I typically make a pizza on Saturday evenings, I decided to switch it up from the usual tonight and made a pan pizza. My sister gave me this cast iron pan so I decided to use that. I have a bunch of cast iron pans but this one is nice as it doesn’t have a long handle on it. Makes it easy to get into and out of the oven and fits well. Came out really nice, needs a bit more tomato sauce next time. Note tags: kitchen, pizza, athome, cooking

# Spent about half an hour tweaking the CSS for /photos so that it correctly matchea the rest of the site. I'd already linked the main theme CSS, styled the title, and added the footer but things were conflicting. It just needed a bit of attention to ensure everything lined up correctly. Looking pretty good now.

In the late 19th century, Whitby was a town shaped by the sea, where fishing boats crowded the harbor, narrow streets wound between old buildings, and generations of local families made their living from the water and surrounding countryside. Beyond its growing reputation as a seaside resort, Whitby remained a working community with a distinct […]

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Click to enlarge Sometimes in London, I think I hear a lone dog barking in the distance and I wonder if it is an echo from another street or a yard. Sometimes in London, I wake late in the night and hear a dog calling out to me on the wind, in the dark silent city of my dreaming. What is this yelp I believe I hear in London, dis-embodied and far away? Is it the sound of the dogs of old London – the guard dogs, the lap dogs, the stray dogs, the…

Studio Anatolik has resurrected a piece of Olympic design history—the Lithuanian national team uniform Issey Miyake originally created for the 1992 Barcelona Games. The original commission came at a charged moment: Lithuania had just regained independence, and Miyake's designs were captured in promotional imagery shot by Irving Penn. An image of the uniform sat in Anatolik's reference archive for years before the studio began reconstructing it in 2018, revisiting the project through its own…

DOLMENWOLVES - THURSDAY #1 Thursday's group also chose to start at a dungeon. I picked Winter's Daughter, rotated the map, restocked the dungeon a little and placed it in the hills near Lankshorn. They reached the barrow and immediately found signs that somebody had beaten them there. Fresh tracks, the stone slab sealing the entrance pushed aside and tools still lying outside. In the first room, a sack was stuck beneath a knocked over plinth. As soon as they started talking, something inside…

Yes, I’m finally home! With a couple of side trips. Last night was a strange one. I kept getting nurses coming by, asking if I was ready to go home, pretty much until shift change. I was quite a mess, apparently. I took a selfie after my brother came and left with my daughter, sent … Continue reading Home – the long way

As a chemical engineering student, I never expected to learn the physics behind why sausages usually split lengthwise. Sausages are actually very similar to pipes, and I learned about pipes. A sausage has a casing and its content/stuffing inside. A pipe has a wall with a thickness, and it's hollow so fluids can flow inside. They are both cylindrical. In a sense, a sausage is a pipe. When there is stuff inside a pipe, it pushes on all sides of the inside of the pipe and creates stress. If we…

trying to find space in the world for just a little longer even a single night is acceptance supposed to come from the inside? there's nothing there and so it's destined to remain void i wonder if ambition makes it easier to take up space but i believe i have lost too much of myself already like a decayed orbit of a planet looking at its diminishing star knowing everyday is a longer goodbye i'm tired of existing i'm tired of my flaws the version of myself that deserves love is a mirror image of…

MapQuest on Bluesky: Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras. I was happy when MapQuest refused to change the names of certain bodies of water, but it wasn't enough to compel me to download their app. Today I downloaded their app.

Sickness and onslaught of overtime don't do well for one person's morale. Having to miss two sketchwalks because my flesh could not endure more abuse was not conducive to my mood. But we carried on. I have finished the black book with 12 paintings for Inktober. It's a miracle I've only missed five, given the amount of ordeal I'd had to go through. We make do, perhaps. The old dog also learned some new blending tricks with acrylic markers, so that's a win overall. With this, I'm officially rid…

Today i introduce another important milestone in my Musaicum satellite image mosaic series – the Musaicum East Africa. The Musaicum images are a series of regional satellite image mosaics based on Sentinel-2 data started in 2023 that are produced to a high quality standard. They offer unsurpassed quality in visual color depiction of Earth at this resolution range (10m) with a high degree of color consistency and an exceptionally low incidence of clouds. After previous mosaics of Europe, West…

Having recently visited my daughter, and having observed the unrelenting demands upon her and her partner as parents of small children in these challenging times, I’ve been thinking about what I should have said. What I did say was along the lines of: No matter what choices you make, somebody will confidently inform you that you erred, and without walking one step in your shoes, they will explain why you should be doing things differently. They will not offer time, money, or resources to assist…

Detail of a classic De Tomaso Pantera spotted at the Autos in the Park event at the Cooper Institute in Dallas. The post Pantera appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Today, I ran across this article on Librarianship Studies, well… more of a collection of blurbs and quotes on why librarians from all around the world love their jobs. Besides being an entertaining read, it got me thinking about why I love being a librarian. I’m a bit long winded, so I am not sure I can condense my feelings on the topic of librarianship down into a single sentence, so I thought I would dedicate an entire blogpost to the topic instead. Lucky you! I first came to librarianship…

