Watchin’ (Filums) Disclosure Day: Spielberg’s…fifth???…outing re: aliums and, as always, is very in-conversation with our times and what’s going on in our world right now; I enjoyed the hell out of it, but don’t have anything to say about it that others haven’t already said better. Go watch it, it rules! The End of Oak Street: An absolute, unmitigated blast that finally wrests dinosaurs from John Hammond’s cold, dead hands and gives them to people who want to have fun with them again; side…

I just uploaded a version of the old hymn "Great is Thy Faithfulness" to my YouTube channel. You can watch it there, or check it out here on my new /music page at https://aaronjz.com/music.For those interested, I am tuned to Jacob Collier's 5-string guitar tuning, just adapted for normal 6-string guitars and tuned a half-step down from D: C# - G# - D# - G# - C# - C#. I am also open to sharing more about my guitar technique if anyone has any questions. I love playing guitar!I am in agreement…

Last year for Halloween we put out a spin wheel and kids had to spin the wheel to see what they would win (candy wise). Throughout last year's blog we recorded a few things that could have been better:Needed better outdoor lightingSpins were taking too long (20-30 seconds)The wheel needed to be anchored betterWe ran out of candySo naturally this year we bought a lot more candy including candy that probably had to be classified a larger size than king size candy. We were brainstorming the…

The forecast models showed lots of rain today, but not a lot in the way of lightning. I knew it wouldn’t be a storm chaser photogenic day, but it could still be interesting. So I took the Jeep out and about during the record rainfall. I ended up climbing the “primitive road” between Oracle and Mount Lemmon, coming up the back side of the mountain. This road is definitely not for passenger cars. This was my first time climbing some rocks and crawling over some decent rock formations with this…

In the night, the winds kept stable and wind wane kept us on course without interventions. As the sun came out, the wind kicked up a notch and kept changing between 20 and 35kn. We needed to keep adjusting the wind vane to match the wind. Around noon we had the biggest gust of 39kn and the waves were steep as we found ourselves in the middle of a counter current. Here the currents are more or less random, so picking a favourable stream is not an option. With the steep waves we adjusted the…

More images I save from sites thesedays don’t end up showing thumbnails in file browsers. For example, Dolphin on KDE: And the Finder on macOS: Why is that? I assumed maybe the embedded thumbnails were getting corrupted somehow, or there was a resource fork issue saving images on my OpenZFS volumes over Samba. No, turns out it’s much simpler than that. Browsers are getting the file extension wrong, as is the case with this tea photo: $ file floejt-black-tea.jpg ==> floejt-black-tea.jpg: ISO…

Time to get real. I expect this board to fill up as I sink deeper into writing mode.

26th october to 1st november what i did i recognised a font in the wild, and felt actual distress at seeing the “wizard” behind the veil. ugh! then, in insult to injury, i had a dream about photoshop, so i think it’s just over for me. work continues on ｢mirror.｣ i am not yet done adapting the older (smaller, poorer resolution) files to the new format, but the files look much nicer. i’m currently on page 11! my partner and i watched Backrooms, and i loved it while at the same time managing a…

Another baffling Smurfs™ product from Dollar Tree. Full disclosure: I didn’t buy this, nor have I used it. It doesn’t seem to be designed for use by a human (5 fingers per hand), or a Smurf (4 fingers per hand).

If you’re voting in the U.S. midterm elections this Tuesday, last week’s Last Week Tonight episode on the Republican Party and the Far Right should be relevant to your interests. The post Maybe don’t vote for the Hitler party this Tuesday appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

There is a game called Blue Prince. It is for lunatics. This is how I join them. I have always been an habitual and prolific note-taker and belong to an entirely normal number of notebook-related subreddits, and I began to apply that skillset to gaming after reading a Polygon article some years ago1; I’ve got a notebook full of my experiences with Planescape: Torment (the best game with the worst name!), the Resident Evil remakes2, Tears of The Kingdom, Chants of Senaar, and similar, but when I…

Rating: 🟧 Type: Fiction They call it "*Hunger*" but the only thing I was feeling was "*Disgust*" **Amiright**??? The book was clearly trying to do something with the concept of what it means to be one with someone else. Merge mind, body and soul. The result was evocative sure. But with a few days of reflection, I remember the descriptions of swallowing fingernails more than I do any commentary about love under techno-feudal capitalism, so I am not totally sure it was successful in its ambition.…

My latest Western RoundUp column has just been posted at Classic Movie Hub!In this month's column I pay tribute to several Western actors via visits to their final resting places at a trio of Southern California cemeteries.Please click over to Classic Movie Hub for my column, and thanks for reading!Previous Classic Movie Hub Western RoundUp Column Links: June 2018; July 2018; August 2018; September 2018; October 2018; November 2018; December 2018; January 2019; February 2019; April 5, 2019;…

After a summer of scorching heat, Moab's unusually wet fall brought flash floods and washed-out roads. We kept our weekend hikes local, enjoying red rocks, rock images, site stewardship, and a little sunshine between the downpours. Read More ... Continue reading And the rain will come at PMags.com.

