My writing elsewhere ▷ I’ve been experimenting with using AI to help me write more, faster. It’s been a mixed bag. I explain in this article what I’ve learned about it — how audiences respond when they catch a whiff of AI, and how it isn’t as much of a productivity booster as I hoped. Read AI writing smells Best of the blogs ▷ In 2021 I bicycled across Indiana on US 40. Jeff Sun has me beat — more than once, he’s cycled the length of the Erie Canal! Read More History Than You Can Shake a Stick…
Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American independent neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus. Adapted from the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx, the screenplay was written by Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams. Its plot depicts the complex romantic relationship between two American cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, in the American West from 1963 to 1983.1…
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month. Let’s take our first journey into the wonders of Django, my favourite web backend. One of the reasons I love it is its ORM which we’ll talk a bit more when we reach the midway of the month and letter O. Today, I want…
“Hey, I was thinking… Many years ago, I don’t know how, but my mom had to meet your mom…“ he said, leaning closer with a beer in his hand. I’m at my nanny’s 70th birthday party. She took care of my sister and me as kids—and still does. Her son sat next to me. Most guests had left, and only family stayed. “… All that had to happen, so you can be here with us now. Life is already written.” I nodded while listening to his words. “Sometimes I think it is,” I said. My mom passed away months earlier.…
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We saw one of these back at the beginning of the Blog, but sometime in 2021 I picked up another one, the trouble is, it's the same one, I still need to find the purple 'enemy' or other side, although we've seen some loose! But we can have a quick box-tick of this card, as it's been sitting in Picasa for five years waiting! And, of course, with reference to an exchange of comments the other
The ideas shared here are mine alone and are not endorsed by my past or current employers. I am a senior systems engineer and game engine programmer, living in Grand-Est region (France). Contact # Feel free to send “hi” at dev[at]carette[dot]xyz. My public GPG key to contact me privately is available here. Work experience # My resume, in English. My MobyGames profile. Please take a look at this page for my past projects and publications.
Books and research papers # Books # 2017, Mastering Rust, Vesa Kaihlavirta (PACKT) - official reviewer Research papers # 2016, Investigating the Energy Impact of Android Smells - accepted to SANER 2017 2015, A Learning Algorithm for Change Impact Prediction: Experimentation on 7 Java Applications - RAISE 2016 Blog posts, talks & presentations # Professional blog posts # 2020, Security By Design, A Brief Introduction to Rust, Tadaweb 2017, Julia, le langage qui les réunifiera tous ?, Dernier Cri…
2025 fantasy. The Cloak of Sunset and Starlight is a major artifact—meaning it has a mind of its own. It's been sitting in the vault of the Order of the Open Eye since its last wielder died, but here comes an apprentice wizard who looks interesting…
A LEGEND REBORN On a sweltering opening night under the trees, what more can you ask than fresh life and passion flung into a famous show which had become, frankly, a bit of an eye-roll? And suddenly to find that it’s a 19-year-old understudy playing the crucial leading-lady role and doing the big (and often hackneyed) number Memories with such intensity, soaring purity and breaking emotion that a reputation is made while you watch. It was a terrific night for Taziva-Faye Katsande, and us. And…
Duncan Rawlinson created this artwork through artificial intelligence, exploring a vertical channel split by a central obstruction. A continuous column of red descends between deep blue canyon walls, meeting an orange protrusion at mid-height that divides the flow into twin braids before they reunite below. The opposing walls are textured with fine vertical striations, framing the red descent and the blue wedge carved behind the orange obstacle. Small accents of yellow, white, and violet mark…
Welcome to this week’s newsletter! Popular posts on the blog this week were Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, The Destined Heroes Playstyle, Dolmenwood Resources for You, Running Red Dragon’s Tale and Prepping Myths in Mythic Bastionland. Table of Contents Discord discussionsBlog posts to readProjects to bookmark and downloadArrivals Chez PaladinProjects I’m working onPlay ReportsPoem Discord discussions We had a long discussion on the Sly Flourish discord (in the 5e channel) about why you might…
Last Saturday started out to be a beautiful day so I went up to Beaver Brook Natural area. It had been a few months since I had been there last and I have to say that I do miss it after a while. After all, I’ve known the place since I rode through here as a young boy in my father’s car. This photo shows a spot where dog owners bring their dogs to swim. Someone years ago dammed the brook slightly with stones to slow it down. This made a knee deep pool that dogs love to visit. But they can’t do…
The best thing about having Monday-Wednesday off, is Friday comes a lot quicker.345 words · 4 images
https://rcs-discography2.com/search.php?type=labpk&key=2684Location : Brooklyn, New York CityOwner : Jimmy Nebb, pseud. of James Nebbergall. On October 19th, 1963 CashBox announced the following: Morty Wax, another indie about town, reported Tony Babbie and Jimmy Nebb, Armour Recording execs, have formed a subsid label called Avet with a first issue tagged, "School Days" by Lloyd Arnold.)The Avet label leased two tracks from Buford Cody's Memphis label.
