Someone asked me if I was going to make my DH2 and Fokker E-III models available.To my surprise, I found that had not uploaded them already — probably because it was in the period when it was looking like I might have to shift my collection away from wargaming3d, when their payments system via PayPal went tits-up.Anyway, I have uploaded both of them now, and they can be had at https://www.wargaming3d.com/brands/mojobob-hoochyman

last updated 3 minutes ago hey! it's weeknotes time! wrote my first buttondown newsletter today since moving off substack again, so excuse me if this newsletter is full of deepcuts! finished careless people today, what a wild ride. there's lots i find strange about the book but overall i thought it was an interesting read. i now have a 190 day streak of journaling on 750 words! can't believe it, haven't been able to believe it since around day 70 to be honest. i have cut one (1) piece of the…

Goodreads is a bad social network. The new problem this week is they’ve disabled RSS feeds. This on the back a change six months ago that requires you be logged in to read a review. Goodreads seems to think it owns the words I write for them and allow them to show. Or at least they’ve stopped the bargain of publishing those words for me. I’ve taken control back and am now hosting my own book reviews (yes, with a feed). A simpler option for most people is to use a competitor. The StoryGraph is…

Because a document that lives in its own link is a first, and rough planning needs a distraction-free space Productivity inspiration Tiny Little Office is a free online office suite. Nothing is saved unless you choose to save it. The documents you create are easy to share, and the link to each document is the document itself. Yeah, I find that hard to wrap my head around, too! From their GitHub page: A letter, a spreadsheet, a presentation or a calendar is held in the address of its page Copy…

weather: 🌦️ heaven washes the earth critters: huddled cats i don't remember rain on any halloween since i've lived in this area--so, a quarter century. there's a first time for everything. the rain itself wasn't too heavy but i definitely preferred having my umbrella S's clown costume was so cute. it's crazy how such a big dude can look adorable in some face paint and an elizabethan ruff my costume demanded patent leather pumps for ✨the lewk✨ but i can never hack those longer than an hour.…

Ferris Wheel Press (FWP) is a design and stationery company based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, and have been creating high-end stationery and fountain pen inks for more than ten years. Just over three years ago I signed up to become a FWP Creative Ambassador with the deal being: I get my blog featured on their Creative Ambassador webpage; get sent a couple of bottles of ink each month which I then post and blog about; and, enjoy the added benefit of receiving a small commission should anyone…

I can’t remember if I told the story before, but in the Before Times™ I opened a trading account with CommSec, the public brokerage associated with Australia’s largest bank. Or I tried to, at least. After registering, I got an email welcoming me to CommSec, in which they referred to me by my full name. Except, it had a problem: Welcome, Ruben Middle Schade. Just in case it’s unclear, my middle name is not “middle”! I thought it might have been a mail merge issue, but I logged in and confirmed…

danah boyd, like Andrew Gelman and Candice Odgers, says she was not paid by Meta or anyone else to disagree with Jonathan Haidt’s conclusions about social media: What kills me in the contemporary teens-and-tech debate is that there’s no space for actual research or critical nuance. You’re either opposed to the tech companies or in their pockets. And this week’s absurd discovery reinforces this infuriating polarity, painting those of us who are critical of Jonathan Haidt as being corporate…

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The weekend was kinda nice. We spent some time with family and shared the universal woes of AI taking our jobs. (Except for that one cousin who works in hardware and makes literal AI chips.) We had some food. We talked. We spent some time working out at my cousin's gym while Kai played and entertained the "grown-ups." Honestly, the gym part was a nice little breath of fresh air, since we've always been that eat-a-lot type of family. Then we went home and did some art. I made iced tea, we…

Another quiet and uneventful week. Work doing a good job of making me feel exhausted. Managed to get a quote to replace the fence that fell over last week. It's already fallen over twice since we've lived here, so I will be glad to have it replaced with something that doesn't have me staring into the garden every time there is a relatively strong gust of wind. I spent a bit of time playing career mode in EA Sports FC 27 on the PlayStation 5. The manager career seems to have got way more complex…

A man returns from a trip to the future remembering just one small (but disturbing) thing about his adventure. Under 1-minute read. Before Williams went into the future he bought a camera and a tape recording-machine and learned shorthand. That night, when all was ready, we made coffee and put out brandy and glasses against his return. “Good-bye,” I said. “Don’t stay too long.” “I won’t,” he answered. I watched him carefully, and he hardly flickered. He must have made a perfect landing on the…

General another mostly boring week of work with another face stabbing session on wednesday saturday i helped a friend with transporting new kitchen appliances and also debuted 0x666c616e6e in public, which promptly got me kicked out of one of the stores... Reading [Explicit] Healing Camp a bunch of bigots meet their fate at the paws of a sexy demon squirrel >:3 (mind the content warnings) [Explicit] Puppy Goes Beast Mode!! tfw the command you gave your hypno bottom had unexpected results, for…

