Charlotte and I went to Manor whilst Tabitha was out trick or treating with a friend. I am not a skilled pumpkin carver.66 words · 2 images

Ha! It's a thing now: I happened to be in London last week and remembered that the Other Original Marathon is from London, and so I ran that one too. This is the route I followed. While the one in Marathon may have been the exact historic route (I don't think much about the road has changed in 130 years, and there is even one odd excursion where you jump over a concrete barrier that suggests it has not been retuned for contemporary streets), I'm pretty sure that this one is more like "what you…

I left the door open that day because I wanted them to come in at night and clean up the mess that my words had cleaved on the brain of the person I used to think I loved. Sleeping felt lonelier that day, as though the very little that I used to hold so dear to me had slipped through my fingers, like phlegm, and left me there alone in mind and in the subtle warmth that woul dhave otherwise emanated from beside me. Frost crackled in the air, making it seem like a passageway clouded by thorns…

Made it out of the house (yay!) – to take the little one trick-or-treatin'. I did not tell her to put her bag right onto the light, btw – she just wanted to inspect her haul. Now I need to lie down again. 😴 👉 View 2 more images

(It’s the last day of Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories.) On the morning of January 13, 2018, residents and tourists in Hawaii saw a frightening message on their phone screens: In addition to being sent to 1.4 million people, a version of the alert also interrupted local TV and radio programs. Quickly, the officials realized that something went wrong and seeked to undo what ended up being a false alarm. The siren warning system that would normally…

Hi all! It’s the last day of the month and this means it’s time for my October recap. October was mostly a hard month, but, like I shared yesterday, it ended on a positive note. I felt unwell with a cold or other respiratory illness for most of the month. It started with a nasty cough that seems to finally be over after nearly three weeks. However, I’m still sniffing and sneezing. Thankfully none of the crippling fatigue I experienced last year. I tried to engage in meaningful activities and…

to feel the same softness over the distance the same soothing effect mixed with the purest joy bursting a shared delight so soft

Murakami shares the wartime trauma passed down from his father. Reading this story I'm reminded of a time I tried to save a cat caught in a tree. It was one of those long, skinny trees, suitable for the thoroughfares of an apartment community. Maybe Eucalyptus, with a smooth trunk that branched at considerable height. The cat was resting upon one of its branches, mewing away. Hearing this cat, observing the tree, I was filled by an intrusive desire to climb the tree and attempt rescue. A…

tag(s): #pic #sorties Late September was our 14th wedding anniversary. I took a day off, and we were planning to head to Manhattan early for a museum visit a fancy lunch. The night before we changed plans, just like that. (direct link to image) Instead we had an extra long breakfast finishing a TV show, and then we got on the car and drove to Robbinsville, New Jersey, to visit what we thought was a single, large hindu temple. The trip was uneventful, as expected of a weekday heading away from…

A gloomy old mansion, a fog-covered swamp, a household of suspicious servants, and a crippled millionaire with a grudge against his doctors.... what more could one ask for in a good old-fashioned murder mystery? Throw in a mysterious Hindu mystic who can materialize objects out of thin air and a hideous monster who roams the countryside at night, and you've got the makings of a first-rate Universal horror film!Night Monster (1942) may not be as well remembered as Dracula, Frankenstein, or The…

Andrea began reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to our kids this morning and my son, Ian, kept breaking out of the flow to ask Siri for the time. “It’s 8:52am” … “It’s 9:07am” … “It’s 9:11am” “Ian!? What is your deal? Do you have some kind of appointment?” He explained that today is Halloween and he was wondering how soon he could go trick-or-treating. As luck would have it, my plans for the day offered their own distraction; we would go to the library. We’ve been doing this lately,…

📚Finished reading: Dragon Hoops by Yang, Gene, Luen. I read Boxers and Saints but it did not give me the same awe I had when I read Gene’s American Born Chinese. This book was that high level. Totally worthy of the Eisner it received.

Book title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Full-Cast Edition) Author: J.K. Rowling Rating: 4.5/5 I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again: these full-cast audiobooks are fantastic. But I still had to dock half a star because Harry is so damn annoying in this book. Which, I guess, is a testament to Jaxon Knopf's acting. But holy shit, he got on my nerves at times! Where to buy Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Full-Cast Edition) by J.K. Rowling: Readwise Books

I wanted to understand aimock, the mock server for AI apps from CopilotKit. Reading the source is fine, but I learn faster when someone explains it to me. So I asked Claude Code to make an explainer video, narrated in my own voice. This is the result. Claude Code generated every frame and every word in one session. I did not record anything. Your browser cannot play this video. Download it instead. aimock explained in 80 seconds. The narration is my voice, cloned with Qwen3-TTS. Music: "Trought…

