Taking a break from the TV and all the fitba, I was out and about this week doing a bit of visiting and looking for ice cream. Fields of grain. Sunny skies. I heard Indigo Buntings on separate country roads. Had me a mango sugar cone, thanks for asking. And no brain melting heat like the reports from elsewhere. Mr Protz took an keen interest in my dirt digging skills the other day, too. Know your strengths. Still, the World Cup is on and we can’t avoid it. As I type Canada is down 2-1 to the…
E.R.O. D/UWi 1/2/1 These are just selected extracts. Ignored Waterworks Committee. Also generally ignored Building Committee re plans submitted (may have some separate notes on latter) See also Council minutes, 1911-1918 and 1918-33. Road Committee, 21 October 1905, page 2 Discussion about line of road at the Pound [i.e. Collingwood Road and Avenue Road junction. Hospital Committee, 22 October 1906, page 6 Discussion about amalgamation with Maldon Joint Hospital Board. Recommended not Road…
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It’s a Thursday Pressing Concerns! It features new albums from Spacemoth, Some Velvet Sidewalk, and Unlettered, plus a split LP from Sea Moss and Miscomings, all of which are out tomorrow (June 26th). If you missed either of this week’s earlier posts (Monday’s featured Sun Kin, National Photo Committee, Wade Easy, and Chorus Truly, and on Tuesday we looked at the upcoming Emperor X album), check those out, too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what…
I don’t mind cooking, but I far prefer having cooked. For the most part, I make straightfoward dinners. I’m well known in my family for my meat-starch-vegetable dinners — a go-to is pork chops, fried potatoes, and whatever steam-in-bag vegetable sounds good that night. I also have a handful of skillet dinners in my rotation, meals that combine all of the ingredients into one pan. My chicken stew seems to be the family’s favorite. I make good food. It’s just always uncomplicated food. As a…
Should you – do you – fully trust your platform to look after your investments? Might they hire a budding Bernie Madoff who siphons off your assets to his own account? Or maybe a Mr Bean, who loses track of them altogether? Surely our world-leading regulatory oversight would prevent anything so catastrophic from happening? And anyway, there’s always the FSCS to bail you out if anything does go wrong, right? Well…maybe. In the second of (what I’ve just decided will be) my investment survival…
The button press kit wasn’t the only recently acquired crafting toolkit in our house, but it was the biggest one—except for the Stuffaloon thing to create your own balloons (yeah, I know…). I just don’t know how my wife finds these things. The problem is that I tend to steal her tools to use for my own journaling purposes. “You always make fun of my crafting stuff but end up using them yourself!” That reproach is only partially correct, but I digress. Here’s a humble but punchy (ha!) punch…
Things like this don’t bother me much; not any more. I’m past the stage where I care. Trolls will always troll, and some people on the Internet will always be as nasty as they can possibly be, safe in the knowledge that their words can extend to insults without repercussion. This person / these people would not dare say that to my face – or anyone else’s for that matter. For face time with that sort of language, there will most certainly be repercussions. Maximum. It all began with this review…
I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey. Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 7 (新的开始) Source: Du Chinese Level: Elementary
What I made is not important — it’s a list of kayak courses and available spots. I already had created the logic — no AI needed for logical thinking1. So I already had the authentication, the API calls, the custom filtering and the presentation layer. But since I didn’t have any experience with WordPress plugins/widgets, I hosted it on a separate domain and embedded it onto the web site. This has worked for years. However, there were a few drawbacks. Mainly that it was dependent on my private…
At first glance, AniMaps appears to be very slick.It’s a route animator with built-in video export, and it feels made for sharing travel clips on social media. Drop in a global route and it turns it into a smooth, cinematic fly-through using MapLibre GL JS. The camera easing is silky, the line animation feels well-timed, and the whole thing lands right in that sweet spot between data
lately, I've been having a hard time falling asleep. I can't call my bf or my family because they are several hours ahead of me in a different timezone. thus, I lurk on Bear Blog. i need to sleep, but my mind is AWAKE! also, RIP MJ <3
A bit warmer today. Car washing again. M. G. Doc, making 78 to date. Cleared all the lab bins. A lot of fowl to burn from Hanns Hall. Got a new pair of overalls. Collin’s wife left.
