Is this for real?! It’s 16:09. I’m lying on the couch. There’s a fan trained on me, circulating at full tilt. The temperature is 26 °C (79 F) inside, 33 °C (92 F) outside, humidity is high. Come again?! I live in the fucking Netherlands. Summer is supposed to be pleasant here. The average historical (1991-2020) maximum temperature for the end of June is 21 °C (70 F). Back in the days, we used to complain of too much rain and too little sun. No way it’s already this hot in June. And it’s even…
One of the recent answers on Jeopardy! was Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. No one got it. Well, I did, but I wasn’t competing. I barely remember reading this book in high school, except that I was deeply moved by it. I do remember the ending, because the main character, distraught, walks straight into the ocean, and now I’m always out here thinking about walking directly into the ocean, too. (What I didn’t understand as a teen—a poor understanding of geography on my part—was that the protagonist…
Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in Connecticut in 1810, and over the course of his life flitted between showbusiness and politics – supposedly coining the adage “There’s a sucker born every minute” along the way. In 1980, Mark Bramble (book), Michael Stewart (lyrics) & Cy Coleman (music) thought this was ideal fodder for a stage show – and so the musical Barnum was born. The Watermill Theatre’s 2024 actor-musician revival production (starring Lee Mead) is currently touring the UK; this week the…
With 50odd sessions under the belt my Glimmermark campaign enters the third year. Which is maybe not the longest roleplaying campaign I ever had, but certainly one with the most individual sessions. The secret, it turns out, is to do the right kind of work early on and then consistently offer the game to anyone willing to join. Which is of course a play style that does not fit all games. If you want high narrative gaming, or character-specific plotlines this ain’t it. If you want to go down…
Recently an Amazon executive revealed that she had rejected a candidate who showed up to an interview in a T-Shirt that said “I’m too Hot for a Job”. This caused a lot of noise on social media with folks either supporting her or calling the interviewer out for rejecting the candidate for no good reason. I am in the former camp and would have rejected a candidate if they came for an interview dressed like that. I personally love quirky T-Shirts and about half of the T-Shirts I have have some…
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. “Despite the suspension of norms in the mosh pit and the lifting of prohibitions on exercising aggression and violence, moshing was never a free-for-all. Like any social endeavour, there were unwritten rules of conduct. Entering a new millennium ushered in by forest fires, warmongering, and a global pandemic, I repeat to myself the lessons I’ve learned. Grasp the hands of the fallen so they are not trampled. Do not tolerate those monopolizing space for themselves. There is something honest…
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-55200 for the project libssh2, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in ssh2_transport_read() due to a missing upper bound check on the packet_length field, resulting in heap corruption and potential remote code execution. This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities…
when everything smells like clams & cornflakes where you gonna put your walrus when it rains
Yesterday, I went to Makati to meet a friend and eat Argentinian food. I also wanted to introduce my dear friend to Argentine cuisine. Apparently, there aren’t a lot of Argentinian restaurants in Makati, luckily, there’s Chingolo. First of all, this is not the type of restaurant we’d go to on a normal basis, but yesterday, we wanted to try something new, and I genuinely miss having Milanesa and asado, so I made sure we get those. Will I write a review? No, I will not, but it did made me me miss…
My music-fan cup runneth over lately, in the best way. An abundance of good-to-great-to-unbelievable shows over the past month that have left me wondering what I did in a past life (or maybe this one) to deserve all this. My post-pandemic “never say no” philosophy is paying serious dividends. And there’s a lot more ahead. […]
It’s a horrible 36C here today, but I found that one of the more acceptable parts of the house was, amazingly, the loft. With the windows open to catch what (hot) breeze there was, and a fan working, I got some modelling done. First, I’ve started to think about taking modules to TINGS, especially Aldersford. I’ve modified the legs to be the correct NCI height of 900mm to rail level. And then added a couple of signals to replace the ones I broke relaying the track. I decided not to relay the…
GIMP has always had an interface problem. I’m not blaming the GIMP team (they’ve built something powerful on a shoestring). They’ve been clear they’re not interested in copying Photoshop wholesale; their FAQ argues that designing around actual user research beats imitating someone else’s interface decisions. Fair enough in principle, but coming from years as a Photoshop user, that design still feels hostile to me. I’m just one user story out of many they’ve had to design for, but it still…
with USBODE (USB Optical Drive Emulator): "Ever wanted a GoTek for CDs? If you have a Raspberry Pi Zero W or 2 W, USBODE turns it into a virtual optical drive. It allows you to store many disk images on a MicroSD card and mount them through a web interface." Demo: Finally a cheap CD-ROM emulator for DOS and Windows 98! See also Boot any and all ISO images from USB drive.
