I ought to have been writing this in the run-up to Halloween but as I’ve said before, Halloween here is a state of mind, not a mere twenty-four hours. The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult received a mention in the recent post about Charles Williams, two of whose novels were included in the collection. The paperback series was brought to mind again last week when another of the titles, The Prisoner in the Opal by AEW Mason, turned up at Standard Ebooks, the home of high-quality,…

Drew eagerly led us onto the plane with her timbits. No fear in this one! The last time she flew she was only 2, so I think this will feel pretty different for her! The post Ready to Go appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

It's been a long time since I joined in a blogging game, but I saw this one yesterday and well, I couldn't resist. Robert Birming, who is apparently really good at coming up with these kinds of things, came up with Knowember, a change to introduce readers to the person behind the blog. Now, this blog's been around since 2000, but I can't remember the last time I actually wrote an introduction post other than the About page. Maybe never? Now's as good a time as any! Ok, here we go... A photo My…

Your AI subscription won't get more expensive. It will just stop getting better while the new plans above it do. A prediction, written down now so I can say I told you so later.

Vita lavorativa Battute finali del collaudo sul progetto che ho seguito in questo 2026 come team leader e responsabile dello sviluppo backend. Progetti Piccoli miglioramenti su owlcode.it: nuova descrizione e modifica completa delle keyword della homepage. Resting never die! E' stata aperta una richiesta per una nuova funzionalità in Resting. Una richiesta piuttosto sentita visto che l’utente mi ha segnalato questa funzionalità sia con issue nel progetto che utilizzando l’e-mail di supporto.

Much of the feedback on my recent article on Reasons to Dislike AI Coding featured a dismissal of a collection of common themes in arguments against AI coding, without any thesis. That post was indeed my way of collecting thoughts, and connecting them to existing articles where I’d already addressed some of the concerns: I don’t think I dismissed the thematic arguments so much as referred to my own, or other, arguments. Here we are, a month later, and I’m ready for the synthesis. For a lot of…

Read the full post at - 10 Lessons Learned from 18+ Years of Bike Commuting I’ve been biking since I was 8 years old. I still remember the moment I finally kept my balance and rode off. Growing up in the provinces of The Philippines, I rode everywhere as a kid. The roads were compact and multi-use. Except for the main highway, car speeds were relatively low thanks to potholes, rogue chickens, and narrowness. I rode miles and miles and became very confident on my bike – even as a kid. Coming…

For a discussion of the dangers inherent on our conversing with bots so intensely that we forget that we’re not having a real conversation, that we fail to realize that there’s actually no-one there, just a computer program, see Ezra Klein’s podcast hosted by The New York Times (paywall protected I fear) where he interviews Sherry Turkle, author of Artificial Intimacy: Who we become when we talk to machines (Little Brown, 2026). Maybe we’ll be able to figure out how to protect against recursive…

The Lost Art Press bricks-and-mortar store will be closed this Friday (Nov. 13), because we have collective paraskevidekatriaphobia. Or because we are short-staffed due to vacations, out-of-town classed, teaching obligations and the like. One of those two. Apologies for the short notice. (But we are open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. today, Tuesday and Wednesday). And upcoming closing for the holidays are Nov. 27 (the day after Thanksgiving), as well as Dec. 25 and Jan. 1, 2027. – Fitz

Just had to do quite the deep dive into git to figure out some issues I was having with my new betas, tags and release candidates system. At some point when you deep dive into git the imaginary edifice of branches, the staging area, your working directory, it all disappears and it's acyclic graphs all the way down, and your head starts to hurt. OMG branches aren't real! Argh. Hold on, if branches aren't real what even is happening when I create a quick backup branch? Oh shit backup branches…

The CEO of the company the whole AI economy leans on admitted Sunday he had an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence says was a Chinese spy. The affair is his business. The rest of it is everyone's. Back in March I wrote that Jensen's apology tour changed exactly nothing. I didn't expect that title to get a sequel. Yet here we are. On Sunday, Jensen Huang sent an email to Nvidia staff admitting he'd been unfaithful to his wife. Short, contrite, "no excuse for what I did." Nvidia's board opened…

Curtis Jackson, better known by his artist name 50 Cent, is one of the most famous people in the world. In addition to being a bestselling recording artist, and creating and producing lots of TV shows, and acting, he stays relevant by posting to tens of millions of followers on Instagram. You figure this would be enough to keep his brand growing, but images and videos have their limits. Even Fifty can only say so much within a few seconds or a minute. It’s great for quick jokes, but not so…

I feel like politics is so often used as a wedge to divide us. Given that the issues we write about here span the pre-supposed political divide... I try not to get too overtly political on The Review.Yet, November 3rd's election results in the United States need to be addressed head on. Why? Because, frankly, the results are intrinsically tied to so much of what I talk about here.And this is an absolutely massive thing, so I'm going to break it into a few different articles.The Media SpinIf…

I've been a fan of eink for a long time. I've always found having an ereader around makes me read more than I would have otherwise. So my YouTube algorithm was primed to push the tiny ereader renaissance down my throat. I resisted for a while. I didn't want to buy another device only to use it for a few days and toss it in a drawer. But of course I talked myself into the Xteink X4 Classic when I saw how cheap it was... and damn am I glad I did. There's a lot to love about this tiny and…

