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Month: March 2018

Ripples in Reality: The Landscape Paintings of Frits Thaulow, 1

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Realist, Naturalist, or Impressionist? The distinctive landscapes of Thaulow complemented the figurative painting of his friend Christian Krohg.

March 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting

macOS Unified log: 2 content and extraction

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Formatting log extracts, understanding and selecting the fields to display, predicates to filter an extract, using string search, and top-down search for working with the unified log.

March 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 79 – Pomona Seduced and Anaxarete Petrified

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How Vertumnus tried to trick Pomona into loving him, then told her a threatening story. Neither worked: it was being himself that won her in the end.

March 19, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

macOS Unified log: 1 why, what and how

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How it came about, what Apple’s goals were and their effect on the log contents, how it works, and an overview of the tools available to work with it.

March 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Fly Like a God: Paintings of flight after Blériot

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Louis Blériot’s flight across the Channel of 25 July 1909, then the First World War. Aircraft became popular subjects for paintings. With John Singer Sargent, Paul Klee, and Paul Nash.

March 18, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Talking the same language

We eradicated smallpox, and are on the verge of doing the same to polio. Simple lessons on naming and communicating extend to macOS malware, and Apple’s role.

March 18, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Fly Like a God: Paintings of flight before Blériot

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In search of realist or naturalist paintings of ballooning and early powered flight. Some surprises, and paintings by Watteau, Puvis de Chavannes, and Henri Rousseau.

March 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Permissions in the Finder and command line

Setting permissions in Terminal is simple. This basic introduction explains how to understand the notation used, and save yourself time fiddling in the Finder.

March 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Sappho and the perpetuation of legend

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Ovid’s fictional letter made it clear how the legend of Phaon was absurd. Yet it has been painted repeatedly ever since.

March 16, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Accessing Finder aliases in your own code: a walk through alisma’s source

Creating and resolving Finder aliases is straightforward in Swift: here’s how alisma does it.

March 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

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