Daily Drawing 912
This was the last message of Tim Samaras who only a few hours later, along with his son, Paul, and meteorologist Carl Young, died after a tornado generating winds of up to 175 mph picked up their car and threw it somersaulting through the air, landing half a mile away. The storm chasing team were monitoring the tornado, deploying atmospheric pressure probes to test infrasound tornado sensors when their car was hit. The trio were heard screaming ‘we’re going to die, we’re going to die’ on…
I’ve mentioned before that our work is usually invisible in completed projects. With a few exceptions you generally can’t even see the portions of a project building that were our responsibility because what you’re seeing is the architectural design work that we enabled but not create. The project I’m mentioning below is typical in that our work is invisible to just about everyone, but it’s not typical in the sense that the final result is being seen by literally millions of people. Between…
Can you guess what this is? Give up? Riding through the car wash! (click to enlarge)Lucky for you I've had no profound thoughts lately so I thought I would post a few lighthearted ’grabshots’ I made as I went about life. Just for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!Quite an interesting choice of clothes! Patriotic! (click to enlarge)Go for a swim anyone? Trees look healthy? Lol. (click to enlarge)Town Hall + Police Department + Community Center, all in one building in Junior, WVA.A real place. Talk…
When she smiles The day’s a little better
I once said, in a public argument about a book that advocated for divorce, that if I found my wife reading it we would have a conversation about it. My wife is a surgeon and the family breadwinner; the idea that I could control her is faintly comic to anyone who knows us. None of that mattered. Within minutes I had been assigned a role — controlling husband — and the assignment was made not from any fact about my marriage but from the shape of the sentence. A man wanting a say in what his wife…
Up at 5:30. Sleeping gear stowed, boom tent tucked away. Third customer of the day at The Bean, a cranberry muffin and a glass of iced tea. Keith drops by for a quick breakfast. He says a small flotilla of boats is sailing across the Neuse River to the mouth of Adams Creek to escort Mini Globe racer Josh Kali on SKOOKUM as they return to Oriental. Keith suggests SPARTINA join the flotilla at noon. I say "maybe."But the day is pretty and the breeze fresh, I tell Keith I gotta get on the water. A…
If anything looks wrong, read on the site! Hey there! Last month I mentioned we were at the tail end of a heatwave, but little did I know, June’s heatwave has been much worse 🥵 This month, I’ve taken a week off work and wrote about my trip to Veneto, as well as attended an amazing Iron Maiden concert in Milan (which I also wrote a bit about). As for cool links, there’s a fair selection this month. Fun TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites, by Caue Napier This is so cool! TownSquare…
Summer has arrived, but not necessarily in a good way. It's hot and humid across most of the nation, and yesterday was one of the first days up here in the mountains where I thought that maybe I should limit my outdoor activity in the middle of the day. Let me record some snippets.--This morning I heard a car alarm, which made me think about how seldom I hear car alarms these days. This morning's car alarm kept sounding for over 10 minutes, which made me think about how an alarm that doesn't…
The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear The Web will not vanish overnight, but the Web as we know it, the open place where people search, click, read, browse, publish, and discover, is already being replaced by something more convenient, more centralized, and much harder to escape. [ 📌angusf ] Living the indie web life I don’t want to give my power away when it comes to technology. I don’t want anyone else to have to give their power away either. [indienews]
8613/21532Disappointingly the injections don't seem to be affecting my appetite this time. So I might not lose another 5kg, but I guess that's a small price to pay for it all essentially going OK. So far. Fingers crossed.The queue to get into the hospital car park stretched back so far today that we decided I'd just get out and walk in and Catie would park the car in Sainsburys.
