Project ghosts, monsters, or old horror films right onto your windows with a hundred dollars and an hour. You will also need a molecule of confidence. If you have those things you can create a Halloween window projection like this. I first tried this last Halloween and it turned out to be one of those...Read More

We started attending Tucson Meet Yourself three years ago—before we even decided to move to Tucson. This year was the 51st annual celebration of Meet Yourself. Dozens of ethnicities and nationalities celebrate their parts in the history and present day of Tucson. We gravitate to our favorites but always find something new to learn about and experience. Long lines form for the fry bread made by the local natives, the O'odham Ladies. This is not the most heart-healthy food that a person could…

There is not one second of action or violence in The Russia House. It’s a very slow burn, mostly full of people talking, but I loved it.Set in the late 1980s, just as glasnost and perestroika were taking hold, Sean Connery plays Barley Blair, a drunken book publisher with a thing for Russia. A woman tries to pass him a manuscript containing nuclear secrets, but it ends up in the hands of British and American intelligence. They use Blair to figure out if the writer is legitimate and if he has…

Last night we heard some music coming from a nearby street corner. It sounded great, so we checked it out and was blown away by the size of the crowd. It was an unofficial rock show on the sidewalk at 16th and Valencia, with a couple hundred folks (mostly teens) in attendance. Here’s some footage featuring a band called [algoslave]: Watching the video again, one thing that stands out is that the crowd is hanging out. The only phone in site is mine The show was also put on without the city’s…

This last Saturday afternoon, the sun was weak in the battle against the chill of the shady side of the flea market, and J and I prefer more chic silhouettes for jackets than warm ones. In the great battle to do anything but work for the class that is hated by most everyone in our program, we window shopped under the guise of gift shopping. Both of us left empty-handed, save for a Shakespeare-themed light switch cover that I swear my friend will get a kick out of for her upcoming birthday. A…

Mamma Mia! – New York, New York We are hoping to continue a tradition we started in 2025 when we saw Mamma Mia! on Broadway. Every time we go to NYC, we want to see a Broadway show. I already went to New York this year, and we successfully continued the tradition. I won’t reveal the show just yet. Perhaps in a future blog post. We walked through the Times Square area to get to the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway between 50th and 51st Streets. The drama and electricity of Times Square were…

Busy weekend. Had a Friday night gig, early Saturday morning DJ set before a football game, and lazed about all day today. But I did work on some stuff in the home office. Sampled some stuff for an upcoming Halloween show that I'm DJing. And then finally changed the tape on my old Roland Space Echo. Sounds wonderful. So I plugged in my bass, looked around me, got the SP out and the trusty Roland System-1, and made a track. It's here. Actually, I love it. Lots of character in the bass, and then…

13th october to 18th october what i did despite my attempts to avoid it, i have found myself watching political streamers. job has entered the quiet season before the end-of-the-year rush, so it’s been a quieter, more relaxing pace, bless. my struggles with affinity continue. every day i use it, i find some discrepancy between what i think the app should ’naturally’ do and what it actually does, and end up muttering, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature,” to myself. early in the week, my partner was…

Another double header tonight. With the disappointment of Dracula 2025 still on my mind (damn, that movie got on my nerves!) I wanted to see something Christoph Waltz was good in.There have been many versions of Frankenstein on the silver screen, including one of the very first films ever made. This movie did not come out in time for me to review it last year, so I saved it for this year. Now, while this is the first time I have reviewed this, I did watch it back in November. So I really can't…

I went camping this past weekend in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. I'll do a full write up later, but I wanted to very quickly share my favorite type of camp host - kitties! I mentioned in my New Mexico story that the KOA in Carlsbad had little cabins for cats abandoned in the desert. Those adorable little guys made the place cozy. The HipCamp I stayed at this past weekend had a friendly host cat who hung out around the communal cooking and dish area. This burly black cat announced himself…

Here's a talk I gave this weekend at Roguelike Celebration. Mazes: Are We Lost Yet? It's basically half an hour of me going off on cool mazes. The talk in text form The slides, in the big layout I used for the talk. (Not actually useful for browsing, but people laughed.) The video is not yet posted; I will update when it's available.

Tangent – “Denial” Mikhail Ilyin – “The invisible serves itself in secret” Outerboros – “No Moss Gathered”The post Visual Velcro 63 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

The Apple Watch Ultra 4 is likely worth the upgrade from the original Apple Watch Ultra, even if Apple is “forcing” the upgrade with no watchOS 27 support for the first generation Ultra.It’s been a long, long time since I wrote a review about a new Apple Watch. I picked up the first-generation Ultra back in 2022 and wore it nearly every day for the last four years. It was the first Apple Watch that truly stuck for me — all past trial runs ended in a return or a sale, for this reason or that…

