10:58 - I can confidentially say that 7.5 pancakes is too much for one person. I gave the rest to Daniel who ended up having to lie down afterwards. (I mean, he had to eat 7.5 of his own pancakes.) I think we're gonna have to take a pancake break after this...

We've had a few cold and almost snowy days, but Halloween was nice. I was itchy to get out of the house and take one of the cameras for a walk. I went down to Fish Creek, walking a short loop from Shannon Terrace to bridge 1 and back.Just so you know, none of these photos are immortal winners that will change your life. These are whatever caught my eye, without thinking about it much. I've been mostly doing film lately, and I think about that completely differently. All of these are places I've…

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One way to think about the impact of social media on a person is to think of the two things it does at once. On the one hand, it keeps feeding you people and content that align with your worldview, confirming what you already believe. At the same time, it sprinkles in people and content that are the exact opposite, enough to spark outrage. Both extremes generate engagement, so the feed keeps serving both. No feed is built to make you think better or sharpen your views. It’s built to maximize…

A checklist to move from HTML Minifier Next to HTML Minifier—now maintained again—, which is mostly a matter of renaming.

A checklist to work through the breaking changes when updating from HTML Minifier 4.0.0, released in 2019.

Now that we understand Euhemerism we can look at Ælfric of Eynsham's example of it in his essay De falsis deis ("On false gods"). A handful of manuscripts survive, at least one of which is a translation from Anglo-Saxon to Old Norse.Ælfric's goal was to explain away all the heathen stories of gods and legends and put the world into a Christian context. Archbishop Wulfstan of York (previously mentioned here) "borrowed" Ælfric's writing for his own homilies, also known as De falsis deis as well…

Monthly reflection and outlook. October was social.Namely the last week. Let's reflect. + Celebrated 10 years in Lucerne. Here's to 10 more, and hopefully a Swiss passport in the near future. I made a new acquaintance in choir. She's also based in Lucerne and I think she wants to be friends. Attended my first queer*space event. Said acquaintance helps out a newly-founded social gathering for queer people in Lucerne. I met some nice people and even got to sing karaoke! Cooked more at home. I'm…

At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm contacting companies which send malformed calendar invites. One of the organisation I contacted was the British online supermarket Ocado. They don't have an easy way to contact their technical team, and no obvious paths to raise a bug report, so…

Spherical geometry is very tangible because we live on a sphere. Projective geometry seems much more exotic, and yet they’re closely related. To show how they’re connected, let’s go back to the origins of non-Euclidean geometry. Euclidean geometry Here are Euclid’s five postulates, statements about what geometric objects can be constructred. To draw a straight line from any point to any point. To produce (extend) a finite straight line continuously in a straight line. To describe a circle with…

The Peter Principle posits that people are promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. What happens after that point? The implicit assumption is that they stop getting promoted and linger at whatever level they’ve arrived at, and surely all of us can point to mediocre leaders who seem to exhibit exactly that circumstance. But in fact, that situation is not stable but subject to career pressure, as Christian Gläßel and Adam Scharpf define it in Making a Career in Dictatorship. Unable…

[1987]Good time pop-rock'n'roll.In the category of "I dunno I just fucking like it" In fact isn't that the best category at this point.This should just be on the radio all the time. Hey radio play just one less You're The Voice a day and replace it with this and we'll all be much happier.I saw a dude a coupla weeks ago driving a Trans Am in the sticks here in Sunraysia and I thought "damn he's living the dream"Ride around while we still canin that damn Trans AmGotta a love the spelling out of…

Opposition to data centers is generally described as "bipartisan" and that's true if you're talking about polls of voters. If you're talking about the Republican establishment and conservative media... not so much. FromFox News’ pro-data center coverage increased by 420% following sobering GOP memo about data centers and midterms by Ilana Berger writing for Media Matters for America.The volume of pro-data center claims made by Fox News personalities and guests increased 420% after August 18,…

a really great post by Emily

Well, we don’t want critics to be influenced by price or the reputation of the wine. Of course, we can mitigate those temptations by insisting that critics taste blind. But do we want that much objectivity? Part of what we want from a critic is their perspective built over years of experience. And part of that experience involves knowledge of a winery and its production method or a vineyard and its terroir. Critics have to assess the degree to which a bottling meets the standard it’s previous…

Insects swarm at gas station light, July 2006, (photo by cgpgrey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) 3 November 2026 Remember when you used to encounter swarms of insects around outdoor electric lights? Their well known attraction to outdoor lights is used by entomologists and moth lovers to conduct insect surveys. All you need is a light and a white sheet to see who’s flying at night. Light trapping for insects at Maui (photo by Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Nowadays, if…

A few years from now a party celebrating, in part, the new Republic of California is held. This party forever changes the lives of multiple attendees. Because I really enjoyed Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility I was surprised by how indifferent I am to Exit Party. Everything interesting to me—the world-building and politics—is just background noise, and given short shrift. The author instead chooses to focus on a small group of characters and the intertwining of their lives. While the writing is fine…

Recently I’ve been busy. Like really busy! So today as I was walking in the forest to relax, I opened up my RSS reader and noticed the number of days since I read anything in it! Now that I have some ‘me time’, I’m going to briskly read through it all and get up to date.

