This week produced exactly five things worth talking about and one thing worth filing a tiny police report. Every week has its highlights. These were mine: Dundurn Castle I spent an hour in the kitchen garden of a nearby historic house. Historic castle if you want to be accurate about it. THIS is what I...Read More
Yet again, an English word surprises me with its multiple meanings. A reader complimented the “scruples” I apply to writing. I thought I knew the meaning of that word but wanted to check. Dr. Johnson doesn’t include scruples in his Dictionary but for scrupulous he gives: “nicely doubtful; hard to satisfy in determinations of conscience.” For the singular form, scruple, the OED gives ten definitions, starting with: “A thought or circumstance that troubles the mind or conscience; a doubt,…
Saturday 27th June 2026 During last year’s countdown of Britain’s Top 10 Quirky Bus Routes, blog reader Stephen got in touch with an intriguing question…. “Not sure whether this meets the criteria for ‘quirky bus route’ or some other category but next time you’re in Northumberland you might like to check out Chathill station and its two trains a day, both connected with the North Northumberland coast by Borders Buses (NCC contracted) route 918. This, to me, seems the ‘perfect’ rural bus-rail…
Living in Austin and being outside downtown a lot, you see a lot of ridiculous influencer behavior. The thing that always surprises me is that they do not like you watching them record stuff. It’s awkward. They feel awkward. And it just seems super duper highly ironic that it’s almost understood that it’s rude to watch an influencer make content. LOL's They are smiley, they are fun, they’re effervescent. But also super duper grumpy. How does this translate to a music blog, do you ask? Because…
Let’s talk about a college degree – what is the increase of knowledge comprised of? Meaning, if you take Alice and baseline her knowledge and skill in a subject, then send her to college for two years to get a masters degree in that subject, what are the specific sources of the change? For example, maybe we say this: Reading the required texts: 25% Attending the lectures: 20% Doing the assignments: 15% Completing a practicum: 15% Talking with professors: 15% Networking with other students: 10%…
Today I have the privilege to meet Derek Sivers. Through the years, he has inspired me to write. This is why I started this blog. His life's philosophy has helped me to stay focused on my business. During the one hour, we exchange stories about our life and philosophy. I asked for a parting advice that he can share with individuals who has no network, and no money. He thought about 20 seconds and said - Do the hard work. Doing the hard work that nobody else wants to do will help the person to…
Pylon, python. Ready with a wet rag. An impression of me, between sheets, humidly, on glass. My desire is to write the book on you—poised, perfect, candlelit—while you struggle, at my feet, to scratch the surface of my smile. My desire is to be cool, inaccessible, while you flounder, vulnerable, plundered. Imagine my shock when you put your paws on my lap and transform; the ice of my arrogance shattering under the diamond of your total understanding of me. Yes, this, all along. Hand me over to…
I follow a crypto blogger, but I see that almost all of his posts are about how successful he is. He flies business class, buys his wife gifts, and dines at expensive restaurants. But if I wanted to look at your photos, I’d follow you on Instagram, wouldn’t I?Your profile bio says you’ll teach me how to trade crypto. I followed you to learn something new, but after scrolling through a month’s worth of your posts, I only saw one piece of advice from an AI. How exactly is looking at all your…
July 13, 2025We kiss at the boundary.Your taste is saline but pleasantMy breath is fresh like winter’s morning.We touch tenderly at first,My soft streams reaching out to caress your cheek,And your tide erodes me slowly,As we spill into each others’ depthsIn a place where only the night sky knows of our meeting.And so it happens.Our storms surge against each otherYour seafoam meeting my twilight mistUndoing each other in waves —Shattering skyward where the birds dare not flyBut at our most…
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has rolled out their second striking, one-off PCC livery in as many years, this time in honor of the semiquincentennial. As shown above, Port Authority Transit 1799, a 1945 air-electric car, has been painted in a livery seen on the streets of Pittsburgh around the bicentennial in 1976. It's a striking color scheme that built off the then-current "banded" color layout used by PAT. The car was debuted today to much (literal) fanfare.Now, there is an asterisk with…
I never do these, but content warning: pet death. Here’s an anchor link to jump past the pet saga to the reading section if you aren’t up for that. Bad week. Had a regular vet appointment scheduled for Wednesday but the cat started breathing really heavily on Tuesday morning so we went to the emergency clinic instead. He had fluid surrounding his lungs — a lot of fluid, of which they extracted ~280mL — probably caused by cancer or heart failure, but we opted for palliative care rather than…
Changed the colour scheme of this blog, that is, back to a warmer, softer look for summer. No AI was used, I handcrafted each colour using a time-honoured artisanal process. OK, I actually just selected a few colours I’d used before. I suspect I’ll do another major revamp of the site before the summer is over. Meanwhile, my 4-6 week “full recovery” window maxes out at 42 days, so I have exactly one week to go. I can now say I am confident that I will not have recovered from all nerve…
Table of Contents 1. Infrastructure 1.1. Server 1.2. Network 2. Software 3. The Outcome It's true. I don't maintain my homelab… it maintains itself. Have I reached nirvana? Is this the ultimate goal of homelabbers? It seems that I've somehow automated myself out of a job (hobby?) by building a resilient homelab. Let's figure out where it all went "wrong". 1. Infrastructure 1.1. Server I have used a few different servers over the years, but have since consolidated all of my services onto a…
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot The post Saturday picdump for Saturday, June 27 appeared first on Global Nerdy.
