Back from Chiang Mai, Thailand, today. What an incredible city. I'll do a proper travel post on it in the future with photos, but here's the runday of a fantastic 4 days. Day 1 Arrived, went swimming in the rooftop pool, and wandered into the city. Found a vintage shop and bought a Hawaiian shirt, then stopped at a nearby restaurant for khao soi. Went to an English comedy open mic at a bar and had a great time. Ended up drinking with the comedians and joining them at a karaoke bar until the…

Book 38 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year – carrying on through the rest of the year! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. Okay, let’s just get this one out of the way! I had one more Dungeon Crawler Carl book to read to be caught up on the series, and decided to go ahead and do it. The last book to date is book 8: A Parade of Horribles (2026), by Matt Dinniman. Having survived the Faction Wars…

People get surprised when I mention that I currently maintain not one, not two, but 18 open source projects. For most of my career I handled this work on the side of a day job, but with my day job now gone I am dedicating more time to open source. This is my attempt to advertise what I'm doing a bit better, in case some of you would like to support this work.

A photo of the SAVAK show. 🎵

DR. MID-NITE SUPER POWERS (McFARLANE) “The original Doctor Mid-Nite, Dr. Charles McNider, lost his sight to a grenade, and fought crime alongside the original Justice Society of America.” Before Matt Murdock’s debut as Daredevil in 1964, the premier visually impaired vigilante was Dr. Mid-Nite, a golden age DC hero who first appeared in 1941. In contrast to Murdock, who was truly blind (albeit with greatly increased senses otherwise), McNider’s vision returned in the dark, allowing him to still…

I'm not naming any names here, but I was forgotten about! I normally tend to subtly remind people about things we've planned together, but this friend in particular has always been so reliable that I didn't consider it necessary. He apologized profusely, and I actually didn't mind. I spent 20 minutes in the restaurant drawing the other people eating their noodles while sipping on my 0% beer. Actually, I really enjoyed having something to wait for. Most people in my life are on time, or even a…

The stuffies aren’t asked how they feelabout the state of the playroom, the waythey’re tossed, or disemboweled of stuffing;to them, the world is a ballin the clutches of a monster.It noses the sphere, wanting a playmatewhen ruinous diversion tempts–and to burn down the playgroundwhen its interest is lost.The world is a ballin the clutches of a monster,a sea leviathan we thought we could trainlike a seal, barking for claps,easily accepting of lordship over a small pool,and meagerly doled out…

I have turned on airplane mode on all my devices, the plane is now moving, preparing for flight. Waiting in the airport I played a bunch of Castlevania Symphony of the Night—I managed to reach the second boss fight which is a very cool encounter!—-but I plan to read during the flight ahead. Perhaps I’ll finish Dune Messiah. I’m going to watch the flight attendants demonstrating safety measures. The emergency exits, the use of seatbelts, and other procedures. The lights shut off at 6:04, perfect…

Why is Bravo trying to make Big Brother 15’s Aaryn Williams a star on Small Town Trouble: Texas? In this episode of Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV, I explore what we should do when networks platform people like her.

Isaac of Nineveh was a 7th-century Syriac Christian, born c.613 in eastern Arabia (Qatar), an area that spoke Arabic and Syrian. He was ordained Bishop of Nineveh in 676, but one record says he left that position not long after starting it. He is often referred to as Isaac the Syrian.The reason may simply have been the desire to live the life of an ascetic. We are told he retired to a mountain in a province of Iran, and then joined a monastery called Rabban Shapur where he concentrated his…

By Michael Grasso / October 27, 2026 All the Kind Strangers Directed by Burt Kennedy ABC (1974) A square-jawed man in a Hawaiian shirt drives his brand new convertible into a small town on his way cross-country. He comes across a young towheaded country lad carrying some heavy groceries on a multi-mile walk home and offers him a ride. In the 1970s, era of hitchhiker murders and serial killers, it’s safe to say the opening scene of November 1974 ABC Movie of the Week All the Kind Strangers…

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Late again. Apparently writing weekly notes on time is still a work in progress. LOL.The vibeExcited, frustrated, and finally relieved. I was really looking forward to the Duo, and the runaround took a lot of the fun out of it. By the weekend, I was ready to be done with the whole ordeal and just enjoy the phone. It felt good to end the week excited about it again.Highlights📱 The Best Buy preorder turned into a mess. I had already cancelled my original AT&T preorder after finding launch-day…

Rain. Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition Tickets Triple!!! To London for the annual LW KMC-as-was Dinner. Plastering. Two Storms. A lot of video editing tech support. Llanthony Figure of Eight. Quite a week! Strava Elevation Graph: GVWC Llanthony Figure of Eight Breakfast in bed on Tuesday, and finished off Gabriel’s Moon. A couple of hours admin as the rain fell steadily outside, and the morning was over. P and I did a bit of Joint Planning in the afternoon – new kitchen (?), upstairs redecoration,…

I wanted a simple way to track my son's inhaler use and my own, so I built a small native iPhone app that does one thing: open, tap, logged.

