The title was always a magician’s trick.

View from BenCab Museum's Café SabelI’m out of the corporate world since April. I felt a huge weight lift off me the week I sent my resignation letter. The past year has been really tough and I kept questioning whether I’m actually a creative or just someone who makes videos. Café Cueva! at Ili-Likha Artists VillageMixed-media figures and wood carvings of Jose Rizal Leandro's Bistro at Ili-Likha Artists Village Not being able to do anything meaningfully creative in a creative role slowly wears…

I reckon it's time for a poem. Here is one by Janet Lewis (wife of the eminent poet and critic Yvor Winters), who is perhaps best remembered for her classic novel The Wife of Martin Guerre, but was also an accomplished poet, active across six decades. In 'Helen Grown Old', she wonders what became of Helen of Troy, reunited (in Homer's account) with Menelaus, after the Trojan war and the death of Paris...Helen Grown OldWe have forgotten Paris, and his fate.We have not much inquiredIf Menelaus…

Sun strikes the porch roof and it begins to drip, even as two patches of frost linger in the yard. A blue jay in the crown of a large scarlet oak manages to convince the bird app that it’s a hawk.

An emergency PHP upgrade will be released today, affecting websites worldwide. The release addresses two critical vulnerabilities in PHP that could lead to remote code execution. PHP is one of the technologies used by websites, including WordPress websites. Since my site is hosted, I’m not sure how long it will take before PHP is patched on my hosting company servers. It’s likely this site and thousands of others worldwide will be offline until PHP patches are installed. Some website…

This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and Lars runs a public one for open source projects at callisto.liw.fi. It is now open to all open source projects, not just Rust projects. CI node leaderboard (Unfortunately, the node that collects CI run data is currently not running, but will return, hopefully soon. The data hasn't been updated.)…

On one of my desktops, I run the Trinity desktop environment with the Plastik theme. For consistency with some newer Qt5-based applications, I also use the "Plastique" widget style via Qt5ct, which is a reproduction of the original "Plastik." I'm running Debian 13 on everything these days and noticed that they failed to include the plastique, motif, cleanlooks, and gtk2 platform theme packages in the Trixie repo. Other than the gtk2 platform theme package, they still work on a Debian 13 system…

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This is JosephSteve Vladeck has thrown down the gauntlet against Supreme court expansion with his four hard questions. They are good questions but I think that he is asking them when the hour is late. Far better when the house was not yet on fire.In particular:I think the problem here is that the options are now thin. If we look back just a few issues in Steve's newsletter we see:Last year’s post explained that the Court set two fairly revealing records on its emergency docket during…

The trailer for next year's adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew was released last week, and I've been thinking about it a lot. C.S. Lewis' Narnia series has a special place in my heart, as it was the first book series I read as a kid and my introduction to fantasy. When I got really into The Lord of the Rings as an adult, it was a pleasant surprise to learn that J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were good friends and in the same writer's group where they critiqued each…

Out of all my regular weekly habits getting my ass to the gym regularly and keeping up with my physical fitness is probably close to the top of my list of things to do. When I get old (which I hopefully will) I still want to be able to move around and pick up heavy things. I watched my grandparents not take proper care of themselves for years, and let’s just say it didn’t end well for any of them. I desperately don’t want to end up like that, so I make sure to spend the time to take care of my…

I wanted fsn, the 3D file navigator from Jurassic Park, on my own machine. It worked on 600 files and was useless on 900,000. This is what I changed.

Vivek Ramaswamy, whom I once regarded as an interesting, if not creditable Republican politician for the future, has probably just blown the Ohio gubernatorial race and -- aside from any future appointments by Trump -- torpedoed his political future once and for all.A new attack ad features the estranged mother of Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Amy Acton calling her a "liar" and defending her GOP opponent Vivek Ramaswamy. Acton's campaign and her brother denounced the ad as a…

The iPhone Duo reviews are out. Nilay Patel and Allison Johnson, the Verge, summed up their reviews as such: It is expensive, it’s full of compromises, and it can be incredibly frustrating to use. [...] But all of the risk and weirdness of the Duo is also fun, in the way the best early adopter devices are fun. It’s incomplete as a product, but complete enough as an idea that you can see where things are going. The reviewers also noted that Apple, instead of sticking an iPad inside the folding…

all that grief and hope accumulated over the past few months were finally released during the perfect moment to bawl my eyes out for 20 mins

I wasn’t going to Inktober this year, but then I thought it might be fun to use the sumi ink I bought three years ago. So I had my gimmick—real ink. , This concept came easily, with the “a” in the shape of an apple. Brush cursive is always an old standby as a reasonable default. , I tried using a rustic roman hand for Relic but it didn’t look good at all, so I came back to brush cursive for this piece as well. , I not happy with my metal nib cursive, but stretching out the distance between the…

