Key things that are happening now… as of October 2026 October marked two years into working at Beacon CRM. We had a bad August, but we’re coming out the other side of that. We’re now in the process of rolling out the Google Spanner update to all customers. Globe started two services in September, it’s been a change to go from one gathering of ~300 people cramming into a school hall to go into two. As always with these changes there are teething issues to work through, but it’s been encouraging.…

The previous post defined the polar triangle of a spherical triangle in terms of its sides and angles, but it doesn’t construct the triangle. It only specifies one of a family of triangles located anywhere on the sphere. How do we know that polar triangles exist? There is a geometric construction that starts with a spherical triangle and constructs a unique new spherical triangle, and one can show that this new triangle has the angles and sides described in the previous post. There is also a…

Good sequel, tying together all previous plots, while also allowing Chucky to multiply, while also being an Elm Street 3-style psych-ward-set serial killer thriller. Andy is back, torturing his own personal Chucky head after a cute girl from the latest Final Destination breaks up with him. Wheelchair Nika is still alive too, so is her niece (now Mike Flanagan’s Carrie) and Jennifer Tilly-as-herself and the doll version of Jennifer Tilly, and hey, why not bring back the girl from part two, it’s…

This is one very eye catching box cover! Ba-dum-tss! The game title is as literal as can be. You play a pack of wolves, and you compete with other wolf packs to be the dominant one on the map. You get to experience the life of a wolf, and all this is done using several clever mechanisms. The map is divided into regions, and there are five terrain types. Those six

this year i'm hosting friendsgiving and for the first time in years i managed to order a tofurkey roast in time. i spent $39 for it to be shipped in a cold pack quickly. the night it is supposed to be delivered i get a call from a man in a high rise a mile away from me. he says my boxes was delivered to him and that he'd leave it at the front desk for me to get. it was dusk, i was not walking a mile to a strange building, this was bullshit. i paid $39. i call and the concierge, joan, picks up.…

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weather: 🌥️ downright autumnal critters: cats i learned about the abrupt closure of catapult via "catapult elizabeth koch into the sun," a brief article that will tell you everything you need to know about the situation and the insufferable nepo baby who ruined it out of "retaliation and boredom" an argument against billionaires (and noblesse oblige) in microcosm: when non-billionaires tire of their hyperfixations, all they've squandered is a couple hundred bucks

24 October 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Tongue Dissolver and False Fate.Time for a metal show! I had seen Kilat at least once before - at a performing arts venue at Monash Uni, and in the mid-afternoon. It was a strange time and place for a metal show, but it was a good one. The excellent Faceless Burial also played that time.This time, it was Kilat's album launch tour. I have wanted to see them again for a while.False Fate got us off to a start - one guy with a plastic folding table with…

All day, the winds have been blowing. Thankfully, it’s just been wind. When my older daughter headed out to feed the outside cats this morning, she found two legs on the canopy tent had been pulled up and were walking away in it. The ties were bundled up at the corners so, after she set … Continue reading Wind, wind and more wind – plus doctor issues again

I’ve written before about the law of cosines on a sphere: cos(c) = cos(a) cos(b) + sin(a) sin(b) cos(C). But that’s just one of two laws of cosines on a sphere. The equation above is the law of cosines for sides. The law of cosines for angles is typographically very similar, just inverting the case of the letters used as arguments. cos(C) = cos(A) cos(B) + sin(A) sin(B) cos(c). Two kinds of angles Let’s back up and say what the letters refer to. As is conventional in plane geometry, the sides…

Why I don't use generative AI as a graphic designer or web designer, with twelve different reasons why. I don't use generative AI for any writing, design, code, or for information or research. I also share an artwork of Astro Boy I made punching genAI company logos and destroying a data center.

Today’s recording starts with the end of League of Super Evil. There’s a trail for Roar. Then there’s a short episode of Newsround. There’s a trail for Scoop starring Hacker T Dog and Barry from Eastenders. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Killers. This episode is concentrating on animals that kill people. First, Steve Backshall kayaks in a river where there’s a wild hippo. Which does start chasing him, so it’s a tense sequence, although I suspect they hype the danger a bit for this show. He helps capture…

The gallery is below. Highlights: Geese, ducks, a towhee and a shoveller all staring directly at you A deceased dragonfly Harrier close-ups! A billion birds, all in the same spot A very pretty Dark-eyed Junco Assorted bugs that aren’t dragonflies Anna's Hummingbird at a feeder, wary of an incoming interloper.Anna's Hummingbird showing off their gorget at a feeder.A creepy crawly creepy crawling along a railing.Blackbird perched on two branches.Blackbird enjoying a seed on a post.Black-capped…

In recent months questions over the funding of Reform UK have led to renewed interest in the register of interests (RoI) of those who have been elected as representatives of this far-right party. As well as national figures, there has been a spotlight on Reform’s local councillors. Among other things, Byline Times stories focussed on items missing from the RoI of Reform Kent councillors and incomplete RoI from Reform Mayor of Basildon Sam Journet. We suspect that those who have branded Journet…