Same designs as before, now just a good bit faster.

[Doing is the thing.] Recently, Facebook Meta unveiled Muse, their “personal AI agent built for everyone”. Muse goes beyond just being a chatbot, and will attempt to help accomplish actual tasks. From their introductory post: Muse…doesn’t just answer questions, it actually does the work. It helps people stay on top of things, takes tasks and projects off their plate, and turns long-term goals into action plans. Meta built Muse from the ground up to be a safe, secure, private, and widely…

TWSBI’s latest release, the Jade Jelly + Bronze fountain pen, showed up this week and it’s another nice addition to the TWSBI ECO lineup, especially as some of the older ECOs are being retired. Lately, these ECO releases tend to sell out as soon as retailers get them in the door, with relatively long restock windows, so if it interests you I always recommend that people pick one up quickly. The Jade Jelly acrylic is slightly lighter than prior Jade pens TWSBI has released, and appears…

I saw SAVAK play at Mama Tried over the weekend. Great set, and the band is super nice. The bar is an old school punk dive. No vapes, but the whole place had the sour smell of old beer and stale cigarettes. Exactly how I think of a bar. A+ 🎵

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. On Sunday, Mozilla launched Come Back to Firefox, which it's calling one of its most ambitious campaigns yet. Two 30-second spots on NBC, with Germany, France and the UK up next. They got the band back together. Numa Numa Guy. Bad Luck Brian. Overly Attached Girlfriend. Annoying Orange, who apparently now has opinions about forced AI features. The pitch: the internet you loved is still out there, Big Tech tracks you everywhere, and Firefox is…

Another orchid from the Hilo Orchid Show. I think the Raptor name fits this one. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.

While in Japan, I’ve noticed that the emoji that we use for AI is the same emoji they use for the function in their toilets that cleans up the mess you made. The post The sparkle emoji we use for AI has a different meaning for Japanese toilets appeared first on Global Nerdy.

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Every September, as the melt season on the Greenland ice sheet fizzles out, I and my colleague Martin Stendel do the same thing: we sit down with a year’s worth of daily surface mass balance maps and weather charts from the Polar Portal, work out how the ice sheet fared, and write it up as a guest post for Carbon Brief. Our latest one, covering September 2025 to August 2026 has just appeared over there (yes it’s a little late, we have a lot on right now).This year’s headline is one I’d rather…

Assume for purposes of discussion that Democrats win control of the Senate next week. In that event, Justices Thomas and Alito will be subject to the same criticism by conservatives that Justice Ginsburg received from liberals. They all could have retired in a year where their party controlled the Senate and the Presidency. They chose not to. Now Justice Ginsburg was older than Thomas and Alito are now when she made that decision. Perhaps they can outlast more unfavorable election cycles than…

Lately I have received small gifts from many different people. They make me so happy, I never would have thought I would meet so many kind people that give goodwill without wanting anything in return. It makes me think just how lacking the people I met in the past were in comparison, people incapable of seeing the good side of things. I'm glad I could make new connections, and by them be changed and become better.

To the absence of kitty treats Snowapple does not have diabetes but in my morning (and evening) ritual to give the diabetic creatures their insulin, kitty treats are involved as a consolation prize for the whole 'getting stabbed in the neck with needles' bit. However because I'm not a monster (debatable, hold that thought a second) usually the non-diabetic cats ALSO get treats as part of the ritual. Much to consider that they directly benefit from the illness of their siblings. ANYWAY this…

Josh Citarella and I discuss this essay in a new episode of New Creative Era. Listen on Apple, Spotify, and the web.My model of the internet is the global village. Its topography a sprawling universe of houses and neighborhoods beyond what you can see. You can go forever and never know what you’ll find. This is the wonder of the internet to me.Image handrawn by meIn the last two decades, this landscape changed as new infrastructure built by a handful of companies (mainly Google, Meta, and…

Yesterday Apple released a number of software updates, along with lists of security issues fixed in those updates; macOS Golden Gate 27.2 fixed a staggering 263 CVE! (I’ll use “CVE,” Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, as both singular and plural.) Apple credited 262 of those 263 CVE to at least one person, though in 33 instances an unnamed person was credited, “an anonymous researcher.” There’s one outlier, not credited to anybody, not even an anonymous body: Mail Available for: macOS Golden…

Lately I have been listening to ABBA's songs. I find them really enjoyable, but I also find them to be a little sad and nostalgic. They make me miss home even more.