Tag: Ghost

What is it like to live in the shadow of an airport? It’s a question I had never really considered before. But after visiting Le Vieux-Pays de Goussainville — the old village of Goussainville, which became mostly abandoned in the 1970s — I discovered the answer. I had been cu...

Have you ever had a YouTube video that made you leap into a dark internet rabbit hole? Recently, I had several, and one of them was the tragic story of Chinese influencer Little Kitty, also known as Luo Little Cat (罗小猫猫子). Prepare for a heartbreaking story, people, because the...

Spooky season is around the corner but ghost hunting is a year-round hobby for many. As I have written before, I have seen spirits many years ago: Ghosts Are Real, Even If You Don’t Believe In Them Over 20 years ago, we lived in an apartment near Lake Erie. The view was breathtaking f...

Ihave a suggestion for Sucker Punch: change this game’s title to Ghost of Sekiro: Time to Die Twice. I’m currently playing through the “Lethal Mode”, where the difficulty spiked to a whole new level. I personally thought that the game was quite easy even on its hard...

Usually, morality systems in video games sway player behavior towards one of two distinct paths: either you’re good or you’re bad. In Ghost of Tsushima, created by Sucker Punch Productions (the developer behind the Infamous games, where player-choice was bound to such...

In the fast-paced world of web development, managing multiple websites and databases can be a daunting task. For those of us with a collection of half-finished projects and a desire to keep them accessible for future development, the cost and complexity of managing all these projects can be discoura...

I’ve known E.W. Harris for a long time. At this point in our lives, it might even be accurate to say “longer than most.” We both have older friends, to be sure, and better ones, without question, but we have been in each other’s orbits for a good while now. We survived the sa...

He turned to his friend, “she was there, too! In Dublin!” He was so excited about it. I smiled and nodded at his friend to confirm that yes, I really was there, too. We breathed the same cold Irish air, and we might have even passed each other in a corridor of the conference centre. Ther...

The tour was scheduled for the early morning — well early for those of us that like to sleep in the morning — and the first destiny was the stone vaults. As I’ve been talking here and here, Edinburgh ended up creating a kind of underground city — one of the only ...

People in Hammersmith began to panic — as is the case with things like this, rumors built on each other and took on a life of their own. A story spread that a pregnant woman had died of fright after being assaulted by the ghost. Many residents believed that the spirit of a man who had committe...

Madrid is known for having one of the oldest and largest underground metro systems in the world. Line 1, the first metro constructed in the city, officially opened to the public on October 31, 1919. Line 1 ran through the heart of the city, from Cuatro Caminos, just north of the center, to Puente...

MY WORK STUDY JOB in college was at the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library — a sweatier, dirtier job than one might imagine, with boxes and shelves heavier than their literary contents might suggest. There were the still-embargoed manuscript of Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mo...

I’m in Dan Sai, a sleepy little town in northeastern Thailand. Within the large courtyard of a Buddhist temple, I’m surrounded by dancing townspeople wearing colorful costumes and massive, psychedelic ghost masks that look like an acid trip. I dropped acid many times as a teenager, so...

The third part of Chasing Descartes’ Ghost offered a very rough approximation of a Buddhist conception of mind from a superficial western perspective. It’s a perspective that is a tension between the facts of the world in as far as we might be able to be know them, and a desire...

Substack was a promising, amazing platform that many writers flocked to, especially after some disappointments on Medium. But unfortunately, even on Substack, things have gotten rocky and unpleasant. Elon Musk now bans any shares from Substack onto Twitter, and even labeled links from S...

Picture this: you’re lounging comfortably in your car, unwinding, while it effortlessly navigates the roads for you. Sounds dreamy, doesn’t it? Yet, with such revolutionary technology comes an inevitable concern: cybersecurity. Image you’re relaxing in your cab, and all of a sudden...

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Associated Press, ²CNN, ³Reuters, ⁴NPR Online News, ⁵SCOTUSblog and ⁶The Hill. The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on Monday vacated a lower court ruling against a Biden administration regul...

One of the brain-racking challenges in LC analysis is the presence of ghost peaks (see Fig.). Ghost peaks are of unknown origin in a chromatogram, are easily misidentified when they are close to peaks of interest, and can result in quantitative errors when they overlap peaks of interest. Uncertainty...

The Fonsecas are your friendly neighbourhood Goan family. There’s Savio with his salt and pepper hair, and a propensity for eating chicken cafreal with a fork. His wife, Lillian, worries about feeding guests and finding a boy for her unmarried daughter. Their daughters Carol and Joanna are bot...