Folger photo: Call number: V.a.140, fol. 18r. The Folger Shakespeare Library’s blog, The Collation, sends us the following medical advice from the manuscript shown above, dating from around 1600. It reads “Take a yonge whelpe that yet sucketh, and let him lye night & daye with the man the space of thre dayes, durynge the which time the pacient shall take milke in his mouth, and spite in to the whelpes mouth. then take the sayde whelpe and cleaue him in peeces, & yow shall knowe the sicke parte…

I work hard for my business. I always hold the believe that the harder I work the more success I will achieve. My mentor told me that hard work also requires me to use my brain. I need to work on the right things to get the right results. If I am not working on the right thing, it is like asking for flower to bloom during winter. It is impossible, I waste my time and effort. But what is the right thing to work on? There are no straight answers. Sometimes, we need to look at the past to see what…

In the New York Times, E.J. Dionne asks, "Could Mississippi Elect Its First Black Senator Since Reconstruction?"While Scott Colom, the candidate in question, is not a minister, the piece notes that he is quite religious, and he reminds me a bit of Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and James Talarico -- who is polling ahead of the charisma-challenged, corrupt James Paxton, whom Trump hand-picked to get rid of the quite electable incumbent, John Cornyn.Donald Trump, aided by the spinelessness of a party…

PEA Soup is running a new series of posts on philosophical puzzles and thought experiments. photo by Martin Wacker The idea of the series to “try out ideas and for informal discussion of issues and questions in moral and political philosophy.” The proprietors of PEA Soup write, “All are welcome to join us in this discussion. But beyond that, we would like to invite people to propose their own puzzles for discussion.” “PEA Soup Puzzles” kicks off with an entry from Victor Tadros (Warwick) with a…

So I've posted before how I think ClickHouse is great. Its columnar storage is fast, it has amazing compression. I won't bore you with those details, you can see them all here: https://matduggan.com/clickhouse-is-winning-the-observability-wars/However all technology is great until you try to do something atypical with it. What I wanted was a realistic torture test: network firewall telemetry, on the order of 2 billion rows a day of mixed-vendor syslog, parsed at ingest into wide typed tables…

For our first night in the Noovo Plus van, we stayed at Stanger Vineyards in Paso Robles. This stay was thanks to the Harvest Hosts service, where people can stay for free (typically with no hookups, though some places have them). You just need to patronize the business, in this case by doing a wine tasting, which we were happy to do:Parked at Stanger Vineyards:We joined one other couple (also using Harvest Hosts) for a special wine tasting; the owners were quite the characters:Back to our van…

For the past year I've been running Dungeons & Dragons sessions for my elementary school child and their friends, here's what I learned... The post What I Learned from Running D&D for Kids appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.

Jamboree on the Air 2026 On Saturday, October 17, 2026, Troop 119 in Lexington, MA took part in Jamboree on the Air (JOTA). This year the troop set up a radio station in the center of town instead of at a campout. I applied for a permit from the Town of Lexington to set up in the town center, a good way to give the troop some visibility and to draw walk-up visitors who could try amateur radio. I was there as Scoutmaster and set up the station. We also invited other Scout troops to join us, and…

WPG’s big thing lately has been finding out how various games, especially 16-bit games, pull off their graphics tricks. This one’s a bit different; they’ve found game-crashing bugs in several 8- and 16-bit titles and investigated their causes, and figuring out how to fix them. (30 minutes) The five specific bugs they examine are: The Battletoads second-player control lockout that happens near the end of the game. The PRG0 version of NES Castlevania crashing hard when too many objects are on the…

Young and older people alike love to reminiscence about things they loved in the turmoil of puberty or their formative years, from La Vie Est Belle by Lancôme to Tobacco Vanille Tom Ford via Coco Mademoiselle Chanel or Jungle Gardenia and White Shoulders; I suppose it gives us a sense of nostalgia, the strange excitement of reliving a period of our lives when we were not so sure of certain things

45 Boysenberry I gave the blog a little facelift this past week using one of Pagecord's ready-made designs, Aurelia, which has a nice soft pink gradient background. (Thank you to whoever made this theme!) I edited the Custom CSS a bit to make the top title and navigation area more to my liking - centering the content and removing the avatar. I increased the font weight on the body text and blog post titles to be a little heavier and bolder. I also updated the favicon to fit with the new colors.…

There was no reason for me to be close, so I kept my distance. There was no reason for me to be a part of their game, so I remained invisible.It probably began days, if not weeks, before I understood it was a game, but it came to my attention in the form of a girl filling a plastic witch's cauldron with things she had scavenged from around the playground.A friend said some words to her. Maybe he asked, "Can I play with you?" but it was more likely something along the lines of "What are you…

Another JSAUX accessory? Really? You’re god damn right. It’s no secret, I like their gear. I’ve had my Steam Deck in the JSAUX ModCase basically since day one, I partnered it with JSAUX’s Carrying Case and I’ve had their older 5-in-1 Docking Station basically glued to my desk for the better part of a year. I actually leaned on JSAUX’s 5-in-1 Docking Station fairly heavily for my Nintendo Wii Month… Source

some people have hidden their Bear up vote buttons and I unhide them in dev tools just to upvote them when I like that. Out of spite, of course.

