The house on Cap Ferrat Norman Foster designed for himself is for sale for EUR29.5 million, is the headline, but very much not the story here. Foster gut renovated a 1950s house on Av. de la Corniche, between the Four Seasons and the Mediterranean, in 2000, clearing out the stone and masonry shell, and filling it with an atrium living space of steel and glass, and a Richard Long installation of mud. For reference, the Long is 17 m tall, and the atrium is 21m, I think. Architecture Viva has a…

Ever since I saw that video of the Tesla Roadster, I can’t stop thinking about it. Not how cool it is, not how innovative or how interesting it is, but how stupid it is, and also just how stupid many products feel these days. I grew up with Back to the Future and Star Wars. The idea of a flying car is intrinsically futuristic and cool to me. There’s no debate worth having about that. But the problem is how it works in reality. In my mind, it was never a technical issue as much as a safety…

hung a spare mirror and art to make my new workout space more pleasant Win of the week: did another music library purge — down to 3150 tracks from about 4000 in February — have removed all the “easy” stuff, now I need to actually listen to some tracks and decide whether or not I would want them to come up on random mode (my end goal is that I would be reasonably happy to hear any song in the library, with some allowances for album completionism) Looking forward to: planning to check out the…

I wasn't able to spend a ton of time there, but I did finally visit the Brooklyn Botanic garden - mostly the outdoor bits - and I had a great time. I had hoped to take a lot of unusual pictures there, but, like a complete clown, I left the battery for my nice camera at home. This was also after creating a rickety tower of objects on top of my backpack the night before I left, with the camera balanced on top. This is sometimes effective at reminding me that the camera (or whatever item I've put…

It's nearing the end of October so I've brought out the Ginger, Clove & Mistletoe hand cream. Also, I put nail polish on. Nail polish is a universally recognized signal of winter among gardeners. We don't do nails from April to October. Polish attracts attention to your fingertips and your fingertips look like they were...Read More

The sporty conditions continued over the night and the day with wind over 32kn at times, and only a slight reduction to sea state while we were at the lee of the Ha’apai Group. Big seas, quite often splashing the cockpit or breaking against the windscreen of our hard dodger. But also beautiful starry sky, and blue skies during the day. We’re still working on our sea legs but progress towards Minerva is good. Conditions are supposed to start easing tonight. Distance today: 139NM Lunch:…

I liked the plan, but there are some big caveats.Assumed audience: People familiar with the gist of the 80/20 endurance system, including its custom 7-zone system, and at least the broad strokes of the “Norwegian method” for endurance training. The 80/20 Norwegian plans are good, but they’re very different from the base plans in some important ways. Most importantly: they are lower volume and less overall intensity than the “regular” plans of the same “level” in the 80/20 system. That might be…

Park Avenue, JP Morgan Chase Tower – New York, New York For the third and final post on the JPMorgan Chase Tower in this mini-series, we get a really great view of its architectural and engineering superpower. From this angle, you can appreciate how the base is significantly narrower, as the tilted sides show. I understand this wasn’t purely an architectural exercise. The location of the building necessitated a narrower base because of site constraints. The building boldly faces Park Avenue,…

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I've had butterflies in my tummy for the past 6 hours. I've been going to an improv class at my local library, and loving it. So our instructor signed us up for an event that is tomorrow - it's a clue-style murder-mystery thing. 5 of us will be playing suspects, while attendees will be investigating the crimes and figuring out who's guilty of which murder. In 3 months, there have been 3 classes. I feel pretty good about my improv skills, but this is a two hour continuous-improv rather than…

Someone should write a song about how good life can be if you have fried chicken, cold beer, a pair of jeans that fit just right, and the radio up.

I've been wondering lately if I should start a second blog for all my writings about technology and nerdy things. This blog is all over the place topic-wise on purpose. I figured I could just write about whatever I felt like and the Topics page and the hashtags would allow folks to follow the topics they were interested in and ignore the topics they aren't so interested in. I did it this way to make it easier for me, but I worry that it's not so easy for readers to follow this way, especially…

The first generation of Intel’s 16-bit microprocessors turned out to be a surprising success after IBM chose their 8088 model for the IBM PC computer.Many software industry leaders expected the transition from 8-bit to 16-bit computing to bring more capable operating systems, including multitasking and networking support. That did not happen: the IBM PC shipped with a clone of the old, single-tasking CP/M operating system, called PC DOS and most of the industry followed.In early 1982, Intel…

It was a disappointing end to the season for the Dodgers. The three-peat was not meant to be as the Brewers trounced the Dodgers with a four-game sweep in the NLCS. The Dodgers should once again be contenders in 2027, but changes are due for a team showing its advanced age. Ohtani Unfortunately, Shohei Ohtani has stated he plans to pitch in 2027. Ohtani has proven he cannot stay healthy through the postseason as a two-way player. The best way for him to help the Dodgers is by stepping off the…