Welcome to Marja, the city of roots. Please enjoy your stay.Underground rainforest city built into the roots systems and plant life of the rainforest.The people there mine and sculpt plant life and smelt and do carpentry and move gracefully through the rope-like root infrastructure that makes up the city.The people have green-brown skin and pointy ears, but are shorter than most elves and slimmer than most dwarves. Their eyes are white.The city is built in an enormous underground cave system.…
The “dying city”– the rock below this city is eroding and will be gone at one point. There are just a few people (and lots of cats!) living there. I think this town has more restaurants than inhabitants. Totally worth a trip!
I will mostly post about the places we visited on our honeymoon on the German part of this blog, but for you to enjoy, here are the photos from the first post. 🏞️ Interactions & Comments
Several months ago HMLX 1000 was leased to Andrews Lumber, a shortline out west. They were experiencing a short term increase in traffic and we were happy to help with our roots in logging railroading…Alan Sewell photo.1000 is today our only RS1, but was one of a trio we inherited when we took on the Ballard and Wantage back in the late 70s as Hilton Mears forest products looked to diversify into railroading, specifically shortline operations. In time our experience and customer focused results…
I have been staring at Barrie Cooke’s pencil sketch for a month, sucked into the mesh of scribbled lines whirling between two figures in a boat, hauling in a curved fish in a net. They are a man and a boy to my eyes—an older boy, 17 or so—straining under the weight of the pike. … Continue reading "A poet whispers: How complete+ final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net by Ellen Dillon"
A nice day but a cool wind still. Cleared the big rose bed and burnt all the hedge clippings. The gang came for tea. Jane doing a funny little walk.
And so we conclude the July 2026 RPG Blog Carnival - our topic was "Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity!" - on my mind was the fun I have had with small gods in my recent campaigns; divinities on a personal scale. This was a double-header hosting with Sea of Stars. Sea of Stars has done their round up - if you have read that already then Advantage on Arcana 'more little Gods' and Taichara's contributions are the only extras. We got responses from: Sea of Stars own response the Fate of the…
What caught Frugalist’s eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to get future editions direct to your inbox. The post Weekend reading: Don’t sweat the details appeared first on Monevator.
xkeeper posted a blog post about their issues running TCRF.On a related note, here’s my webserver’s HTTP response code stats for today, across all of my websites:fluffy@nautilus[/var/log/nginx] fluffy$ cut -f3 -d\" access.log | cut -f2 -d\ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 3 408 4 502 4 503 10 410 20 504 56 307 60 403 165 406 225 401 462 499 662 405 670 500 819 202 1739 304 2989 400 6299 206 16352 302 32402 301 52673 404 83035 303 192512 200 308859 429 This is pretty disheartening. For those who don’t…
Plant identification books use one sense to identify a plant: vision. Yet sight is also one of the easiest ways to confuse a plant. ... Continue The post The Sense Books Forgot appeared first on Robin Harford from Eatweeds.
Pre-1150 (Old English) fēdan: "to nourish, give food to, sustain" — the base verb, from Proto-Germanic *fōdjan, ultimately PIE *peh₂- ("to guard, graze, feed"). 1570s–1580s (agriculture/animals/plants) First noun use of "feed" (1575, George Gascoigne): fodder given to livestock. Still the everyday sense today ("chicken feed"). This branch stays agricultural — it's not the one that leads to "news feed." 1660s (mechanics — the branch that matters) "Feeder" as a mechanical apparatus for conveying…
A few more pix from the archive this morning: Second studio in Houston back in 2021. Third studio in Houston circa 2024. Writing table at 3rd Houston studio. Early TSG script, written in Los Angeles around 2016, before I adopted more of a “Marvel Method” working from loose plots instead. #archive #TSG
Here’s a quick history of minds. First, there were no minds, just stupid stuff undergoing simple local interactions. Then appeared the first proto-mind: Darwinian evolution, via DNA. Under this, the universe made choices according to a purpose: adaption. But such choices were made locally, using little memory, models, or foresight. Even so, organisms changed to better achieve this adaption purpose.This DNA-based selection evolved minds, which did have memory, models, and foresight. This allowed…
Let's head on down to Orlando, Florida, to visit Walt Disney World, circa March 1976. The park had been open for less than five years at that point! As I've said before, I sure wish I could have seen it in its early state, but... I still haven't visited. D'oh. Today's images are from a small batch of only five slides.First up is this view from near Cinderella Castle, which I assume is more or less behind the photographer (?), with part of the moat in front of us, and a pretty bridge crossing…
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Hanoi lager, warm ale and Belfast oysters. First, news from London of possible changes to a unique (?) drinking culture: Westminster Council is running a consultation on whether to limit the amount of people allowed to stand around outside pubs on summer evenings. Helena Horton broke the story at The Guardian on Thursday and the original headline described it as a ‘ban’; it’s been updated online…
