I'm just glad it's the weekend. posting the time lapse is some kind of torture
Brooklyn NY We’ve visited the Maman in Alexandria, but I realized I hadn’t logged that visit; so I’m logging this one. We were visiting DUMBO in Brooklyn and it’s severe heat advisory, so we decided to enjoy a drink, cookie, and air conditioning. I ordered a cold brew and their Martha Stewart salted caramel cookie (to share with the group). The cold brew was good with a well-balanced coffee flavor and no bitterness. The cookie was tasty, but almost too thin. The caramel had broken through the…
My freezer is full of Mountain Fresh Plus tomatoes, which is irritating to my wife because there’s little room for other items. But I think she’ll forgive me in the winter when we can pull out quality tomatoes to make salsa and sauces and more. Over the past eight summers, I have played with a […] The post ‘Mountain Fresh Plus’ tomato variety: a profile appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening.
Kalshi and Polymarket are the big names in the new sector of "prediction markets", and other established names like Robinhood and Crypto.com are getting in on it too. They claim to be the most accurate way to predict future outcomes, but what are they really? They very specifically avoid the language of "bet" due to legal implications, but that gets closer to the heart of what is happening here. Are people really trading futures about who will be the presidential nominee in 2028, or would it be…
The first recording starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. Then it’s a repeat of Shaun the Sheep – Mountains out of Molehills. Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Set on a remote rural farm, Shaun’s flock lives a peaceful life under the watchful eye of their sheepdog Bitzer. The flock are enjoying a boogie when a freshly dug molehill interrupts their fun. Shaun has to resort to ever-more extreme attempts to get rid of the pesky mole. Recorded from BBC ONE on…
Yes! Finally! I felt well enough to go the Costco stock up trip! In fact, I was up quite early and feeling rested. Did the morning routine and prepped the truck. We even remembered to grab the ice packs from the freezer before we left. We postponed leaving long enough to go to the post … Continue reading Costco stock up shop: this is what almost $790 looks like
As the title says. This one is a mix of bugs, birds, and scenery, with a few horses thrown in. Original post here. One more clutch of Barn Swallow babies before migration.A barn swallow yawning. Or screaming? Scream yawning.Barn Swallow sitting pretty.A bumblebee getting its pollen on.Honeybee in zany portrait format.Pollen is life.A very shiny blue wasp grooming itself.The Black-capped Chickadees are appearing more.A Cooper's Hawk lands on the trail ahead of us. Very odd.The Cooper's Hawk then…
A UI shouldn’t lose your inputs.If you are typing, each and every key should result in a letter in order. No characters should e mssig or rerodeerd.If I switch windows with Alt+Tab and then type, the events must always go to the newly focused window.If I close a tab with Ctrl+w and then type, the events must go to the newly focused tab.This may seem obvious, but I often see applications that behave incorrectly if your inputs come too fast. One common situation where I see interfaces falter is…
Thus far this week (see here and here), we have seen Adam Smith’s survey of two historic overseas trading firms organized as joint-stock companies: the Royal African and Hudson’s Bay companies. Today, we turn to Smith’s survey of the ill-fated South Sea Company. Smith devotes four paragraphs to this infamous chapter in the history of mercantilism: paragraphs 22 to 25 of the last part of his 1784 pamphlet (Part #13). Smith begins his survey of the ill-fated South Sea Co. (para. 22) by telling us…
Opens with convincingly real and unrehearsed news interviews, which they empasize are real and unrehearsed, but is the interview guy not aware that he’ll be in a movie? Why’s he gotta be so dry? From this drab beginning, the movie gets increasingly brutal, as the local casino runs a terror campaign against the voters, press, and church. Edwards stops John from killing a casino boss, too bad: John (Pickup on South Street) comes home to Phenix with his girl, has been there a half hour before…
This is such a niche topic, but can we combine our knowledge about the drinks packages on cruises? For those of you who are where I was ten minutes ago: it seems that cruises charge extra for drinks such as soda, interesting coffee (anything other than pouring it from a Church Fellowship Urn and adding your own cream and sugar), and booze. You can pay for those drinks individually, again and again all day long, or you can buy a “drinks package” where you pay a lump sum per day to cover a whole…
The “Yentervention” is the key to understanding everything at stake: Matt Dines takes us through the carry trade, Treasury demand, Fed liquidity tools, and Japan’s role in the next U.S.-aligned AI and industrial system.
It’s pretty rare for me to find an anthology in which I love every story, but this one really hit it out of the park! Here are my per-story reviews: Intro: Getting Martha Wells to write the intro is an amazing get! She also does a great job pointing out what we are saying about ourselves (humanity) with our AI/robot stories. (Mostly related to slavery) It reminds me A LOT about recent discourse about alien invasion narratives and what that says about collective guilt about colonialism.…
⚠️ This review contains spoilers! Book review for Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. I rated it 4 stars. Yesteryear follows a woman named Natalie who is raising her six children on a farm, while broadcasting her family's more traditional way of life to millions of Instagram followers. The book kicks off with her in the middle of a wildly successful social media career, with flashbacks to her college days and the events leading up to her marriage.