Orange Creamsicle CocktailA few weeks ago I found myself at a new restaurant (to me) known as Jay Luigi down in South Tampa (SoHo). As I scanned the menu I saw a drink that seemed so unique I hadn't seen it in other places.https://www.jayluigi.com/menus-sohoIt was a Orange Creamsicle alcoholic drink and after enjoying the same flavor ice cream a few months ago I needed to try it. In that moment I was not expecting to go on a journey to recreate it, so I only have a pretty weak photo of my…

Hartley Charlton at MacRumors with some bad news for me: Apple Store employees told MacRumors that they have been advised that there will likely be no ‌iPhone Duo‌ stock available for walk-in purchases on launch day. Staff have been instructed to discourage customers without pre-orders from coming in expecting to buy the device, warning that they will be disappointed. Apple’s online store tells customers to check back on Saturday, October 24 for pickup availability. Pickup reservations were…

Hiiiiiiii wow it’s really fall huh……….. been waking up to 45 degree mornings when it feels like it was 75 just a couple weeks ago! Monday was Indigenous Peoples’ Day so I had the day off from work so I mostly just Chilled and wrote my Utah/Vegas blog (not posting until I have my film photos back though) and then got my covid vaccine for the year and then played more Silent Hill 3 for game club. I have a strong feeling that game club is going to just be me and one other coworker having played it…

When designing software, the requirements you don’t have are as important as the requirements you do. Identifying what you can compromise on — what can be slow, or stale, or inflexible — is usually the key to an elegant design. Elegant systems drop some requirements For instance, take preforking web servers like Unicorn. Because they lack the feature of shared mutable state between server instances, they can run each server in its own process, which provides isolation for free. Because Unicorn…

It seems like I'm only attending every other autocross event lately. I missed the July event for my partner's birthday, and I missed September as I rested following a big bike ride. I will also miss the first November event, but that's getting ahead of things. I did manage to make it out for our club's October race. It had been long enough since our August event that I almost didn't want to bother with getting the car ready to race, like maybe I wasn't really into autocross anymore. That was…

The Halloween one-shots continued with a very different PLANET MOTHERFUCKER game that was re-flavored to feel more like a grimdark fantasy than the usual psychotronic trash culture apocalypse. The connections to previous one-shots in this series continued as well; this time we were playing through the final chapters of Gary Brown's (teenage survivor of a plane crash in the first session, genre author using his fiction to spread the madness of Shub-Niggurath in the second) final novel.As you…

Ever heard someone called a berry picker as a derogatory insult? Well, according to Green's Dictionary of Slang, it has been recorded in American slang since at least 1968 as "a rural person, a country dweller." Meanwhile, the Wabanaki have been harvesting wild blueberries for thousands of years, by hand or with hand-held rakes "which look something like a dustpan with fine metal teeth." But what I'm really talking about here is how "berry picker" is slang online, particularly on Indigenous…

Two things I’m thinking about this. One is about what level of granularity you should have agents watching the system. You can’t watch at a super high product level, but watching at a super minute level is too costly and too prone to misreads. The second is that we should be making bespoke harnesses for things like this. I think the generalized harness will fall away. 

Time to add a guitar tag. Here's a couple of practice videos https://youtu.be/JMMJ5gCy6r4 https://youtu.be/JMMJ5gCy6r4 This post (Guitar Practice - hammer) was last edited 13 minutes ago.

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On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ Saxophonist Josh Johnson is part of both the quintet SML and guitarist Jeff Parker’s ETA IVtet. Here he is in trio mode, playing “Reece” off his forthcoming album, Animative, due out next week, running his instrument through harmonizing effects, in cahoots with SML bassist Anna…

Typing and editing from a bar. The birthday girl wanted to go line-dancing. The first two dances have not been too bad. The second was fun, even. I like the little twirls but still can't get used to all the stomping. One incentive to learn the moves is to avoid having your foot stomped on by a heavily-tatted lesbian in cowboy boots. She met me at Levant Pizza first, after I devoured four slices. Two pepperoni, two garlic and zaatar. The waitress has an English accent and looks like my friend…

This is no longer true. In a world where AI generates the code, my syntax explorations simply don’t matter. My digging into the edge cases of a language or a framework have become irrelevant. My desire to develop “taste” around code methodologies and organizational strategies has become vestigial. At least it has professionally. But not personally. In terms of exercising my brain and giving myself a moment of zen and a source of joy, coding is still a high-value activity. Just in a much…

Courage and chutzpah are needed to follow-up a classic, particularly if the new author is going to continue the classic rather than use it as starting point for something very different. The five novels of The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard published between 1990 and 2013 have been a critical and commercial sense. They tell the story of the upper middle class Cazalet family from the 1930s to the 1950s and are filled with convincing and interesting characters.…

I’ve been thinking about this comment on and off since reading it months ago:“The entire problem of search is that the user has the wrong data and wants to use it to receive the correct data.”– User devmor on Hacker News (link)It’s directly in contrast to this 1864 quote from Charles Babbage, which reminds me of certain personal experiences:On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly…

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