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Ever since I began my life behind a desk as a junior attorney, I have been trying to figure out how to maintain order among the different papers that need to be readily accessible on my desk. I devised all sorts of methodologies of varying levels of complexity using all kinds of stationary and never… Continue reading Divine Intervention in Desktop Management
Few people today carry their phones naked. Many more, myself among them, go out in public with their cameras swinging from their necks or slung over their shoulders in the buff. There was a time when that was an intentional choice. Cameras came with protective cases and were not "sold separately". Today, on the other… Continue reading Clothing your Camera
We are the creation of a high powered intelligence but not of the highest. What we have received as message and what we find as evidence of that message's truth are consistent and coherent but with a lot of elbow grease and torture. It's very good writing but it's not perfect. If it were the… Continue reading The Third Possibility is the Truth
Imagine if you were a world leader who had to meet with Putin and act polite and comport yourself diplomatically when you know that he has had civilians assassinated because they threatened his personal finances or his grip on power and he knows you know though he officially denies any involvement. "Oh what a pleasure… Continue reading Putin Speaking at a Bookstore Near You (Open to Public)
© Arend van Dam The Russian contribution to the election of Señor Drumpf and the bright signs of collusion with his campaign cemented early on the majority's perspective on the illegitimacy of his administration. Add to this his amorality and opportunism, the baleful stench emanating from his deficient entourage, the brazen lies cascading from him… Continue reading Trump the Trojan
Ah the foot. A much maligned extremity that deserves our respect. Really. We owe so much to feet and sadly this only becomes apparent, like with so many things, when we lose them. Or, ironically, when we lose our arms and must rely more on the low born foot in navigating a world as envisioned… Continue reading Feats of Feet
Bread and Circus Mueller's testimony having ended without a knockout, the judges are now calling the fight. The little caesars - Pizza Pizza! - responding to the hoi polloi in their districts have already thumbed their vote. What's changed? So we've given the opposing voice, the one chanting live amid louder screams of die or… Continue reading We are a wretched blight.
Amou Haji; image not mine and may be subject to copyright. I recently pulled my Leica M9 out for an image making excursion only to find its sensor "expired". Nothing unusual had happened between its last actuation and its purple death. It just died, as, it turns out, have others like it. Purple Death This… Continue reading Delicate and Dear
Louis XIV and his ilk have given way to Rich the Kid and his as the trend-setting patrons of the art of sartorial fashion. Is this a revolution or just the natural progression from haute couture to pret-a-porter? The economics haven’t changed. Ermine is now a pair of rare Jordans - still a scarcity proposition… Continue reading The Taste Makers
This is the artist but not the art, though it is. So AI is advancing at a frighteningly rapid pace (and that's the stuff we know about) and well-intentioned companies like DeepMind have created AI that is capable of teaching itself chess within the short span of 4 hours to then go on and annihilate… Continue reading Art from Data
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