Trivial Pursuits Recently I’ve been playing a little mental game around the names of characters from the hit French Netflix...
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2 weeks ago to the day I had been taking a deep dive into the world of "AI Art" thanks to "Midjourney", a subscription-based online AI (for "Artificial Intelligence") art generator that builds images from text prompts - an early result is the featured image of this post - having seen interesting results online, before my investigations were rudely interrupted by a bout of COVID...
This book focuses on Lady Byron (1792-1860), her daughter, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and the ways they were affected by Lord Byron..
Writing: Recent work related experiences have had the effect of denting my self-confidence somewhat, with the “imposter syndrome” that invariably...
Writing : The person featured in the Patrick Caulfield painting – “After Lunch” – above, was based on a real...
A community bound into a vast network by radio frequencies, transponder codes, tail numbers, voices, and tracks on Flight Aware. Because “In the air, nobody can see the color of your skin.
This is Nagendra’s first mystery, set in Bangalore in 1921. It is set in South India, not Bombay or Calcutta, which makes it unique in my experience.
However, let’s start at the beginning…. These are vampire novels and Yarbro’s vampire is based on a historical figure of the 18th century, the Comte de Saint-Germain.
Berlin compares Tolstoy with Maistre, a post-French Revolution, ultramontane Catholic, and extremely conservative thinker who thought Europe should return to the blind Catholicism and authoritarianism of the Dark Ages. He was a hedgehog.
Writing: One of series of posts originally destined for my Linkedin profile but held back in draft format, ie unpublished....
Now, and perhaps even in that moment in the hospital ICU private ward, I like to think that perhaps he was casting his mind back to the early 1950's when he lived in New York, which, judging by photographs from his time there, must have been the time of his life...
This biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was published this year. Nothing specific was said about the pandemic, but the obvious message is that it is time to more broadly understand her role in the adoption of inoculation as a medical technology.