cogdogblog. CC BY 2.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. Over the past couple of years, I’ve become involved in an honor society to which I was elected in college. I’ve mused a great deal since then about the split between two assumptions, namely a) my own naive ones regarding said society’s asserted raison d’être (service to development of the mind and hence social responsibility, love of learning much more robust than the instrumentalist “lifelong learning” touted in corporate culture), and b) the…

D&D was fun this week, I’m enjoying Luke’s creative encounters, we had to defuse some peanut-butter-smothered dynamite before some squirrels got to it. Weekly is quite nice tbh, something to look forward to on a Monday! Charlotte and I played Finspan again, it’s a good game and it’s nice and quick. I like it when we have a little phase of sitting down to a game, it feels wholesome. I invented a new game for the cats called Stargazy Pie. I have a cardboard box with multiple holes in it, I sit…

last updated 1 minute ago hey! it's weeknotes number sixty eight! what a large and ever growing amount of weeknotes! the fact that you can't wear glasses to try on glasses, and thus have to squint and ask other people how you look, is a crime. i hope i picked well cos they're so expensive, and i'm way more sure about one pair lol. been thinking a lot about community and "what i owe to others" at the minute, after conversations i do think i would do well to try and find places where people are…

At this point it is super clear that I probably have ME/CFS. This has not been determined by a doctor (not for lack of trying!), but by a lifetime of experience and the fact that the issues I have match the profile pretty much exactly. I’d be tempted to blame the bad case of COVID I got back in 2024 but the precursors were there for a long, long time, so if COVID did anything it was just to push me over an edge I had been approaching for a while.Here are some of the signs that are now obvious…

Chill out this winter with these Twin Peaks and David Lynch-inspired events and screenings taking place around the world in January to March 2027. TWIN PEAKS AND DAVID LYNCH-INSPIRED EVENTS FROM JANUARY TO MARCH 2027 Below is a round up of Twin Peaks and David Lynch-themed events taking place in January to March 2027 .... The post Chill Out In Winter 2027 with Twin Peaks and David Lynch-Inspired Events and Screenings appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

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I have been grappling with a loose and uninformed thought recently, which is that basically every major power in the world during the Cold War over-valued the power of media. In the West this manifested as a full-on media blitz, a concocted celebration of United States imperialism, the engines of our creative factories blasting out more and more movies, music, advertising, whatever possible to try and counter the global Left. Simultaneously, domestic suppression campaigns (e.g. McCarthyism)…

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While I didn’t have as much fun with car lights, I experienced another nice motor memory moment last week when using CarPlay. During my drive, I wanted to ask the new Siri something – but as only an occasional driver, and my phone out of sight, I was puzzled as to how to actually invoke it. I did see the new Siri app icon appear in the sidebar on the car’s screen, but tapping on that only showed me a list of prior conversations. Sure, I could probably initiate a new chat by tapping the button…

A little over two weeks ago, I announced my roguelike deckbuilder Now You’re Cooking!. As promised, here’s my postmortem on the announce.Read more...

Boo! Selfie a day for a year, day 51: Oct 18, 2026 edition.

It's a sad day here. My "everyday-carry" bag has died. This "man bag" (or "murse") has served me well in probably twenty countries, thousands of miles of travel, and just over seven years. I rather like the patina and signs of use it has developed. I enthused about the bag during the before-times, shortly after I adopted it as you can read in my EDC bag review: "Check out my Nutsac." Presciently I mentioned the zippers. And it was a failure of the front zipper, after countless openings, that…

Joel of Far Outliers is posting passages from Japan, 1941: Countdown to Infamy, by Eri Hotta, and I found this one interesting as an example of a phenomenon that has more than once struck me in my readings of history: we tend to assume great national decisions are made by top leaders after conferring with their top aides/ministers/experts, but in fact they’re often driven by people much farther down the totem pole, like the ones described here. But this paragraph is also of interest from a…

At the end of last month (30 September 2026) the Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Sub-Committee discussed the commission of new research by William Pettigrew on the City of London council’s role in the abolition of slavery. It appears the council doesn’t want the public to know much about this commission although it will no doubt trumpet any research results it views as favourable to itself. There was no written report and strenuous efforts were made to move parts of the public…

Felt like I really benefited from having last week off work, and that feeling lasted about an hour into my Monday morning. Turns out a lot happened last week so I spent most of this week trying to process change while keeping on top of my own work. I had another basketball game this week, playing for Worthing D&D White in a 64-80 loss to Shoreham Spartans. Didn't get much court time in this one, playing about 2 minutes before subbing myself out so we didn't have players with a DNP (did not…