Sometimes I’ll double up on books and have a fiction and nonfiction title going at the same time. They’re each a palate cleanser for the other. So, alongside A Child Alone With Strangers, I’m reading Jeffrey Burton Russell’s A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans. I like it when books challenge my worldview by offering a different perspective on history. I’m not a fan of the dry anthropological approach, but hey, you can’t have it all. There’s some interesting stuff buried…

The end of the year approaches, so that means it’s time for award eligibility posts! Making these posts a yearly obligation does reduce the embarrassment of flogging one’s work. Like a lot of authors, I love flinging my work out into the world. Doing backflips to get it noticed and read is…less fun. Corners of the Deep Dark (approx. 53,600 words) is a space opera novel published by Cryptic Plumage Press (September 2026). Cover art by Addison Smith. “Femme Prédatrice” (approx. 5,000 words) is a…

Hello my Novemberites, Here are some interesting links for you to explore this month: Make your own Bayeux Tapestry. You know… to spice up your office presentations! Made by Frances I woke up the other day and had to hear Katarsis by She Past Away. Guess I am on some sort of Turkish kick. And am a huge goth. M Fatchurofi – I’m digging this Indonesian illustrator’s work. Found them through the cover for another band that sings in the Turkish language, Altin Gun. And here’s another cool…

Helping them to become Christians, that is. One of my first posts on this blog in the early days was about the Domus Conversorum, the "House of Converts." King Henry III wanted to turn Jews to Christianity, but because he would require them to leave behind their lands and careers, he offered to house, clothe, and feed them.A charter was produced in January 1232 and beganFrom King Henry Greetings:"Know that we, in the sight of God, and for our souls, and for the sake of our predecessors and…

I want to give a recommendation for the Walk The Distance app and developer John Zaccone. Like many apps supported by a small team of developers, John has been particularly responsive. Google recently turned off the Fitbit API the app used for receiving data in a switch to Google Health and John made the change over the weekend. I also received notice that I no longer need to pay a yearly subscription unless I use Garmin as an input source. A critical component of my healthcare is walking…

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 800. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →

This week’s Culture.pl newsletter includes a richly illustrated article by Mikołaj Gliński from 2017 titled The Map Is Not the Territory: How Satirists Charted Poland When It Wasn’t on the Map. Here are some paragraphs of comment below the variety of mostly satirical maps. In the late 18th century, Poland disappeared from the political map of Europe and didn’t return until over a century later. But is the map the territory? Where was Poland when it wasn’t there? Culture.pl tries to find Poland…

Canada’s and the world’s favourite heavy metal underdogs were back in Hastings again, two years after their storming gig at The Crypt. This time they are at The Carlisle and if that legendary but compact sounds on the small side for a band like Anvil, it is reassuringly ram-packed when I walk in. First up are the Belgian heavy metal power trio, Killer. Formed in 1980 and still fronted by guitarist/vocalist Paul Van Camp, they are part of the NWOBHM (New Wave Of Belgian Heavy Metal) I suppose.…

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It took a couple of rejections, but the new version of Zeitgeist I finished the other day was finally approved, and I managed to release it on the App Store just in time for the iPhone Duo's launch. People loved it! Which is great, because I do, too. It's the best journaling app I know of, and also the one with the strongest opinions about what journaling should be. If you've been thinking about finally getting into journaling, you might want to give it a try.

You often hear that Mastodon isn't that good because there's just nothing going on. I can't keep up with the reading and therefore I have terrible FOMO.FOMO might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I've often thought about how great it would be to get a daily overview of what's being shared on my timeline. Half-heartedly, I sat down and considered whether I could write a small Node.js script that would monitor my timeline, extract all the links, and then present them to me—ideally weighted…

I’m curious what you thought about the Halloween spell on Unsung! In case you enjoyed it, here are some follow ups I collected since publishing: A few people online suggested the distinctive and creepy “I can do it” Monopoly Deluxe sample is from a cartoon Ren & Stimpy, which premiered not long before the game. I found an example that’s very close, but not quite exactly like the one from the game. (It’s not creepy in the video!) Nik Clayton added some color to the YouTube red and blue squares…

Stoppani Glacier in 2015 and 2016 October Landsat images. The snowline is at 350 m in 2015 and at 700 m in 2026. Yellow arrows indicate a significant narrowing of the terminus tongue. Stoppani Glacier is a large valley glacierof the Cordillera Darwin Icefield on the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (54.8 S 69 W). The glacier terminates in an expanding proglacial lake at ~100 m, this lakes drains into the Rio Yendegaia and then into the Beagle Channel. The snowline altitude at the start of the…

Today I am sampling some medium-sized red apples, many oblate, with a blush that is deep and purplish in some places. ¶ Triumph's stem well is filled with russet that varies (from sample to sample) from green to brown, and there are many small light lenticel dots sprinkled throughout the blush.

screen shot from a Guardian video of anti-war protesters outside the DNC convention in Chicago in August 2024; the mainstream pro-war, pro-genocide Democrats wouldn’t even let them or their delegation in through the door Vincent Bevins has recently become something of a go-to person for information on why protests, especially by the ‘left’, almost always fail to achieve their objectives. Here’s a summary of a recent extensive interview he did with The Tea. His thesis, based on both having…

so i know i said i wouldnt talk about ai before but this is more an ai adjacent topic so its fine probablyanyways have you heard of "book of mario: thousands of doors" before?if you dont know (and you probably dont, its over 6 years old at this point)its a mod of paper mario ttyd but with all of the text shuffled through google translatenow this isnt the first time gt was used to make content (malinda kathrine reese and random typek come to mind here)it was different though, in that it was…