News has sadly broken of the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart at the age of 86. Stewart was considered one of the finest Shakespearean actors of his generation, with a dedicated love of the theatre. In later years he reinvented himself as a science fiction genre icon, through roles in Dune, the X-Men movie franchise and, by far his best-known role, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation and numerous spin-off projects.Patrick Stewart was born in Yorkshire in 1940. The…

When a command fails because you forgot that you need to be root: $ pacman -Suy error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root. Then you can shout “sudo” at your shell: $ sudo !! sudo pacman -Suy [sudo] password for gnoack: ... The !! expands into the previous command in your shell history. If you revisit that command in your shell history afterwards, you’ll find that it was actually recorded as sudo pacman -Suy. Documentation for this feature is in the “History Expansion” section…

Halloween episodes were very common during the Golden Age of Radio. The Jack Benny Program did at least six Hallloween-themed episodes, with yet others that at least referenced the holiday. Among the shows that featured Halloween episodes was Fibber McGee and Molly. Its final Halloween episode was "Halloween Party at Gildersleeve's House," which aired on October 24, 1939.Fibber McGee and Molly was one of the most successful sitcoms in any medium. It debuted on the NBC Blue Network on April 16,…

Pine trees in the sky over East Texas’ Lake Bob Sandlin State Park. The post Under Tall Trees appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Midori B6 Day-Length Gradation Planner, shown here next to the Pilot Custom 845 Urushi The second wave of 2027 planners arrived this week, with new releases from Midori in the B6 Gradation and Hibino format. For those looking at a planner smaller than an A5, these are both compact diaries that feature excellent fountain pen friendly MD paper. We’ve also added Midori grain leather B6 spiral notebooks, as well as the Midori A6 Commonplace Notebooks with their flexible grid layout and bookmark…

Today was my first day of temporary coverage teaching in the wood shop at the nearby high school. It’s been a couple of years since I last covered in the shop and, of course, a few things went sideways. By the end of the day, however, I had fixed most of them. There was an error with a CNC file that caused the router to carve right off the student’s material. The solution? Flip it over and engrave again on the backside with the updated file. Problem solved! Another issue was that the sheets of…

This post was last edited 0 minutes ago. Recently, someone sent me "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?" by Amos B. Batto, an interesting technical blogger who does deep dives into topics ranging from e-bike legislation to alternative mobile phone systems. As I began to read, I realised how little I know about smartphones and their related jargon and acronyms. I've been experimenting with alternative mobile operating systems for years—my family members have…

Patrick Stewart has died at 86. According to his wife, Sunny Ozell, he had, "...a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia."His career spanned over six decades. He performed Shakespeare , he was in sci-fi, "Star Trek," movies, and he was the Professor Xavier. His voice alone commanded attention, somehow working perfectly in the silliest roles imaginable. He could be the wacky Deputy Director of the CIA on, "American Dad," or a literal poop symbol in, "The Emoji…

October 19, 2026, a fortune cookie bonanza from the local Chinese/Thai restaurant! Four fortune cookies! Five fortune cookie wrappers!

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 2.18.1-4 (tr. W.A. Oldfather): Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and…

20:48 - Got V&N to carve pumpkins for the first time! I bought a pumpkin carving kit and it helped a lot. Sneak peek for Saturday's party.

@buzz The cat can shred!

Yesterday I posted a list of improvements we’d (finally!) made to our flat, having now lived there for two years. I mentioned in passing that getting such stuff required us to save some money, but that we were happy with the outcome. The question, naturally, arose from multiple people as to why we didn’t just perform the requisite fixes and installs ourselves. Why not measure, cut, and install our own blinds? It’s not hard. Why not fix and replace our own taps? You can get all the parts from…

the calendar flips to this day like nothing just another rainy October day nothing significant just the completion of a full year of lonely mornings without your greying face by my pillow your favourite blanket still sits in my bedroom unwashed it doesn't smell like you anymore but I'm still holding on

Polymarket users have lost a combined, estimated $2.65 million after a Polymarket exploit. The company acknowledged there had been "an incident" and put the site into "cancel-only" mode, meaning that all bets were disabled outside of cancelling them. They later, once again, claimed that the issue is due to the compromise of a "third-party provider", and re-enabled trading after about an hour.This is the second time Polymarket users have lost funds due to exploits Polymarket has blamed on…

