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1. The Reach saga rumbles on I’ve banged on about the parlous strategy of Reach plc before, but the departures from its senior editorial ranks will continue to make a…

This photo pretty much sums up what it is like here right now. Though there are pockets of foliage colors here and there, for the most part the trees are…

j’adore ce tag à Grenoble, il me remplit de joie à chaque fois.

Wabi Sabi, a term relatively unknown in the West until recently, holds a special place in my heart. This article reflects my personal approach to Wabi Sabi, illustrated with my…

I am currently mentoring a few academics (my own PhD students and a few early-career TT scholars) and I am trying to teach them about how to frame their work…

Because true freedom is not thinking about the president every day.

Larger Than Life, paper collage, 2024 Here are some new experiments in collage art. I hope you enjoy them.

Data journalist (The Pudding)

Yesterday, the interview that I wrote up on the beginning of October was published on the People and Blogs site. It is an interesting series, where he highlight the other…

Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why…

Jonnie Park has recorded over 300 episodes of his podcast, Fun with Dumb. Even though it’s one of the most consistent, disciplined, parts of his practice, he still wonders if…

A plasticky sounding vibration on my wrist gets my attention, followed in canon by alerts on my phone and the open tab on my browser. It has only been 75…

A Real Pain (2024) • View trailerFour stars (out of five). Rated R, for drug use and relentless profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 11.17.24This seems to be the season…

I keep seeing people make this error, especially in social media discourse. Somebody wants to “use” something. Except obviously, it’s not theirs, and so it’s absurd for them to make…

I should take my own advice. I tell people to be careful to look for the tiniest checks in the end grain of a log because they will open up…

Tuesday, November 12A pretty mellow day for Martha and I, this day marks the 29th Anniversary of her putting up with me as a husband.  I say it often, the…

Artist Keith A. Pettit, interviewed in Handprinted:About 20 years ago, I shifted my focus from sign making and graphic design, to an art-led living. I range from tiny wood engravings,…

The artifacts we gaze at in museums are often used to interpret chapters of human history. The object we’ll look at today is not in a museum, yet it is…

I don't understand why Spotify treats login attempts differently when you try to log in from a new device vs an old device...

Today is my birthday and the world is shit. I'm not really up for celebrating, but instead would like to tell you about the Gaza Skate Team and make a…