Life feels like a lie sometimes. I am and have always been an idealist, and it feels like life’s rules are constantly changing, and never as they appear to be or how they are defined. It makes me sad honestly because it makes it hard to believe in things anymore. I used to believe in charities. Nonprofits. Politicians and their optimistic programs to relieve the pains of their constituents. But then, I recently came to the conclusion that people are not as idealistic as the pedestals we put…
OL’ BLUE EYES, THE COMEBACK It’s one of the great showbiz comeback stories: how a tough Italian-American kid saw Bing Crosby in 1935 and had a dream; rose in he 1940s to crazy fame, albums and films, married his Nancy with the laughing face. But as decades rolled on he erred, was dropped by both film and music giants after upsetting American moralities with his affair with Ava Gardner and being suspected of Mafia links after going to Cuba with a childhood friend turned Mob. . He dumps Nancy,…
It's yours... until it isn't.This is kind of a retrospection on all the hardware I own and the annoyances I’ve faced over the years. None of these products are bad. In fact, I like most of them. What frustrates me is that the companies behind them keep trying to control how I use hardware I’ve already paid for. #Sony The infamous PS5 — probably one of the best-selling consoles to date. You cannot use most third-party accessories; instead, you have to pay for official, overpriced accessories…
I am off to Espelkamp, where mittwald run their Event Head in the Cloud. After sending in a Call for Papers, I found out that they’d wanted me to open this years summit with my talk “Weniger Slides. Mehr Austausch.” (translates to something like “Fewer Slides. More Exchange.) Looking forward to it. See you there! Reply via Email
Reading: Do you lose your whole day to one appointment? ‘Waiting mode’ may be why, The Conversation, 12 June 2026.Waiting mode describes a state of mental standby before an upcoming event, where focusing on anything else becomes difficult, sometimes even impossible.Suggestions in the article include: “scheduling important events earlier in the day, which reduces the amount of time spent in anticipation”. structuring your day, scheduling in smaller or easier tasks. using timers and alarms to…
As rain began pouring down in Kyoto, I skirted through the streets looking for somewhere indoors. This temple caught my eye as I passed, so I paused to take the photo.
Daily Drawing 907
I’m extremely fortunate that the university library has a rather relaxed view of lending limits for staff (or that I borrow the kind of books nobody else wants to read…) as I’ve had my current crop of loans for several months now. I’m slowly making my way through them, though, and today sees me covering another one, a book I’ve been wanting to try for many years now. It’s a lovely collection of eighteenth-century stories from Japan, and if you fancy something a little different, if not uncanny,…
A couple weeks ago I wrote that your organization has to learn as fast as your best AI adopter. Externalize, combine, socialize, internalize. Run Nonaka’s spiral or get left behind. A bunch of you wrote back with the same question: okay, but where does the knowledge actually go?
This week I stood at a primary school careers fair, on what turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year so far, and tried to convince children between the ages of four and eleven that software development is the best job in the world. I had a stand, a looping deck of slides, a board of brand logos, and a game I had built for them to play. By the end of the day my shirt was stuck to my back, the hall felt like the inside of a kettle, and I had enjoyed myself more than I have at almost…
Cthulhu Eternal has become my preferred Lovecraftian RPG system: free to use (including commercially), the publisher hasn't got into NFTs or AI art, and it's broadly compatible with other Lovecraftian games.
IMPERIAL REMNANT STORMTROOPER (Pauldron) The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch Hasbro Pulse Exclusive 4-Pack Item No.: No. G32115 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: n/a Includes: Blaster pistol, blaster rifle Action Feature: n/a Retail: $67.99 Availability: April 2026 Appearances: The Mandalorian and Grogu Bio: Figures inspired by the live-action Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu movie. (Taken from the web site description. They're really not trying hard for this movie.) Image: Adam's photo lab.…
Why skip past the why When someone says “I run Qwen 3.6 at 25 tokens per second”, or makes any similar performance claim about their self-hosted LLM setup, this is only meaningful if we know several other things. Which model variant? Qwen 3.6 could be the dense 27B or the 35B-A3B MoE, totally different architectures. Better, just link to the repo you downloaded the weights from. Which quantization? Q8, Q4_K_XL, and IQ3_XXS are at different points in quality/speed/size space. What hardware and…
Whilst I’m still uncertain as to the form, concept or design for any future Prairie themed project I am certain it will require N scale…We have been here before… first with the Englewood logging project, more recently with Albion Yard (CP on Vancouver Island) and Hanna (Rio Grande, Creede branch). Each time struggling with one aspect of the scale and theme and things never quite sitting well before selling up and moving onto a new distraction. So you’d be welcome to ask, why will this be any…
The new social network W Social - which purports to be a healthier alternative to Elon Musk’s X, “made in Europe, for the world” - would be a fascinating case study for future business school seminars. Its debut has been messy, filled with controversies - and yet, it has been embraced by high profile personalities from the worlds of politics and journalism. I am about to cover its biggest scandal yet, which puts into question W Social’s core promise: “Trust your feed”.A quick recapW Social was…
It's been very hot in the UK* for the last week, so much so that the weather agency issued a warning, suggesting people should not travel unless they really need to. The last few days have been challenging, sleep-wise. Our bedroom is like a furnace even with an oscillating fan roaring away and three nights of broken sleep have left me feeling a bit rough. On the way into work I stopped off at the shops and bought a chocolate bar and a can of "Viking Berry" Monster Juiced energy drink, which I…
