On the second day of November, and the first day of the week, I was filled with hope and vigour that I haven’t felt since October 16th. I’d felt very little in the lead up to this flat viewing. It was a flat-share, one I’d scheduled back when I hadn’t yet considered the alternative: tiny unfurnished studios far outside of my budget. In this big bohemian house live a soft-spoken landlady and a psychotherapist. They wear shoes inside the house and share fridge shelves like a family. There’s a…

Why isn’t everyone talking incessantly about this? So funny.

Or more specifically, The Rose Kingdoms.Or even more specifically, The Royal City of Golden.Someone had a good sense of humor. Golden is a fairly disgusting city.PremiseGolden was built on top of a swamp, or at least on the edge of one. It's muggy and humid year-round. During the monsoon season, everyone gets relief from the mosquitoes, but then has to deal with the city flooding.For some reason, the currents in Tsúto Sea that come into the Golden Harbor are full of glass detritus. This is…

The ToyMan Show is always great fun to attend. It is stuffed to the metaphorical gills with comics, toys, DVDs, CDs, VHS, Funko, trading cards, and all kinds of collectibles. I often plan to just go for a brief bit in the morning and end up staying longer than intended due to losing track of the time browsing all the great wares and chatting with the many awesome vendors!As soon as doors opened, the show got healthily busy.Clarkson came along with me and enjoyed riding in his cart. We started…

Here’s an editorial I wish I wrote, but it appeared as a post on the Madhouse Minatures Facebook page. They’re into cars, and they don’t hold back in their eulogy for the late, not-so-great Tesla Cybertruck, reproduced in full below, punctuated by some pictures of Cybertrucks that I included. We gather today to mourn the death of an idea.Specifically, the idea that you could buy a stainless steel trapezoid and everyone would immediately recognize you as the smartest, toughest, most independent…

Favorited Running a law firm on Free software (2026 edition) by Neil Brown (decoded.legal) I started running decoded.legal - a small English law firm, focussing on Internet, telecoms, and tech law - on Free software, both client and server side, around five years ago. I have used Free software in my personal life for a lot longer than that ... Someone asked me recently what I am doing now, and, while it is mostly the same, some bits have changed. So here is the 2026 update. Neil Brown is an…

Puzzle-ish games, to be sure, but this batch felt like it leaned in unusual directions. All put a lot of weight on their visuals. Two are nearly walking sims. One (guess which) is mostly a card game. But hey! They were all interesting to write about, so I hope you are interested to read. Rivage Forbidden Solitaire Desolus The Alighieri Circle: Dante's Bloodline Hypnos Rivage by Exnilo Studio -- game site A timeloop metroidbrainia on a gorgeously visual space station. You're the doctor/therapist…

New York City offers whatever you want, quickly and without much fuss. You just gotta walk the walk. I was excited to see the art in the city’s museums. So I walked the walk, between museums. Whitney Museum We visited the Whitney Museum on Halloween eve. The museum was open until 10 pm and entrance was free. We started directly from the 5th floor, the top of the museum. The floor was dedicated to artist Minnie Evans whom I’d never heard of before. Her mandala-like paintings have a lot of…

Lately, something has been different about me. What started as a simple disinterest in some of my usual hobbies and interests has slowly evolved into something else. I've had trouble putting it into words, but I think I'm entering a different stage of my life. Things that once held my attention don't seem to have the same pull anymore. I'm looking for new characters to follow, stories to read, and things to surround myself with. At the same time, I'm finding myself drawn toward quieter moments,…

You install Cursor (or some other .deb), everything seems fine, then the next sudo apt update greets you with: W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://downloads.cursor.com/aptrepo stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 42A1772E62E492D6 W: Failed to fetch https://downloads.cursor.com/aptrepo/dists/stable/InRelease:…

I can’t argue with this. Having to wait until my family was off the phone undoubtedly made accessing the web more special. The post The web used to belong somewhere appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

Photo by Wouter Supardi Salari / UnsplashRoughly around the middle of October we started hearing the rumors that a very severe PHP vulnerability had been discovered. It was so severe the team pre-announced the release of it and one core member unofficially suggested the most secure course of action was to turn off the servers prior to the patch being released. This created quite the internal panic and we set off a schedule to jump into action the next day and upgrade every single project we had…

I finally got a real DJ mixer. I’ve had one before, but it was devoid of modern features (sound card). So this is quite the step up. Spent a few hours with it today, and it’s made the work of going from the Denon portable all-in-one to an iPad-based, huge rolling case with an analog mixer and full-size platters worth it. Looking back, I can’t believe I was doing what I did with what I had. Firstly, I needed more room. The Prime Go unit was just too small. It was cramped and a bit janky. And the…

I wanted to wish my wife, Samii, a happy birthday! We had a fun afternoon going out with our boys, eating some grub, and playing arcade games. She is a wonderful mother to Clarkson and Gibson, in addition to being a caring and hardworking individual in general! Happy birthday, Samii, we love you!