Join me as I take a tour around the northern reaches of England's most northerly county where, amongst the historical towns and villages, and stunning coastline, there are some rather splendid pubs and beers....After a great day before in Newcastle, and then following a good night's sleep and breakfast, I left the toon behind, heading out of the city centre late morning and up the Ponteland Road to join the A1 on my way further north. Driving up, the road north through Northumberland was busier…

[Perhaps Brookline should reconsider how this arrangement is structured.] The Boston area has a severe shortage of housing, leading to very high rents. Despite that, over in Brookline, there’s a two-bedroom house in the dead center of town that’s found no takers for several months.Link: https://brookline.news/walnut-hills-cemetery-needs-a-new-caretaker-no-one-is-dying-to-have-the-job/

I’m pleased to again present a guest post contributed by my friend Ken Stauffer, who has written several pieces for BAMF Style previously and chronicles the style of the Ocean’s film series (and beyond!) on his excellent Instagram account, @oceansographer. Kyle Chandler in Lanterns. Photo credit: John Johnson/HBO Max. Vitals Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan, cocky former test pilot and Green Lantern of Sector 2814 Coast City, California, Summer 1975 and 1996, and Rushville, Nebraska, Fall 2016 and…

An interactive keyboard that helps you memorize shortcut keys from several popular apps. (I really like keyboard shortcuts!) The studio that created this site made that “it’s faster than memorizing a cheat sheet and stickier than Googling the same shortcut for the tenth time.”

PHP reminds me of Log4Shell in 2021. Back then the CVE even had a 10/10 rating. Interactions & Comments

The simply titled story "Even" opens Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. iff vol. 5 and begins when Ashikaga Ren, a second-year university student, tumbles down a cliff and needed to be airlifted to the hospital – except this wasn't an ordinary hiking accident. A note was found at the scene ("Got Dumped, Don't Want to Live") turning an unfortunate hiking accident into an attempted suicide. Only for the case to take an unexpected turn at the hospital.Sou Touma and Kana Mizuhara are in the hospital visiting…

Postcarding. Hey everyone! I wanted to drop a quick note on incentive fulfillment from my St. Jude Fundraising campaign. Postcards are underway, Ink Pony paintings will start soon, and I’ll drop what I have complete in the mail by Monday. After that, it will be a couple of weeks before I’m back at it as I will be in Japan into early November. I’ll be fulfilling in earnest one I return! For video and Zoom incentives, I’m waiting until I return from my trip to dig in to those. I’ll be emailing…

I told the witch baker I was in love with you And then the witch baker, he told me what to doHe told me.. Ting! Tang! WALLA WALLA BING BANG. Ting... ...Tang? Walla Walla Bing Bang! Thanks to Misty B., Jenny W., Kayleigh S., Anony M., Susie M., Denis S., Carmen N., Bonny B., Dora M., & Mary W. for that pregnant pause.*****P.S. It's time again for me to sing the praises of my amazing sleep headphones: Bluetooth Sleep HeadphonesI listen to boring audio books on these every night to keep my brain…

AI keeps getting more capable. At some point, likely in the next 1-3 years unless we do something to stop it, we get to where AI systems are able to do everything almost anyone can do. This is often described as leading to a world with "no jobs", but I think this tends to confuse more than help. One sense in which there might be no jobs is that there might be no people. This is a very real concern, [1] and is the primary reason I think we need to slow down or pause AI development, but isn't…

The New Stanford Prison Experiment wants us to take it seriously, but if AI reanimated Gene Wilder started talking to the cast over the jail's loudspeakers about Everlasting Gobstoppers, it'd be less silly than this show's concept and execution.

Fremantle2026 October 21 (Wednesday), 9:00PM· museums · Fremantle Hospital · Freopedia · We had a good time at the Fremantle Hospital Museum today. It takes up the entirety of N Block it seems, although we didn't really get to look at many of the exhibits because we were focussed on checking out Curley Molyneux's big plaque and then mostly with talking with the volunteer archivists who run the place. They are amazing! It's a huge collection, and they're cataloguing and digitising all of it, as…

2026-10-21Hello! I passed by a shared microwave that was interrupted in its cooking timer, with the display reading one second left. I'm pissed that I didn't turn back and reset it.I'll get the main lesson out of the way first: photographers don't need fancy equipment to create fancy effects; with a dash of creativity, they can imitate and sometimes even create something original.I spent a few hours on used markets looking at vintage lenses that could fit onto my camera. I was also looking at…

One day I will be right and Analogue will announce a PlayStation FPGA console, but it is not this day. For their annual announcement, Analogue did something I would not have expected. They revamped the Super NT and Mega SG and gave the FPGA consoles the mandatory "+" designation. Here is the announcement tweet: Introducing Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ The definitive way to play original Super Nintendo, Super Famicom, Sega Genesis, Mega Drive, and Master System. Beginning with Super Nt in 2017, the…