How to generate random numbers in R
This post deals with how to generate random numbers in R. It is good to know how to generate random numbers with a particular language or …
Evie Wyld, All The Birds, Singing
I recently finished reading All The Birds, Singing, the second novel by Evie Wyld. It’s about a woman called Jake who lives alone on a farm …
Album Digest, August 2014
The album digest returns with five albums by four artists.
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage is the latest novel by Haruki Murakami. It comes with free stickers. Perhaps that tells …
Useful Ulysses
Understated Classics #27: A Ghost Is Born by Wilco
I have already given some of the personal background to why I love this album and now it’s time to give a bit of love to the music itself so …
South America, Part 10
Picking up where I left off at Machu Picchu, we headed down into Aguas Calientes (trans. “hot waters”) by coach and by the time we got there …
Clarice Lispector, Hour of the Star
Hour of the Star is a short novel by Clarice Lispector, a Ukrainian-born Brazilian author with an interesting life story. This is her last …
What IS That Noise?
I recently spruced up a post I wrote four years ago about Biosphere’s wonderful album Substrata. I added the following footnote about the …
Guardians of the Galaxy: A Short Review
Finally saw Guardians of the Galaxy today. Here are fifteen observations about the film that may or may not constitute a short review.
My Amazing Subversive Revolutionary Adolescence
Understated Classics #26: Come On Die Young by Mogwai
I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and ah… and ah… heartless manipulators about …