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ These weekly(ish) recommendations are by definition things I’ve been listening to a lot — and am thinking about, having listened — the preceding week, but this item is brand new, posted to YouTube as I was selecting what to highlight. It’s rousing performance video from guitarist…

I like limitations. I like frameworks that force me to be creative. The unix philosophy is a great example. Lately I've been thinking about the type of projects I like building and using. I see it as an extension to the unix philosophy. It's also not quite the suckless philosphy. It sits somewhere in-between them. smol contract Write programs that solve a well defined problem. Write programs that behave the way most users expect. Write programs that a single person can maintain. Write programs…

Travel day. Listened to a podcast about the business side of Seinfeld. Wow, timing was everything here, kudos to Jerry on that side, but omg, so emotionally immature to date a highschooler as an adult. What a pos. Glad for George Castanza. Amazing. He didn’t get super rich like Jerry, but more richer than most other actors. Otherwise, the drive was uneventful. Took 20 minutes to find my spot at the campground, but all good. Just makes me like the place more. This post (San Diego Day .25) was…

The first full week of February marks Firstlight. Monday to Sunday, always. Last year’s bad luck is swept out, the new year’s fresh luck is invited in. In the heart of winter we gather to shelter in the warmth of community. In 2027 Firstlight will run from Monday, February 1st through Sunday, the 7th, overlapping the 2027 Lunar New Year on the 6th. That won’t happen every year, which means that 2027 will be particularly auspicious. Celebrating Firstlight: Let It Out Monday to Wednesday are for…

Does that hurt the fish? by Dahlia Bloomstone Pretty good short film. Her character is filmed from behind until about 7:40, when it cuts to her face, starts to zoom in, and jump cuts, and what he says about the fish and what he asks the fish seems to be being said about her and asked about her. And the custom Roblox machinima (machine cinema) is maybe a dissociative psychology (which you can observe). On the other hand, the first time I watched this I had a feeling like maybe I was watching a…

On Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas 2's first episode, six new teams of chefs faced off, and I got a lump of coal in my stocking called Hunter Fieri.

Bidet.I broke my bidet at my parents house. Let me explain. The bidet has 2 settings. Butthole - Single jet of water, aimed at your butthole. Pussy - Shower jet, power washes your balls and gooch. I do not have a pussy, nor do I need the back of my balls sprayed protest-style. I decided to hook up a douche hose on the pussy sprayer instead (to make it actually useful for me). Hose went on surprisingly easy, and I turned the knob on the bidet to see if it worked. It didn't. The rubber gasket…

If you've followed along to this blog from the beginning, you know that my previous posts before I stupidly lost them all highlighted my founder line and pedigree. it goes something like this: Bijoux & Nibbles — Yet to be named Founder Line FOUNDERS Bijoux × Nibbles Founder line ↓ FRENCH CITIES LITTER Marseille & her siblings 1st Gen Marseille continues the line ↓ NEXT PAIRING Marseille × Milkbun Casper 2nd Gen ↓ The new litter for this family line comes from Marseille x Milkbun Casper I am…

I've spent years trying to figure out what I actually want from the internet. I'm old enough to remember when getting online took intention and patience, and the web felt like a huge collection of places waiting to be found. You could spend hours following links from one personal site to another with no idea where you'd end up. I don't miss dial-up, broken websites, or searching for anything before search engines got good. I do miss the feeling that the internet belonged to the people using it,…

Over the years I’ve gotten myself into all varieties of technical rabbit holes and wild goose chases. But I’m feeling weird about my latest trip, involving a forgotten Linux tablet. I blame AI.Recently, I took on a project that I thought would be a lot of fun … but in the end, I did not like how it made me feel. And I think it reflects the real dangers of leaning too aggressively on AI for stuff you’d like to try out.A quick explainer: About four years ago, I got a hold of a JingPad, a…

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

As is tradition during the Halloween season, Serafina, aka Krevborna's Angel of the Graves, aka protagonist of my novel Ornamental Women, favors the decrepit denizens of the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Discord server with a movie of the week leading up to the best day of all. She tends to announce each movie with the deadpan morbid humor of a classic horror comic host, so I've preserved both her selections and her teasers her for posterity.Posterity--and because she had me at…

Back when renting a game meant going to a specific physical store to pay $5 and borrow a game for a week (rather than buying a game at full price these days then having your ownership revoked because the publisher said so), there were a few diamonds in the rough that I eventually forgot about. However, while Mute and I were decorating her new bedroom in the upstairs portion of the Cartomancy Cafe, we'd dug up an old memory of playing Twisted Metal: Black. After a little bit of ruminating, we…

The litter red metal box honesty box mounted near the entrance or exit platform of trams and buses and was in use until drivers started taking passenger fares.

You are all computer scientists. You know what FINITE AUTOMATA can do. You know what TURING MACHINES can do. For example, Finite Automata can add but not multiply. Turing Machines can compute any computable function. Turing machines are incredibly more powerful than Finite Automata. Yet the only difference between a FA and a TM is that. the TM, unlike the FA, has paper and pencil. Think about it. It tells you something about the power of writing. Without writing, you are reduced to a finite…