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If I move, or exert myself suddenly, I will have a coughing spasm. That will cause the burning pain in my right rib cage. The lung that I didn't have the surgery on is the one that is continuing to throw a hissy fit. I feel no discomfort or pain from the left lung surgery site. So today I mostly sat on my arse again and did nothing. I got up to pee and get coffee. The pain site has shifted today. It is still under my right bottom rib cage but the pain has moved to the left a couple of inches.…
June 21, 2026 I saved a guide called npm: A Free Guide for Beginners to GoodLinks the other day. This morning, I wanted to read it and keep it for future reference, but I realized GoodLinks isn't where I want to store this kind of material. I briefly thought about DEVONthink, but since I uninstalled it recently, it wasn't an option. Instead, I saved it to Bear using the browser extension. It captures the entire article, allowing me to read, highlight, and archive everything in one place. It is…
Jamie and I began our weekly walks on Clapham Common about three years ago. We’d known each other distantly for more than 40 years, but we came close when Jamie came to offer help to us with pain we were suffering over a tragedy with our grandson in Mexico. Jamie had an instinct for helping people, for kindness. Perhaps he’d always had that instinct, but it must have been enhanced by the terrible pain he suffered over the death of Katherine, his first wife, and over a severe illness in one of…
This edition covers why inaccessible systems make AI worse, the theater of AI generated feedback, and dangers of ‘user-friendly’ AI. Also don't miss a catalogue of 250 named colors, a Wikipedia link visualizer, and local file sharing tool.
Hawsers moor a ship to the cruise ship terminal at the end of the Terminal Remota, Progreso, Mexico. The post Tied Tight appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
The apparent path of the sun reached its northernmost point at 8:24 UTC today, marking the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the shortest day of the year & first day of winter in the Southern. May all of your plans come to fruition in the fullness of time, and Blessed Be!
Friday afternoon once work had finished began in thoroughly civilised fashion. A couple of drinks in the sunshine with my good friend Beth beside a rather pleasant stretch of the River Leam which coincidently just so happen to be part of the WBAS portfolio. It was all terribly sophisticated and cultured. Unfortunately, I had already made the fatal mistake of thinking about fishing.Before Beth arrived, I had carefully introduced a few pieces of bread into the pool from the old bridge. At first…
by Caue Napier This is so cool! TownSquare adds a small virtual square at the footer of a website, on which visitors can walk around, jump, high-five and talk to each other. And this can connect multiple websites together! Strongly considering adding this somewhere on my website.
The donut is a misunderstood animal. It needs in-depth research.Donuts are good. If you hear a so-called expert say otherwise… [CENSURED PAGE] Looks like the god/algorithm doesn't like donuts so I can't talk about them. You will have to look at the pics to discover the text.
I always remember the book Writing, Illuminating & Lettering by Edward Johnston (1906). This book was written more than 100 years ago and it’s very inspirational since it talks from the perspective of a time before computers and their impact in we know for typography. Nothing there has the perfection of a machine, and that’s beautiful.There he shows a figure full of useful ideas to fill gaps in a calligraphy page.Here I created my own version. If you suffer/enjoy from horror vacui you can use…
Today we have a variety of holidays to celebrate. People who have good relationships with their fathers, or people who have children, may be celebrating Father's Day. Others may be observing the Summer Solstice, in any variety of ways. Some of us will go to church, as we normally do.I will be preaching, but at this moment, my sermon doesn't mention Father's Day. The Gospel for today is Matthew 10: 24-39, the text about Jesus coming to bring not peace, but a sword, to divide families. So I'm…
Andreas Krennmair has a new book out focusing on ‘Bavarian white beer’, AKA Hefeweizen, AKA wheat beer. And it’s reminded us to check in with this intriguing style. Out and about in Bristol’s pubs yesterday one thing that struck us was that German wheat beer is a style that’s become quite mainstream in the UK since the UK Weizen craze of the 1990s. The Barley Mow near Bristol Temple Meads station had a draught wheat beer from Ayinger and multiple examples in bottles in the fridge. But even…
Daily Drawing 903
I mostly spend this week up in Cologne. A bunch of in-person meetings, a bit of hanging out with friends and coworkers, good (and some not so good) food and the days went by very quickly. For the first time in quite some while I took the train instead of driving and frankly – when it works and once you’re in the train, it is really a nice way to travel distances like this. Train stations are a bit of a slog, though. Now over the weekend I’m slowly acclimating myself to the warm weather that…