Another year, another successful Drawtober. This year's drawings were inspired by travels, movies I'd seen, and various artists sharing their work online. My goal was to match the 16/31 I completed last year, however due to a busy month (all for good reasons) I only made it to 12/31. I stuck with the post-it note canvas to keep the total scope of each limited, but this year varied the color throughout the month which feels like it added a lot to the final collection, and changed the vibe a bit…

Trying to get my act together again over here... so forgive the expedited edition... Foofaraw Press StoreBooks, ebooks, and limited editions from Foofaraw Press.The Week That WasStoryBunk BrotherAugust CaoPoemThe Monster's ToyboxLynne SargentObservationThe Horror EssayNicholas De MarinoToonClaw MachineZack RhodesInterviewAugust Caoan interview with the author of Bunk BrotherMedia Guide📺 The Media Guide S8E6November 2026Rain, Modern Society, Underwater Elevator Coffee Tour, and a Tech UtopiaThe…

When Apple’s Vision Pro headset was having its moment in the public consciousness, there was a ton of pushback that was way overblown and hyperbolic. Apart from its exorbitant price (which is undeniable), there were comments that made it sound like wearing it was like wearing some medieval torture device, and that it was a symbol of a bleak dystopian future where we’re all shut-ins, jacked into the dark solitude of cyberspace, completely cut off from our loved ones, pets, and the wonders of…

Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...

Added new tags to the videogames category.

This is slightly different to my usual posts but it’s something I’ve been having to deal with since making the Plane Makers Database available, which is AI bots. The site was being crawled by AI bots sending multiple bursts of ~10,000 requests in under a minute along with a constant ~30 requests per minute. I … Continue reading...

Several years ago I made a silly video where I played Castlevania: Rondo of Blood while drinking a canned Bloody Mary and swearing profusely. It was only seen by a select group of friends. Until now. Happy Halloween! 🎃

Ho la sensazione che il mio 2026 si concluderà correndo (mentre avrei voluto scrivere «nuotando»). Settembre era stato il mese della “ripartenza” e pertanto molto intenso ma la sensazione chiara, per via di tanti capitoli e cantieri aperti in questo periodo, è che il ritmo non cambierà almeno fino a Dicembre. Mi sono iscritto di nuovo in piscina ma sono riuscito ad andare solo un giorno fin ora ed è già partito il rinnovo dell’abbonamento. Durante le scorse settimane sono stato in Svizzera ed…

Having gone through the most notorious technical institute in the country and various tech job afterwards, I'm no stranger to death by exhaustion or its derivative illnesses like GERD. Indeed, a personal acquaintance had recently died in his sleep, GERD being the prime suspect. I did not inquire further. It was too close to home and way too scary to think about. I developed GERD in the second year of college. It was such a common thing that people passed around tips to manage symptoms and…

Due to space restraints in the Blogger format, some months with many image-heavy posts will not show up in toto when clicking on a monthly link. Here are the October 2026 links: 02: Trio in Iðno 05: Reykjavík by Night 07: once i asked what love is like… 09: Icelandic Monochromes 12: Bæjarnins Before and After 14: Bewildered Batty 16: Miscellany from Reykjavík 19: Cropped Couple 21: The Gift 23:

Boston Tea Party Halloween decorations in Beacon Hill I spent all week convincing Nino to hand out Halloween candy with me. I told him Manhattan Beach and Beacon Hill have the most trick-or-treaters in the whole country. He thought I was lying. We talked to a neighbor who said our block gets more than 1000 trick-or-treaters. Then Nino believed me. And he said forget it. But now it’s Halloween and he wants to go, but we have a problem because the dog. I want the dog to sit with us. Nino tells me…

A bunch of things I’ve found on my digital strolls in the past month (which I added to my Tumblr although for a few weeks it was terminated so not everything appeared there) for your eyes / ears / brain to spend time on (as no longer active on Twitter or on LinkedIn much). READ “The day all billionaires died…” by u/thisecommercelife in thisecommercelife “Happy birthday, Lara! This month marks 30 years since Ms Croft first swan-dived into our lives with her unique blend of athletic prowess,…

My wife and I had a watercolor date night sometime in January of last year. I tried my hand at copying a picture from one of my favorite reads from that season, The Wind in the Willows, the edition with the Ernest Shepard illustrations. My Photos app reminded me of this today. Like Rat, I would love to sit by the fireplace, writing poetry, songs, or reading a good book, and eventually being lulled to sleep by the crackling of logs. This is what a good fall or winter evening would look like to…

watch on YouTubeI want to talk about one detail from John Carpenter's “Halloween” (1978) which is genuinely hilarious but also doesn’t matter at all. Michael Myers might be innocent of a crime that everyone thinks he committed.In the middle of the movie, Laurie and Annie pull up to the hardware store to chat with Annie’s dad, Sheriff Brackett? He’s shouting over the hardware store’s burglar alarm where someone stole a Halloween mask, rope and a couple of knives.We are meant to think that…

🏃‍♂️ First time running intervals again in a very long time, and feeling great afterwards. I’ve not had that in weeks.