I just released a new version of PhotosHere: shiftedfrequency.net/photosher… If you’ve: -Ever been in a restaurant and wondered what you got last time you were there -Wanted to recreate a photo you took last time you were on a hike -Wanted to see photos that you took at a place you visit often This is the app for you!

We drove to York to pick up two rescues kittens and drove home with threeTiger is Jacko nee Jack nee Jackson, L gets to rename him, black is Spider, Jacko's brother, I get to rename him if something gongs in the next calendar week, I'm not crazy about the name Spider but (am about Spider) it fits better than anything yet gonging, my money's on Spider. Orange is Nugget. Nugget will be NuggetNugget's near future includes getting his balls lopped-off. We're told there's money in them, why not…

Hallooooo sandwich fans! It’s November 1st, All Saints Day, Dia De Los Muertos, and the day the clocks get turned back–there’s a lot going on today, and on top of all that, it’s time for 3 new sandwiches at the Tribunal! But first let’s take a look back at what the Tribunal got up to in October. We started with a trip to the past, trying to recreate the now (mostly) defunct Handwich, Disney’s Sandwich of the Future. The bread is silly, but we put some awful tasty things in it! Next we took a…

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Newell Dunlap PETE HAMILL – Dirty Laundry. Bantam,paperback original, 1978. It has taken free-lance reporter Sam Briscoe all of six years to get over (if not forget) Anne Fletcher. Then one snowy night in New York she telephones to say she is in trouble. Sam, against his better judgment, agrees to meet her. But, sure enough, she must have been in trouble, because she is killed before she can keep the appointment. The story is a shadowy one, but as Briscoe pieces it…

I wrote a short while ago about the excellent Super Mariomon, a romhack of Pokemon Emerald that turns the game into a Super Mario adventure where you catch and battle with traditional Mario enemies. Well a few days ago I finally rolled the credits on Super Mariomon! It is a full and complete game, and I believe I clocked in at around 26 hours when I finally beat the champion. I know there’s a good amount of post-game content as well, but I think I’ll be taking a short break from the game before…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 31st October 2026 We’ve followed mystic German black metallers Boarhammer since their debut EP in 2021 (the superb ‘I: Cutting Wood for Magickal Purposes’, reviewed here) and their debut full length ‘II: Chemognosis – A Shortcut to Mushrooms”(also reviewed here), and I’ve always enjoyed just how their proto-black metal sound is forged within a haunting, psychedelia drenched atmosphere. Well, the band have returned with the follow up to that debut, their…

Thingy, my agentic librarian, moved from a simple picture generated by ChatGPT this weekend to a full 3D model that I can bring to a bunch of different experiences. He has four different outfits and different poses so far. This was a cool project.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks it’s quite terrible for people to have RAM in their computers rather than in a data centre, as the scarcity of memory caused by the AI boom continues to drive up costs. This has led to plenty of memes, parodies, and humour, including: Of course, I’m probably one of those that Altman seems to be targeting. After all, both my Mac Studio and Dell Pro Max GB10 have 128GB of RAM. Heck, even my laptop has 64GB. And with the tasks I perform, I often max out the RAM usage…

I've created a list showing the 80 new elements within the November 2026 LEGO® sets.The list is pretty short, as November brings only 4 regular sets, 3 Gift with Purchase sets and 5 Bricklink Designer Program sets. There are still some interesting items though, Continue reading »

StarringAnthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, and Renée VictorDirectorLee UnkrichOverviewThe celebration of a lifetime.Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together,…

Replied to Writing Prompt: If you HAD to rewatch an anime 10 times in a row, which anime would you choose? by Yomu (Umai Yomu Anime Blog) I’m not going to cop out though and choose something super short, I think in the spirit of this question it has to be at least 12 regular-length episodes. In addition, in my eyes, the idea of “re-watching an anime” isn’t restricted to just a single season of an anime. I think that to rewatch an anime means to rewatch all of it... I came across the following…

Link: Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down, by Max Tani in SemaforI was distraught to hear that Rest of World may have to shut down in January. Since its launch, I’ve relied on its coverage about the impact of technology and the tech industry on communities and geographies that often fall outside of a Western lens. And I’ve become a huge fan of its Chief Product Officer Michael Donohoe, who I think is one of the best product and engineering people working in journalism (or in any…

I’m a words person from a UX background so I am deeply invested in how products communicate with users. This is a great article about how we should use AI to help with our content and not make it worse... As AI takes on more of the work of generating language, the question is no longer whether machines can sound human enough. It’s whether those conversations earn trust, accurately set expectations, and reflect our human values. That gap is exactly where content design lives. With our deep…

This morning I received news that friend's mother has passed away. She was in her late eighties. Since the beginning of this year, she has been going in and out of hospital. In a way, her passing is a relief to her and the family. In my opinion, this lady is an unsung hero. She had five children from an abusive husband. The late husband was a petty crime thieve. He was more interested in fishing than taking care of the family. To feed the family, this lady ran a food stall in a wet market. All…

On The Great British Baking Show series 17, collection 14, episode 6's Pastry Week, Alison and Nigella got on Paul's nerves, and this sausage dog paid the price.

Wild they run, after a lie, To a man, driven by animal instinct, Not by reason. Doubts are drowned In the sea of popularity.