Sudden outflows from several Binance hot wallets suggest that Binance is being exploited for around $2 billion and counting. Though it's not unusual for exchanges to rotate their hot wallets, assets were transferred from existing hot wallets to new wallets and then quickly swapped for Tether – which is unusual.Luckily for Binance, Tether quickly began freezing some of the exploiter wallets. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who is not legally allowed to run the exchange yet seems to remain very…

we were talking about travel and the weather the other day at work. my manager told me how she was cold in madrid one december. it reminded me of my trip to zürich last year. first of all i do not have anything bad to say about zürich. i’m sure there are problems just like every other place in the world. i just want to highlight straight up i was unprepared. i had a week off last year in november and i decided to spontaneously fly to zürich. i’d never been to switzerland [for context i live in…

Reddit administrator “judy-funnie” (via Michael Tsai): Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we’ll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives. […] To close this gap, in the next few months, we’ll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users). […] Old…

A couple of thoughts as I go into voting:I have a few clients that get state funding. For a few of those grants, we get the grant and then have to provide an annual reconciliation for the funds received. The others are reimbursement grants (so we are reimbursed for the expense 30-60 days after we turn in our request reports). Reimbursement grants tend to be for the larger ones, somewhere between $50-250K.In both reimbursement requests and reconciliations, I have to provide the payment…

Disclaimer Previously… Paradise Conclusions The Good The Bad The Weird Stay Tuned… Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclusions should imply any attack on the ownership of the properties. All the big names serve as trademarks of the owners, and so forth, and…

Hey, Since being here, it has been pretty stressful. To try and ease some of the stress, I surprised the fam when my parents were over by taking them to this Pumpkin Walk. This has to be one of the coolest (and biggest) and free displays that I’ve seen. They take donations at the end to help out those less fortunate. You might be thinking: stressful? Yeah right. Look at your photos – look at everything. Listen, I get that I’ve posted some nice photos of things around here, but overall, it’s…

(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories.) Boku No Natsuyasumi (“My summer vacation”) was a 2000 PlayStation video game, exclusive to Japan, which portrayed a nine-year-old boy on his vacation in the countryside. The game was meant to be calm, relaxing, open-ended, and without specific goals, focusing more on the atmosphere set by its hand-painted visual style and calming music. The story started on August 1, and the game had a fixed ending at the…

The class assignment was to make your family tree. Me: Mom, where were you born?Mom: Williston, South Carolina in 1911.Me: Can you tell me anything more? Mom: Go look it up in those encyclopedias your Uncle sent you. Mom, on the couch, back to the television, chillin’, dis-remembering sharecropping, brutalities, and killings suffered by her family, witnessed during her childhood. She didn’t want me climbing on those branches. Uncle George & me Uncle George sent me, for my birthday, a set of…

Every developer knows about the git log command. But did you know that you can figure out funky stuff if you combine it with DuckDB?

Yesterday, Street-Smart Coding, my first book, turned one year. It isn’t a New York Times best-seller… yet? It doesn’t pay my rent… yet? It’s just another tiny piece of content filling the Internet ether. But it’s a big small win for me. That’s why I broke my weekly routine and went out to eat a slice of pizza or two. To make it more symbolic, I paid for it with the book sales. By the way, I ate some salad and protein before, to control the glucose spikes. Even I took some pictures to remember…

With Halloween approaching I thought I’d post some scary paintings, and then thought I’d post just two and turn the post into a little art quiz. Other than both being scary, and both featuring severed heads, can you spot the connection between them? And please try to answer without using an AI assistant or other form of cheating. Picture number one, on the left, is The Severed Heads by Théodore Géricault (c. 1810, Oil on Canvas, 61cm x 50cm, National Museum in Stockholm). Picture number two, on…

Since reading Rise of the Videogame Zinesters by Anna Anthropy, I cannot stop thinking about video games from a zine perspective, i.e. as personal artifacts that transmit ideas and passions. I researched game development tools that fit this mentality and published my findings as a zine for this year’s Advent calendar by Jenni from zines.cool. A zine can only pack so much information, though, and is static in nature once released; so this note shall serve as a companion that is up-to-date and…

I finished the last post striding down the hill from the Seven Stars to catch the Shields ferry. Turned out I had lots of time to spare before the next crossing, so I could have drank my beer at leisure, could have listened to the whole of Telegraph Road and probably could have squeezed in Sultans of Swing whilst I was at it.In my humble opinion, the £7.50 Day Pass becomes great value for money once you incorporate the ferry into your travel plans. I spent ten minutes with a big grin being…

I was having a conversation with a friend recently about how easy it is to get completely lost in the sauce when you don’t have the right guidance. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot. He was telling me how he went through his old Notion notes from 2021. All the goals he had set for himself. How much money he wanted to make. Where he expected his business to be in 2, 3, 4 years. The crazy thing is… He’s nowhere near where he thought he’d be. But then he mentioned something that really…