There are few things in angling quite as satisfying or quite as nerve-racking as watching a great slab of floating crust drift lazily towards a summer chub that has already spotted you before you've even spotted it. Clear water has a habit of making an angler feel like he's wearing a fluorescent jacket and tap shoes, while the chub sits beneath an overhanging bush looking as suspicious as a home office inspector at a cash-only car wash in Coventry.Chub have earned their reputation for caution…
"The Unicorn in Captivity" from the Rochefoucould Unicorn TapestriesSam Sorensen (plus Misha and Walid) did a review of Unicorn Meat over on the Dead Letters podcast earlier this week and I think it touched on some important points and quite a few bits worthy of response, so I’m breaking the prime directive and writing up a response.(And just to defuse any worries that any beef is involved here, Sam directly encouraged me to write the response up like this instead of just letting it go as…
Don’t comfort me by wizard’s craft, Seeing twice a witch’s eye spells are ready to my hand, and needn’t further lye. The wizards beg dusty books, but they haven’t roots nor bone. Cut out parchment, bleached, knowing no growth beside tone. A wizard sings! Songs of mud. A witch, the dirt-dance. Dancing tonight with us and together dirt-dance. Oh listless, listen! Know what witch bare truths loudly. Remember which truths tonight. Heed little flashes of light. Electrokrill!
One thing I’ve been discussing with Rudi, Michel and Max is union find annotations. Union find enhancements that still feel like union finds.
My brain has stopped working this week so please enjoy this assortment of things that brought me joy and laughter: 2. I am a prolific reader and a bookstore owner and I just found out I have been mispronouncing Jodi Picoult’s name my whole life. I texted Vicki from Nowhere and turns out we’re allContinue reading "Get in the bitch dumpster."
Next week is the farewell party at the kindergarten. 😢 How did this happen so fast?
Been pretty lay today. I did make an effort to go out and get some nice food and talk to a friend and give her a skirt that didn't fit me. I was gonna go back to that store with all the cute skirts and dresses and stuff, but with how long it took me to do laundry, shave, and eat at my favorite sandwich place, they would have been closed by the time I got there. So tomorrow, we go out and look for more cute clothes. I dunno what the plan for the rest of the night is. I was thinking about going…
Hello, loves! Let’s figure out the new interaction feature, test, and do it. Success but with a reset and a general feeling of clumsiness. I think that the behavior we want is: When moving into a new cell, run the interactions and move if they all return true. (This is the current behavior.) If for any reason the move to a new cell is not allowed, remain where you are, run the interactions (again) there, ignoring the boolean results. How do things work now? Thanks for asking, I was kind of…
9:02 – Mon 29 June 2026 12:07 – Mon 29 June 2026 9:06 – Tue 30 June 2026 12:02 – Tue 30 June 2026 9:04 – Wed 01 July 2026 12:03 – Wed 01 July 2026 9:07 – Thu 02 July 2026 12:01 – Thu 02 July 2026 9:03 – Fri 03 July 2026 12:06 – Fri 03 July 2026 Bonus Follow Me As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them…
We've all seen the graphic below, in some form. The right side shows the point in terms of apparent wind (direction indicated by a flag on the boat), and the left side shows the true direction, sometimes indicated by waves. The right side is traditional. First, the obvious "error." Directions are all in terms of apparent wind, except for close-hauled. And the first thing we see, right at the top, is a 90-degree no-sail zone based on true wind, not apparent wind. An agreed-upon…
I have not published a Friday Night cocktail post in some time. Possibly because I have been drinking less cocktails than I did a few years ago, especially during the pandemic. In that time I have enjoyed many different cocktails but my preference tends to be a martini, which I have often posted about here. … Continue reading Friday Night Cocktail: the Lower-Alcohol Dirty Martini
I am an absolute sucker for female protagonist urban fantasy surrounding books and libraries, and this is a good example of that sub-sub-sub-genre. Sitting in the Venn diagram intersection of library-based urban fantasy and disabled characters as protagonists, this is quite a rare book indeed. On the main character's disability: Bridger is, of course, writing from experience here. He explains in the cover notes that he contracted an M.E. virus in a military hospital and the book is seemingly…
Tacoma Nights – Buckeye, AZ – Fujifilm X-T5 & 18mm f/1.4 – Vivid Velvia (modified) I have an upcoming project, and as part of that I want to create some Troy Paiva inspired night photos. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Troy creates nighttime photos of abandoned buildings, cars, airplanes, etc., illuminated by colored lights and the full moon (check out his Instagram). For this project, I want to do something similar for some of the pictures. I don’t have very much experience with this…
Everyone remembers the Harry Maguire Banter Era. If you are a United fan you might have even taken part in it. I hate to admit I did. The memes and youtube shorts flooded with Harry’s misteps after every United game. All the pundits, the fans were just hammering Harry after every game. United’s instagram post comments sections unanimously echoed “Maguire Out” as the solution to all of United’s problems. And then of course Maguire got benched to the joy of a lot of United fans. The downfall from…
