We like notebooks, we even tried to start a company analog.is around notebooks. Recently, we’ve been making a different style of notebook and given a few to friends. The feedback has been great, so it’s time we write a bit more about them. There is a company in Japan KOKUYO who makes Campus notebooks. They have won Japanese Stationary awards for their projects. It was probably here that we first saw half sized notebooks. Their’s are smaller B6 sized notebooks, similar to an A5 notebook. What…

I’ve long wanted to watch the British miniseries, Edward the King (1975) (aka Edward the Seventh). When I

“It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing & criticise others. Go create! Have fun :)”— Ricky Gervais

Today I learned the Babbling Baboon Ass in D.C. asked Google to rename the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean as “Trump Ocean”. Original story in Newsweek, text below for your reading enjoyment. By the way, Google said no, according to Donny Marmalade, but Google hasn’t confirmed the conversation ever took place. Of course, this is not how any of this is suppose to work. President Donald Trump has claimed he spoke to Google about renaming a body of water after himself, saying the technology company…

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📱 On this day - an iOS app providing easy access to all photos taken on a specific day. A great daily trip down memory lane, to relive what you shot or did.

From: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-rolling-stones-live-at-carnegie-hall/6801645193?i=6801645432I can be difficult, sometimes, with where I get music recommendations from. It is to my own disservice, and yet I cannot help but continue the same deeply-grooved, trodden path. I find out about new music through a distillation of sorts, a subliminal condensation of different mentions and posts and scrolls, until finally I crack and actually listen to it. My problem is this: the mist can be…

Learn about the new module profiling that was introduced in Python 3.15 to organise the built-in profiling tools. The standard library module profiling organises the built-in profiling tools that Python has into a single namespace. Introduced in Python 3.15, it gives access to two different profilers: a sampling profiler called Tachyon, and a tracing profiler. This article will present an overview of those two profilers. 15 days of Python 3.15 To celebrate the release of Python 3.15, over the…

Wassup, Traipser! Dakota here with my newsletter about creativity, travel, and living an intentional life, which I started years ago when people still liked getting email. I didn’t use AI to write blogs (or emails) then and I still don’t, so all words, drawings, and typos in ths newsletter ar mine.After four months in Canada, we’re currently kicking around the Olympic Peninsula enjoying brilliant fall weather. (October, the new September.) From sea to big trees to alpine, this place is…

I think of Hugh B. Cave as a guy who writes about people being mutilated, but his career has multiple facets, and he had quite a few stories published in mainstream magazine The Saturday Evening Post. We just read one of them, "The Mission," which was billed as "A Little Classic of the Spirit" when it was reprinted in book form. "The Mission" included no mutilations. Several of Cave's Saturday Evening Post stories were among those collected in the 1963 collection The Witching Lands, which…

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The chair that was eagerly awaited for so long remains underutilized, because we are back in the throes of the 1000mph club where I will likely stay until the end of the year. Alas, settling into my old age will have to wait. Chain used to hang my floorlamp has been replaced with a rope, which I think looks much nicer now. Okay, back to work. #journal

I am stuck on a word or maybe fixated is a better description. The word itself is simple and part of our everyday life whether we think about it or notGravity . . .I can say that my experience with gravity or the absence thereof shows me the difference between heavy and lighthearted things.I can see how my association with either dark and heavy or light and lighthearted things can determine the mood for the rest of my day. I am forever bound to this place we call Earth. Therefore, so long as I…

Frogfish ready for its next mealFROGFISH: THE FISH THAT WALKS, FISHES AND SWALLOWS ITS DINNER WHOLEImagine a fish that looks like a sponge, walks like a rather disgruntled frog, carries a fishing rod on its head and can swallow another fish almost as large as itself.Welcome to the wonderfully peculiar world of frogfish.These extraordinary little predators belong to the family Antennariidae, part

I miss the camaraderie of NaNoWriMo, but I’m lucky to live in a community with many dedicated writers who get together year-round to support and encourage one another. And we do focus a little extra in November, still. It’s a habit, now, and a good one! So we’re doing an informal, flexible Novel November, and I’m testing that flexibility by working on short stories, instead. Specifically, I’m editing a new collection of older short stories. Many have previously been published, some have never…

Every year for halloween I try to make something new for the yard. When I first moved into the house it was some cardboard box tombstones. i made covered them in some homemade monstermud and painted cute sayings on them. For 5 years they've served me well, but after 5 years they're showing their age... There's only so much one can do with a cardboard box that gets left outside for a month at a time every year...After the tombstones, I made a scarecrow, and then a coffin made from a stack of…

It's time once again to educate our sarcasm-impaired brothers and sisters. That's right! It's...Sarcasm Awareness Month!How does that make you feel? Ladies and gentlemen, sarcasm!And that brings us to our first lesson: lack of punctuation. You may remember one of the classic sarcastic cakes from way back: The sarcastically inept might think this is praising Bob when, in fact, it's telling Bob to go suck an egg. Let's try some more:What are these cakes really saying? This means the best probably…