A little nostalgia ramble and a tidbit about today's song.Currently Listening: hey, nothing “Arteries”Reply via email
Simon Hanselmann is a skilled creator of comics. Many of his works involve the witch known as Megg, the talking cat, Mogg, and their roommate (in some continuities), Owl. Oh, and good ol' Werewolf Jones. Sometimes Hanselmann's yarns with these characters are outright hilarious ("Crisis Zone,"), but they can be incredibly dark and depressing too. His works are often quite edgy, however, with this latest release of the single-issue/one-shot, "Being Alive," providing plenty of moments I laughed…
I’ve loved dinosaurs ever since I was a kid. I find it fascinating that millions of years ago, these gigantic, colossal creatures actually walked this planet. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. I think it all started with The Land Before Time movies, which were always on TV, or maybe with the dinosaur craze of the ’90s brought on by Jurassic Park. Fun fact: the movie is set in my home country. Another reason is that every kid likes dinosaurs. We had Barney, and somehow all the coolest…
The Short Leash AI Coding Method For Beating Fable The author describes staying in the loop as the AI writes code, steering constantly. One thing I’d add to their toolkit: ask the AI to produce diagrams. ERDs, state diagrams, sequence diagrams – whatever the task calls for. Just by drawing them, it often finds bugs in the design, before I even review them. DON’T YOU MEAN EXTINCT? If we are at the cusp of a paradigm change, it makes sense that we need to evolve. To adapt. Just like the…
I'm a huge John Carpenter fan. I mean, Halloween pretty much created my horror fandom at a young age, and for that I'll be forever grateful. I had a blast exploring his movies through my teen years, and revisiting them over and over again. Some have aged well, The Thing, Escape from New York, some have not, Ghosts of Mars, Village of the Damned, but I appreciate the vibe and especially the music that all of his films possess. For those that don't know, John Carpenter's father was a music…
I use GBoard on my Pixel 10 Pro. I’ve been a GBoard user for several years. It has all the smartness that makes typing a breeze. However, it’s missing one setting - smart punctuation. Let me explain. Whenever I type fast and keep hitting space, GBoard both autocorrects and also inserts space after the corrected word. When I try to type punctuations, the space end up before the punctuation. For example, I’d end up with a phrase like “how are you ?”, instead of “how are you?” (notice the space…
Join me for tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. Click here for tickets for next Saturday’s tour of Spitalfields . You only walk in the alleys if you have a strong stomach and stout shoes, if you are willing to ignore the stink and the sinister puddles for the sake of striking out alone from the throng of humanity coursing along Bishopsgate. This whole place was once characterised by the warren of alleys and yards which laced the streets. And, when the…
Met up with friend Leonard Since we didn't know where to eat at, Leonard suggested we go to Et Al, Foodland's restaurantLeonard had their burger : Honolulu Meat Co. beef patty, La Tour sesame bun, fontina, Maui onion bacon jam, gochujang aioli, fries He enjoyed this but wished they hadn't over cooked thisI had their Greens & Grains Bowl : MA'O sassy mix, forbidden rice, crispy fried
Abbe Lane, the singer and actress who performed with her husband Xavier Cugat and appeared in both movies and on television, died on April 25, 2026 at the age of 93.Abbe Lane was born Abigail Francine Lassman on December 14, 1932, in Brooklyn. She was raised in Manhattan. Her show business career began when she was only four years old, and a child she appeared on both radio and in the 1938 Vitaphone short "Toyland Casino." She also did some modelling. She attended the High School of Music and…
Look, it takes a while to get used to new technology. Even the mighty Ron Burgundy experienced that problem, when some joker or jokers repeatedly added things to the teleprompter script, knowing he would read whatever appeared there. Great Odin’s Raven, that was embarrassing—once he realized what he’d done, which took a while. Something similar happened in the New Brunswick Legislature in June, when legislator Bill Oliver got up to deliver a speech. The speech lasted a total of 40 minutes, the…
It’s high time I made a start working through the Past Doctor Adventures series as put out by BBC Books once the Doctor Who novel licence was wrested away from Virgin. As I noted in my first review of their Eighth Doctor Adventures line, the novel landscape for the BBC Books-led fraction of the Wilderness Years ended up being somewhat more complex than the Virgin-led segment, where once the New Adventures got up to speed they (and, once they started, the Missing Adventures) kept a consistent…
My review of The Incredible Hulk.
If you've heard of this game, it's probably due to its presence on various "worst Dreamcast games ever" lists. However, it doesn't look too bad in screenshots, and it's a Dreamcast racing game, so I assumed it couldn't be as bad as people say. Plus, the old timey setting was a pretty appealling gimmick, so I gave it a try. And at first, it seemed like everyone was being too harsh on Spirit of Speed: it's a little clunky, but initial impressions are of a mediocre racing game that might provide a…
Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of: yeah, I’m aware of it. In particular: I’m aware that, as announced by my former student (and now superstar professor) Lijie Chen, an internal OpenAI model has solved ten more significant open problems in math and theoretical computer science. One of them is parallel repetition for arbitrary quantum games—something that my good friend and colleague Henry Yuen worked on when he was a student of my wife Dana; you can read Henry’s comments…
I completed Dishonored 1, plus both the story DLC, and wanted to wax on about how darn good this game looks
My review of Iron Man 2
