On the weekend, I picked the remaining tomatoes from the 5 plants we have growing in containers up front. There are quite a few of them. All the plants decided to generate plenty more fruit last month. Most of these tomatoes are unripe, but I’m… Read More
I just finished reading an excellent novel called Running, written by Cara Hoffman. The novel is set in Athens in the 80s where Bridey and a couple she befriends, Milo and Jasper (all in their late teens), are sharing a room in a shitty hotel… Read More
For those who haven’t seen the earlier installments in this series, it’s all about an enormous collection of my mom’s recipes, which made its way to me after her death, many years ago now. This collection, mostly hand-written, has been sitting on some shelves waiting… Read More
Here’s Calvin Vollrath on fiddle with Clinton Pelletier on guitar and Rhea Labrie step-dancing.
We were in dreamland, way down in deep sleep when the doorbell rang. It was followed by a loud, insistent knock. I staggered out of bed pulled on a bathrobe and started down the stairs. Whoever was outside had a flashlight and was shining it… Read More
I’ll be at yumart gallery Friday between about noon and 2:30 and Saturday between 4 and 6. If you’re planning on coming by to see my exhibition, Shapeworks, I’d be happy to chat with you about the work.
The folks at Deep Mind are at it again. From their website: Artificial intelligence research has made rapid progress in a wide variety of domains from speech recognition and image classification to genomics and drug discovery. In many cases, these are specialist systems that leverage… Read More
There are two Cairos. One of course is in Egypt. The other (the one referred to in the song) is at the southern end of Illinois in the United States, the place where the Ohio River spills into the Mississippi. This is an old tune.… Read More
You’re in your local grocery story, and for many things it’s a good grocery store and you shop there all the time and you like the cashiers, many of whom live in the neighbourhood. You’re shopping for some chicken for dinner and you pick up… Read More
27th Street 