Did the chef kill a guest? Did the chef beat up a drunk? Did the chief stew do any work? Did I make references to Strawberry Shortcake and Butt-Head? It's all in my Below Deck season 13 episode 4 recap!

In September, I linked to a lengthy profile of Mark Zuckerberg written by Jeremy Stern in Colossus. It was a useful complement to Meta’s Connect presentation. But I had not heard of Colossus before then, and I wish I had done more digging into how what seemed to be a small publication was granted such generous access. Andrew Fedorov, the San Francisco Standard: Colossus is the brainchild of Patrick O’Shaughnessy, a Connecticut-raised heir to an oil fortune, who went to work for his father…

I went to Art Toronto last weekend! It is, according to their website, the largest Canadian art fair. Here's what it is: all the snooty galleries in town plus some from far away set up booths at the giant convention centre for a single weekend, but the booths are so little they can only bring like, 6 artworks with them. (The fanciest galleries can afford two or three cubicles, but there were only a handful of those.) I have never been to an art fair before, and I thought it could be fun to go…

IF SCIENCE FICTION February 1968. Editor: Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Vaughn Bodé. Overall rating: *** LARRY NIVEN “Slowboat Cargo.” Serial, part 1 of 3. Full review forthcoming. ROBERT SHECKLEY “The Petrified World.” Conflict between dream and reality, with the expected result. The title is clever, (3) B. K. FILER “Star Bike” Minor entertainment concerning an alien motor oil, (3) ROBERT LORY “The Courteous of Ghoor.” A man trained to move planets falls into a trap. (3) LAWRENCE YEP “The…

Dunno exactly what next year will hold, but I’m starting to throw darts on the calendar. Come December, we’ll hone what 2027 might hold from a structural angle (holidays, vacations, birthdays, events). Note: For 2026, I used Simon Elvery’s calendar generator to see the full year at a glance and filled it up with every major thing, and it was super helpful. Spitballing ideas to match the photo for the day (someone decorated their car for a graduate)… For 2027, I’d like: Have dinner parties Learn…

Contemporary Democrats might benefit from thinking about how Democrats built winning coalitions during the New Deal and Great Society despite significant ethnic differences within progressive movements. Winning Democrats of the time understood that political actors are pulled by ethnic ties, that there is a difference between seeing the world from a particular ethic and religious perspective and wishing to harm members of other ethnic groups. Adopting such attitudes might help progressives in…

Here are a couple of 1:144 scale Nieuport 11 "Bebe" from 1916, ready to go up against the Fokker Eindekkers swarming all round the place.They really were tiny little aeroplanes.

When I was working retail in college, the lady I worked for gave me a piece of advice: Sell the expensive stuff. With this in mind, and also with the product I’m delivering, I’m cranking my DJ prices: typically starting around $700 and ending up around $1,200, depending on the event, the work, the setup, and all that good stuff. I’ll still cut deeply for charitable stuff. And I may just show up at your house and set up in your backyard for no particular reason for free. This was a kind of tough…

yay its november!! i generally like november as a month. its time for holiday baking!! recipe testing time too. this was a generally boring week for me!! my long work week. we got together after work on wednesday to celebrate the 5 projects we finished. we went to a restaurant/bar nearby and i got there about an hour after everyone else since they're off at 5 and 3 of us were off at 6. so. because there was multiple groups we had to work with it was a pretty big circle of people who were…

I recently purchased a 1970 paperback edition of Richard Matheson's Third From the Sun because of the eye-popping Gene Szafran cover, so let's take a break from the Jazz Age and read some 1950s stories by the man famous for penning Steven Spielberg's and Vincent Price's best movies. I think there is a scan of this edition at the internet archive here, and an earlier edition here, so you can read along free of charge."SRL Ad" (1952) I chose today's four stories essentially at random, but maybe I…

There isn't much to say about this one. It's sort of an Aventus-inspired freshie, except when you really put your brain to what you're detecting, almost none of it resembles Aventus. There's a bit of allyl amyl glycolate in there, which creates that familiar pineapple fruitiness, but that's pretty much it. No further Creed comparisons can be made.The rest of Jaguar for Men Ultimate Power is just

She won!By a substantial margin.In every ward.A victory for progressive values, for science, for data, for compassion, for gender equity.I’m proud, so proud, to live in a city that’s moved—finally!—beyond the same old same old and fully embraced the possibility of someone proposing we take a different tack.Brava Amir.

Atlas Sound “Octoberland” Bradford Cox was once so prolific that I assumed he’d always be that way, along the lines of Robert Pollard. The type of musician whose output was so constant and overwhelming you’d inevitably lose track and get behind at some point. But no. He started slowing down over the course of the 2010s, and basically disappeared after Deerhunter finished touring for their eighth album in 2019. I have missed him so much. “Octoberland” is Cox’s first officially released song in…

Ep #257 Local Engineer Runs Out of Tokens, Discovers "Programming" Robbie and I sip a rye and talk token budgets, Copilot getting yanked mid-workflow, SDD with worktrees, whether frameworks still matter, slop as a choice, Jeff the cliff-diving lawnmower, and Amp as the a Bowflex. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple Presented by Mailtrap

Google would greatly prefer if you didn’t click on X because the moment you do, you’ve left Google and they’ve mostly lost their ability to present you with advertising. You read that right: the reason you go to Google is to find other high-quality stuff that they don’t want you to actually see. My favorite attempt was AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages, where publishers built lightweight copies of their content, and Google served them from their own servers. Yes, you were promised a traffic…

