Got a couple new Peanuts books coming in the future, as well as catching up in news about the AAUGH Blog itself. Upcoming books “Please”, “Thank you”, sharing, and all that are coming your way in Snoopy’s Book of Manners, a board book by Patti Michaels and Robert Pope (based on the work of Charles M. Schulz, natch) heading your way next May, and available for preorder now. May also brings us Snoopy Snacks — not a recipe book as one might hope, but another board book, this one from the mighty…

Evil Dead Burn (2026, Sébastien Vani?ek) Oh right, it’s the New French Extremism sequel, which is actually none of those things. Lot of severed body parts lying around as the girl kills a final zombie with a lawn tool then sets the place ablaze. Nice photography when the girl stands still and there are no CG beasties around, but any action is shot and/or edited like shit. I think her trauma is speaking to her in the form of a crumbling demonified husband who wants to get her holy dagger. The…

Things were widely discussed, ideas were shared, I was convinced. Later, I read more opinions and experience reports, and I was convinced otherwise! The discourse is sometimes wrong, no matter how intuitively right it seems. Superficial isn’t super-right. Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. intentionally weaken their product If you find yourself thinking, “are the models worse today?”, it’s possibly time to step back and look at how you’re using them. Which is not to say it’s a “skill issue”. More likely,…

Contrails If you were a conspiracy theorist, you’d be wondering where all these planes were going to meet up. Sadly, I think the answer was Stansted Airport :-( Quote of the Day ”Any sufficiently advanced punditry is indistinguishable from bollocks”. Dan Davies, riffing on Arthur C. Clarke’s celebrated adage that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Dónal Lunny and Aimee Farrell Courtney | Banish Misfortune Link…

It is nearing year end; it is also the business's busiest time of the year. I would normally prepare small festive gifts for my clients and family members. As I go through the list, it dawned to me that I have received a lot of help throughout my life. It not only limited to my clients and family. I did an exercise by listing down the people who had impacted my life. The criteria are simple; the person's action has an impact in my life. It can be intentional, or unintentional. As such, I…

Some of us Obsidian folk, including me, have gotten wrapped around the axle of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) over the years. I remember my excitement in the early days: if I capture all my thoughts and the world’s knowledge in my proliferating zettels, then, in time, I was sure to become Dr. Manhattan. Well … that didn’t work. If you have any other ideas on becoming Dr. Manhattan, please shoot me an email. Alas, I didn’t achieve Great Insights™ through Markdown munging. But there’s a big,…

The following comics have been added to the comics aggregator: Calvin and Hobbes en Español Cathy Commiserations Cattitude — Doggonit C’est la Vie Chuck Draws Things Citizen Dog The City Cleats Compu-toon Cornered Cow and Boy Classics CowTown Crumb In addition: Fix Rose Is Rose, which was broken some time in the past few days. Crabgrass is now available on Sunday as well as the rest of the week. When a Comics Kingdom user exceeds the view limit for a strip for a given day, display a useful…

It is 7:15 p.m. on a Sunday evening. My apartment is clean. Laundry done, floors vacuumed, bedding changed, dishes washed. I’ve showered. I was supposed to have a cuddle session with a woman today (original post from October 21), but that has now been pushed to Tuesday. We scheduled for today, and she originally said 2 or 3 p.m. Around that time, I asked if she was still coming. She said yes, but asked whether pushing it to 7:30 p.m. would be OK. I said sure. At 6:30, she messaged me, got my…

I grew up in Germany, then moved to NYC and am now temporarily living in New Haven while my wife finishes her grad program. I try to visit Munich once or twice a year to see family and friends.I lead platform engineering at Levin & Riegner and I run the food sharing initiative Give a Meal.At heart, I'm a documentarian. I've spent time in the open pit coal mines of Pennsylvania, photographed the streets of NYC, and lived with a freighter crew on their journey from the Panama Canal to New York.My…

Paul’s sister’s 50th birthday is coming up. On one hand, I would like to do something special for her—or really anything at all, special or no. On the other hand: 1. I resent that that seems to be EXCLUSIVELY MY DOMAIN, even though she is PAUL’S sister. I asked Paul for ideas TWICE, and both times he was unhelpful. And in case you think I mean he didn’t come up with ideas that I liked or whatever, let me clarify that he came up with zero ideas of any kind. He also had not remembered that this…

Funny because the last day I used it last year more or less lined up with when I started again. I decided to get it out again because I missed having a week planner layout on paper, plus having a larger daily plan page that I could have propped up on my desk without being a part of my Plotter. If I keep it up until November I’ll get myself a planner for next year.

I was supposed to ride the NYC Century today, but I ended up coming down with a nasty cold and I’m spending the day on the couch. I enjoy the Outlanders 2 game, an easy going village sim. But somehow it’s never quite acquired one of those fandom wikis with the various details, and sometimes I’m curious about how many days it takes carrots to mature and what their yield is. (usually when playing in Tourament mode). I used it as an excuse to try two LLM backed work modes I haven’t tried much,…

Today’s recording starts with the end of QI. There’s a trail for The Rob Brydon Show. A trail for Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow. And a trail for Excluded, part of a School season. Then, we have a film, The Special Relationship. This is the third film starring Michael Sheen as Tony Blair, after The Deal and The Queen, all of which were written by Peter Morgan. We meet him in Washington in 1992, being briefed by Democrat strategists on how to win an election. Four years later, and he’s…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Roger Clarke tells the tale of Georgiana Eagle, Wizard Queen and Mesmerist, and Curse of Vicky’s Ticker . Once I held it in my hand, I was aware of the weight of it. I was standing in a small downstairs room at Bonhams in South Kensington holding a Victorian gold pocket watch. Yet the weight I felt was not that of the precious metal or the intricate mechanics of its system, but of the significance of those whose hands through which the watch had…

