The first recording today starts with the end of an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. There’s a promo for The Sarah Jane Academy website. There’s a trail for Arthur. Then it’s a repeat of Sarah Jane’s Alien Files. Media Centre Description: Sarah Jane Smith opens the Alien Files – the ultimate guide to everything you could possibly need to know when facing hostile aliens. Luke, back from university, has the lowdown on his creator Mrs Wormwood, and her fearsome Bane mother, as well as…

My latest Brit Noir viewing is TIME IS MY ENEMY (1954), from from the Kino Lorber Brit Noir Collection IV.TIME IS MY ENEMY is quick 64 minutes which rather reminded me of another lean, mean British crime film, the 69-minute WALK A TIGHTROPE (1963).The movie also calls to mind aspects of NO MAN OF HER OWN (1950), as far as a man from a woman's past showing up to blackmail her, culminating in a "murky" shooting.TIME IS MY ENEMY was written by Alan McKinnon based on the play SECOND CHANCE by Ella…

You are invited to our annual BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE which runs from 10:30am – 4:30pm, Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th November at Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Sq, WC1N 3AT. We are showing the work of our favourite makers and are proud to present these accompanying lectures. Tickets include entry to the Jamboree. SUZANNE COOPER: PAINTINGS UNDER THE SPARE ROOM BED Join author Lucy Hughes-Hallett for an illustrated talk exploring the life, work and rediscovery of Suzanne Cooper, an important modernist…

It is so just depressing these days. Several years ago now I started self-hosting things. Initially the learning process and how to set up everything drove me to eagerly keep learning more and more, and even how to manage keeping everything up and reliable. But then the LLM Scrapers arrived. I looked at Anubis and decided I didn't want the delay loading for regular viewers, so moved to iocaine which is slightly different in what it does, and that was fine until so many scrapers hit my site that…

last updated 7 minutes ago i really like when people describe their internal experiences so giving it a go! two of my favourite pieces on this are charlie nebe's video and experience.computer (though the latter isn't just about the below it's also about creativity, but i'm there for the internal experience part lol). very nearly completely visually aphantasic, though i can can defs imagine music. struggle to imagine other people's voices. i don't think i'm faceblind but if it's a spectrum i am…

Hollywood has not always been kind to Native Americans. When Native Americans have appeared in Hollywood films, it has been in Westerns where they were often portrayed as gross stereotypes. It is rare occurrence that Native Americans have appeared in movies in the present day in stories centred around them. That alone makes Naturally Native (1998) a remarkable film. What makes it even more remarkable is that it is the first film created by and starring Native American women. It is also the…

After publishing my AI Is Causing Problems article, two people reached out to me to express their disagreement with my paragraph on AI vibe coded camera firmwares. Basically, people are using AI to hack and rewrite firmware to add new features and functions that the camera doesn’t actually have. It seems like the general consensus is that this is good, basically supercharging your camera, and ushering a new era of tech. Any camera can be anything you want it to be, as long as you have the…

Chaotic, whimsical art at Meow Wolf Grapevine | The Real Unreal, Grapevine, Texas. The post There’s a Lot Going On Here appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

it was our first time getting off at JR Ogikubo, they have 2 shopping arcades one at the South exit and one at the West exiteven though we had breakfast, we were hungry and this teeny bakery, Honey's freshly baked "smells" drew us in...banana coconut cake for Kat and freshly out of the oven salmon tartine for Satoshi after our quick snack, we made our way to the areas we wanted to

Yes, we have a harvest, today! A week into November. Also, I just noticed my desktop time stamp says it’s just past 10am, November 8. It’s just past 6pm, November 7. I suspect a cat walked over the keyboard at some point and changed the time zone somehow. 😄 Wow. My computer is on automatic … Continue reading Our 2026 Garden: carrots and parsnips

I found out less than an hour ago that my grandmother had died. I have many fond memories with her; some of my earliest memories no less. I spent more time with her than with any of my grandparents for various reasons, and did she always have stories to tell! I also saw with her how life changes people over decades in a way that I had not seen with anyone else. As we grow older things appear to change faster. It also becomes clear, in the best of ways, why old age is so often compared to…

It has been a couple of days since my last selfie. My excuse? Prepping for a tai chi tournament 😄 Selfie a day for a year, day 62: Nov 7th, 2026 edition.

