I would like to say publicly that I am the author of my work. Not Claude, not Codex, nor Cursor. Me. I spend my limited amount of priceless time focused on the work. And you bet I will use any tool that will allow me to accomplish as much as possible, given the fact that…

A random dea. What if there were an iPhone Duo emulator for the iPad mini? As I read about the app updates and new apps developed for the Duo UI I recognize that while those apps will run on the Mini it likely won’t run the same as they do on the Duo, which means the Duo inside screen functionality isn’t available although the screen space exists.

I’ve just seen Robert’s post inviting bloggers to write a little something about themselves for Knowember. It’s been interesting to see so many participants in this challenge - I wonder if the fact it’s only 3 questions has made it more appealing? Most blog entries I see are short-form, so it’s great if more people feel they can join in with this one. And on that note, here’s my entry. It’s longer than average because apparently I’m quite wordy lol. A PhotoI am not photogenic, so the best photo…

17:22 - I got kind of bored practicing "Banquet" so I just started covering "Woods," also by Magnolian. This was my favorite song in Death Stranding 2! So IF I do decide on performing in the talent show, I think I'll go with these two. It's still early November and if I practice every day, I should be able to memorize and play it well enough.

I've been feeling for a while that it's time for another physical and digital declutter. I have too much stuff. I accumulate some of it hoping that it will bring me joy, some of it because I think I might need it sometime in the future, and some of it because I don't know what to do with it and don't want to deal with it. But I need to work on it because digital and physical clutter tends to affect my mental health negatively. My home office is the obvious first place to start. I have already…

Is there a word for the irresistible, insatiable need of people to talk about themselves and insert their life story into any and all conversation? Something in German or Japanese, perhaps?

Read the full post at - 7 Notes on Visiting St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge For years, my family has vacationed on St. George Island in the Florida panhandle. And every year, I’d look at the map and see this big, undeveloped island just to the west of Little St. George – St. Vincent Island. No roads. No houses. No bridge. I always wanted to go. But the logistics seemed tricky, and there’s not a lot of good information on the Internet about actually visiting. This summer, I finally figured…

Three interesting real photo postcards of The Orange Show, a huge exhibition which began in California in 1911. One of these is dated on the reverse 1924, another is 1926. The third is undated. The event used to attract 300,000 fruit lovers annually and I believe it is still happening. Some folks, I guess, never tire of seeing stacked oranges. Click to Enlarge! Three Real Photo Postcards of the Orange Show collection Jim Linderman. Dull Tool Dim Bulb #orangeshow. #rppc. #realphotopostcards

When you believe you only have a handful of good creative ideas, and that they need to come out perfectly, you’re experiencing creative scarcity. The direct pursuit of perfection leads to destruction. Stop saving the good stuff, it will expire. The first step away from creative scarcity is to loosen up. When you’re loose enough, you experience creative abundance: you feel light-hearted, free to create and play and take creative risks. Interesting work comes as a byproduct of this process.…

This blog is 23 years old today.

I wanted get a second post up. I have it even typed up from my notebook, but alas and alack, there is no more time left today for this sort of thing. 😅 #writig #blog #timeManagement #timeMarchesOn #godsHelpUs

This is the second post, with the stories, in case you want to skip straight to the bad stuff. https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/articles/three-stories/ #blog #writing #art #museum #shortStory #fiction #imagination #painting #sculpture #sliceOfLife

This is what we, in the business of explaining comics, call foreshadowing. It's when you subtly hint at something that will become relevant later. For example, I might be getting sick. Will I? Who could possibly know? Stay tuned.

A couple of views from the birthplace of King Kamehameha I in North Kohala. The top one, looking up the hill towards Kohala Mountain. The bottom one, looking out towards the ocean and Maui.

I got not one, but two! blog articles up! After almost a year! In this entry I talk about how I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Art Museum. Give it a try some time. https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/articles/can-you-hear-it/ #blog #writing #museum #stories #shortStory #art #indieweb

Comparing Claude Opus 5.5 vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, running locally, on the same coding task: Sokoban! In a slightly different setup than usual, I ran Claude Opus 5.5 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next through the chatbot interface (not a coding agent); Qwen I ran via llama.app (quantized to 4 bits on an AMD Strix Halo machine with 128GB of unified RAM). The prompt was a one-liner: “Create a simple but beautiful Sokoban game clone in HTML/JS/CSS (all in one file, no frameworks or 3rd-party libraries).“ Opus…

A stream of messages from my BlueSky account.

