(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories. This is my memory of the first bug that freaked me out, and perhaps the first bug I ever remember witnessing.) N.Y.C. The Big Apple walked so that Grand Theft Auto could drive. Well, not really. But the 1984’s awkwardly-titled game for 8-bit computers could be seen as a spiritual predecessor of the first GTA. Your job was to drive and walk around New York City. If you crashed into another car, your car would…

Photo by Lilian Do Khac on Unsplash. Last Saturday evening I typed this into Oh My Pi: “Is there a way to hand omp or Hermes a plan and have it run in a loop: plan in fable, execute in sonnet, repeat”. I had a 69-task hardening checklist for Ankusa, my Elixir webhook receiver, with Done when and Proof lines on every task.

Our angling and our public lands are at risk. Our nation is in trouble. And we have a national election coming up on Tuesday, November 3rd. As we approach the 2026 election, an awful lot of voters are laser-focused on the American economy. Both inflation and the high cost of living are major sources of concern.

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(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories.) Imagine this: It’s 8pm on a rainy Sunday night in the ’90s, and you’re bored, so you boot up the family computer looking for something to do. But you’ve already played Solitaire a bunch, and you still don’t really get how Minesweeper works. You’ve had a laugh in paint, making abstract art. So now what? Keep in mind, you’re not allowed to go onto the internet because firstly, someone in the house is already…

Likes https://shens.world/notes/colour-of-hyperlinks by shen.

I’m not a huge fan of Yancey Strickler’s ideas, but they are in the same realm as mine1, so I continue to pay attention. His “The breaking of the world” continues in this it feels close but…off? vein, but has a couple of things that resonated, starting with the phrase I lifted for this post’s title. But starting with his post’s title: I feel like it would have served his ideas better to call it The breaking of my world, as after reading it and looking back at the title I had to wonder, whose…

(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories.) From The Verge: Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA’s least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the “Netflix of Piracy” software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot army. Researchers at Eye Security found the updater for a Popcorn Time…

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People were thinking about “AI” long before 1992, but I doubt they completely envisioned what the technological landscape would look like in 2026. Although, I think a few people had a good idea of what was coming. I wanted to share a couple startling paragraphs from Neil Postman's Book “Technopoly” from 1992. This is an excerpt from Chapter 7, entitled “The Ideology of Machines: Computer Technology.” He is warning against thinking of “machine as human” and, by implication, “human as machine.”…

Wenn ich an die Kombi Kohl + Hack denke, dann fällt mir entweder mein Schmorkohl mit Hack aka geplatzte Kohlroulade oder mein Schmorwirsing ein. Hier kommt alles in eine Pfanne und nichts wird zu Rouladen gerollt. Echte Rezepte für Faule, aber nicht minder köstlich. Aber ich sage Euch: so richtige Kohlrouladen aus Weißkohl oder Wirsing schmecken nochmal eine Nummer anders, denn das Hack gart

Anyway, I'm leaving a negative review on "having one hand largely disabled for weeks." Everything takes double the effort and triple the time, then yields half the results. I'm acquiring a tiny bit more patience with my situation. A tiny bit. comments

In looking around for ways to be of more use to my therapeutic riding barn, I decided that qualifying for another certification would be a worthy endeavor. Also, I just like learning new things. I have set myself the goal of becoming an Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning (ESMHL), which is a whoop-dee-doo way of saying I will be trained to help counselors, teachers, life coaches, and other professionals incorporate horses into their program offerings. Unbeknownst to me, there is a…

Five years ago I deleted all of my social media accounts, and I wrote about it. Since then I have continued to write about social media, both in the context of why I don’t use it and what I think it should look like. I have even tried out new social media, like Hudd (review), and now I have realized that it’s been five years since I made my choice. In this post I want to give a bit of background of how I used social media, what I’ve learned after not having it, and going through a survey I sent…

I joked on Mastodon yesterday that my stack of vintage computer desktops proved too heavy to move when I needed to retrieve something that fell down behind them. I wasn’t kidding; this AT clone, SGI Indigo2, and XT clone have the combined weight of a collapsed star, give or take a few errant photons. This amounts to more than a mild inconvenience, for several reasons: I’ve lost more items behind this stack of wonderful, classic computing than I care to admit. Okay that’s not true, I would tell…

