I don't know why, but Locked Up Abroad is one of my comfort shows. I've watched every episode at least twice, and since there's a whole channel for it on Roku, I sometimes just let it play all day. I'm not sure what's so appealing about it as it's literally just the same drug smuggling story told by different people over eight seasons. It's always a person between 20-30 who feels "lost" in their life, decide to start traveling to "find" themselves, and then meets someone who's like, "Want to…

I’ve held on to my iPhone 13 Pro for longer than any other smartphone I’ve had. I love this thing. I’ve been case-less for the last couple of years. I’ve dropped it more times than I can count, so it’s certainly got some character. But it’s never broke. I swapped out the battery ~ 6 months ago. I was worried it may start swelling. Small price to pay to keep it running for little longer. My family sometimes comments about how I used to get every new iPhone model. Oh, how I’ve changed! I thought…

I was wondering which Halloween candy would make the best laser, and came across reports that Jolly Ranchers are fluorescent. I got out my UV flashlight and am able to definitely confirm this is true.The type of fluorescence varies by color, but blue raspberry has a particularly dramatic color change from deep blue to hot pink.Blue raspberry Jolly Rancher, illuminated with 395 nm (presumed) LEDIt's interesting to note that the green Jolly Rancher actually seems to be dimmer under UV light. My…

Hi everyone. It’s been a while since I last touched the blog, sadly. I somehow couldn’t get motivated. Today though, I’m joining #WeekendCoffeeShare again. It’s 9:30PM as I start typing this post and I’ll probably go to bed right after finishing it. Will check out my fellow coffee share bloggers tomorrow. If we were having coffee, first I’d talk about the weather. It’s still been insanely warm for this time of year. Yesterday, the daytime temp even reached 20°C. We thankfully did get some rain.…

I love this idea of Robert Birming: Maintaining a gallery is a bit of a hassle on most indie platforms. I’ve tried various ways of doing it, but it always ends up the same way: I forget to update it. Therefore, I decided to create a /photo slash page. Like a /now page, but just for photography. One photo, swapped whenever I have a new pic I feel like sharing. Now that I’ve picked my DSLR again, I’ve created my own /photo page, go check it out!

View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Clear and dead calm. I wasn’t sure what I would do for today’s run, but with it in single digits before I headed out, I wore my Echo hoodie again. The temperature began rising fairly rapidly and by the end of the run–before 11 a.m.–it was already up to 14°C, but I didn’t feel as overdressed as I did on Wednesday. My Performance Condition was rated at a fairly mediocre -2 starting out, but I felt good, more relaxed and not pushing, just moving along at an…

I browse catalogue after catalogue of home decor new bed, new sheets, new everything a silly item on my bookshelf new bookshelves too and I know why I always leave the shopping cart full and abandoned

Dear Constant Reader, Happy Friday! Here’s your tip! If you’re using something with words on it in your act, make sure they can be read in the back of the house. It would be a shame if your punchline was lost because the letters were too small or there wasn’t enough contrast between the printing and the background. These writings and other creative projects are supported by my 17 Patrons. I appreciate you all so much!

Work went fine yesterday, so after that I rushed home to get ready for commander night! It was a good time! I won 2/3 games, one by just playing propaganda on turn 4 (commander players refuse to pay taxes) and another by cheating out my new Emrakul and taking a few extra turns! Then I chatted with my friend until my partner got home from work! She (my friend) reminded me about early voting, so I did that today! Went out, voted, treated myself to my favorite sandwich shop, visited my friend at…

There’s something about October 15, indeed, it being the “approximate” date of my grandmother’s birthday… in 1905. I have pretty much blogged this same story before so more or less a repost, but the way she tells it in her own voice is something special. The featured photo are scans of old images, on the left 1955 (at 50) in the family home on Ridgewood Avenue in Baltimore that I barely remember as we moved when I was 2. The photo on the right was one I took the last time I saw her in a care…

21:10 - Just realized choir rehearsal is on Sunday not tomorrow. I spent all evening prepping my lunch. I hope it'll last until then. 😭

Because I cannot warn thee every week about the risks of using generative AI (well, I could, but I won’t), let’s return to the other type of futile warning I insist on giving, namely the one against trying to flee from authorities by jumping into bodies of water. As I have said many times, trying this will almost certainly fail. It will dramatically reduce your mobility, making you even easier to catch, as well as posing a non-zero risk of death by water or things in it that would be pleased to…

I upgraded my Apple Watch this week from the Series 7 (2021) to the new Series 12. My old watch battery just didn’t last any more, especially on days with long workouts. The screen seems surprisingly bigger for +1mm, and it messed up the fit of the wristband. Also, black « blue. Sad face.

The morning started out with thick clouds that hung around here until shortly after lunchtime. Around then the clouds began thinning and breaking up. It quickly became mostly clear by early this afternoon It warmed up in the lower 80s with bright sunshine most of the afternoon. It was nice to relax on the patio and get some sun. Late this afternoon we decided to walk over to Harvey’s BBQ for supper. Storms were popping on radar else we would have thought about eating outside over there. We got…

I thought about inhaling the stars. Metaphorically, of course Well, I've done it more than I can remember. Our Sun was my first choice but it felt lacking for some reason, so I added a couple more, maybe those from Orion? I breathe in the light from these heavenly titans into my chest and let my heart pound and squeeze it into some form of light energy that my stomach can hold overtime. I spread the excess around what I believe is the zone that the invisible rest of my body occupies. Why?…

