Yesterday I went for a solo hike along the Incinerator Ridge trail in the Catalina Mountains. Starting around milepost 17 on the upside of the mountain, the hike affords beautiful views of the San Pedro River Valley. I wanted to get up and back before the sun went into a UV rating in the double digits. Since I was around 6500 feet it wouldn’t be overly hot, but the sun can be brutal. I wanted to spend some time just sitting up on Leopold Point, which sits around 8000 feet. The views are…

Happy Father's Day! Father's Day is one of the best days of the year. I’m biased, for sure. We get gifts, we get to play golf, and we get to put our feet up. It’s wonderful being pampered. But obviously, it’s far more than the pampering that has me entering “Proud” and “Joyful” in my Bevel mood journal at the end of the day.Being a father is easily the most rewarding role in the world. Early on, it’s a grind — sleep, poop, eat, sleep, poop, eat… it gets to you (and is far harder on mothers, to…

When Jim Croce sang about "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," he could not have imagined what the historically maligned South Side would look like with a proper investment in public goods. The Obama Presidential Center has brought just such an investment. Yes, there is a museum, whose tickets are sold out through the fall. There is also a home for the Obama Foundation and its various leadership-training initiatives. But for many Chicago residents, the Obama Center is, first and foremost, a superb outdoor…

I can't even describe how beautiful this movie is. Every frame a painting. A Vermeer. The way they look at each other throughout is the greatest thing. This was my 5th or 6th watch and I still can't breath for the last 5 minutes. Astonishing. Crying is allowed. It's unavoidable.

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I rested. Watched TV, talked about football, ate an orange sherbet ice-cream, attended a book launch, outlined a life vision. Medo texted me saying he went to watch the game with the lads because he thought to himself: WWZD? A friend of a friend suggested we meet at a dimly-lit Earl’s. She has a laugh that makes me miss my aunt. I like that she moved here for romance. People often look surprised when they learn that I didn’t move here with or for anyone. A guy told me I’m courageous. I think it…

The third installment in the AAJ interview series is with Forlorn Skulk, who blogs at forlornskulk.blogspot.com/ and has an itch store at forlornskulk.itch.io. Skulk joined the jam fairly late but ended up writing a richly detailed region with over 150 hexes. I'm a really big fan of his "Moebian Directorate", which we discuss in the interview. He also contributed a large number of excellent rooms to the collaborative AXIS MUNDI dungeon at the south pole. Map of the Tiger Coast drawn by Hags…

We have three McDonald’s within a five mile radius of our house. They’re all of the late 2010s vintage: a big boring box with the typical interior of a couple of self ordering kiosks, a McCafe station that doesn’t really seem to be a thing anymore, and a counter that used to have cash registers but is now primarily used to stack up orders as they come from the kitchen. There is two cash registers left at these locations but they’re rarely used. Earlier this month a new McDonald’s was opened…

A Memphis law school graduate battles an insurance giant. What’s the difference between a hooker and a lawyer? The hooker will stop screwing you after you’re dead. To see all 15 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/the-rainmaker/

Never done this before: I’ve remotored a model train engine. Whisper-quiet, not just controllable but slow, and I just feel so good about it. I did this. It’s experiences like this I hoped for from the hobby these days. Jim... Read More ›

Commodore Shenanigans Through The Ages.

Anthropic got what they deserved Stupid ideas by Anthropic: Be the arbiters of justice and virtue, piss off DoD Deal with the BIGGEST problem in LLMs - validity and hallucinations - by making Fable/Mythos DELIBERATELY inject bad info into your session if you are a (by Anthropic’s judgement) a naughty boy (and NOT TELL YOU ITS DOING IT) What a bunch of brain dead idiots Tell the world your latest model will be a reckoning on all software then be shocked you get ban hammered by the country you…

(Nota bene, my lunchbreaks for the last while have been occupied by exercise, so the last few entries in this series are going to be more like Watching Avatar: The Way Of Water On Juneteenth But Broken Up Into Lunchbreak-Sized Chunks Just So I Don’t Disrupt The Format Of The Series; thank you, as you were) 🎶 Hey look at me, casually, fighting to death with underwater kitty-man 🎵 ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Listen I don’t believe for a second that tall blue drink of bitch is dead just ‘cause he floated to the…

When your friend is playing backup in a free concert in the heart of your city on a Friday night, it is required to leave the house.Currently Listening: DYAN “Looking For Knives”Reply via email

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 12th June 2026 US death metal newcomers Goetia have risen from the ashes of Washington DC’s Perpetuated, and have been getting talked up by a number of people I respect online so I thought I’d give their debut full length record ‘Mortuary Cult’ a go. Based on experiences they had in an old graveyard in the city’ suburbs, expect some super fast and tight death metal carnage. ‘Mortuary Cult’ is out now through the venerable Carbonized Records. After the…

I thought it would be nice to take the scenery in for a bit.