Hello, loves! Some ideas about doors, and with luck, a bit more code. My new friend on Mastodon, @seedsignal, got me thinking about whether there are “natural” locations for passages between rooms in the Dungeon. The word “passages” just came to mind right there, and it might be a better term. A passage might have a door, or might not? I don’t know. Anyway, I was thinking about where connections between rooms might just feel right. I don’t have a solid theory on that, and I absolutely refuse to…
Joining part of the indieweb that feels like the best part of the old internet.
An early summer night in Toronto is a great thing, and, so, after doing a handful of things at and near the Eaton Centre (#mallatnight) we walked all the way back to Bloordale —— and not as the crow flies, either. Rather, the way an asshole cabbie would do it if he thought you were a come from away. North up Yonge from Dundas to Bloor; west on Bloor to Lansdowne. There were stops, obviously, but for the first time in a long time we got home close to 2am even though we weren't returning from an…
C. P. DONNEL, JR. “The Fourth Degree.” Duc Rennie #2, First appeared in Black Mask, February 1941. Reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 1953. I don’t know very much about C, P. Donnel, Jr., the teller of this tale, nor his hero Doc Rennie. I believe in fact that this is my first time reading anything by the author. In a post on his Pulpflakes blog, Sai Shankar tells us that Donnel (1906-1977) was “a crime reporter on the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot for a decade before switching to…
“But every once in a while, you find a magical afternoon where you’re both free, and you find yourselves sitting at a bar, or across each other at a picnic table, or sharing a meal, or a pinball machine, and it all comes flooding back. The easy chats, the light-hearted arguments about which band sold out when, the rekindling of old memories, and more recently an “in memorium” of friends who’ve passed.” buttondown.com/monteiro/…
Nau maiYesterday we had a Thursday off, enjoying a stop in the jewel of the midwest, Cleveland, Ohio. There are three main parts of Cleveland: Downtown, which is right on Lake Erie, Midtown, which is inland and to the east, and Birdtown which is to the west past the Cuyahoga River. We spent our day parked outside a trendy hotel in midtown, resting and making the most of the hotel facilities which included Foosball, Giant Jenga, rattan egg chairs, and a patio with a fire pit. Tristan and Annie…
The Washington Post reported that the US government will decide who can use state-of-the-art LLMs. After the ban of Fable and the limitations coming to ChatGPT 5.6, what's next? My bet is Chinese models. For all of Anthropic's doomsaying and propping up of their secret model Mythos, several open-weight models have proven capable of similar feats, and at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek rocked the AI world in December 2024 with their initial release, nearly sending shockwaves through American…
I missed publishing notes from the last two weeks. I didn’t do much reading during those weeks. How to recover a dropped stash in Git? Though I’m a long-time-novice Git user. At times, I do discard file changes after a git stash pop. I know, I should be doing git stash apply instead of git stash pop. Then safely clear the stash. Being an average human writing code, I do my fair share of mistakes. Anyways, two answers from this Stack Overflow question are really helpful for recovering lost…
Womp womp. Bookmakers suffer as the New York Knicks defy the odds. The City Reporter:→ The City Reporter
An idea for indie folks working together. Assumed audience: Folks who work independently—or have in the past, or might like to in the future. Epistemic status: Ideating! Collectives are an organizational structure for bringing together people to share the legal and financial challenges of going it alone professionally, without embracing the mechanisms of the corporation. I propose collaboratives: an organizational structure for bringing people together to share the social challenge of going it…
US Open Architecture – Flushing, New York The US Open is held in New York City, in the borough of Queens, in a neighborhood called Flushing, which was once a separate town before being consolidated into NYC in 1896. In August 1978, this facility, originally called the USTA National Tennis Center, opened, replacing the old facility in Forest Hills. In 2006, it was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Today, the complex occupies 46.5 acres in Flushing Meadows, which once…
I saw a fun post on Hacker News about creating wigglegrams, and decided to try it for myself. Since I live in the Google ecosystem, I had Claude rewrite the code for Google Photos support. However, because of some limitations to the Google API: Since 2025, Google's readonly scope only returns media your own app created unless your project has the legacy grant, so a personal library may list empty. Oh well, I could still use the script with local files. I created a Google Takeout request for my…
This is my great-grandfather, born Dominusz Andor in Szeged, Hungary in 1886. In the picture he is in Brooklyn, New York, probably sometime in the early 1950's. By 1911 Andor had moved from Hungary to Vienna and had changed the spelling of his name to “Dominus” to save confusion. He worked as a goldsmith, and owned his own jewelry shop, so he must have been doing OK. There's a family legend about why Andor left Vienna for the USA, and I was never sure whether I believed it. But thanks to the…
My favorite bite today was eating salmon nigiri with a bit of grated wasabi and the fish dipped in soy sauce 🍣😋