Fine “Much to Say” There’s just no getting around how much Fine Glindvad Jensen’s music sounds like a very specific wish come true: What if Lana Del Rey was more like Mazzy Star, or vice versa? There are some moments on Fine’s excellent second album Jazz Dreams where she sounds so much like Lana doing a Hope Sandoval impression that it’s genuinely uncanny. It wasn’t apparent when I wrote about her song “I Could” last year, but it’s hard to miss now. This is not a complaint so much as it it’s a…

Monochrome Monday my gym men. How was your day? #gay #gym #bears #muscle

I’m entering the second month of work wind-down, and so far, it’s been very busy. I feel like I’m putting more of myself into a lot of different projects than I was before, and staying busy right now is a good thing. People at work seem surprised that I haven’t completely checked out, including the COO, who I talked with briefly on Friday. I laughed and told him that as long as they’re still paying me, I’m working for them. It’s a measure of how strongly I feel about the mission and the…

I usually enjoy Liam Neeson action movies, no matter how old he gets (grin), and when I recently saw a poster for THE MONGOOSE (2026) at my local theater, I was intrigued,A supporting cast including "Aunt May" (Marisa Tomei) from the most recent SPIDER-MAN movies and "Luther" (Ving Rhames) from the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchise? Sold.As the film begins, Ryan "Fang" Flanagan (Neeson) is driving a fancy car at top speeds, with the police in hot pursuit.As the story unfolds, partly told in…

Effective Date: November 2, 2026 Dark Mode for Websites (“Dark Mode”, “the app”) is an app and Safari extension for iPhone and iPad that makes websites dark. Dark Mode works on your iPhone or iPad alone. It never collects or sends the pages you visit. The Short Version Dark Mode has no accounts, no analytics and no ads. The developer receives no data about you or the websites you visit. Everything Dark Mode knows stays on your device. The exception is iCloud sync, which you turn on yourself and…

Welcome to the support page for Dark Mode for Websites, the Safari extension that makes websites dark on iPhone and iPad. Below you’ll find how to set it up, how to use it, and what to try when something doesn’t look right. If you need more help, email bugs@yasoob.me. Table of Contents Getting Started On, Auto and Off Themes Changing One Website Syncing and Backups Troubleshooting Contact Support Getting Started Turning On Dark Mode in Safari Dark Mode works inside Safari, so Safari needs to be…

listen to an audio version of this post, read by the author Artificial Intelligence is one of the most hated things in America, polling even worse than ICE and Donald Trump… so why on earth is the San Francisco Department of Elections using AI-generated images in communications about our upcoming election? More importantly, why doesn’t our local government have a clear policy on using AI when interacting with the public? On September 3, 2026, the SF Department of Elections sent an email titled…

For a pearl: Buttercup Festival 3-405Latest on PatreonOct 25th: Fall watercolor sketchbookOct 18th: October pen & ink sketchbookwww.buttercupfestival.com

Is your bus really late, or does it just feel like it? Inside Singapore’s bus network by CHI VO, CHLOE JI, ESTHER LOI, SANDY NG, SHANNON TEOH (Straits Times) Neat visualization of the “spikiness” of bus on-time-ness. “Transit planners suggest that some trips on public transport can feel longer than they actually are because of the added inconvenience built into the journey.” “This variation in frequencies can make buses feel late, even when they’re running exactly according to schedule.” +…

I've been running The Halls of Arden Vul using something I've been calling Dungeons & Weaselry. It's mostly Primeval 2d6 but with D&D stuff tacked on; so a Champion-level character gets 7 hits and can fight as 7 men, rather than having 7 HD and being able to do a multi attack, or whatever. I only do this as a concession to the module, as I broadly dislike having levels in my games and chafe against the D&D concepts constantly - see our constant debate on "what does a +1 shield do, exactly" for…

Perfume PosseGinger, Whisky, Marmalade – Fall with Jo Malone It’s that time of year – daylight savings just ended and it’s dark at 5pm. Time to get hygge with the teas, the candles, the flannels on my body and bed, etc. This seems like the perfect time to talk… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseGinger, Whisky, Marmalade – Fall with Jo Malone

If you care about federal funding for museums, libraries, cultural institutions in general, funding for arts education, funding for the insurance that makes inter-museum loans for shows possible, or funding for the arts in general, you should make sure to go to your local polling place on election day and vote in favor of those things. I don’t think I need to mention any party names. Images above: America at the Polls, (alternately: Voting Day), Norman Rockwell

Around the workshop Wonder of the Word Hub – I started looking through the Hub on the different language sites and started adding conditionals to show content based on the level of participation. We launched the Hub on the English site at the beginning of October and we will launch it on our Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German sites later this month followed by South Africa (Afrikaan) later this month or in December. I panicked a bit during an align meeting when I realized that were close…

More photography here. Almost through nine-hole mini golf: New plants in front of very old mailboxes: In black and white for dramatic effect: Sibs Trek Into Darkness: Proud of this shot: An old mossy wooden table catching the morning light: Not quite mountaineering but just submitting a large climbing boulder at a local nature park: Fall, y’all:

In another episode of I thought I knew enough about C#… Today I wanted to “overwrite” the validations of a property from a parent DTO on its child DTO. Let’s say I had a Movie and Clip and needed shorter names for clips. Just take a look at the attributes on Movie and ShortClip. using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations; namespace TestProject1; [TestClass] public class NewKeywordTests { public abstract class Movie { [Required] [MinLength(52)] // <-- public string? Name { get; set; } } public…