This is a story idea. In Middle-earth, humans would eventually develop modern technologies through an industrial revolution. The result would be Middle-earth with modern amenities.

The fraught process of job hunting is no fun for the job candidate.

Bad actors on the internet attempt to log in to WordPress sites. I use a plugin to slow them down.

The Python Bytes Podcast is an excellent Python-oriented podcast.

This is a quick note about the book A Series of Fortunate Events by Sean B. Carroll.

Tolkien wrote many beautiful and moving descriptions of landscapes in The Lord of the Rings.

I was running well, but I got distracted in mid-March and stopped running.

About three years ago Sean M. Carroll created a 48-episode YouTube series about the biggest ideas in the universe.