I was reading a book called No More Mr. Nice Guy. Really good book btw if you ever find yourself just trying to please everyone. Often at the expense of yourself. And the book asked if I have ever spent time by myself. With just my own company without my friends and family. And my answer to that was mostly no except for very brief period of time while driving or in the grocery store. The book suggested me to go on a solo trek. I was always fascinated by the idea of solo treks and that was the…
would you greet me with a kiss no questions no hesitation sweep me off my feet instantly or maybe let the tension build until the undeniable sparks grow too intense to ignore or is it just a dream is it just a dream
Status: Mostly in the garden today finishing the Big Read piece below, responding to a trenchant review of the book about the Weather Underground, the inspiration for that Leonardo DiCaprio movie you enjoyed recently. I think its length, and that I’ve been working on it for days, is a clear sign I need to get back to proper long-form writing on a dedicated blog. Hope you enjoy it. It could probably do with a couple more drafts and maybe I’ll come back to it once I’ve read the book it’s about,…
Bopping around an empty holiday gym with Slayyyter in my ears felt good, even if my less frequent gym visits have made these lifts harder. Unknown location (probably inside)
OK this was not “me” obviously, as I run Linux as my main OS. But interesting as I always thought CrystalDiskInfo was the best tool out there for SSD checking (or maybe that was the marketing PR that stuck in my head?). Commands like this are actually useful, as I use similar ones to extract specific data I want to monitor, and I display it on a Conky window on my desktop. See https://www.howtogeek.com/i-ran-the-same-ssd-health-check-on-linux-and-windows
Personal life update and links. Today I found out that Belghast from Tales of the Aggronaut passed away due to complications with his treatment for cancer. We weren't particularly close, but he was the one who started Blaugust, which was part of the impetus for this blog. He was the kind of guy that if he was part of a community that was enough for me to trust it as a decent one. He was, in the old fashioned way, a community leader. I give my heartfelt condolences to his friends and family in…
Doctor says six months. Your opinion was five years. Prayer changes nothing. Morphine does. You argue with your father about it anyway. Right up until he stops breathing. You were right. He is dead. Heart stops. No referendum.
It‘s been really great to watch on YouTube people from all over the world discover the USA in their travels for the World Cup over the past few weeks. Pretty much everyone is totally in love with what they are finding. I‘ve travelled quite a bit in the states, having done an east coast to west coast road trip several years ago, so I experienced first hand much of what folks are seeing. The USA really is an amazing place, and the people are super cool too. It‘s very different to what much of the…
What I'm...Working on Issues in our course content packages Balancing non-stimulating rest with work and play Updating my meal plan to remove strong aromatics (onions, steamed kale) Drinking Rosso Caffe lattes Playing Sudoku Listening to RPG speedruns (mostly to chill or do other tasks) Surfing YouTube Current Roles Husband Cat dad Aspiring professional performer Class Act Adult Acting Class Student AKA Improv Member Station Theatre Company Member CUTC Member Semigroup Analysis Research…
I‘m putting the finishing touches to the re-architecting of the blog. It was all looking great but the realities of managing a stock implementation alongside the customized version for the site were clearly going to be an issue. So I implemented a light weight theming feature. It‘s just internal for the minute, only one theme which is he blog, but can theoretically be expanded into a full feature later. Sometimes you have to do just enough to get going without boiling the ocean. Got it working…
Tags: #rss-club #dispatches #links #artHello club members! We have all collectively made it to yet another Friday. As is my wont, it’s random grab baggy type things, and because it’s been kind of a week, and because nothing else has come to me, I will turn to my open browser tabs and share something that is shareable. The Colossal article on Sara Flores, who is an artist that makes very beautiful and geometric art. I reminds me a lot of the plotter art that I love. I have several other tabs,…
Creeping bellflower is a common edible weed in yards and gardens, spreading aggressively through seeds and rhizomes. It's one of the most difficult invasive plants I know of to eradicate. The good news is that it's edible, tastes great, and since it's invasive you can eat as much as you like. In this post I'll... Read More The post Creeping Bellflower appeared first on Forager | Chef .
Read the full post at - The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo I don’t like horror. I don’t like crime fiction. And I really don’t like gratuitous violence. And yet I have read so many Jo Nesbø books. I think that says everything you need to know about how good he is. It all traces back to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. That book cracked open Scandinavian crime fiction for me, and once I found Nesbø, I never left. His Harry Hole series is fast-paced, tightly written, and genuinely hard to put down — even…