Jazzy Sport began in 2002 as a shop located in Morioka, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. A second store in Shibuya, in Tokyo, quickly followed. They now – I think – have 3 outlets in the city, in Gohonoki, Omotesando, Shimokitazawa, plus another in Kyoto. Expanding into a label and distribution, under the concept of “Uniting the world through music and sport” (1), they are probably just as famous for their quality apparel. Initially these designs were based on authentic boxers sweats,…

Old friends are catching up, go on a drive onto an endless* road, when they turn back they hit a dead end and people from the woods assault them, so they turn around and just drive forever*. Military guy Tyler’s delivery of “I’m the most well-adjusted person in the vehicle” was possibly my biggest laugh of the year. He’s the first to leave the car to take his chances in the woods, years(?) before anyone else gives up. I didn’t notice until editing the screenshots that the movie goes from…

An era ago, I read the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth, I loved it at the time, and I distinctly remember struggling not to cry on the train from Seoul to the military base I lived on while reading the ending of the final book. Between the two big YA dystopia books, "Divergent" and "The Hunger Games", I have always liked Divergent better even though it was essentially the trilogy that derailed the YA dystopia genre1. Well, the author has come out with a new book, the first in a duology, that…

Mission accomplished. FT has a good writeup. NYT’s is an embarrassment. Their word games are the only thing keeping me a subscriber. Congratulations to my fellow citizens! Now the real work begins.

During my walks home after elementary school, when I wasn't avoiding the cracks of the grey sidewalk, I would do what you could call a meditation where I would close my eyes and imagine re-opening them to find myself a grown adult. And there are times now when I practice the second half of that meditation, opening my eyes to see I am in fact in the new present, twenty years later. Time is a ruthless arrow. I. Throughout my 20s, my brain (and yours, too) wrapped long-range neural tracks in a…

Comics Convergence Hawkman No. 1 Cover Date: June 2015 Release Date: 22 April 2015Script: Jeff Parker Pencils: Timothy TrumanInks: Enrique AlcatenaColors: John KaliszEditing: Marie Javins, Brittany Holzherr, Michael KraigerCover: Rafael Albuquerque Bird’s Eye View When Hawkman (Katar Hol) and Hawkwoman (Shayera Hol) were visiting Gotham City, Brainiac plucked the city out of the timeline and placed it under a dome on the sentient planet Telos. Brainiac is collecting cities from dead timelines…

“An angle grinder cut off my toe,” he told me. It was at the butchery counter of my local grocery store. I hadn’t seen him in a while. I thought he was working in another rotation. I usually do my groceries in the afternoons. “I was on sick leave for two months,” he said. “Oh boy! I didn’t know. What happened?” Then he told me about his toe. For a second, I thought it was a simple cut that a few butterfly stitches could fix. “What actually happened?” “The angle grinder did cut off my toe.” It…

The best thing I’ve read this week, called Sand Castles in the print version of The New Yorker, about how the semiconductor industry depends on many small artisan-like companies around the world. Gideon Lewis-Kraus: And yet we take it for granted that we can build them. We shouldn’t. The chief determinant of that unlikely success has been not individual genius in the lab, or individual prowess in the boardroom, but collective planning and coördination at a breathtaking scale.

last updated 6 minutes ago nice! we made it! comedy number of weeknotes par excellence. it's so dark in the evenings, i don't like it. the clocks going back is always incredibly disorienting, today two became one and it was confusing as ever, and i'm still writing this late lol. read and enjoyed an article and self-belief, skateboarding and magic the gathering today, i may have mostly ignored the MTG bits but good to be reminded about audacity. been thinking a lot about being…

But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a…

★★★★★ vague spoiler-free gushing --a major booktuber who received an ARC from the publisher (2022) ★★★★☆ careful wording of ways this entry was good but not perfect --a minor booktuber who received an ARC from the publisher and is afraid to rate it any lower (2022) ★★★☆☆ obligatory praise but unfavorably comparing it to the first two books and the standalone spinoff from 2021 everyone else forgot about --a fan (2023) ★★★★★ endless fountain of love concluding with a link to their book blog --PhD…

I sometimes think that social media’s biggest trick has been to make you feel like, when you log on, you are engaged in attempting to change the world – when what you’re really doing is just boosting a tech company’s share prices, while ignoring your own, actual world, right outside your doorstep. — Caitlin Moran, How To Be Hopeful

We're home, and soooo tired, after a very successful Friends and Family Weekend!Bullet points, or I will never get through everything:Wednesday:- worst customer service ever from Hertz- umm, the Met is closed on Wednesdays- MET UP WITH MY KID!!- great dinner at Wildflower- walked the Highline for a bit- Memoirs of an Amorous Gentleman by Duncan Sheik at the former SNM space. SO much fun!- Dessert at a diner and many spooky Halloween stoops!Thursday:- diner breakfast with the kid- those are not…

Also, image reduction, online graffiti, and a Blot.im update Productivity inspiration Paper notebook mods I drew a ruler in the front of my A6 notebook after seeing this video from Lilla Björn Stationery. I love how quick it is to draw up months the way Lilla shows, which is also Ryder Carroll’s method, but I strongly prefer standard calendar-style boxes on the page. I plan to share piccies of next year’s notebook once it’s drawn up. Lilla also made a pocket for the back of her little notebook.…

Been wanting to try Penguin Bakery for some time now.They are originally from Hokkaido, and have franchises all over JapanEarlier this year when they first opened in Motomachi, the lines were kinda krazy, so it was nice to just be able to "walk in" purchase things and "walk out"I got their root vegetable curry pan, corn bread and cookie melon panThe root vegetable curry pan was so ono! filled