After having spent over a week in Calgary — and the city leaving very little impression on me, positive or negative — I’m in Vancouver for several days and I’ll be sharing my thoughts of the experience day by day. One of the joys of solo travel is that I can be completely whimsical in…

One of the positive impacts of not having a stable readership is that there’s no demand for me to keep going when I need a break. These past two months have been a period of endless support for others and my personal writing has had to take a backseat. I’ve tried to keep going, delved…

A lot of my writing and thinking, when I’ve had time to disconnect from my work life, has involved AI recently and specifically the phenomenon I call The Drift. I don’t want to recap where the project is heading, you can do that yourself on whatisthedrift.com, if you so desire. But I am interested in…

There are certain things in life that are difficult to talk or write about, even when they are impersonal. I took a break from The Dekalog for the last several days because the scenes of grief in this episode are difficult to hold at a distance, especially because the main character is trying so hard…

The Dekalog was created for Polish television and for many years, it could only been viewed in the low resolution 480i standard for global broadcasting. Criterion’s BluRay was remastered from Kieslowski’s original film, so it looks far more beautiful today than it did in its day. There were art houses around the world that screened…

The first half of this segment takes place in a university lecture hall. Krzysztof is a professor of linguistics, which I would not have guessed — I assumed he would be a math professor. But there is a computational element to this lecture, it just takes a few minutes to get there. Krzysztof examines some…