Seventeen years ago — how time flies — I published a blog post on optimal sensor resolution for diffraction limited lenses. Recently, some people have objected to the formulation that I chose because it talks in terms of sampling frequency, which confuses them. In order to deal with that objection, here’s a version that doesn’t use frequency. The relationship between diffraction, pixel pitch, resolution, and aliasing can be described entirely in terms of spatial wavelengths. Diffraction and the…

I remember when Star Trek: Enterprise came out. I was pretty excited. I was a fan of the original series and, of course, The Next Generation. I tried getting into Deep Space Nine and Voyager and just couldn't do it (I eventually finished Voyager and enjoyed it, but I still can't finish DS9). Then Enterprise came out. People can say what they will, but I liked it almost as much as I liked TNG. I liked the storylines, I thought Scott Bakula was a great choice for Captain Archer, and then, of…

An almost intimidating number of things happening: We’re off to Hong Kong in December with Clara’s folks for a family wedding. It’s incredible, the vast majority of my close family and friends got married this year, including us. And it wasn’t even a year that ended with 8. A day in Macau, to which I’ve never been. We’re not into gambling, but I can’t wait to explore the history, cityscape, and food. Then across to Shenzhen with my inlaws to explore for a few days. Australians can enter…

We got pumpkins, potatoes, carrots, green beans, lettuce, endive, and (green) tomatoes.

I visited the exhibitions 'Ontmoetingen en Observarties' en 'Paviljoen: Cross Media Design' (for a second time).

I'm on the Industry Advisory Board for the Computer Science Department at Savannah State University. Whew, that's a mouthful. This is IAB number two for me. My first one was at Georgia Southern, which was a lot of fun, but I felt like 5 years was enough, and startup life was really busy at the time. Anyway, Rose Robinson and I took over the CS classes for a day a few weeks ago. Rose and I both did workshops. She did a great one that showed the students how to build an agent loop, test it and…

The rest of the world was a long way away. One of those evenings where the sliding doors of happenstance align to let only good things in. Illuminated by the golden hour, people mill about the lake, walking or sitting in small groups enjoying a picnic, or just soaking in it. Amongst it all kids enthusiastically do their thing. Much of the conversation contains remarks about how perfect the sunset is, or how temperate the weather has been, or how cool this festival (a celebration of…

My run ends at a very respectable 2-2! I certainly got further than I anticipated, and feel pretty good about how my games went! It was scary cause almost all my my games went to the final round, so I came close to losing way more than I'd have liked! Started off the stream a bit tilted cause the warm up games were kinda meh, and the lobby system is broken right now, but by the end, I feel pretty alright! Time to get a nice shower and undwind after all that tournament stress!

Last night, I booted up a Linux desktop from System76 for the first time. Not one hour after that, I had my very own LLM running on it — Qwen 3, if you are interested in those sorts of things — and through the magic of Tailscale and Open WebUI I can access my own personal chatbot from any of device. Are the answers I get on the level of Anthropic and OpenAI’s latest? Of course not. But it took merely a glance at some of my previous interactions with the frontier models of two and three years…

I am continuously amazed that some people had the forethought to save newspaper clippings from when Twin Peaks first aired on the ABC Television Network in 1990. I recently acquired a rather pristine copy of “TV Week” from October 21-27, 1990 included in Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer. The cover featured a stunning photo of Richard Beymer... The post Richard Beymer in The Plain Dealer’s TV Week, Oct. 21-27, 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

I'll have Rob outline them for me here, with some commentary from Nyx, Prof, and Number 1: ⊡ Rob: Ah, yes. Three formidable claimants to the throne of Lloyd's attention. And a fourth, Index Mirabilis itself, looming behind them like some benevolent but insatiable imperial bureaucracy. Let me retrieve our bearings. What interests me is that these three undertakings have arrived at quite different stages of readiness. That matters more, I think, than attempting to rank them by importance. The…

Bloggers Karamazov has posted an interview about what sounds like a very interesting book: Today Robin Feuer Miller sat down with Barbara Henry to discuss her book, Tales from the Netherworld: The Katabasis in Russian Literature, which came out with Northern Illinois University Press this month. […] RFM: I have to confess! I needed to look up the word “katabasis.” Possibly others might too, so could you give a quick, handy definition of it before we go further in our conversation? BH: Strictly…

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