film & EntertainmentTom Van Winkle’s Return to GamingDecember 1, 2024
There are arguments that D&D should, or should not be, “racially diverse,” because it was, or wasn’t, like that in the world “back then.”Folks, D&D is usually not even attempting…