📍 Yokohama Burg 13 (横浜ブルク13) Toy Story 5!Location: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, JapanComment by email
Today I learned of Subsoccer and it is both preposterous and something I would in fact like to have. American spirit of invention chugs along even at 250.
Table of Contents Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Hello and welcome to the Old Computer Challenge - 2026 Edition! This is the third year when I’m participating, and if you didn’t read my previous years’ entries, you can check OCC24 – Party like it’s 2004, and also the OCC25 – Old Tech, Old Tricks articles. If you don’t know what the Old Computer Challenge is, we’re a bunch of dorks that refuse to let old hardware die or be forgotten and still use them ten, twenty, thirty years or even…
Subways at Rest – Flushing, New York Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Leaving the US Open Site, there is a bridge that spans the subway depot on the way to the station. I shot all these Number 7 subway trains at rest and a nice remnant of the blue hour to boot. You can see the glowing tennis stadium on the left. The closest subway station is the Mets-Willets Point. The US Open complex is south of the station, and Citi Field, where the NY Mets baseball team plays, is north of the…
I’m currently on the 22 bus. It’s packed to the brim to heading to the water front. It’s a circus and I’m here for it. I love the SFMTA. I love public transit. I hate driving! Happy Fourth.
I'm sitting in the garden. I haven't smoked yet, but I will. I have a beautiful new metal case to hold my joints. Here comes my spouse wearing one of those cool t-shirts with the wolves and the moon on it, cut off as a crop-top. My spouse is so cool.I gave them a joint from my case. Sitting on the garden swing, I took a small puff, but I wanted to get back to this, so I don't really want to smoke much more, at least for now.It's beautiful out here. One of the people who drives by and yells…
I decided to step out to see if I could see the 4th of July fireworks from a cross-street in Brooklyn Heights. I took this video from Pierrepont and Willow Streets and then converted it into a gif using the same procedure I described for turning a pill bug video into a gif back in 2024. Independence Forever! I recorded some 4th of July fireworks from Pierrepont and Willow Streets in Brooklyn Heights. Independence Day Fireworks…
DMG – Live the Dream Skittering glitchy rave from Daniel McGurty, aka DMG, now based in Edinburgh but a native of Blackburn. McGurty is painting with a delicate brush here, sketching around an absence of overt dancefloor kick/bass spine, but these two tracks from his upcoming album Live the Dream nonetheless evoke plenty of nostalgia for UK hardcore and rave. Blackburn was the epicenter of illegal raving in the UK in the late 80s and early 90s. Kids making great use of all the abandoned mills…
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out…
There was no yoga today, so our morning exercise was marching in the Saint Anthony Park parade (which is an institution!) with our mayor, Kaohly Her. It was a lot of fun, we ran out of candy, we got to see other politicians we admire (like Congresswoman Betty McCollum, Commissioner Garrison McMurtrey, and Representative Claire Oumou Verbeten), and it reminded us of the importance of democracy.Plus we got to see my cousin Erin and her husband, raising money for Mutual Aid through their church…
Happy 250th birthday, USA. The defining image in my lifetime of American culture is the hooded man at Abu Ghraib prison. Well, you’re still young and “finding a place to be/ in the early days of a better civilization,” as Dennis Lee’s poem put it. Here’s to the next 250. It’ll improve; it has to.
One of the items I keep buying in Japan are hand creams. Whenever I go to Don Quijote to buy snacks or additional skincare, my attention gets diverted when I see the hand creams displayed there. I prefer Japanese hand creams over Korean ones, although you may see me review a couple of kbeauty hand […]
Borneo, 1941: rich white Brits run the show for tobacco, pearls and the opium trade, while World War Two creeps up around the edges. Who is sneaking onto the Goodwill plantation and why? The Red Pearls of Borneo (Bushmonkey Games) is an interesting take on the deductionizer format. It's patterned after Type Help; your challenge is to figure out which people were where and when. But it adds a layer of search mechanics to the logic. I don't think it's entirely successful, but it's an instructive…
I am once again sorry to all my friends about my obsession with Esperanto. It passes through my life like a kind long orbit planetary body over many years. I think around 15 or so. Except this time it's hit the me planet like a comet and it's here to stay. So buckle up. But also still sorry. #esperanto
I used to bake a lot. Despite my usual protests and grievances about baking, as baking is a precise art whereas cooking is a whole YOLO approach, I used to bake because I felt like we could always have more spinach quiche and chewy chocolate cookies in the world. That said, I stopped baking back in 2019, “coincidentally” with the time I started my job at Automattic, since the job occupied most of my time and energy. Fast forward to 2026, now I have a teenager and a pre-teen in the house, and…
My heart has now been broken twice in looking for a house. We put an offer on one which wasn’t accepted and then the other we missed by a day maybe? Regardless this search is just exhausting us at the moment.
