Recently, I had the unique culinary experience of ordering my meals through a digital menu and picking them up in a locker! Brooklyn Dumpling Shop is a chain of diners that feature delicious dumplings (a traditional classic) but with a modern flare. From its sleek, tech-driven ordering system to its menu packed with creative flavors,… Read more »
Dusk brings an orange glow to the African savannah. Amidst the gloaming interplay of sultry slender shadows and reclining shafts of dull light, diurnal animals bed down for the night. Giraffes meander off over the horizon, their long necks seeming to sink like the masts of ships as they pass out of sight. Lion cubs,… Read more »
I have always loved murder mystery novels, particularly those from the so-called golden age of detective fiction. Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham. Agatha Christie, of course. Pure escapism! Whisked away to some extravagant destination—an Edwardian-era architectural folly on a remote and atmospherically windswept stretch of Dorset coastline, perhaps, or a mysteriously seedy hotel… Read more »
The Foreign Interference Commission concluded its public hearings phase over the Fall, with Stage 2 and then a subsequent Policy Consultation Hearings phase. Stage 2 of the Foreign Interference Commission lasted around 4.5 weeks and featured around 70 witnesses, including current and former Directors, Commissioners, and other leadership officials across different agencies and departments as… Read more »
I’ve become proficient at making AI-generated music videos. We all can develop AI video skills. Now, it’s time for the next step. I want to make an AI metaverse music concert like Justin Bieber did. So, I’d like to study how to make virtual reality concerts for AI music bands. I know concerts appear on… Read more »
It’s been a heck of a start to the year so far. Fun with computers, having to replace a new one almost immediately, and then finding out I couldn’t just move the Voice hard-drive over directly between Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems have been keeping be up at nights. Fortunately, I’ve got multiple redundancies,… Read more »
Picture it. Chicago, 1871, the windy night of Sunday, October 8th.. A little old lady named Catherine O’Leary was milking her cow. In the process of servicing the beast, the cow kicked over a lit oil lantern. Chicago at the time was a booming Midwest town largely of disorganized wooden shanties; soon a fire was… Read more »
Denied funding. A student received an extension for a full-time funded course and was denied funding. Other students say the full-time status of three classes or more needs to be met, and the extension is okay if a new semester isn’t started with the outstanding extension. Other students say different provinces have different rules. Another… Read more »
The Policy Consultation Hearings portion of the Foreign Interference Commission examined the issue of foreign interference (FI), from an academic and industry practitioner lens. The Hearings were made up of 7 roundtable discussions that included over 40 academics and industry practitioners. The purpose of the roundtable discussions was to offer up a high-level nonpartisan discussion… Read more »
