by Nathaniel R Can John Turturro hold on to his Sundance buzz for "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York" © Sony Pictures Classics Whoops. Lost some momentum there to finish the first round of Oscar predictions. Let's take on Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor...
Just because things connect doesn’t mean they work. The small standing desk supports the two monitors and the CPU. Unplug four cables, and I can move it anywhere in the apartment. But if I actually start writing on the attached keyboard, the whole thing shakes horribly. The little standing desk isn’t robust enough to support all that equipment. Having the extra desk space is great, though, and I ache for some mobility. The obvious solution is to build a sturdier standing desk. A smaller set of…
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We had an enormous week with nine articles in the last seven days and 10 since our last newsletter! We're going to cover them all here! So get excited!And make sure you check out the end of this article where we drop some sneak previews of upcoming posts and break down this week's analytics! DAILY SUMS Daily Sums is a game here on the The Bryant Review that provides a new puzzle every day! Play Now Articlese1000 InterviewLet's start with last week where dash interviewed hardware hacker e1000.…
Bright and cool for the solstice. A Carolina wren calls from the vicinity of the springhouse. In my front garden, yellow rays of Rudbeckia continue to unfurl.
Having decent manners can change your life. This is not hyperbole. People remember how you treat them. They remember that you showed empathy. They remember that you saw their existence and not their status. People remember how you make them feel. And once you start treating people well, you can get away with anything. The goal isn't to get away with unspeakable things. It isn't about manipulation. It's about how much slack people will cut you once they know you're a reliable person. Be…
Summer Solstice (Litha), Medical panic, Medical records, And...
istanbul is a very crowded city, and it is also expensive. there are many unattractive buildings, and people can sometimes be rude on public transport. however, there are many beautiful things to discover too if you intentionally look for them. you could even say they are endless, especially if you explore its historical side. as a freelancer, i like finding places where i can work in peace. i found this one last week: it is a pier. it has a view of the bosphorus, and tea is only 15 turkish…
My older son drove away from my house early this morning, headed for a distant city where he’s going to build a new life. He’s wanted this adventure for a long time, and finally he’s setting out on it. He spent a couple of days with me before he left, partly because it was Father’s Day weekend and partly because neither of us knows when we’ll see each other again. Since college he’s lived in Bloomington, an easy drive away. It was a gift to be able to decide on a whim to visit, or to have him…
A few days ago, Misty posted something that caught my eye: Misty @misty@digipres.club Finding myself asking if there's ever been a wonkier official browser API than canPlayType 18 Jun 2026 at 17:52 The HTMLMediaElement.canPlayType API tells you how likely it is that a browser can play media with a given MIME type, but the response is unusual. The word “likely” is important here, because it’s not a simple yes/no answer. The possible responses are: "" – no, the browser can’t play the media…
ideas are like fish. if you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. but if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. the world is as you are. fifty years ago, people were saying, "everything's speeding up." twenty years ago, they were still saying "everything's speeding up." it always seems that way. and it seems even more so now. it's crazy. when you watch a lot of tv and read a lot of magazines, it can seem like the whole world is passing you by. when you…
Movies Fall Guy (1947) D: Reginald Le Borg. S: Leo Penn, Robert Armstrong, Teala Loring, Elisha Cook Jr., John Harmon. Mildly engaging B picture has vet Penn waking up covered in blood, a dead girl nearby, and no memory of it. If only he hadn’t supplemented his binge drinking with “narcotic” (cocaine), that infamous hallucinogenic depressant. Half the movie is Penn piecing it together with cop uncle Armstrong (who’s great). The other half is moralizing and a disappointing finish. Grand Exit…
Press photo of The Strokes “Going Shopping” by American rock band The Strokes ascends to #1 on this week’s Top 30. Formed in New York City in 1998, The Strokes consist of singer Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Backed by a lighthearted, bouncy groove, Casablancas muses about materialism, growing older, societal alienation and the never-ending push and pull of city vs. country living. The song is from their…
Read the full post at - Flying over Bay Area Suburbia One of my favorite parts of flying is getting a true birds-eye view of the pattern of a large metro area. I found Northern California’s land use to be absolutely fascinating. The City of San Francisco is famously dense. But I was taken aback by how Sunbelt-level suburban the Bay Area is. I was also surprised at how un-buildable so much land appears to be. It truly is a situation where all the buildable land was filled up by the 1970s…and…
There used to be two hard things in Computer Science. Now there's one.