Fascia Lettering in the British Isles (1978) by Alan Bartram is one of a ‘trilogy’ of books, with the other two focused on street name lettering and tombstone lettering. It is presented as an extended essay, complemented by over 160 of Bartram’s photographs and his insightful commentary on the fascia signs they depict.I frequently refer to the book, and the last time I pulled it from the shelf I was struck by a paragraph with a prescient message for our times. It accompanies the final featured…

This morning I am feeling tired. That is all I can say. My brain decided that it was time to wake up about 2 in the morning. I tried to go back to sleep, but the old brain just would not shut up. Eventually I gave up on that and got up and drank my coffee. After I was done before sunrise I was under the cozy covers scrolling on my tablet a bit and I think I managed to rest my eyes for at least a few minutes. It couldn’t have been long but I remember becoming aware. Given the sleep situation or…

2026-10-22Hello!The photo of orange dots that I posted a few days ago wasn't the only photo of that same object. I also wanted to see what it would look like out of focus.When a small dot of light sends light rays through the lens, it will be recorded as a dot of light in the image. But if the lens is out of focus, a circle of confusion is created, turning the dots into larger orbs.This could even happen if the lens is in focus, because although camera glass is highly calibrated, imperfections…

It's been a long time since I last went to a public meetup, and one that wasn't organized by me. It was great to get outdoors on this gorgeous spring day, and meet fellow hobbyists and their dolls.

Ever since I started my new job in January of this year, I’ve been getting up at 0500 so I can start my day quietly and be ready for my first meeting at 0600 MST. It took a little while for me to get used to the new schedule, but I’m doing pretty well with it now. I allow myself a nap midday during lunch if I need it. One of the nearly magical things about this time of year and getting up this early, is going for a morning walk in the dark. I carry my small flashlight and make sure I’m not…

Or: What do you mean by product thinking?I've had a few chats about roles the last few months. In way more than one of them someone said We need product management. Or We need product thinking. And to emphasise the point: I hear this a lot. A lot.It's a fair thing to want, I guess, especially in a world of product! product! product!. I'd just like more people to know what they think they're getting. So here's my go. Then some questions to ask, whichever side of the chat you're on.What is…

STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE RECIPE REVIEW Whipped Ricotta with Fig Jam & Grilled Bread · Simply Ina ★★★★★ 4.9/5 Flavor | 5/5 Effort | Easy Ingredient availability | Easy to find Make again? | Absolutely Make It Ahead | PartiallyBest for | Easy Appetizer Season | Late Summer / Fall Dietary fit | Vegetarian / Nut-free Tips: 1. As I don’t have a grill, I pan fried the bread in a little olive oil – it’s the only way I toast bread these days2. I used St. Dalfour Fig Royale Fruit Spread, but if you can’t…

The last 24 hours in PHP land were a mess. Two critical RCEs in PHP core, proof-of-concepts doing the rounds before the fix was out, and a lot of sysadmins pulling the plug on their own sites rather than waiting to get popped.

For quite some time, I’ve had to manually clean up downloads in my download client. I experience this with mostly unaired episodes on Sonarr. What happens is that there often are torrents named after unaired episodes containing malware and all sorts of unwanted files. These files get downloaded but are not imported by Radarr/Sonarr because they don’t contain the expected files. Typically this is malware for Windows computers so it doesn’t affect my Linux setup but it prevents Sonarr from…

“There are, I find, things I want philosophy to do that it cannot. Or that I cannot do with it.” That’s Amy Olberding, professor of philosophy at the University of Oklahoma, on the limits of philosophy that life sometimes makes vivid. The guest post by her, below, is an excerpt from her truly remarkable book, Kill All The Chickens, which was published last month, and which you should all buy today (Amazon, Bookshop). The book is a beautiful example of an academic philosopher breaking free of…

Northern saw-whet owl banded at Sewickley Heights Park, 17 Oct 2026 (photo from Bob Mulvihill on Facebook) 22 October 2026 When Bob Mulvihill announced the start of this year’s Project Owlnet to band northern saw-whet owls, he was not optimistic about the weather. The predicted weather for tomorrow night’s [Friday 16 October 2026] start of the fall owl banding season at Sewickley Heights Borough Park is not ideal, to say the least. There is a chance of showers, and the wind may be a bit strong.…

It sometimes surprises me how quickly people adjust to new things. They’ll complain about AI making some small mistake when AI’s overall capabilities would be completely astonishing to someone from five years ago. To help address this, I created this flowchart for complaining about AI:

But here I am, wrestling with the words on two separate blogs. Normally words slide out of my fingers and onto the page without a lot of effort. Then a bit of tweaking and polishing, add some photos, and a blog is sent forth into the world. Or maybe the photos come first, then the words.There's words in those draft blogs. They even clump together in sentences and paragraphs. They almost make sense and go together, but I'm not happy with them. There's no flow. They don't express what I'm…