Everyone loves actress Nana (the Whirlpool of Fate orphan, and the director’s wife), including Count “Dr. Caligari” Muffat, horse breeder Count “Robert Macaire” Vandeuvres, and Macaire’s useless nephew Ray (The Three-Sided Mirror). Nana, in turn, likes whoever she can use to get ahead, and that’s Muffat, who gets her the starring role in a play but can’t stop her from being laughed off the stage. In the end, everyone in this movie who acted normal about anything was spared – unfortunately…

The Abbey Court Murderby Annie HaynesGenres: Crime, Mystery Pages: 217 Series: Inspector Furnival #1 Rating: Synopsis: “A crime of a peculiarly mysterious nature was perpetrated some time last night in a block of flats called Abbey Court.” Lady Judith Carew acted furtively on the night of the Denboroughs’ party. Her secret assignation at 9:30pm was a meeting to which she took a loaded revolver. The Abbey Court apartment building would play host to violent death that very night, under cover of…

I didn’t intend today to be poking around in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine nor duct taping together a bookmarklet tool. But that’s where the afternoon took me as I am trying to get over a nasty cold. Cutting first to the end, try this out. If you know where to put them (the bookmarks bar usually below your browser’s url display), drag the link below to your bookmarks. Next, in a new window, go to any site you visit regularly or perhaps the article you just recently red. Something a few…

Earlier this week, the Trump administration signed into law the newest National Park in the United States. Chiricahua National Monument became Chiricahua National Park. This newest addition to the U.S. National Park system is around two hours for home, so Earl and I jumped into the Jeep and decided to check it out. We stopped at the visitors’ center and picked up a few mementos from the park’s national monument days. They have a great selection of items in the store and it’s definitely worth a…

On a recent flight, the entertainment system had a movie I'd never heard of in its list of recent releases called Exit 8. I watched the trailer and was instantly transfixed.A couple nights ago, I finally sat down to watch it and I really enjoyed it. It's a sci-fi/horror film about being trapped in a Japanese subway station and that's what drew me in immediately. One day in Tokyo, I spent about 30 minutes walking in circles inside the Shinjuku station, getting increasingly frustrated by all the…

1:21 - I just played like six hours straight of Witcher 3 Blood and Wine. Got through the "turning point" so it was hard to stop. It was challenging and so much fun! Back to playing Gwent with NPCs now.

We spent hundreds of dollars to explore the Scottsdale botanical gardens and complain about the heat and return, sunburnt and stoned to the blue balcony of the air bnb— paint peeling. Dumpsters rot in the alley below us, and in the sky ahead distant roofs flash intermittently, silver and bright, and birds sit defiant. The true lords of the city of Phoenix. Walking downtown, we look for a bar, any bar— but not that one— landing in the Mortgage Matchup Center. Final destination. I watch the arena…

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite uses a hybrid core setup, breaking away from the all-big-core strategy that the company previously used with in-house core designs. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E96100 contains 18 cores, divided into 6 “performance” cores and 12 “prime” cores. Qualcomm’s “performance” cores fill the same role as little cores or efficiency cores on other chips, so I’ll be calling them E-Cores for simplicity. Like E-Cores on other chips, Qualcomm’s E-Cores are optimized for…

Image credit: Master AD, French artist c. 1600. Artwork downloaded from the NGA. Books and artworks are not mere consumables; they are a means for one human being to reach across space and time, far beyond one’s lifespan, to communicate with another human being. While books and artworks do this intentionally, other forms of human-made artifacts do the same by their very existence. Discovering a spearhead, an earthen pot, or a sunken ship tells us a trove of information about the people who…

Image credit: Master AD, French artist c. 1600. Artwork downloaded from the NGA. Books and artworks are not mere consumables; they are a means for one human being to reach across space and time, far beyond one’s lifespan, to communicate with another human being. While books and artworks do this intentionally, other forms of human-made artifacts do the same by their very existence. Discovering a spearhead, an earthen pot, or a sunken ship tells us a trove of information about the people who…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours The temperature is plunging and I can feel the velvet darkness falling upon London. As dusk gathers in the ancient churches and the dusty old museums in the late afternoon, the distinction between past and present becomes almost permeable at this time of year. Then, once the daylight fades and the streetlights flicker into life, I feel the desire to go walking out in search of the dark nights of old London. Examining hundreds of glass plates –…

Elijah Jeong-hyun Kim, Suna Kang, Jungwoo Song, and Ho Jin in The actual sky of Van Gogh’s Starry Night: a multidisciplinary reconstruction: At dawn around 22 July 1889, the waning-crescent Moon, Venus, and the Hyades cluster gather within that narrow frame, while the asterism’s geometry, contemporary weather records, and the letters independently converge on the same date. These findings suggest that the night sky in The Starry Night originated from observation of a specific celestial…

After lunch at Codie's, I walked to Yamashita Park to see the rosesso many furry people out and about I wasn't too sure if I was early for rose season or if "this was it", still, it was nice to seekochiaunusual colored coleusfound an interesting objet...zangiri, which commemorates the birthplace of Western style barbering in Japan during the late 19th centurycaught these two talking

When people think of romance and holidays today, Valentine's Day or even Christmas probably come to mind. They probably do not think of Halloween. In the days of yore, however, this was not the case. There were several romantic superstitions associated with the holiday in which one could divine who they would marry, when they might marry, and so on. For those familiar with the customs associated with Halloween, it might come as no surprise that one of these divination rituals involved cabbages.…