Creative life Zine in progress I’m collaborating with a tinned fish company on a zine about beginner-friendly tins. Most of the text is done. Some of the art is done. Art cards I created a profile on ATCdex for my cards that are available for trading. Three people reached out to trade with me so far! TV shows I finished watching La Brea. The premise is interesting, but the dialogue and acting are just not good. I can’t recommend the show. I started watching Interview with the Vampire, the 2022…

Today’s topic: The Romans: a 2,000-year history, by Edward J. Watts. I found it fascinating, but didn’t entirely like it. As the subtitle hints, Watts refuses to take the usual approach of ending the history in 476 CE. He carries the story forward to 1204, covering what historians (but not contemporaries) called the Byzantines. To the end of the state, its rulers and inhabitants called themselves Romans (Ῥωμαῖοι). Indeed, the Arabs took them at their word and called Anatolia Rūm, which is why…

red monster Monsteras look cool and jungle-y. Not so much when bathed in spooky red light from below. This is the Sunday evening scene from my recliner.

On the early afternoon of the day of the summer solstice on this year, I spent an hour with fellow volunteers of San Francisco's Civic Joy Fund, in the Tenderloin Weekly Cleanup community event. [ in progress... ]

The n queens problem is to place on an n × n chessboard n queens so that none attacks any other. This means there is only one queen on every horizontal, vertical, and diagonal line. When n is a prime number ≥ 5, it is sufficient to place the queens on a line that has slope 2, 3, 4, …, n − 2. (The slope cannot be 1 because that’s a diagonal. And it cannot be n − 1 because n − 1 = −1 mod n is also a diagonal.) [1] Here we imagine the top and bottom edge being identified. Geometrically, this makes…

I think I used it for a week before I figure out that you can press the metal thingy below the rings to open them. Made it a lot easier to open and close them without fucking up my nails and nail polish. It works a lot better in general if you have less stuff in it.

The first recording today starts with the end of Tracy Beaker. Then, excitingly, there’s a trail for the new series of Doctor Who. Then it’s Spirit Warriors – Young at Heart. The warriors find a lovely meal laid out for them. They meet the beautiful Madame Ching. And her friend, the curiously childlike Tai Fei, who doesn’t speak and bonds with young Jen. After they venture out, Tai Fei follows them, so Jen takes him back. The rest of them have arguments when they find some green confetti.…

shine a light into the shadow formed by my intercession with the light that shines behind me my back light too and i think it says yes, yes yes don't catch up don't catch up i think it says, don't catch up what the front light says? i never thought never thought other things said all sleep's paralysis Yesterday :: Sunday, 21st June 2026

Whiplash is what happens when change occurs without communication. The gap between what leadership knows and what everyone else knows is where most work whiplash gets manufactured. And the only thing that closes that gap is treating “who needs to know about this?” as a non-optional follow-up question every time a decision gets made or a priority shifts. — Molly Graham, Work Whiplash Thanks for still believing in RSS! If you'd like you can reply via email.

This week my guest is Pedro Cora. He’s a guy from the Netherlands that love photography, games, and also self-hosting. You can follow him on the Fediverse at @pcora@mastodon.social, and also subscribe to his RSS feed. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Safari Underrated. For me, personally, I have used Safari since I started using Macs and I find it lightweight and easy to use. I like the simple UI and that it is not resource-intensive. Since I am pretty picky about websites, if it does not work in…

Magical musical musings and insightful interview conducted by the marvellous John Matthews. It has been what feels like a very long weekend at Convenanza, the boutique electronic music festival that takes place annually in the beautiful surroundings of a medieval castle in Carcassonne in the South of France, and I’m starting to feel the pace (and my age). Over the past three days I’ve witnessed some amazing live acts and DJs and eaten and drunk to my hearts content, but now it feels as if it’s…

On June 21, 2026 I switched the site from Jekyll to Astro and rebuilt the theme from scratch. Here's why.

Through a glass, brightly A window in a lovely old Yorkshire hotel Quote of the Day ”The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.” John Maynard Keynes C.f. the current AI ‘investment’ bubble Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Abdullah Ibrahim | Bra Timing From Phomolong Link Long Read of the Day Sovereign AI is really hard to achieve This is a really sobering read from Anton Leicht on what Europe would need to do to achieve AI sovereignty. It was prompted by the fact…

This article was originally (partially) a thread on social media,which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. This time we”ll be looking at ‘De boerendans’ (the farmer’s or peasant’s dance) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from c. 1567.I love Pieter’s art & of course I love art that depicts an era generally still considered to be bland, dark & horrid, as also being a bit fun. Adorable, big kid dancing with little kid, I…