Note to self. BPPV is an unnecessary addition to the flu. It feels like your eyeballs are rioting. I googled for videos of nystagmus but actually, I can’t even look at them without feeling worse. You can look for your own ones. All the rooms, the houses, the streets are unnaturally quiet around 3am. By 4am the house is whispering, walls shift and yawn. Lying in the dark, ears strain with the listening. It’s easy to write in the darkness and all of it is brilliant, of but in daylight it’s also…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Erin Belieu’s career-spannimg poetry collection Cocklebur showcases her inimitable talent for ever lyrically capturing darkness through whimsy. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book:…

I rearranged my workstation to accommodate my new coffee machine this weekend. Not as smart as Kev's layout, but with 6 dogs, my Wattbike and M4 MBP on Phiilips ultrawide, I squeeze quite a lot into my space!

The latest release from Korean musician Hunjiya, Start Over emerges like a hazy filtered memory. Guitars, spoken snippets, and wisp-like vocal harmonies float against a textural percussion line. The sense of nostalgia and reflection at play here feels apt, given Start Over’s position as part of Hunjiya’s forthcoming six song project, Memory Box. Loose guitars create a playfulness in the song, even as you sense frustration build. Start Over is concerned with the repeated act of beginning again —…

The leaves outside were half painted for fall. I sat on the porch to watch the sunrise and sip my coffee. The day was young and I was eager, but inside I felt something else. Something churned inside me, something that was somehow resistant. I had searched for the feeling as it grew over the past week. Sun shining on my face now, I continued my search and thought, “I want to create, but why don’t I? I’ve expressed on several occasions my personal path with creativity, an inner push and pull…

Person A's stance is that disagreements happen. They seem unbothered. Person B frames the disagreement--amplified by the fact that it apparently means so little to Person A--as disrespect and injustice, and that they're probably a sociopath. Letting the disagreement go means accepting and enabling the behavior, and being tolerant of abuse. Person A and those associated with them are now suspect in all past and future situations. New people must be warned. Person B's fire can burn for years,…

When I went birding at Kensington Metropark this weekend, I expected to see hickory, walnut, and maple trees changing into their brilliant fall color as well as gulls and waterfowl in Kent Lake. What I didn’t expect was not one, not two, but three colorful hot air balloons slowly making their way northeast over the lake. Caught me by surprise, since I knew hot air balloon festivals in southeast Michigan are typically in summer and sometimes in September. I searched online, but couldn’t find any…

Description In a capitalist world on the brink of climate collapse, the fragility of the infrastructure we rely on becomes more and more apparent, at different levels. In particular, the digital domain has seemed incredibly disconnected

Since my birthday is coming up next month, I’ve been thinking about how to answer the inevitable question: “What would you like for your birthday?”I think I’ve found my answer for this year: “One single mug handmade by a local artist.”

Much like your favourite recipe websites, I'm not going to get straight to the point, I'm going to start with a backstory and you're not getting a skip link. Having grown up with a dad who read cookbooks for leisure, and who caused me to turn vegetarian for several weeks once at the age of 13 when he presented me with a lamb heart stew for dinner, it was inevitable that I would be a foodie. Dad’s squid and red wine stew was my favourite dish as a child. He can't cook any more, but I have fond…

. . . Older mats below Mandalorian and Grogu got Marsten Mats like they reused some old John Wayne sets

We are packed up and awaiting the arrival of our bus that’s going to take us to MCO Orlando International Airport. It has been a very good vacation; I feel relaxed and I feel ready to tackle whatever lies ahead. Most importantly, I feel like I can face the world with a smile on my face again. I find Walt Disney World to not quite be what it used to be when I first visited here 30 years ago, but it is still a very happy place for me. I have been watching folks move through their vacations. Most…

On Thursday, October 15, I completed my 31st cycle around the sun. My wife bought us tickets for “Elephants and Ants”, a play based on one of Yaşar Kemal’s books. It was a story about elephants oppressing ants with their brute power, and ants, after years of abuse, rebelling against them. I liked the story very much, but more than that, I liked the practical effects of the play. In the play, the decor was very sparse, almost non-existent. But the cast did many small things that made the story…

As a former copyeditor and proofreader, I found one article of particular interest in this week’s newsletter from Culture.pl: Alicja Zapalska’s (2021) Pen to Paper: Mastering the Quirks of Polish Writing. Excerpts follow. Periods in unexpected places, paragraphs full of dashes, and mysterious abbreviations abound in Polish writing. Here are a few tips to make sense of the Polish language’s unique style and punctuation (language proficiency not included). Reading and writing might be the bane of…

The question 'I' m arriving into X station in London at 8.15am on Saturday. What parkruns can I get to in time?' comes up fairly often on parkrun tourism groups, so I thought I'd try to put a simple list together to help. For the list I have used the 14 central London terminal stations plus the 4 central London through-stations that are considered terminals for ticketing purposes. These are collectively known as the London Station Group. The timings are based on the overall estimated journey…

There was a quarter moon hanging low in the sky last night. My thoughts and my heart were indicative of the time and the view, which was pretty and sad at the same time.I am amazed at the world’s beauty and how the prettiness of a low-hanging moon appears to be a gift, like a sight for sore eyes, and a present to remind me that nothing is so ugly or so desparate.The moon and the seasons are not an enemy, only changing, and they are only reminders that we need to notice the good things that life…

There is something to age and change, but it seems to have different explanations than closed-mindedness or resistance.

