Charcoal eye, and more
While cleaning out the garage recently, found a set of charcoal pencils from a decade ago. Searched YouTube for a quick tutorial, and spent fifteen minutes doing this today 🙂 Edit: also found some…
Agam Brahma
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Funnel
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I’m writing this within the text capture portion of an app called Funnel. I’ve always valued a sort of “universal entry point” for things. It’s what I used Drafts for, initially. This is simpler, of…
Old Drafts
I just found a bundle of about 20 draft posts I'd written. Over time there are just so many "stashes" like this. I'm not even sure what to do with them. I could just copy-paste th…
Allegro Common Lisp
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I’ve always been curious about trying different lisp/scheme implementations (will write about that someday). One of these has been Allegro Common Lisp. It’s old, it’s stable, it’s maintained, it’s at…
A fortune cookie to keep in mind
Realizations after watching a play
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(a draft originally written July 2023) Watched a performance of Matilda this weekend. This was such an old-school experience. We were told turn off all phones, not take any photographs or record an…
A Stephen Hawking (and then some) for our time
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Picked these up at Barnes and Noble today I discovered Carlo Rovelli through "Helgoland" and "Reality is not what it seems", but he really has an amazing ability to write about ot…
Thoughts on Micro.blog
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I annually review the places I write at -- whether long pieces, or short pieces, or a few words, or just images. One of these was a foray with Micro.blog, and I was wondering whether it might replace…
Futuristic Sci-Fi
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I saw this for the first time 15 years or so ago, but the sheer shock -- of trying to reconcile what I was watching with the current time and when it was made, and everything happening at that time, a…
Filterworld, Flatworld
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From a book review in last Friday’s WSJ:, for this book:…
2024
Something I've been saying recently is: "I don't know what's going to happen this year, but whatever happens, it's going to be unprecedented!" To put things charitably: We’…
Best of Lex
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Had been recommending Lex Fridman to my wife for a while, and she finally tried it out, with one of the best episodes of all, the one with Yuval Noah-Harari. She later asked me about other possible o…