A podcast named Designed in California: Expertly-told stories about the 50-year history of Apple and the world it created, from Jason Snell and Myke Hurley. We cover the entire range of the last half-century, from Apple’s earliest days in a garage, to the rise of the Mac, to the return of Steve Jobs and the creation of some of Apple’s most iconic products. I jumped on the Kickstarter when it was originally announced, and the other day I started listening to the first few episodes. And I didn’t…

Tammy had these amazing trophies made for the inaugural Grandpa Don games at this weekends Olson Family Vacation. 🧡

I kinda fucked up by merging the line art with the paint layer but ... lets see how this goes

Sorry if you received a copy of the previous Weeknotes a second time by email. That issue is fixed. I turned 51 this week. It was an unremarkable flipping of the calendar other than it was near 90 degrees in mid-October. It’s surreal when it gets this warm in the autumn because it feels like summer but no birds are out doing their thing, so there’s this kind of eerie silence broken only by ever-present crickets. Unseasonably warm weather in October but no summer birds I treated myself to a new…

This update covers Sunday 10-11-26 through Friday 10-16-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 A shorter update than usual. A journey is finally at an end, though another will start soon. 📕 L. finished her last week at her awful library branch. She will take over at a much better branch starting on Mon 10-19. 📜 Another change of scenery is imminent, due to our upcoming weekend getaway. ❤️‍🩹 Not as many walks this week due to weather and time constraints. I hope that on our weekend trip, we will…

skryblans (the site) is still here. Scribblans (the author – me!) is also still here. Putting the two things together might lead you to the reasonable conclusion that there could have been some newer posts on here well before now. But of course I don't expect you really cared, and you were perfectly happy with all the rest of the posts continuing to brighten your days on Bearblog, and elsewhere on the Indie/Small/Tiny web. Fair enough. Me too. For example, I saw the Imperfect and Unstory thing…

This was mostly written in a bit of frustration over the usual "this social media is bad, let's all get out of here so we can feel like we're doing some moral good!!" after Bluesky was found to be promoting Attie's AI features on Twitter, but interestingly such promotion is nonexistent on its own platform. But I'm tired man lmao. Being an artist is tiring in this day and age where how well you do is highly dependent on the Algorithm, your work is essentially free use by both generative AI &…

In the early 90’s, I had the great privilege to be able to spend half a year as an exchange student in wonderful Dublin. Once in a while my friend and I were invited to an Irish family for dinner. We always enjoyed these invitations tremendously. The reason for this were - as you might have already guessed - rather not the really well cooked potatoes we were usually served, but the overwhelming kindness and generosity of our hosts. Of course I knew about „the Troubles“, the Irish conflict. And…

My mastodon server went down last night. What would you do if your mastodon instance went down? What if you couldn't post your thoughts online continuously? Well, I would compulsively write out my thoughts into a text file that I will then file away and never look at again. Gamepad.club started throwing errors as I was writing a series of posts about my DOS2 session. I didn't get to post my last post which was going to be a screenshot. Then I got distracted by the email that let me log into the…

It was my birthday week. I took the day off and didn’t do much. Anju took me to Mai Mai on MG Road. I loved the food. I also liked that we could sit outside. It’s rarely possible in Bangalore these days. It’s become so dusty. We went out for dinner the night before at Bombay Brasserie, Orion Mall. I’m glad the young (Uma) and the old (our parents) liked the food. I had a good time. Anju baked my favorite lemon cake. Yummy! On one of those lanes in Cooke Town I did two P.Ts this week. Anju also…

I think we had a discounted membership through work when my wife and I were first married (over two decades ago) but we rarely, if ever used it and let it lapse. But last Saturday we got a Costco membership. The primary reason? Protein powder. When our town finally got a Costco warehouse a few years ago, everyone went nuts. We didn't understand the hype – we already had a Sam's Club, after all. We have never seriously considered a Costco or Sam's Club membership for various reasons. Lack of…

Hello Walkers— A lot has happened since the last dispatch. It feels like I’m finally past most of the list of things I decided to do this year, so fair warning: this one might be long. Ludo and I celebrated our wedding, I bought some steel, I built a copy of our studio inside my laptop, and my website got redesigned. Again. Let’s start with the steel. While we were in Tbilisi, Ludo and I went to the infamous Eliava Market to buy steel for our wedding. Romantic, I know. If you’ve never been,…

Derek G.Glendale, CA★★☆☆☆ March 30, 2024 | 11:54 PMtook my girlfriend to cheesecake factory tonight for our 2 year anniversary cause it’s her favorite and i was trying to make it a thing even though she’s been all moody lately. we got the buffalo blasts and 2 vodka sodas to start. she ordered her usual chicken madeira and i just got a side salad cause i already ate a PB&J at home. my girl looked at me like i ordered a bowl of napkins and the waitress (danielle maybe?) just wrote “sad salad.”…

The magnum opus last week wasn't planned like that.I started with a relatively concise outline, fleshed out a few paragraphs in the afternoon, added a sprinkling of relevant scientific references, and dropped in the images to round it off. The following morning I completed my usual 'did I really mean to write that?' proofing, and the standard pre-submission tweaks … only to discover it was ~2,000 words longer than intended 😮.But I pressed the 'submit' button anyway 😄.This week I'm not going to…

Puking out some feelings. Yesterday I had my first session with a pelvic floor therapist. Without getting into too much detail, my "homework" has been to buy a toilet stool and to learn how to relax. Apparently, I have a strong pelvic floor but there's so much tension that my muscles are exhausted and slow to respond. This all seems fitting, as I also wrote a post yesterday about caring less, which is like, relaxing, right? Well, in the span of 24 hours, me caring less about everything has made…