Recently I turned on Siri AI (still in beta) for my iPhone 15 Pro. I figured I’d try it out for world knowledge and personal context. The results, so far, are very positive. While not perfect, ‘hallucinating’ at least one detail in a response, it actually works and is often helpful. And generally it’s been pretty fast at replying. I’ve asked it to summarize product reviews pulled from across multiple sites online. And I’ve asked it to ‘research’ and provide a summary of the best EDC sling bags…

Welch köstlich-kleine Scheißerchen habe ich denn da produziert? Eine Lage Löffelbisquit schrie nach Verwertung und wurde zu diesen Trüffeln, die schnell und einfach gemacht sind und bei uns eine Überlebensdauer von maximal einem Tag haben...Gut gekühlt sind sie ein kleines Naschi zum Kaffee, ihr weich-süßes Innenleben und ihr herbes Äußeres schmecken wirklich wie ein Tiramisú, nur eben in einer

But is Netflix's recent docuseries on Iron Mike a product worth buying?

You can either design yourself, or be the product of your values and desires. Either is fine as long as it’s honest. Error happened.

Didn't do much today, it is the weekend after all. 🤷‍♂️ Played a lot more OoT. I think I should slow down a bit or it will be over too soon! 🙂

The amount of pumpkin spice nightmares out there on store shelves is surreal. I imagine the food manufacturers have meetings about entire groups of products to apply the pumpkin spice treatment to, and the meetings are middle managers in blindfolds picking boxes of their product lines up at random, after which they follow the wails of capitalistic greed to the middle of the parking lot where they deposit all the pumpkin spice candidates in a multicolored monument to excess, whose overwhelming…

I wake under the covers.I see only blackness, lost in a sea of darkness.I push at the covers and light seems to show through.I push and scratch as if pushing through reality it's self.Yearning to see what is on the other side.I lift the covers off, and a flood of sensation covers me.I see lights, and colors and hear sounds.I reach out and feel the bumps of the paint on the wall.The wall is cool to the touch.I feel I want to keep tearing into the covers, to go beyond.I punch at the wall, and the…

View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Mild, calm, with the threat of showers. Which is to say it was pretty mild for today’s run, to the point where I paused after 3K to remove my Echo hoodie. I missed Wednesday’s run due to a pressure headache and weird neck pain, then missed Friday’s run because I was waiting for the rain to at least not be pouring and lost daylight in the meantime. But with birding postponed a day and no rain (for the moment) I set off today in late morning, with the run starting…

A bit of a post out of the norm but a little investigation into some interesting behaviour I saw in my logs. While tidying up 404 entries on this blog, I kept seeing one referrer in my nginx logs: https://www.aocr.org/. It was linked to old URLs that no longer exist, it hit dozens of posts, and it showed up in my analytics. A new site linking to my work would be nice, however upon further investigation the problem is that aocr.org is the American Osteopathic College of Radiology, and I'm fairly…

Many years ago, I came across a list of the seven emotions most commonly reported by people going through a divorce. One of them was… relief. That made sense to me, in that most divorces seem to be protracted affairs, with several years of denial and trying in the first phase, followed by another year or so of litigation and mediation, and then a whole ‘nother challenge devoted to reshaping post-divorce life and identities.To get all that into the rear-view mirror should certainly BE a relief.…

Hi everyone. It’s been a week since I last posted and I hardly touched WordPress this past week. The reason is the fact that I think I somehow messed up my blog by using some type of “privacy setting”. My best friend checked it out and it looks like at least from a security viewpoint, I’m still alright. Anyway, I’m joining #WeekendCoffeeShare again. It’s 7:30PM, so I’ve just had my last cup of coffee for the day. Feel free to grab a cup of your favorite beverage and let’s chat. If we were…

There are bodies down there, I can feel it. But it’s certainly a change from a parking lot. My event today, at the Hudson Library, has already happened and it was lovely. Tomorrow, I am in Nashville, at Novelette Booksellers, and the event starts at 6:30. Come say hello! Here’s the ticket information. — JS

My fear: getting the chance to say the important things, and not being able to. But the best things I’ve ever said came out in gushes of raw thought, formed just enough to be understood. Formed, not formatted. Social media is a stage, and I have stage fright. Error happened.

14:18 Visited my website today, almost a month later. Cleared some 32 spam comments. Wrote a few words, and that felt like a win. Such small asks to not feel shit. 14:24 Feels like after almost a month, I am lazying around. I haven’t had a chance to tune out of anything happening around me. Not that I am doing that now. But not doing anything also counts. Reply to this post

From Jonathan Sawday’s letter in the LRB of 22 October I learn a wondrous word: The word ‘microphone’ has been the ‘standard term for a certain kind of auditory device since at least 1684’, David Trotter writes. We can go even further back. Perhaps the first microphone to have been imagined (if not constructed) can be found in a now forgotten academic comedy, Albumazar by Thomas Tomkis, performed at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1614. The device is named an Otacousticon, and described as a…