Hels
Born Nigel Neill in 1947 in Omagh, Nth Ireland to an English mother and a New Zealand father serving in the British army. His family moved to Christchurch N.Z in 1954 where Sam went to school. He became Sam because there were several Nigels at school, saying “I moved more easily as a Sam”.Sam...
jjezzick
All One Kind of Movie Makes J a Dull Writer
Brad Warthen
Of course, one of them — the Tom Holland we know better as Spider-Man — has a vested interest. And the other Tom Holland is an enthusiastic classicist, and co-host of my fave podcast, “The Rest is History.” The latter is particularly a fan of The Odyssey, and had been looking forward to Chistopher...
S. Brady Calhoun
Aye gods what a flick. So much to unpack here and despite the jokes about spoilers for a several thousand year old story — that most of us were taught in school — there will in fact be spoilers in this review. First, I joked with a friend before seeing this movie that if Sir Christopher...
adventuringalone
Round 3 ResultsDie Roll: 4 Cards: 4 Diamonds, Queen Spades Prompts: Long Overdue, Letter From a City Official This is a bit of a shorter one this time around. I may update this post with the next entry, I'm not sure yet. Character SheetName: Jon Smithson [x][ ][ ][ ] Day 16: A Letter from the...
John Connors
Words: Chris ArnsbyJakki Brambles: “Hello, good evening and welcome along to Top of the Pops on BBC1 and you can hear us in stereo on Radio 1FM. Well, it’s an all star line up on tonight’s show. We’re starting off with a lady who’s knocking ‘em dead on both sides of the Atlantic. Will you welcome,...
Robert Denerstein
Erika Tracy is a Los Angeles art star. Just ask her. As played by Olivia Wilde, Erika becomes the driving force in I Want Your Sex, director Gregg Araki's satirical look at a conceptual artist who hires a floundering 23-year-old college graduate (Cooper Hoffman) as a studio assistant. Delighted to...
Archimago's Musings
Aaron Winborn
The moment you share your work, the opinions start flooding in — and not all of them deserve a seat at the table. Learning to separate useful critique from well-intentioned noise might be the most underrated skill a creative can develop. Here's how to protect your vision without becoming defensive...
thekelvingreen
Reverse Medusa. A rejected image from an upcoming project. #KelvinDrawsThings
jen-guardiner
Returning to writing once more, I have also found that my ideas have moved on from 2019, when I first started The House of the Mind. New ideas have been inspired and old ideas have percolated for longer and developed in new directions and reached new depths...
Southern Fried Science
How the Trump Administration has yet again hobbled the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration has officially finalized a rule stripping habitat destruction from the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a joint announcement by the Department of the Interior and...
Alkaid
Obsession I don't usually edit my notes before sharing, but did flesh out some of my thoughts at the bottom. Looking back now after letting the movie sit with me for a few days, there are a few things I noticed in retrospect. I also took far less notes than usual but it's a very straightforward...
Leon
A collection of upcoming CFPs (call for papers) from across the internet and around the world. The post Call For Papers Listings for 7/17 appeared first on Leon Adato.
4gravitons
I don’t think people who argue about reductionism are really arguing about reductionism. Reductionism is the idea that the behavior of big, complicated things (people, economies, ecosystems) boils down to the behavior of their smallest constituents (molecules, atoms, subatomic particles). It’s...
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post 17 Zucchini: What to Do Before They Escape appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. It’s July in Redmond and I have a problem. Specifically, I have seventeen zucchini on my counter, three more hiding under leaves the size of a kindergartner, and my daughters have stopped making eye...
Jeff
My look at this year’s RAGBRAI route might be light on highway content, but it is heavy on ranting about infographic design and map directions. Among my concerns is how static maps were not updated when a late change in the route was made.
Aeoli Pera
Re: https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/barriers-to-training/ Chat GPT’s elaboration in the comments.
nolitethoughts
Join me on my journey to fight a seemingly never-ending writer's block and rediscover the joy of writing through one short fiction at a time.
anarchaeopteryx
A short update after a trip to visit family ft. more sci-fi, movies, and Zelda. Took the trip to visit my family over the weekend and now am back and getting back into normal routine. It was a filial piety visit, but for my own enjoyment I had a few goals while I was there that I managed to...
Adrian Vila
Indiana, January 2026.
Andy Wheeler
Just a quick update on a few things. I was interviewed on Jeff Asher’s Jeffalytics Podcast, mostly about AI and the current landscape in criminal justice: Using Technology to Improve Crime Analysis with Andy Wheeler by Jeff Asher I don’t always link to my recent Crime De-Coder posts...
Timothy S. Brannan
Good morning from EGG Con III in hazy Lake Geneva!Hope you dressed for the 80s!
J D Lowe
From left to right: 6", 5" (the HO equivalent of the tightest TTC curve), and 7" radius curves.I'm having some trouble settling on a design for my Taronna layout. There are numerous problems. One significant one is figuring out what the minimum radius curve I can use that will not cause a problem...
Adam Rowe
Alex Schomburg stands out for the sheer length of time he spent as an active science fiction artist: His first work for the genre was in 1925, and he kept creating new art up until the mid-80s.
namvastum
Sean Kleefeld
So a bit of news from Marvel yesterday, right? Stephen Wacker will be taking over as editor-in-chief, C.B. Cebulski will begin overseeing a new division of "APAC-originated graphic fiction and manga, based in Japan," and the Marvel Comics headquarters is being moved from New York City to Burbank,...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We never gave our daughter chores to do around the house when she still lived with us. This runs against the current of most of the parenting counsel out there. Her school officially recommended it for all families. Even our pediatrician...