I finally have time to flesh out ideas for lessons that I’ve wanted for years. However, if I can’t find a way to send them back to 2006, there’s no point writing them: very few people read long-form tutorials about software these days. I’d still be interested in comments, though—figuring out what I would teach always helps me learn. Overview Topic: Error handling. Audience: Senior undergraduates who are comfortable writing programs in Python and JavaScript that are hundred of lines long, know…
In a recent post, I did a brief critique of what I called Acronym Marketing. It was so brief that it may have looked like it came from ignorance. But in reality after reflecting on it, I think it comes from two places: cultural differences and due to their overuse in marketing (As someone said it succinctly: HLA. Humans Like Acronyms). I hereby announce my new four part series: AFS (Acronym Fatigue Series), where I will explore my acronym aversion for my readers enjoyment:
A favorite album by one of my favorite musicians, Bill Frisell. With Don Byron, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet; Guy Klucevsek, Accordion; Kermit Driscoll, Bass; Joey Baron, Drums. Recorded in 1992, the album cover features a 4th of July photo of racing … Continue reading →
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IntroductionWhen I was a computer science student, I read the first edition of the book "Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide" by Dick Grune [1] et al. In the ~30 years since, it may be the book I’ve been reminded of most often. The primary reason for this is that the book goes off on tangents that are sometimes only vaguely related to the book's topic, or even to the immediate context. If you're interested in a subject, details add texture, making it easier to remember. If you just want to…
Good twisty wartime spy story from Paul “subtlety is for cowards” Verhoeven. Not one of his best movies – too plotty and obvious – but clearly crucial to his whole deal (it wouldn’t be his last film about resistance fighters betraying their own people for profit). Rutger and his college buds bond over his hazing experience by entering WWII (“a spot of war would be quite exciting”), ending up on different sides, then bumping into (and/or killing) each other. Guus (4th Man star Jeroen Krabbé)…
Beyond its crux, the flippancy with which The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' narrator invents the city is the most distinctive aspect of the story to me. There's a reading where the suffering child is optional - only necessary if you can't buy the first two and a half pages - because the narrator is only negotiating with our suspension of disbelief, not telling us about a place that Really Exists. In that way, if you can imagine or accept that this miraculous little city could exist without…
1926 was the last full year of silent features in Hollywood. In 1927, The Jazz Singer would strike a blow that would lead to the slow death of silent movies as the mainstream entertainment of the masses. So, let’s live it up and celebrate this triumphant final year! 1926 hits just right for me with […]
(Continued from my previous posts.) I’ve finally finished filling in the map of the desert, and found absolutely no items whatsoever. It’s all just rooms and more rooms. If there are any puzzles, they’re of the “hidden” variety. This presents an opportunity to do something I’ve done only marginally on this blog: analyze the prose. Via eBay. Before I get that, let’s lay out the rest of the geography. I mentioned a rusty key after a rock slide; heading farther northwest leads to a view by a cabin…
Cabo Verde pronunciation in Portuguese. Is it “KAH-boo VEHR-duh” or “KAH-boo VEHR-jee”? I think Brazilian Portuguese would be the latter “-jee” version (at least in the NE where I visited some 20 years ago).
05 Jul 2026 emacs it Table of Contents Preamble Calling the Dired File operations Powerful rename Copy/move files like in mc (or Far) Search for something find-name-dired find-grep-dired External programs Dired and photos/images Emacs-specific things Configuration overview Keybindings Hooks Dired-related variables Faces customization Download Notes This blog post is a part of the series of posts about my Emacs configuration. Previous posts: My Emacs configuration (common parts) Why and how I…
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Arriving in Style. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is challenged in a number of thrilling battles. [S] Recorded from CITV on Saturday 20th March 2010 11:28 After this the recording ends with the start of Prove It. The next recording is Mythbusters – Forest Fire/Scuba Diver. The first myth is that of a scuba diver who…
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