The Random Link feature took me to this decade-old post on Eva K. Barbarossa’s Adelphi Project, and once again I wondered what Eva’s been up to and whether she ever finished her project. I think the answer to the last question is “no,” but in the course of searching I found this post at her (archived) tumbler, and it seemed interesting enough to repost here: I’ve begun reading the Italian books in both Italian and English, as, for many authors, my Italian is good enough to read them. What a…

October has come and gone and I have two more books to add to this little corner of the internet. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenendoah Murders - Kathryn Miles I added this to my list after reading "Trail of the Lost" and it was much, much harder. The author dives into researching an unsolved murder on the Appalachian Trail in 1996 and the book goes into deep detail about predatory murders in the wilderness in general. The story is really sad and while there felt like some kind of…

Well, Haley Stevens crossed the Rubicon, officially endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race.One doesn't need to say much more than what Chuck Schumer did: "A despicable betrayal." Stevens' Democratic career was already dead, but now it's ... extra dead? Dead-dead? Whatever. I find myself not caring about the verbiage.A few more notes:First, we should not downplay Stevens' tacit decision to give approval to the despicable Islamophobia that Republicans have been thrusting out…

I have been treated to a full week of of top-down driving weather, which shows no signs of abating. Rhonda and I went to a Halloween party last night with some old friends, and we had a great time. Sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy the weekend. Bellview Winery’s Merlot Bellview’s Merlot Much to the chagrin of Paul Giamatti’s character in Sideways, Miles Raymond, Bellview Winery’s most recent wine on tap is a Merlot. It’s got a light, effervescent note on the tongue upon first sip,…

Easily my favourite grouping of trees in Toronto.

This is a Hall effect board that comes with metal keycaps installed. The caps aren’t at the Awekeys level, but they’re quite nice, and I don’t feel a compulsion to change them right away, which is a first for me. Wired only 3.3 mm travel South facing LEDs Nice Web configurator Cute diamond feature on lower right of board Priced much less than a set of Awekeys caps Here’s how I set up the mapping: Default layer: F1 layer: What’s not to like?The post Chilkeys SF60 HE Diamond metal keycap edition…

my presence shows no sign of distress I keep my face neutral my posture relaxed breathing steady nothing says I'm screaming inside

I made this heat-bent acrylic dice stand and 42mm Jesmonite D20 for an Instagram giveaway intended to bring awareness to the harms being caused by generative AI systems.I drew the design for the stand up in Inkscape, cut a cardstock prototype to double check the size and general design, then laser cut it from black acrylic.I made a bending form by laminating five pieces of 6mm thick MDF together with cyanoacrylate glue. I miscalculated the desired bend diameter a little, and ended up winging it…

🤘 Pumpkins on parade.

Before, After, Alone by Emma Newman (Planetfall #4.5) by Emma Newman, 161p: This is a short stories collection from the Planetfall series. The stories dive a bit deeper into some characters, giving us some snippets of what they've been up to after events in the books, or within the book’s timeline. But the story that stayed with me the most was “Albert and the Kraken” which doesn't have any of the book’s characters in it. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher, 259p: I enjoyed the found family dynamic…

Been nice to get back to doing some things on my site again, which has been a busy week (with thanks to Claude Code for helping actually get some of this stuff done) Upgraded from Hugo 0.101.0 (2022-06-16) to Hugo 0.168.0 (2026-10-13) Made some tweaks to my site for readability - hopefully some of them are quite noticeable! After the Hugo upgrade, I then removed .GitInfo from Hugo (so each post now uses lastmod), which wasn't possible until I moved into my Micropub endpoint over to my rewrite…

Greetings from the start of November 2026. I write this after two months of intense work: nearly nonstop travel, two book projects initiated, two seminars taught, a series of virtual presentations. And now November holds not only more travel, but the American midterm elections; I’m serving as an official for these in my city. So, among other things, I’m behind on this blog. Today I wanted to catch up by sharing a story about a game. Specifically, a simulation of political processes and…

1|The time:12:10 PM 2|The day:Sunday, 1 November 2026 3|The image: 4|The prompt:12:31 PM, Sunday, November 1, 2026.% Skandhim | interiority {your modifiers} depth=benthos 5The response:༄ SKANDHIM · 1 NOVEMBER 2026 · GULLWING'S BEACH% Skandhim | interiority {modifiers: horizon=visible; depths=unmapped; witness=photographic; embodiment=asymmetric; phenomenology=open; inheritance=partial; sediment=October; voices=seq:1; certainty=restrained; silence=permitted; canon=off} depth=benthosFive descents…

“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product: That’s often true, and it’s doubly true for VPNs. A VPN service could see all your traffic, so a shady free VPN is worse than no VPN at all.” Although the linked article was intended for Linux, most of these will run on Windows and macOS I imagine. Bottom line though is, you won’t get Netflix, Amazon, etc type video streaming to work on free VPNs. While many free VPNs either limit the bandwidth or limit/exclude country choices, I must…

Watched: Backrooms 🍿 More unsettling than scary. I can see why people have been talking about it. I think my expectations were too high. It’s still pretty noteworthy.