ANALOG SF – February 1968. Editor: John W. Campbell Cover artist: Kelly Freas. Overall rating: *** HARRY HARRISON – “The Horse Barbarians.” Serial, part 1 of 3. The book version (as Deathworld 3) was previously reviewed on this blog here. WALT & LEIGH RICHMOND “If the Robot Fits,,,” Is the interconnectivity of computers possible? It takes a boy to answer. (2) POUL ANDERSON “Look! I See You!” Flying saucers, atmospheric plasmoids, and Hopi Indians. How to join the Galactic Federation. Ho-hum (3)…

‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI It is the plagiarism machine being used for plagiarism, but also it is random people using AI to take control back over devices whose proprietary software was used to arbitrarily lock away basic functionality, to add advertisements, surveillance, and bloat to devices that probably shouldn’t have them, or whose functionality was bricked altogether. It makes me wonder how long this is going to be allowed. I would think that plagiarizing…

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Worked with Claude today and created Linking Things! I publish links every week in the Weekly Thing but I’ve never had a site that provides my entire archive of over 16,000 links to search and browse. Plus the stats page is awesome. 😎 Also see the project page.

I'm excited to announce zmx can now be used as a zig module to programmtically interact build session persistence in your zig project. Projects can use this instead of embedding the zmx binary and exec spawning commands through the zmx cli. This zig module is just a thin wrapper around a unix socket ipc wire protocol to interface with the running zmx daemon that controls the terminal session. libzmx-commit quick start The library in `src/lib.zig` is importable as the `zmx` package from other…

Following on from my post last year about Bootstrap 5 CSS Breakpoint Indicator, here’s a snippet for Bootstrap 6 (Alpha). It appears at all times in the bottom left corner of the viewport and as it’s small, partially transparent so it doesn’t distract from the main content. css body::after { aspect-ratio: 1 / 1 !important; backdrop-filter: blur(99px) !important; background-color: rgb(0 0 0 / 0.8) !important; border-radius: 8px !important; bottom: 0.25rem !important; color: #fff !important;…

i am an angry bathroom cleaner all this work after work and all this falling white powder has me reassure myself the year this house was built - then those concerning spots on the filter which left too long, mostly all these eccentric movements of my wrists i taste the air bitter other things said oh, britain It Was Just Like Yesterday :: Friday, 23rd October 2026

by Juan Carlos Ojano Ten years later and LA LA LAND's opening sequence still astounds.LA LA LAND, Damien Chazelle's Oscar-winning Technicolor ode to cinema, jazz, and dreamers, returns to cinemas this year to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Many Oscar fans will remember this film as the film that almost won Best Picture, only to be leapfrogged by the queer coming-of-age film Moonlight, resulting in an Oscar snafu to end all award snafus. However, its legacy goes beyond awards talk. With how…

I've made another display board for my little aeroplanes, mostly WWII stuff this time, though there's a bit of WW1 overflow as well. This one is intended as a wall display, hanging from a picture hook.I've included some unpainted models on this one, in the hope that embarrassment and shame will spur me into getting them done. There is still space for a few more models, if and when they come along, but not too many more.

There’s not been a lot of optimism about the web recently, but Paul Ford points out that web technologies designed for teams of software engineers can now be used by individuals: The high tax of building for app stores seems less worth paying when you can just test an idea in the world from a web server for $0 after a couple weeks. Perhaps Mozilla should take another swing at launching a mobile phone! (Forget I mentioned that.) In any case, what used to be a large industrial process is now a…

Dumplings (Fruit Chan) Bai Ling of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is abortionist-chef Aunt Mei, and her latest rich customer is from Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2. I once watched the feature-length version of this on bootleg DVD, which defeats the point of bathing in all the lovely green shades brought out by Christopher Doyle, shooting a WKW movie without the blurry slow-mo. The movie’s other point is to gross you out with all the baby-eating, which evokes Monty Python’s crunchy frog…

This is my theory, and it might not be entirely correct, but I'm sure it is at least partially true. I have been a hobby gamer for many years, but I have only been in the industry side of it for about 5 years. I count from 2022, the year Dancing Queen was released. I have met many, many nice people in the industry. Game designers, game publishers, play organisers and so on.

Went to draft night, but there was only two of us, so we didn't draft. Ended up playing 1v1 Commander (my least favorite way to play magic, aside from maybe 6+ person commander), and while I won all 3 games, it just wasn't very satisfying. Was nice to test my new Mono-Green Oath of Druids brew, but it was meh despite the deck being fun.