It’s time! Monsters of Ohio is out in the world, available at your favorite bookseller in print and ebook, and also in audio through Audible. In the UK, it will be available on the 5th, because that’s just when books get put out over there. Here are links for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop and of course it’s available just about everywhere else as well, including your own local bookstore. MOO (as it rather delightfully initializes down to) has gotten great reviews, including starred reviews…

Sovereign AI: preserving choice in an intelligent world It’s not every day that I get to present at the Red Bull Technology Campus MK-7 Events Venue in Milton Keynes. Well, last month, as part of Milton Keynes Tech Week, BletchleyAI hosted an event at this fantastic venue, and I was fortunate enough to be one of the speakers. It was a brilliant experience, made even better by the fact that Emily Darlington, MP for Milton Keynes Central, spoke immediately before me. Emily spoke about the UK’s AI…

Today, I'm doing something a little different. I wanted to write about a piece of art, but the weather was just too nice. I tried to enjoy the sun a bit while staying home and around. Also, it's a public holiday in Japan today (Culture Day), and with the whole family home, it's not easy to focus on choosing pictures, double-checking facts, and writing for a few hours straight.Nevertheless, I want to share a post with you today. So, why not share some of the pictures I took during my afternoon…

I wasn't sure if I would have gotten to this point today. I had an estate planning appointment in the PM and that was constantly in my thoughts while working in the AM. I'll be doing the shellac finish starting in the AM tomorrow.hmm..........There is zero room to swing a hammer to get the clip mortises in the long aprons. I will be able to get a clip on the short ends. I only have to do the top short aprons. wooden table clipsI am only using two on the long clips. Once the top is secured with…

A good random encounter will build the world for you and make it feel alive. Random encounters are not random in the sense of “this could be anything,” or random in the sense of “this doesn’t matter, it’s just noise,” but they are random in the sense of no one knows where and when they will occur. They aren’t pre-planned and they can add to and intensify already-existing situations. One of the very first things I made, even before I started this blog, was a system for making a random encounter…

A view of the steel on the Monroe Street bridge over the Chicago River: It’s a bascule bridge, where the deck pivots upward to open – technically a double-leaf bascule, since each half of the bridge, east and west of the centerline of the river, rotates up. And if you want to get really pedantic, the main structure of each leaf is a pair of pony Pratt trusses. Here’s a nice side view from the Historic American Engineering Survey: The bridge was built in 1919 and rehabbed between 2001 and 2008.…

This has been a tough post to write. It touches a side of me that I keep private, along with the uncomfortable question of what would happen if I let someone see it. I would want to be understood, but I’m afraid I would come away feeling like a freak. Nobody in my everyday life knows the whole picture. A few people know pieces. Friends know some of my views on marriage, relationships, and dating. My therapist knows more. But the person who writes here has interests, desires, and experiences…

I happened upon this scene on a backroad in northern California a few years ago. Stumblingupon subjects like this is one of the reasons I find photography pleasurable. (click to enlarge)In my experience, as much as I live and breathe photography, there have been times when it has completely stressed me out. More times than I can count. I put so much pressure on myself to always come back with my best images, that I ended up not enjoying the experience. No pleasure. Maybe even thinking I failed.…

While playing Pokémon Emerald on his phone, the developer known as lidor30 kept running into the same frustrations. Looking up information meant constantly interrupting his game, and his preference for playing in fast-forward came with another annoyance: the familiar soundtrack was speeding up alongside everything else. These might seem like relatively minor complaints, but they eventually sent him down a development rabbit hole that would grow into something considerably more ambitious than…

I quit my job, moved away from friends and family, and started over in my 20s. Here's what living alone, making new friends, and rethinking my career has taught me.

In light of today’s Mid Term elections, I find it very apt to post this slightly snarky post. As someone who grew up on the Americanized internet, there were so many pecularities about it that sometimes bordered on it being an alternate reality that I didn’t understand and still don’t to this day. Yes, I’m aware of why US Americans are the way they are, but that hasn’t made their world any more digestible to me. Most of you reading this are probably Americans judging by my analytics, so I’ll be…

The entire Milan journey, in links: Intro: Ciao Bella! Bisceglie to Lotto (M1): Red RouteQT8 to RHO Fieramilano (M1): Red RoverSesto 1º Maggio FS to Loreto (M1): Red HeatLima to Pagano (M1): Red Sky At NightP.za Abbiategrasso to Assagio Milanofiori Forum (M2): Green LandRomolo to S. Ambrogio (M2): Green ParkLanza to Piola (M2): The Green StuffLambrate FS to Cologno Nord (M2): The Green MileSan Siro Stadio to Portello (M5): Lilac TimeTre Torri to Bignami (M5): I'll Gather LilacsGessate to…