You don't want to miss Dave's Interesting Assemble II. I've had a sneak preview and it's going to be great. it's free! Tickets are hereHere's a video (sound from the desk plus slides) of Dave's talk at Interesting 2007.

Trip Tease – Durango Gorgeous new album from CDMX-based Carlos Salame, aka Trip Tease. This was released in August on the always-unpredictable and fun Australian label clipp.art, releases from which I’ve featured here several times in the past. Earlier this year, I also featured an excellent Prins Thomas remix of Trip Tease’s collaboration with Alain Vice, “Milano 2098”. Where both versions of that track placed Salame and Vice squarely in post-disco and italo territory, this new album is far…

Originally Published July 14th, 2000 When you think about the typical roleplaying game made available over the internet for free, the thing that springs to mind is that it is, above all else, free. Because there is no serious investment necessary to present the material to us, we see a cascade of secondary effects as the standard norm: Poor presentation. Poor artwork. Questionable system design. Lots of rehashed ideas. Little research. Less development. No support. If we wanted to generalize a…

Here are my thoughts on Apple HomeView. It’s interesting to see Apple kinda sorta enter the smart-home category; will watch what else happens over the years. The price seems okay at $300. But I don’t need or want one and don’t think it would be practical for my family. We don’t really use or depend on AI or Siri, we don’t have smart-home tech, and we each have our own iPhones and headphones and third-party bluetooth speakers (I wish Apple made the HomePod mini as a rechargeable battery-only…

tag(s): #emacs #random-thoughts #programming A week ago I received in my inbox a few patches, from two different users, for confluence-reader. My first thought was Aha! Turns out you don't need to be on GitHub for people to find your project!!! That will show the naysayers of leaving it! Then I remembered that this is one of the last (maybe the last?) package I "announced" in the Emacs subreddit. 👀 I didn't ask to confirm, but it is very likely that these people found out about it from that…

I admit it was not with great joy that I read this story from Zdopravy that states that no contract has yet been signed between Leo Express and Die Länderbahn for the operation of Praha - Plzeň - Domažlice - Furth im Wald - Schwandorf - Regensburg - München services that are to start just 8 weeks from now. But unlike the mess at Padborg - Flensburg, I think this one can more easily be salvaged.Leo Express won the contract to operate the Czech part of the route for 5 years. The contract was…

Two Skies, Denton TX [Mural: “Band on the Run” by Dan Black] I have had some success with my photography lately. By which I mean I've sold some stuff. At first, I was tickled to think I'm a professional photographer now! But on further reflection, I'm not, and I don't think I ever want to be. Selling a few things isn't the same as running a business. A professional anything (photographer, masseuse, carpenter, whatever) is first a business person, and second an artist. You rarely learn that from…

by a Thought Leader in the Space Between Stars Citizen! In today's fast-paced digital landscape, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. I, too, was once overwhelmed by the sheer smallness of your geometry. The actual limits of your meat brain. The way your houses stop at the corners. The way your hours end. But then I discovered blogging, and everything changed. Today I want to share the seven habits that took me from Slumbering Beneath the Pacific to Posting Every 4.3 Minutes. Let's delve in. 🌊 Step…

I hinted earlier this year that I had a new project planned where I would be reading (or re-reading) some of Shakespeare’s plays and following them with modern retellings or books inspired by those plays. With that in mind, I included some Shakespeare on my current Classics Club list and I’ve decided to begin with a re-read of Othello. Although Othello is not one of my favourite plays, it’s a special one for me because it was the first I read for myself outside of the ones we read at school.…

We previewed it, and we actually went to the theater to watch the new Sense

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 3 20.1km round-trip I needed some new inner tubes for the Brompton, and although local bicycle shops stock them in the right size, only the LBS seems to stock Schwalbes which, in my experience, are slower to degenerate. And nearby one can get a coffee and more besides at Necci dal 1924, an extremely hip joint despite being 102 years old. Necci is in the heart of an area called Pigneto, which is hemmed in by railway lines and major roads and is extremely charming, in a…

My first time at Verda office in Helsinki. This is just the building across the road from the Oodi library. I had not given it a second look before today. I mean, it was just another building on my way to Oodi. Now, it's Verda's offices! Svitlana had the intro slides. Intro slides Intro about the host Serverless inference on Kubernetes Intro slide first talk The problem - Inference traffic comes in bursts - idle GPU is wasted money. Scaling to zero causes cold starts. Serverless inference means…

With my hearing back after a day of earwax removal, I listen to white-throated sparrows singing in two different keys, the sun’s silent wheel progressing alone on its wide blue road.

Early this month, OpenAI has released several papers answering decades old problems to which mathematicians have dedicated their own careers. This NYT piece on Terrence Tao (who first supported AI when it was AI to help humans in the process of discovery, but shunned them when it became apparent that they were looking for the discovery for discovery sake, and not for the journey of learning. Personally, I think it's a matter of changing the training dataset to learn in the process, and AI can…