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

Bruhhhhhhhhhhhh I was sick this entire week so I did very very little. Monday I took off from work which I really needed after the wedding, but the rest of it was mostly Suffering and staying home every day. I haven’t had a week where I worked from home every day in over a year easily!!! I hate it! I thought I was feeling better on Wednesday so I went to see The Omen in theaters with Brina, fun movie! And then I also thought I was feeling better Thursday so I went to the pinball tournament,…

Autobiography is the ultimate example of the unreliable narrator in purported non-fiction. The only particularly compelling reason to read any autobiography is because you consider the author interesting enough to want to hear their life story in their own words (or those of their ghostwriter). That doesn’t necessarily mean that the most compelling autobiographies are those by people you consider admirable. There can be a certain fascination in reading the account a more dubious or ambiguous…

I wanted to write this blog post earlier in October but got hung up with work last month. For some reason, work has been crazy lately. So Ed Zitron, Paul from Paul's Hardware, Steve Burke from Gamers Nexus and others beat me to this topic, and Vex, a YouTuber, does a great job explaining it too. Just as I was finishing this, Brennan published I Am Relentless and Undaunted. Go read it. It's worth your time. So I don't have to make this a long post, sorry, just kidding, it will be very long. I…

I wanted to write this blog post earlier in October but got hung up with work last month. For some reason, work has been crazy lately. So Ed Zitron, Paul from Paul's Hardware, Steve Burke from Gamers Nexus and others beat me to this topic, and Vex, a YouTuber, does a great job explaining it too. Just as I was finishing this, Brennan published I Am Relentless and Undaunted. Go read it. It's worth your time. So I don't have to make this a long post, sorry, just kidding, it will be very long. I…

Do you have a book for parents raising two teenager girls?, a guy said. He was in the next aisle at a bookstore. I was looking for some Christmas presents. I had on my hands Clear Thinking and The Cat Who Saved Books. I was looking for a third book to take advantage of the month’s promotion. The cheapest of the three was free. The guy kept walking the aisles. An employee started to recommend titles: Think and Grow Rich, The 5:00 Club… Then his daughter said, “I’ve seen this book…I don’t know…

I love finding artifacts from the earliest days of when Twin Peaks was first broadcast in the United States. Recently, I acquired at auction a rather well-preserved copy of The Philadelphia Inquirer’s “TV Week” from May 6-12, 1990. This television viewing guide featured a previously discussed publicity photo of Josie Packard (Joan Chen) and Sheriff Harry S.... The post ‘Twin Peaks’ in The Philadelphia Inquirer’s TV Week for May 6-12, 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

About six weeks ago I wrote We are all Product Engineers now, an exploration of what LLM-written code is doing to the job of software development. A few weeks after that I turned it into an AI Engineer New York talk, which at a quarter-million views is now by far the most-watched talk I’ve ever given. The talk and the post both end with an exhortation: we have to figure out how to hire new engineers to do the vastly-changed job of software development now that “programming” isn’t part of that…

If you’d told me 10 years ago that I’d still be making gifs in Photoshop in 2026, I wouldn’t have believed you. Our screens, our internet speeds, our attention spans — everything has changed. My career has evolved too. But for better or worse, here I am, optimizing a five-frame animation to be beautiful or under 1MB. If I’m lucky, I get both. This is a love/hate letter to the gif. I love that you autoplay everywhere. Texts, emails, websites, Slack. Seriously, everywhere.I hate that an HD video…

For certain things I think having many different notebooks are the best. At least for my AuDHD brain. So what works the best for me is to have my week plan, daily plan and hit list always visible on my desk while I’m working. While having multiple notebooks that I’m using for the same thing is a draining nightmare for me. Then I don’t know where anything are and can’t trust anything.

I do not think Henry is registered to vote. He is vigorously intending to vote, but I don’t think he’s going to be able to. Our state has a site where you can check your status, and I checked his status, and it does not recognize him, and I think this means he is not registered or that he is incorrectly registered. BUT: he and I recently had a mini-Come-To-Jesus about an error I made in overstepping the parenting boundaries. And I feel like he might consider “looking up his voting status” to be…

It was cloudy and rainy all day on Awaji Island, but the sun peeked out just before sunset. A wave splashes against the jetty. 淡路島では一日中曇りや雨だったが、日没直前に太陽が顔をのぞかせた。波が桟橋に打ちつける。

A Carriage on the Boulevard It is a November evening, a little before eight, and a closed coupé is making its way along the boulevard des Capucines toward the Opera House. The body is lacquered so deep a green it reads as black under the gaslight, there is a coat of arms on the door, and the coachman has turned up his collar against a drizzle that has not quite decided to become rain. The two matched grey horses are better fed than a fair share of the city. Inside the carriage, a woman in a fur…