In 1999, I got hired to work doing Quality Assurance for PowerOn/Now Software. Among their software offerings was a pair of programs, sold together, called Now Up-to-Date and Contact. They were calendaring and contact applications for true power users. Folks that not only needed a ton of unique features above your average calendaring and contact software but, perhaps most importantly, needed to be able to share that information with others in a team/office/company or even family basis. The best…

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This Week’s Forecast CARROT Weatheris predicting some cool temps for the week ahead. I’m ready for it! It’s been kinda hot lately. I have learned that 50 degrees Fahrenheit is just fine for top-down driving. Today’s installment of Sunday Serial features 33% software, and 66% epicure. Enjoy! Traverse Outliner Traverse Outliner for macOS Mac nerds love two things: RSS readers and outliners. (Not exclusively. Just extensively.) I spent well over a year using Windows 11, and a lot of that time…

To connect Joule Work Desktop (JWD) to SAP systems, add ARC-1 on SAP BTP as an MCP connector, sign in with your work account and select it in a conversation. JWD can then use ARC-1’s SAP tools alongside the files and other context you provide. For ABAP work, ARC-1 is my first choice. It gives the desktop tools to investigate errors, read custom code and understand software changes. Below is the short setup guide and a support workflow that shows why the connection is useful. MCP, short for…

So what to make of OpenAI and the future of Math? Here are some points I've either:thought of myself or heard from a human or read from an AI.Throughout this post I use the term AI to mean an AI system that produces mathematical results. I decline to say OpenAI or Anthropic as generic terms since about 20 years ago I used Intrade as a generic term for Betting Markets---then Intrade went out of business. I wish I had bet on that happening. Oh well.1) Some of the proofs were Lean-formalized and…

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The American Sign Museum is ten minutes away from my house, but I'd never gotten around to a visit until my friend Sam and I were invited to type poems for guests at a bat mitzvah party there last night.The museum is bigger than I'd expected. You feel like you're walking down streets that are crowded with advertising icons and neon.Sam and I were very impressed with a display of glass panels from a Victorian artist's "specimen book." These are only about six inches across, and they show…

At the top of Green Hill Cemetery. The wonderful stone carver memorial stands to the right and, up the next hill in the distance, stands St Vincent de Paul.

this was one of the, maybe, 4 weeks in the year that i felt really good physically and mentally together. i was hoping that using my little energy to go out to inspiring spaces would help me get up to a few more good weeks. we'll see, i'm hopeful after this last one! it helps my mentality and physicality that the weather is finally getting cooler. i loathe the large air conditioner units that take up my two favorite windows, so having our landlord cart those away for the season felt so freeing…

Humanity seems to have a bright future, i.e., a non-trivial chance of expanding to fill the universe with lasting life. But the fact that space near us seems dead now tells us that any given piece of dead matter faces an astronomically low chance of begating (sic) such a future. There thus exists a great filter between death and expanding lasting life, and humanity faces the ominous question: how far along this filter are we? Robin Hanson, 1996 or 1998 During the Cold War, it was a commonplace…

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links: Read: — London Pen Show Autumn 2026 (UK Fountain Pens) — First Look at Sunlit Steel: Duluth Shop Exclusive (Dime Novel Raven) — Checking In: An Inktober Update (From the Pen Cup) — PSA: Diligently…

i've wanted to write this for so long. at first, i thought i might want this as a lengthy, no-one-is-reading-this-and-that's-okay instagram caption to combo with contextless pictures of our cats. then i thought it could be a tweet or a thread or something or the other. it's just that, i really love our cats. and i don't mean it like on a deep or intellectual level. you know that overused gif/clip from despicable me where the little girl was like, it's so fluffy i wanna DIE or something like…

My book A Level of Consciousness, was not about AI, it was about humans, but in several areas went deep into my thoughts on the mysteries of consciousness, with several parallels that translate to the singularity/sentient/not-sentient arguments raging today. I still subscribe to the theory that the brain is just an interrupt driven biological LLM. Think of a new born baby. In its simplistic terms it has a set of input senses, pain receptors, hormones; and a set of outputs with its hands feet…

you ok? no me either. whenever I go on linkedin I just want to post “does anyone want a hug?”. That’s all anyone really needs probably. I’m not a doctor. some people probably need more, but not the people posting to Linkedin. I’d be such a shoe girlie if my feet weren’t such an odd shape. Too long, too narrow. Last week, with my talent acquisition partner, I was fighting with a spreadsheet and our recruiting software, miserably trying to open a job role for the T W E N T Y F I V E i need to…