Yes, it's me, I'm back! A month in Japan and two or three weeks when I was busy doing other things have prevented surveys, but I should be OK for a few weeks now. (No promises!) If you want to see what I did on holiday I am creating a record here, it is mainly trains but there are a few beer and bar reports.Today I headed to Crosby to revisit a couple of targets, starting with the Corner Post:This is a classic micro pub, a pleasant friendly shop conversion offering excellent real ales. Shortly…
Found a little gem on Reddit. I mean, I don't know if this is fun to actually type on, and the spacebar doesn't actually follow a vonoroi ...
Live from the real shithole, — Ol’ C.W. young
Nachdem ich beim letzten Dessertrezept in zartgrün unterwegs war, wird es heute rosa-rot. Im Supermarkt fiel mir ein Tütchen der guten alten Kaltschale in die Hände, die meine Mutter oft in heißen Sommern anrührte und die ich immer gern löffelte. Eigentlich dachte ich, daß es dieses Produkt gar nicht mehr gibt, aber falsch gedacht. Sofort fiel mir der große Becher mit 10%igem Joghurt ein,
We watched Crime 101 the other night and I couldn't help but view it as a kind of remake of Heat, albeit without a "crew." That said, it was entertaining. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 17:52 Saturday, 4 July 2026
I’m at the New Jersey shore with family and friends, where we’ve spent this Fourth of July eating hot dogs, playing miniature golf, and wading into the ocean that my great-grandparents crossed to escape calamities they knew about and much greater calamities that they didn’t. Tonight we’ll see the fireworks, weather permitting. And yes, on the crowded beach today you can find people sporting MAGA and “45-47” hats, and even a giant “Trump 2028” flag—a stark reminder of the millions who would…
Lately, I've turned my mind towards photography. Since college, I always liked photography, but I always had that fear of taking photo's in public (something I'm sure most people go through), but that led me to buying a DSLR (I think it was a Nikon D5000 and wasn't cheap as camera's go, even back then). I ended up taking a handful of photos and it's now hidden away somewhere and when I last looked, I don't even think it works1. Since then, I put it to the back of my mind, it's come back up now…
Broadcasting over Ethernet until the heat death of the universe with a custom ASIC, or yet another terrible idea, this time inspired by reddit.
July 4 seems like a good day to talk about hubris.You've all read those articles about men and hubris -- the absurd number of men who think they could take a tennis game off Serena Williams or could win a fight against a bear.I do not share that hubris. But I do have my own version of it. One manifestation is that I honestly believe I could hold my own in an interview with Isaac Chotiner (surely, that's the intellectual equivalent of "win a fight against a bear"). But another that I just…
Status: Slept for a good 12 hours last night and into the afternoon, so I must have been wiped out. Reckon it was the writing what done it, on top of fallout from Wednesday. It’s a clear sign that while I might be managing the pacing and avoiding the booms and busts, my actual capacity has not changed too much over the last year. I still can’t do fuckall of note compared to my pre-CFS self. What I can do is squeeze out moments of clarity where I can be relatively normal, make the most of them,…
Hello, loves! Let’s see if we can gin up something that’s kind of fun. I have a simple idea that seems promising. Turns out to be Very Pleasing! Let’s see how we create the DungeonView: Here’s some of where it gets going: class DungeonView:` def run(self): self.setup() self.dungeon.run() self.window.show_view(self) arcade.run() def setup(self): self.setup_scroller() self.setup_cameras() self.room_sprite_list = arcade.SpriteList() self.create_rooms(self.room_sprite_list)…
Following up on my two previous posts about book recommendations. I now finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The book didn't disappoint. I watched the HBO series back in 2021 when it came out and it remains, in my opinion, the best TV shows I have ever watched. The book which was the source material, while differing in plot significantly, especially in the second part of the story, shares the same melancholy and nostalgia after lost world processed through art, memory and…
Went into the city to buy swimsuits for the kids. In completely unrelated news I finally got started on turning my old 2013 MBP (which has suffered a broken screen) into a homeserver. Very minimal (headless) setup. Installed Immich as the first service on it. Still need to figure out how to best import all the iCloud photos. Tomorrow: Setting up remote access. It has been fun so far! :)
Hi Crowd! Today the USA turns 250 years old. Our relationship has always been a bit complicated. I recognize that the divide between what the United States of America promised to be and what it’s become is far wider than many want to admit. Honestly it has been since the beginning. But I also hold hope that it can be better. The goal of a “more perfect union” remains something of a carrot on a stick, in sight but just out of reach. But a goal worth trying to find a way to achieve. That won’t…
I came across this funny series of posts by Quailblog and thought it’d be funny to reply with a bird picture of my own
Hi everyone. I’m joining #WeekendCoffeeShare again. It’s nearly 10PM as I start typing this post and I’ll soon need to brush my teeth, but I’ll finish this post before going off to bed. I just had my cup of green tea. If you’d like something to drink either hot or cold, feel free to and let’s chat. If we were having coffee, first I’d talk about the weather. The heatwave has thankfully ended and we now usually have daytime highs of about 24°C, sometimes even cooler. It’s been quite windy and…
Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT Interested in using this article in a magazine? Get in touch and I can provide a shorter version! Forging Through Sheffield’s Pubs I had a brilliant day exploring Sheffield with Niall from From Sheffield with Pubs, Aaron from Ale About Leicester, and Dan along with his brother Ash…
National identity is the result of a personal and unstable alchemical mixing of history, myth, social conditioning, and imagined landscape. This is not some fixed point, but rather a disputed, illusory, and ever mutable interpretation of one’s relationship with the country they live in. Some people have a devotion to their country that can only be described as religious, as their beliefs seem immune to evidence-based critique. Others treat their national identity with a dismissiveness that…
Go 1.26 rebuilt go fix from scratch. If you haven’t tried it yet, give it a spin: it rewrites the code in your module to use modern language and library features. It has quickly become one of my favorite features, and LLMs are a big part of why. Models tend to use old APIs, and sometimes they deny that a new API exists even when you point them to it. Coaxing a model is non-deterministic. go fix is a better way to keep code on the latest features of the language. Run it locally or in CI and the…
(note: this post uses <details> and <summary> tags. If you're viewing in a reader that doesn't support this, click here to open in a browser.) A riddle is like a puzzle, except it's purely for the benefit of the person telling the riddle. It's not designed to be fun to solve, or even particularly clever. The only satisfaction in a riddle is for the person telling it, because they already know the answer. This is because "solving a riddle" usually relies on making multiple leaps of logic and…
Throughout this series, we have used various commands and environments from multiple LaTeX packages. It's time to do a brief overview of various ways to create your own. Contents Built-in capabilities def let newcommand Starred commands newenvironment Xparse Built-in capabilities ↩ def ↩\def<\command><params>{<body>} This is the simplest way to define a command in LaTeX. \def\mydef{% This is expanded from \textbackslash mydef.% } Then, when invoked in the document as \mydef, it will expand to…
Your Hexcrawl is Too RealisticAn average adult can see 3 miles away on an unobstructed horizon. That same adult takes about 1 hour to walk that same 3 mile distance. I learned these facts because they’re frequently invoked to justify the verisimilitude of hexcrawl procedures. Both the 6-mile hex and its critics rest their arguments, in part, on the 3 mile sightline. Most retroclones inherit the 24-mile per day travel pace from D&D, because (3 mph x 8hrs) = 24 miles. A plurality of NSR travel…
hammer to the skull from the inside out try having a coherent thought words float away letter by letter all is silent except you whispering my name
Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸 When I see someone waving a flag today, I regret that my first wary instinct is to suspect they may actually hate our country. They might claim to appreciate specific parts, so long as those parts precisely match their own corner of it, but otherwise not so much. I love my country. That means I love the people in it, even if they don’t look like me, sound like me, think like me, worship like me, love like me, or simply exist like me. If your family was around before…
Robert is a brilliant organiser of the blogging community. I love him for that. A month ago, he suggested I join the Junited campaign and spend the whole of June recommending other authors’ posts. The campaign was brilliant and I’m glad I took part, although the second half of June was very hectic for me in many ways and blogging had to take a back seat.July, on the other hand – as I found out yesterday – is JulyReply, so another initiative. This time, it involves responding to other bloggers…
Read the full post at - James Baldwin on America I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James Baldwin
I know the popular thing (if you watch the news and look at much social media) is to hate on America. We are pretty polarized as a nation. I get that. But, I've seen enough of the world to know that this is still the best place to live on earth. I've tried to think of a better country to live in and while there may be places I'd enjoy hanging out in for an extended vacation, none of them have ever made me think of renouncing my citizenship. And that's the thing I don't understand. If a person…
The domed round shield from my Patreon! I will have updates on this and my other shields soon. I now own an Indian copy of a Greek kopis “cleaver” (pl. kopides, from the verb koptein “to split, hew”), a type of forward-curved sword or long knife used all over the northern Mediterranean from the sixth century BCE to the second century BCE. It was distinguished from straight, two-edged swords like the Scythian akinakes and the Greek xiphos (pl. xiphe: this word has neutral gender and belongs to…
I think I first encountered Ricky Jay in David Mamet's House of Games with Joe Mantegna and Lindsay Crouse. He would pop up now and again over the years in films and TV episodes, including the final season of Sneaky Pete, his last on-screen work. I enjoyed his crafty, cynical, world-weary con men wherever they made an appearance. Jay spent even more Hollywood time off-camera, serving as a technical consultant regarding illusions and con games on dozens of productions. Gary Sinise's wheelchair…