As someone whose world would readily blur into pixel art rendition without nearest-neighbor scaling the moment the glasses slip from the bridge of their nose, my eternal nemesis is 'modern' online KYC (Know Your Customers) procedures routinely employed in financial apps. Doing anything in my banking apps seemingly involve some kind of selfie recordings with bizarre instructions written in tiny fonts while they insist on REMOVING my glasses. Instructions I could NOT read without squinting, but…
The Last Quarter Moon is Wednesday July 8. On July 7 Earth is at aphelion. In the morning Saturn and Mars form a long line. Saturn is close to the Moon on the 8th. Mars and Uranus are at their closest together in binoculars on the 4th and 5th and the pair are also midway between the Pleiades and Hyades clusters. In the evening, Venus and Jupiter form a line. On the 9th Venus is just 1° from Leo’s brightest star, Regulus. The Last Quarter Moon is Wednesday July 8. On July 7 Earth is at aphelion,…
Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10, we managed to hatch 5 of them. The chicken eggs we have in the incubator won't be ready for another week or so. Excited to see how many of them we get. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
dry fitted dividersI applied glue to the underside only. I didn't put any glue on the vertical ends.hmm......The dividers were a frog hair off but there is enough flexibility in 1/8" plywood to align them with the grooves. Decided to fit each drawer I've done so far rather than wait until all five are glued and cooked.layout for the half lapsWith the nine compartment layout I only have to layout for one end. I set the distance for it, sawed it, and then flipped it 180 to saw the other…
Well, I wasn’t in the mood to post anything during the heatwave, and my poor eight-year-old ThinkPad was in such dire straits that opening more than four tabs while I had any other applications open was becoming a serious challenge for that faithful machine. To the point where I couldn’t finish the novella I was supposed to be landing last week. It took Lenovo a month to ship me a new ThinkPad. I’ve been using ThinkPads for decades, as they have the best keyboards, but next time I need a new…
Like many programmers, I started my career more comfortable on the back end. Unlike many, I now love React.1 Here are some things I've found myself repeating to colleagues who don't feel comfortable on the front end. One-way data flow (see here) is the single most important conceptual point to internalize. There are many, many React concepts, many of which you can defer studying, but do your best to internalize this one. Because the data flow works like this, you can think of a React component…
Wildflowers are lit by the setting sun at Erwin Park, McKinney, Texas. The post Among the Wildflowers at Sunset appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
The Ware for June 2026 is shown below: This board is from my personal collection of “favorite boards” that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of old memories associated this one – both figuratively and literally. I’ve received some feedback that gmail in particular is marking my email updates as spam. Not sure I have a good way to fix this yet, as the blog is also under heavy attack from automated AI spammers at the same time (to the tune of several thousand requests a day). You’ll notice…
Welcome back once again to Engagement Farming, our ongoing series in which I play through Fire Emblem Engage. We did two chapters tonight, including one big confrontation with the bad guys! Let's begin, shall we? Our first chapter was Byleth's paralogue, which features a bunch of bad guys who are trying very hard to blow up some crystals around the map. Our goal, as ever, is to defeat the Emblem in question (i.e., Byleth, in this instance), but this creates an extra "go fast and stop them from…
Here's how to make your first page in Koriander CMS. Install Koriander CMS Install Koriander CMS on your computer using pipx. Install pipx using the official pipx installation instructions. Open a terminal on your computer and make sure that you can run pipx. Type the following command and press the Enter key: pipx --version pipx version on the author's computer Open in new tab (full image size 37 KiB) On the author's computer this command prints the following: 1.8.0 pipx printing a version…
Age: 61 Number of Years driving: 45 Approximate number of cars owned: 13 New Cars purchased: 1 In a twist of fate so cruel it was almost unbelievable, the universe broke my beloved 2005 Camry last Saturday, the same day I wrote about a bad luck streak that included a new dishwasher, an expensive HVAC repair and $9,000 in stolen copper pipes and plumbing bills. Wonder Woman ran over a nail around mid-day and took my car to run an errand. She promptly called me to announce that the check engine…
Two hundred and fifty years ago, men with everything to lose bet it all on an idea: that ordinary people might govern themselves. It was a reckless bet, and it paid off. For some, right away, and for the rest of us, eventually. That's the part worth sitting with. The Revolution didn't free everyone at once. It freed enough people, with enough conviction, that the freeing kept going for two and a half centuries after. Slow, contested, occasionally violent, never finished, but it kept going. A…
why am i worse at tarot reading now? i've lost all specificity. i think i had the most of it back when i was reading for people on the aeclectic forums - there was a lot of "real life" questions (vs. spiritual/internal/personal development type of stuff), so it was easy for there to even *be* specifics for me to get. and i wonder if it's also partially because i'd only just started getting some proficiency in tarot, i didn't know it inside out yet. it was a tool that helped me open up somehow.…
This post includes personal updates and some open source project updates. Personal things First up, this update does not have any news on any of my open-source projects. If you’re here for that you might as well close this tab now, sorry. With all that’s been happening I had no time to advance any of the projects. Coffee As usual when I’m travelling I pick up individual coffee bags of beans that I find particularly interesting, to enjoy them later on whenever I have access to my own coffee…
The end of June 2026 found me in Lincoln for a couple of days with a ticket for a gig at the castle and a plan to get around a dozen-or-so of the city's pubs.This coincided with England's heatwave #2, the temperature already past 30°C by 11am. This meant...1. An element of concern over cask quality2. The poor folks of Lincoln being subjected to my legs on show3. Knowing that the trek up Steep Hill would to be a stinkerHaving arrived pre-noon, it's an inevitability that I'd start the day in…
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 215-218: AMONG THE UKRAINIANS prepared to fight Napoleon with arms in hand was the founder of modern Ukrainian literature, Ivan Kotliarevsky. A native of the Poltava region in the former Hetmanate, he formed a Cossack detachment to join the struggle. The son of a minor official, Kotliarevsky studied in a theological seminary, worked as a tutor of children of the nobility, and served in the Russian…
The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co church organ. The core memory was used to store and recall settings of the organ’s “stops”. There were 5 core memory boards in this instrument which differ in how many words were implemented. I photographed the largest one, which has 19 x 10 bit words, of which one is a spare, and then another word, I guess also spare, with no corresponding drive circuitry populated. So, 200 cores of which 180…
I’m not sure about this UK reboot of Widow’s Bay. The post What’s the story in Balamory? appeared first on JimmerUK.com.