When Sean McCoy proposed the Dungeon23 project, I couldn't help but join in. I wrote two dungeons--one for His Majesty the Worm and one for Under Hill, By Water. This effort eventually went on to become the 100+ room, Metroidvania-inspired dungeon...The Castle AutomaticThe premise of The Castle Automatic is that there is a mechanical castle with a self-contained sun, moon, and seasons. It was once ruled by a cruel giant emperor, but has since fallen into ruin and become haunted by vampires and…
We started Sunday with an almost-20 km cycle over to Stratford, through Fullerton’s Marsh, Mount Herbert, and back home via Bunbury.It was exposure, yet again, of the Town of Stratford’s committment to active transportation: from getting on the cycle path on Water Street near HMCS Queen Charlotte, we were on a separated pathway all the way to the Mount Herbert Road intersection with the Fullerton’s Marsh Trail, 10 km later.Once we got to Mount Herbert things got (mildly) hilly; a gentle rain…
Costco is like taking the trash out but in reverse. You hate to do it, but it feels satisfying once done.
Lorin Hochstein writes about generative AI in the context of incident reports, but the points are more broadly applicable. I have seen a big wave of “don’t let AI do your thinking for you” posts recently[^1], so I think lots of folks are pulling back a little bit on the “just let AI do everything” rhetoric (a good thing in my opinion!). As to why Lorin isn’t a fan: In my view, LLM-generated incident write-ups are more dangerous than using LLM for coding or for AI SRE style tasks. For coding…
Photos from a few days in Paris and a short stay in Épernay: great food and fine fizz, record shop cats, showcase sumo, la Coupe du monde on the TV, and stifling heat. I didn’t put much effort into taking photos on this trip, but I’ve recently dusted off my old Canon Ixus 105 and enjoyed bouncing between it and my tired iPhone 13. The Ixus is obviously digital, but in the right situations it gives me far more control than the phone and offers a film-like feeling. I love the depth of shadow and…
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. Two items this week. One is this simple yet charming video of someone who made a crank organ (festooned with plush parrots and a decorative octopus) and configured it to play the ending music, titled simply “Staff Roll,” to Super Mario 64. It’s very nice to listen to, and it’s only about three minutes long. Please enjoy! The other thing? Oh, the final episode of The Amazing…
UpdatesWe flew back to Dublin last night - four weeks in Spain has been perfect to recharging a little bit as I move into the last phase of the consultation process for my role at Meta. The heatwave over Western Europe looks like it will really take shape over the next few days, and my apartment in Spain is expecting temperatures of 37/38c so we picked a reasonable time to come back to a bright, sunny Dublin. On the flight back, I started watching the 'Star City' a new series on Apple TV that…
While I’m side-questing into health stuff I might as well link this one that I’ve been sitting on as well. Gavin Francis writes about mental health diagnoses from the perspective of a GP. This one is likely even more controversial than the “enhanced self” post from earlier, but also worth the time to get another perspective[^1]: The subject is important, because according to modern psychiatric definitions, the 21st century is seeing an epidemic of mental illness. The line between health and…
In this dream, I was in the Reticulum network, like I was inside that MeshChatX app nodes visualizer. It was amazing. I can’t explain the dream, but I was in those nodes. It was a short dream. I got another dream, but this time I was in an I2P network, and again I can’t explain it. I can’t write it in words. I got many more dreams, like in one dream I said this crazy line, but then I woke up. I thought of writing that line in my notes app for later writing in this blog, but then I slept again…
§ Hello there. Happy summer solstice, Father’s Day, Juneteenth, etc. § In the vegetable garden our bush beans have started flowering and the tomato plants are all fruiting happily. Did you know that saffron comes from a crocus that is perennial in zone 6? Well I didn’t until a few days ago. It is now near the top of the list of plants I want to track down for our garden. § The trip to Chicago for a family wedding went considerably better than I expected with our two month old in tow. The six…
Noël Coward is the perfect frothy summer theatrical entertainment, with his clever dialogue, ridiculous characters, and silly situations ripe for comedy, all in a British accent. The Guthrie is doing Private Lives later this summer (which they last did in 2007), but first up is Blithe Spirit at Theatre in the Round to conclude their 74th season. This is the one that features a love triangle between a husband, his wife, and the spirit of his deceased wife whom he accidentally materializes. It's…
I’m a big fan of John Lennon (the American author, not the English musician, but, sure, I’m a fan of the musician too). I’ve read most of his books, and it saddens me that literature is such a niche interest that even a versatile, talented, and accessible novelist such as Lennon can’t make a living out of it. OK, I understand the economics: if there were more money to be made from writing fiction, more people would be doing it, there’d be more competition, so it’s not clear that Lennon himself…
Rough week in the health department but the brain juices have held up against all odds. Also games! Personal I woke up on Monday with a lot of pain in my neck and decided to take the day off for some rest and relaxation. In the midst of aforementioned R&R Yash asked me if I wanted to meet up with his girlfriend and him for breakfast at Toit, where we got some pancakes and waffles. Not the typical idea of resting an injury, but it was nice to be out and about in the sun. From there we walked the…
