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Month: May 2023

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Pyramus and Thisbe

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The model for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this couple committed suicide when each presumed they had brought the death of the other.

May 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: All in the numbers

We should have expected Apple to remain silent about what the RSR does. But ruining its own clean and logical version numbering system was unexpected.

May 7, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Hero and Leander

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Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero.

May 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 202

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: For three years […]

May 6, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Did that update just break something? How bad updates are getting less likely

With the sealed system and Cryptexes, macOS updates are less likely to cause problems. As RSRs are easy to uninstall, it’s simple to test whether they’re the cause.

May 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Hard reality: 3 Cast shadows in figurative painting

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Leonardo da Vinci studied different types of shade and shadow, but recommended painters not to depict cast shadows in their paintings. This explains why.

May 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Is this the end for eficheck and non-T2 Intel Macs?

In just over a month, Apple is expected to announce macOS 14. How many Intel Macs without T2 chips are likely to be supported? What about their firmware?

May 5, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 54 Music B

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More paintings of music, from the Aesthetic watercolour of Marie Spartali Stillman to folk dance, and Vuillard’s friends playing in his apartment.

May 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

COW and clones: how they save space and SSD wear

How does copy on write work, and how do clones grow apart? What effect do they have on the use of space and performance?

May 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 53 Music A

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Evoking music from a painting is a serious challenge, yet many artists have tried it. See if any of these work for you. From Lavinia Fontana to Degas.

May 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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