The Classic Age’s equivalent of the Grand Tour with a young Gordianus the Finder, in company with his teacher, Antipater, the dead epic poet. Yes, really. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; the statue of Zeus at Olympia; the Colossus of Rhodes, alas fallen and in pieces but nevertheless awe-inspiring; the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (a…
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Lagniappe Sunday
“Everybody was quiet, as if I knew what to do.” HCR for the history, in bite-sized pieces. “We are America.” Fun! Although what does it say about me that I didn’t recognize any of them until the Porg? (h/t Laughing Squid) This year’s iPhone Photography Award winners. As always, WOW. See them all here. (h/t…
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Random Saturday
The Royal Sunset lilies are lacking their usual lush splendor, but at least they bloomed. There was a cow with two calfs this year who simply delighted in tromping all over the rock garden and taste testing everything in reach. All three of the Thunderhead sedum in the Duchess’s garden came back. And the Songbird…
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#thiswritinglife
Saw this coming, as did everyone else, including, if you had asked it, ChatGPT. The motion and brief ask the court to rule that defendants OpenAI and Microsoft infringed on the authors’ copyrights by pirating their works, copying them to train their AI, and trading the books between them as currency, and to reject the…
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I can handle bad news, but not with every mouthful.
I remember when I got to the end of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma thinking, “Well, what the hell CAN I eat, then?” Although the mental image of that potato farmer covered in fertilizer did stick, to the point that I started growing my own potatoes, I was pretty much done with Pollan lecturing me…
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