This is a very interesting one and I believe it to be its third iteration. Way back, this was garlic teriyaki and it was a splendid variant – one my wife loved and she’s not the biggest noodle human. Then they came out with a version with a huge drop in sodium – about 35000mg down to 700mg. Then we have this one in the ‘carton’ version. Well, let’s give it a try. Nongshim Yaki Udon Premium Teriyaki Flavor – United States Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Contains fish. To prepare,…
Yesterday I had an idea for a possible experiment using Chrome's built-in AI support - looking for "date" references in strings. So for example: "I will have my new job in 12 days". Could the AI model recognize "12 days" as a date and determine what the actual date is, assuming a reference date of now? I was about to start working on a simple POC when I thought... wait... is there already a JavaScript library for this? Of course there is. The aptly named Chrono library does just that. It can…
TECH-NO Philip from It's all in your mind - sorry chaps, keep getting the title of your blog wrong - with the latest on the 'technique' discussion .....Philip is absolutely right about Indie, I reckon. It has shunned experimentalism without mastering musicianship, so it remains mired in some mediocre nowheresville. Drabness : forget postpunk, even at its most brown-rice earnest, it glistened with psychedelic intensity by comparison with Turin Brakes and Doves. What confuses me about Indie is…
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1155/adventure-calls-clearly
How I finally migrated my Immich setup from External Libraries to internal storage — covering storage templates, community migration scripts, and surviving face recognition quirks. Read the full post on the blog.
In a 2024 post we detailed how the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office ‘had a presence at the Lord Mayor’s Show for nearly two decades,’ that the head of that office Gilford Law had schmoozed the then ‘three most recent Lord Mayors of London – …Michael Mainelli… Nick Lyons… and…William Russell,’ and that Law was Chinese spy ‘Bill Yuen’s local boss’. This month two of the spies associated with Law (the third is dead) were sentenced for their espionage activities, as detailed in the Sky News report…
Those who pay attention may note that I technically shared this song last Fall on its release, along with its companion B-side “Glow”, but that was a month before the official video for the song was released and considering how little quality video content there is from the band – I’ve been talking up the […] The post The Neverminds – “Afterglow” appeared first on Space Echo.
I just got back from my trip to Portugal, and I wanted to jot down some thoughts about my overall experience. This is definitely not a guide to traveling in Portugal or a list of recommendations. It’s just a personal reflection on my trip and some of the things that occurred to me while I was there. The trip came about because Kristen had been suggesting that I travel by myself for a little while. She did that last year and found it very helpful. It gave her time to think about what she wanted…
In the dusk and early evening hours of my life, I have been integrating a language that I feel was with me at the very beginning of things, before the dawn of it. [ in progress... ]
Absolute Superman #20A Rafa Sandoval Regular Release: Jun 24, 2026Cover: Jul 2026 ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN’S GREATEST BATTLE YET! It’s Superman versus King Shazam versus Hawkman versus [REDACTED] in the greatest battle the Absolute Universe has ever seen! But who is their mystery challenger? Creators WriterJason AaronArtistRafa SandovalCover ArtistRafa SandovalCover ColoristUlises ArreolaEditor in ChiefMarie Javins Absolute Wonder Woman #21C Terry Dodson Variant Release: Jun 24, 2026Cover: Aug 2026 A…
[For those afflicted, even “too much” isn’t enough.] I’ve often referenced and promoted the idea that billionaires should probably not exist. I’m damned sure that trillionaires shouldn’t exist.Link: https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-first-trillionaire
We are winding down our multi-day stay in Cedar Rapids. I don’t have any particular fond memories of this city, which is also known as the City of Five Smells: Captain Crunch cereal, cooking oats, ADM/Cargill food processing, the Cedar River, and wastewater treatment. However, it was a lifelong home for my grandparents and great grandparents. It’s where my dad lived his final days and where my mom has chosen to live for church and friendships. During our stay, we took a day trip to Mount Vernon…
Read: In the Woods by Tana French ★★★ 📚 Doorstop of a police procedural. Lots of psychological twist & turns. Vivid characters. Maybe too much horror in the crime, like most thriller books and movies nowadays.
There's a scene in the movie Zoolander where Owen Wilson's character has an epiphany about where some critical information is located. And then he delivers this line: "[The files] are in the computer. It's so simple." Where Google and Microsoft's AI strategies revolve around the idea that your data lives inside of their ecosystems, Apple unveiled a mostly device-centric approach that I think more closely aligns with how people think about their "files". Even though a younger generation of…
Last night I received an email from one of the large supermarkets. It was a product recall. I've never had such an email before, but it was quite clear that I had bought the product. I wondered how they knew, but quickly realised they would have all my purchase data via my loyalty card. Reading further into the email, I was told not to eat it and return it to any of their stores for a refund. No receipt required. The problem was I had already eaten it, a few days ago. It was a small container…
“Guards at the gates of estates, complexes, office parks, or gated communities should not make digital copies of your driving licence, as it could infringe on the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). This is according to the Information Regulator of South Africa’s latest draft Code of Conduct for the processing of personal information at gated accesses.” The takeaway being they can scan your car license but not your personal ID. For visitors to complexes they can record:– Name–…
