more for entertainment.

Counter-examples: (1) watch the YT channel "Primitive Technology" to see a modern nerd working his ass off to recreate how early humans made stuff; (2) take a walk in the woods with any naturalist.

Here's something eerie -- I own this piece of art, pen and ink by Kay Harden, entitled "Morning Walk"

Looking at the sched (archive.akfolkfest.org/50/concerts....) - FIFTEEN MINUTE SETS??? You just tell that Rhiannon Giddens she better not run long.

When PZ featured her this morning I tried multiple search strings (including "Kat Abughazaleh campaign") and couldn't find it. Lots of media references and soc-med sites, but... anyway, thanks for the link.

when I'm planning a trip I search for the local "whats on---" or "explore---" or "visit---" website e.g. 20 seconds to find www.explorefairbanks.com/events/

Does no one remember Upstairs, Downstairs on BBC/PBS, with Mr. Hudson the butler maintaining decorum below?

So what's the book? It's quite right, though, which is why the IBM mainframe computers had (still have, I think) machine instructions for decimal arithmetic. Also, why the decimal module distributed with Python and the DecimalFormat class in Java.

I like the composition, how the human toes are echoed by the claw feet of the ottoman.

But you can't NOT use it. I go to drag a window a little sideways (for any reason, maybe so I can see another window behind it) and suddenly blip, said window gets wider! It happens all the time and dammit now I can't make it happen!

...the other thing was the effect the industry. Every time a company designed a product, they had to commit to a technology -- knowing that 2 years later, the competition could start designing something half the size or twice as fast.

I try to make this point in my docent tour at the computer history museum, that from 1965 on chip sizes kept doubling, but their cost was relatively static, thus by 2000, the cost per transistor approached zero -- and transistors are functionality...

I tried cmd+` but apparently that combo has an overriding meaning of "next window". TIL.

Default Folder X. How anybody can work without it is beyond me. (www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolde...)

Swift is very conscious of her influence and careful in public statements, and had a bad scare in Austria. I would be surprised if she made a public political endorsement.

Zoomed and counted masks. Zero, AFAI can see.