In the garage, there is a box that contains a great many boxed copies of these games. This includes all the documentation, media, and random toys they used to include when they released these games. I will not likely play any of these, but I am glad they exist. (p.s. I can’t imagine these would exist without the help of the robots) Re-releases of Wing Commander, Ultima titles hit Steam and GOG · arstechnica.com It's mostly bad news from EA lately, but preservation efforts are nice to see.

I used to be a compulsive finisher. I would grind through the most tedious, inane bullshit just to mark “Read” on Goodreads and get my little dose of accomplishment dopamine. Something changed this year. I don’t know what, exactly, but I can’t do it anymore. I’m DNF’ing shit left and right. It started with The Iron Garden Sutra by A.D. Sui. On the surface, it sounded right up my alley: a death monk performs funeral rites aboard a plant-covered generation ship where something sinister stalks…

The subject of how Roman Britain became English is perennially interesting; while I’m not interested enough to read actual books about it, I gobble up review essays like Pablo Scheffer’s “Frightened Chicks” (LRB, 8 October 2026; archived), a review of How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons by Nicholas J. Higham. As usual, I’ll excerpt some passages and send you to the link for the rest: English history​ began in 449 – according to Bede, at least. In that year, he writes in…

Paraguay's President Santiago Peña impeached and under house arrest An estimated three million depositors remain unable to access their savings and pensions, prompting public outrage particularly in the capital, Asunción. Protests erupted across the country in response, with thousands taking to the streets on Thursday to demand their money. There must be a lot more to this story. How do you create a bank run like this?

I hope Cincinnati takes a page from Covington, Kentucky when Blink rolls around again, because they did it right by blocking off streets. It was an entirely different and wonderful experience not having to fight car traffic and crowds on sidewalks. Before I get into the photos from our evening in Kentucky, we did pop downtown for a Charlie & Edie Harper inspired experience at the Mercantile Immersive (a new event space that features a room lined with floor to ceiling displays). Lightborne…

While mostly known for their beautiful flowers and seeds, edible poppies are also foraged as a wild food and easy to grow in a garden. There's many varieties, but the corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) was the first, and most heavily documented I came across. Today we'll take a brief look at its history and my... Read More The post Corn Poppy: History, Growing and Cooking appeared first on Forager | Chef .

Apologies for the outage. I did indeed have to move host – twice in fact. Nixihost was great, until I tried to upload my site and found the upload speed was 50 kilobytes per second. My internet connection upload runs as 81 megabytes a second. So that was impossible. Clearly they have sold too many websites for their capacity. But they were nice people. The web hosting trade seems every bit as wild west as it was 20 years ago, and it’s quite a minefield. Let’s see how it goes with the new host…

with Assaf Naor and a creature “I am going now to sacrifice my rook”, said Assaf’s older son… six moves later I encountered a sudden, humiliating checkmate.” Preface This blog serves both as a place to share my ideas with readers interested in combinatorics, mathematics, TCS, quantum computing, academia, and the other matters I write about, and as a personal record. I often return to old posts for personal and technical details and useful links. (There is now another audience as well: AI tools,…

Today is a day to do only what I want, only when I want. The world is my oyster, and I'm going to shuck it. My husband is away on a guys' weekend, so the cats and I have the whole place to ourselves. I'm trying to make the most of my limited time, so I'm going to be planning ahead. I've minimized my obligations and potential complications by: only eating safe food for days prior doing the full grocery run earlier in the week leaving myself a single task that guarantees I leave the house After…

• 3-star hike • 1 mile loop • Easy | Gain 80 feet • Newburyport, MA | Northeast Region . Among the tall white pine trees of Moseley Woods. Moseley Woods is a town park on the south bank of the Merrimack River that is most popular with locals looking for a casual walk or a place to exercise their dogs. We discovered the park when looking for a place to start a hike into neighboring Maudslay State Park while avoiding an exorbitant out-of-state parking fee. We found Moseley Woods to be a pleasant…

From The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (Harper, 2013), pp. 287-290: For Austria-Hungary, the Balkan Wars changed everything. Above all, they revealed how isolated Vienna was and how little understanding there was at the foreign chancelleries for its view of Balkan events. St Petersburg’s hostility to the empire and its utter disregard for Vienna’s interests in the region could be taken for granted. More worrying was the indifference of the other powers. The…

It’s a beautiful morning here in Utah. The very definition of cold and bright.

Outside the Marine Lake The Promenade and the Marine Lake The Outer Rim of the Marine Lake