I just noticed the posts lately have been few and far apart here - even if i promised myself to write most days as a goal for 2026. The reasons (excuses?) for the slow down are many: loss of interest in the shiny new thing (the blog) spring and summer in full swing demand of you to enjoy the sunny days while they are there (literally and figuratively) the internal monologue had no breathing room (days got very busy lately) overall, looking back, to few months ago, I’m happier and less in need…
The sky at 1:00am on 4 July 2017, Tuusniemi, Finland 21 June 2026 Happy Summer Solstice! By the time you read this the moment of the northern solstice will have passed in Pittsburgh on 21 June 2026 at 4:24 am EDT. We usually have only one longest day per year but sometimes the solstice lines up to give us two days with the same number of hours, minutes and seconds. This is one of those years with 15 hours, 3 minutes and 50 seconds of sunlight both yesterday and today. (The day lengths probably…
For Father's Day, I'm remembering Dad (Harold D. Burk, 1909-1978). Sis and I rediscovered this snapshot while assembling content for a photo book of our family's first decade.Dad has a big smile on his face while sitting at the Pulitzer Fountain, near the famous Plaza Hotel -- and opposite where the luxe Savoy Plaza Hotel once stood. Dad owned a travel agency located in the lobby of the Savoy Plaza Hotel. He and his brother (Sidney Burk, 1915-1995) arranged train and plane tickets for the…
I was mostly busy at work this week. I impulse bought a new watch yesterday (a Timex Weekender). I don’t know why; I’ve been watching videos of watches lately. I must stop before it gets too out of hand (pun absolutely intended). I’ve also been slowly making my way through The Count of Monte Cristo. Slowly being the operative word here. Other than that, this weekend was spent on the down low. It is cloudy / pleasant today and I’m definitely enjoying it.
Here's one for Father's Day, tangentially. A loose, joyful almost-sonnet, written by Gavin Ewart, sixty years ago this month...June 1966Lying flat in the bracken of Richmond Parkwhile the legs and voices of my children passseeking, seeking: I remember how on the13th of June of that simmering 1940I was conscripted into the East Surreys,and, more than a quarter of a centuryago, when France had fallen,we practised concealment in this very bracken.The burnt stalks pricked through my denims.Hitler…
"Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre (430 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth-most densely populated region in the world."
Women of Music volume 19Nikki Corvette on cover Abbe Lane - A Good Man Is Hard to Find.mp3 Ailish McBride - Scania 164.mp3 Brenda Lee (& The Vocaltones) - Ain't Gonna Give Nobody.mp3 Eileen Barton - Fujiyama Mama .mp3 Lorin Dean - Fi Fo Fum.mp3 Marsha Lyn - Tennessee Homesick Blues.mp3 Maxine Davis - Another Man.mp3 Nikki And The Corvettes - Honey Bop!.mp3 Scooter Lee - Barefootin'.mp3 Tanya Tucker - San Antonio Stroll (Single Version).mp3 Terri ''Cup Cake'' O'Mason - Cup Cakes.mp3 Winfield…
💬📚 “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Hey, Bear. It started at the morning yesterday at 9:30. The first fpv entered our treeline from behind. We never used that entrance, but our antenna on a tree was exactly there. That's the moment when we were doomed. It detonated somewhere at the roof of our digout. It was looking for our neighbors, who are stupid and arrived to our chill and far place just a day before. They were uncovered and already opened up. I packed all (unfortunately almost all) my stuff immediately, the mac, the clothes…
Oyster Catchers at Ross Priory flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey. Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 5 (小绿不高兴) Source: Du Chinese Level: Elementary
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The Quicktake 100 and 150 have the same layout on that level. Problem with this Quicktake 150 was that it didn’t respond to the computer. It sent its Hello when DTR went down, but then did not reply to the first computer init message. I supposed it meant its RX pin was somehow disconnected. This was true. The Quicktake is an assembly of multiple PCBs (at least 5), connecting to each other via flat flexible cables, ribbon cables, bare wires, and PCB-to-PCB connectors, either angled or stacked.…
I got to go back for the usual comics jam for a pride-themed potluck! I brought along a friend that I haven't gotten to spend time with for a long while, which was incredibly nice. We talked a lot about what's been going on in our lives, and how we're coping with the realities of being chronically ill in more ways than one. I'm happy to see he's doing well despite both our difficulties. (he's an artist like me, you can find his portfolio here! Anyway, one of the things I did was finish an…