Mr. Karswell
I promised you something cinematically different for today's post, and here it comes, via the April 1939 debut issue of DC's Movie Comics #1-- Basil Rathbone! Boris Karloff! Bela Lugosi! Lionel Atwill! And Josephine Hutchinson in-- SON OF FRANKENSTEIN! This is a fun, condensed photo comic...
andrei
Twenty years have passed since the Prime Evils were defeated and banished from the world of Sanctuary. Now, you must return to where it all began – the town of Tristram – and investigate rumors of a fallen star, for this is the first sign of evil’s rebirth, and an omen that the End Times have...
kristoyanova
A little bit about the person behind the writing
Abhinav Bhatt
I recently watched the movie “Disclosure Day” (and also watched “Don’t Look Up” and “Project Hail Mary”) and also read the book “Contact” and here is what I feel about them. Not sure what is it with media content these days, one cannot remember it for a longer duration. Everything feels...
Undine
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!And greetings from the Strange Company mail room!A teenager who died in the American Revolution has finally been identified.An ancient Roman fossil collector.The strange case of the "Leavenworth Look-Alikes."The legend of what may have been the first underwater...
george tannenbaum
Not too many minutes ago, I got off the phone with a prospective client who had called me somewhat unexpectedly. Sometimes that's the best kind of call. Sometimes lack of preparation and background forces you to answer questions in a "reactive" or limbic way, the way your head might react when...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Earlier this week, I went to the studio of a neighborhood friend. She wanted to make cards out of cut paper, and I was happy to try my hand. She had the supplies, including papers we painted earlier in the year for a retreat. If you look closely, you can see the hymnbook print behind the...
antcode
If you've worked with databases for more than a week, you've probably hit this moment: a text field has no data, and you have to decide: do I leave it NULL, or do I set it to an empty string ''? It looks like a trivial choice. It isn't. Pick wrong (or pick inconsistently) and you'll spend years...
Ralph Boumenot
two of threeForgot that I had these. Made 3 jigs for holding stock to plane the end grain flat and square. The 3rd one I tossed because the stop had warped and flattening it would not have been worth the effort and calories.hmm.....Almost clear and empty. It had been a long time since so much...
Richard MacManus
This week I published 5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026 on Latent Space. As previously noted, I attended the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco earlier this month — where I learned that the state of the art in AI engineering looks a lot like the state of the art in...
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
This painting began as a watercolor months ago before being tucked away in the studio. When I returned to it, I covered much of the surface with new layers of acrylic. Then something unexpected happened. The handwritten marks I’d made in an earlier session—apparently with an ink that wasn’t quite...
Manuel Moreale
Kevin sent me a link to this email from Linus Torvalds the other day, and I found that to be a great example of something that has been bothering me for a while now. It’s about AI—everything is about AI these days, so damn boring—and, more specifically, Linus’ position when it comes to the use of...
kristy bowen
Almost two years ago exactly I was listening to T. Swift's Tortured Poets Department on repeat and it occurred to me, one line from "So High School" would be a great title for what was then just an amorphous and incomplete manuscript which included a couple of series that centered around the idea...
Dave @ Accidental FIRE
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #176 Here are some things I really like and that you might too! Financial Independence/Work Life/Retirement Articles & Content It Just Got Harder to Make a Financial Complaint (And Get Relief)... The post T.G.I.F. Friday: Volume 176 appeared first...
Challenger Tom
The Klamath Tour Thru Tree is a Coastal Redwood tunnel tree located off California State Route 169 in Klamath Glen. This particular tree is 167.54 feet high which makes it far smaller than the more famous Chandlier Tree in Leggett. The Klamath Tour Thru Tree was carved during May 1976 which...
Jonathan Green
The Kingsport Metamorphosis, my third Arkham Horror Investigators Gamebook, has been out for over five months now, but I only came across these reviews the other day.The Witty and Sarcastic Bookclub loved it:"I’m pretty sure I say this every time, but this might be my favorite Investigators...
Vigen Avetisyan
Armenian historical tradition, echoed by a number of modern researchers, identifies Rusudan as an Armenian member of the House of Artsruni — one of the oldest and most celebrated royal families of medieval Armenia. The Artsrunis ruled the Kingdom of Vaspurakan around Lake Van for over a century,...
dignitybydesign
alecm
For certain politicians, anything other than individual action and social unrest: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2026-07-14a.524.6#g531.1
RetirementInvestingToday
Around this time last year, I raised a couple of questions in my update post:On the topic of the work I was doing I asked “Will I give it up and ever fully FIRE?”; andthen in conclusion I reflected “…I’m now starting to wonder whether I actually needed the FI bit to make it happen or whether I...
Michael Hanscom
Book 30 of 2026: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This was excellent. Funny (many bits had me quite literally laughing out loud), but with an increasingly serious undertone as it goes. A valet robot kills his employer for reasons he does t understand, and embarks on a quest to figure...
Andrea Fortuna
Most macOS infostealer writeups follow a predictable arc: fake CAPTCHA, paste command, credentials gone. ClickLock Stealer, first documented by Group-IB in June 2026, adds a twist that should make any DFIR analyst sit up. The malware locks the victim out of their own desktop, killing every visible...