In the fitness world, a saying goes that your diet produces 80% of your results, and working out only 20%. So, focus on your diet, right? In my case, I haven’t found that to be useful or true at all. I’m trying to gain weight and build muscle, so I need to eat more. That only happens when my metabolism is up, and that only happens from an intense workout. No workout, no improved diet. No improved diet, no results. I have tried in vain. Of course, yes, I pay very close attention to what I eat.…

Here's a secret: She actually laughed quite a bit at this stupid joke, which was reassuring because I like the people sticking needles in me to be in a good mood. That wraps up this year's vaccination season. I'm armed (ha!) against the flu and COVID now.

[This is a guest post by Francesco Maggi. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Large language models (LLMs) and the research systems built around them (and commonly known as “artificial intelligence”) have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating mathematical proofs. While the quality and limits of these tools remain incompletely understood, their potential for accelerating discovery and enabling extraordinary advances in…

# Doom on a DVD player </div> This is the written version of the talk above. Same story, with more detail: the real bytes off the disc, the measurements, and a couple of figures you can poke at. Watch, read, or both. I have a cheap portable DVD player, a JVC XV-PY1000A that cost me about $75. It's a top-loader, so I propped the lid open and you can watch the disc spin. Later that came in handy, when we needed to film the laser. And it plays Doom: the first level, E1M1, the Hangar. You pick a…

Earlier this week, the auto shop called to say the part finally arrived and I could bring the van in right then and there. The Auto Guy said it’d take 5-7 hours to get her all fixed up. With a free loaner car… I had loads of simple fun getting coffee using the drive-thru (because the van doesn’t fit), visiting the city parks, spending time at the lake on a crisp, colorful autumn day, and just having a whimsical time. Eight hours later… I was booking a hotel. And things didn’t go as planned the…

⌾ : iPhone 17 pro max.⚲ : ///attracts.yields.skirmish The Fujifilm was left behind because, hey, we are only going to look at some boring retail shops. Even my everyday carry pocket camera that I bought specifically to have on my personage at all times was in my satchel …..back in the car. Lunch found us at the Plantation Cafe, which had this awesome front counter with wall to ceiling bookshelves. I wish I could’ve captured it on one of those cameras I didn’t have with me. Plan C was the…

We don’t go back, because if we go back, we enter a realm of superstition and madness! -Adam Scovell. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – Søren Kierkegaard Dream the myth onward and give it modern dress … Continue reading Rituals, Ruins, Reckoning and the Roots of Terror: Unearthing the Magic and Madness of Folk Horror.

Hello everyone! We continue our journey through Spooky Month with an unperfect but unique game about ghosts catfishing humans on dating apps! In Dead Ringer, you’re a ghost, stuck in limbo, almost disappearing into nothingness. Your only chance is to convince a human to perform a ritual. But that’s no easy task. Luckily for you, you have a phone, unlimited internet access somehow, and a dating app. Surely, one person in here will do that for you. All you have to do is flatter their egos, make…

A zine chronicling the Conquering the Barbarian Altanis D&D campaign. This issue includes sessions 122, 123, 124, and 125. Adventurers recover the Golden Gavel of Justice and satisfy Poseidon. You can download the issue here. Overlord's Annals zine is available as part of the Ever & Anon APA, issue 16: #Zine Subscribe to get the latest post in your inbox. No spam. rootringPrev · Random · Directory · Next

Subvert is a creator-owned music platform, catering primarily to indie musicians; think of it as Bandcamp if it was a co-op. Subvert recently released a policy on the use of “AI” in the music that’s released on the site, and for anyone who is curious about things like this, I really think it’s worth a view. Among the things I think it does right is that it defines the terms under discussion (including acknowledging “AI” is at this point basically a broad marketing term), acknowledges the…

A few months ago I wrote that Claude Code on FreeBSD is a game changer for self-hosters. I thought I had seen everything. I was wrong. 😅 Dawarich : a great app # Dawarich is a self-hosted alternative to Google Timeline. Your smartphone (via OwnTracks or Overland) sends its position to your server, and Dawarich shows you where you went : a map of your trips, a heatmap, the countries and cities you visited, distances, transport modes, statistics per year... It can even import your old Google…