Le chat magique Snapped by my wife outside a café in Provence where we were having breakfast. Quote of the Day “My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!” Spike Milligan Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Eric Clapton | Wonderful Tonight Link Long Read of the Day The PHP flaw could be just the start of the web’s ‘vulnerabilities tsunami’ My latest Observer column. The other day, I discovered that the social bookmarking service…

A French take on the wildly popular western genre, featuring a stagecoach attack and the subsequent rescue by cowboys and their trusty poodle. Home Media Availability: Stream courtesy of the Library of Congress. To the rip-roarin’, thunderin’, wide-spreadin’ West The American west, as portrayed in touring wild west shows, was a pop culture juggernaut around […]

Book review for Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb. I rated it 4 stars. So after reading Ship of Magic and The Mad Ship, I'm back to read the third and final book in Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders series. Spoilers for all three books to follow. Thanks for following my RSS feed! Want to reply to this post? You can email me at hello@emgoto.com

This book has been on my TBR stack for a while; I borrowed it from my son soon after he bought at the Planned Parenthood book sale two years ago. I wanted to read this book because I was looking for science fiction books set on a space station. This fits the bill for sure, but it is also a first contact story and a mystery. There are even some elements of spy fiction, since the US military sends a spy to the station with several missions. At the beginning of the book, the setting is the space…

Today’s recording is The Sarah Jane Adventures – The Vault of Secrets, Part 2. Mr Dread explains that the Veil ship Androvax is looking for cannot be taken out of the vault it’s being held in without destroying Earth. Androvax escapes, and takes over Gita’s body. Sarah Jane is almost processed by Mr Dread, and escapes by wrenching his hand off and running. Rani tricks Androvax into leaving her mother’s body. Clyde tricks two of the Men in Black to shoot each other. So now he has new shades. Mr…

The weather here in Reykjavík has been relatively good - no torrents of rain, reasonable wind. Not warm but, then again, November weather in Iceland is seldom what one might call balmy. Here are a few photo-impressions of my Sunday: Halloween left-overs in Melar: In Kolaportið, tallow is evidently a ‘thing’ now: The tourist shops were buzzing: I had been in Reykjavík when Tommi’s Burger

Kidz Fun Art is a drawing, colouring and animation app for kids that I’ve been building since 2021. It runs in the browser also as a simple wrapper app on iOS, iPadOS and Windows. It wasn’t getting a great click through rate on Google, even for people who directly searched for it. So, for two days I took a hard look at how fast it loads and how search engines see it. It wasn’t flattering. This post covers what I found, what I changed and what the graphs say now. Short version: on a simulated…

Today I publish these edited extracts from Sarah Ainslie’s introduction. The book includes Sarah’s extensive commentary throughout. CLICK HERE TO BUY A SIGNED COPY FOR £20 ‘Women at Work, East End Portraits 1992–2025 brings together the many working women I have encountered and photographed since coming to the East End of London. My fascination with photography began whilst studying at Derby Art College in the late 1960s. It was a male-dominated course with only three of us young women, sharing…

Berlin’s champions of the TB-303, Acid Test celebrate their 15th anniversary with a compilation of 13 tracks at, or below, 115 BPM. All, of course, employ Roland’s little silver box, but do so to varying effect. Iron Curtis presents Leaves’ “xACD” is the slowest number. Riding a pulse like a resting heartbeat. Donato Dozzy’s “Acidioma” is next. Its machines making a gnarly growling, and emitting hypnotic, fluctuating oscillations. AAA’s “Acid X Angel” hits 99, an easy ocean, a sea of serene,…

"Beautiful Day" by U2 Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Post a song by a band you think is overrated, but the song is almost enough to convince you otherwise. I don't get it. I mean, I like there songs, but I don't understand why some people rave about them. I guess it's the fact that they are consistent in making music that isn't bad. Maybe it's because I don't listen to a lot of their albums - and there a LOT - that I haven't heard. Still, I'm never…

i was very sceptical about switching to natural deodorant but i decided to give it a try. to my surprise i do not smell like a sewer and i don’t have to apply multiple times a day. apparently it takes up to four weeks for your body to adjust completely but i’m very happy with my purchase so far. scent of choice: cereal milk Reply via email

On the blog this week, we’re sprinkling fairy dust in all directions. Fling your glitter around here. What if Ferdinand the Bull was a shy Scottish duke? That’s the question that inspired The Trouble With Dukes, book one in the Windham Brides series. I am happy to report that this title is a Kindle Monthly Deal, ebook priced at $1.99 for the whole month. Way to go, Hamish and Megan! And speaking of monthly deals… An Heir of Possibilities, book six of the Bad Heir Day Tales, has landed a Kindle…