Donald Knuth wrote “premature optimization is the root of all evil” in 1974, in a paper called “Structured Programming with go to Statements”. It’s high…

I am, by all outside accounts, a straight white male. That's probably about right, and I have never been engaged in the world of dating far enough to do anything more than what my emotions say. And evidence would point to me being straight, because every crush I have ever had has been female. Notably though in sex and not necearily in gender. And I was in some capacity friends with all of them. This might then be evidence supporting demisexuality or demiromanticism (of the difference I struggle…

Watched: Tenzing 🍿 Extremely well-done. Incredible visuals, and truly unbelievable costuming. The found/archival footage was nearly indistinguishable from the modern film. I also really enjoyed getting more flavor on a story about which I basically knew only the Hillary/Norgay headline.

Last weekend the inlaws and I finally explored Fagan Park in northern Sydney together. It’s a 55 hectare former estate that was donated to the Hornsby Shire in 1988. It’s gorgeous. There was so much to see and explore, but I was especially taken by the landscape. We couldn’t have picked nicer weather for it. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-18.

Since July I've been working on Chapisho, a self-hostable blog engine written in Elixir and Phoenix. Its repository is still private. Like most things I build for myself, it needed a way to sign in. And as with Burrow, the Go web framework I wrote earlier this year, I didn't want passwords anywhere near it.So Chapisho got passkey login early on. At some point I noticed that the identity part had very little to do with blogging. It knew about accounts, passkeys, sessions and invitations, and…

Album of the Week, October 17, 2026 Peter Gabriel’s album Us came out when I was in college, in 1992. As the subsequent decade passed there was a live album, Secret World Live; some soundtrack songs; and the OVO project. I began to despair of Peter releasing another album of original material ever again. Though there were rumors of an album being worked on, it almost felt like a joke because the rumored album title was one that was being used by other artists. And when Up finally appeared in…

Schon wieder Schnittchen? Ja! Mir gehen einfach die Ideen für die Brotverwertung nicht aus und dieses Rezept gefällt dem Lieblingsmann besonders gut, denn er liebt auch Pizza Hawaii. Die bestellt er immer, ohne jemals die Pizzaauswahl zu studieren. Wie immer bei Schnitten gilt: als Brot kannst Du nehmen, was Du hast. Ich hatte drei sehr große Scheiben Bauernbrot, es geht prinzipiell

after my last post (and also poem and technical article to a much lesser extent) I’ve posted blew up I’ve sorta had this writers block where I don’t know where to go from here. I know I started this blog to write casually, and to keep posting little things but between my PhD program and a general lack of motivation I’ve found it really difficult to keep writing. I want to write about my image intensified astrophotography setup, so I can then share the astrophotos I took then, but in order to…

We are entering an epoch where it may become easy for small pieces of self-replicating code to permanently infest Internet-connected devices in a way that is hard to undo. Such a world would be annoying to live in and we should take steps to forestall it. Anyone who used email in the 1990s remembers a similar, primitive era, when worms and viruses briefly ruled the net. But the connected world of that time was too simple to sustain an ecosystem of rogue escapees. Even today, much of the…

One is occasionally in need of some ideas for additional ways to help the Player Characters part with some of their hard-earned Treasure. I am a firm believer that one of the more frustrating ways this can be found in the form of fickle fines or tricky types of taxation. I have seldom seen Players get more incensed at the very notion, and therefore supremely motivated to try and weasel out of these sorts of financial obligations. The desire to avoid paying them often leads to additional…

I buy a not insignificant amount of stuff from eBay, surprising nobody here. I owe much of my retrocomputer hobby to Japanese second-hand good stores, my father in law, and online auction sites. Much of this comes from Europe, but I do buy the odd item from the United States as well. Sellers in certain countries like the US and UK can opt into eBay’s Global Shipping Programme. This allows sellers to list their items as available for purchase from overseas. These sellers send their items to a…

Bergamot, Tobacco, Ginger, & VetiverI went into this one expecting a Creed clone, and I wasn't disappointed. Club de Nuit Iconic, released in 2022, hit the usual YouTube and TikTok review scene as a supposed clone of Bleu de Chanel. Countless broccoli heads and fragbros made the comparison, not because they truly believed it, but because it's what everyone else was saying. Having owned

Write as if nobody is reading, and even if nobody is reading or engaging. The point isn’t likes, comments, or a follower count. The point is who you become by writing. The discipline it gives. The clear thinking. The daily practice. The body of work. The way we look at the world to hunt for stories. Write as if nobody is reading and keep writing because you don’t know who’s doing it. That’s the one of the mantras that has kept me writing for years. Writing daily is one of the habits that has…

It’s universal in basically everything, but I would say especially in music and with bands. Do not listen to what people say. Only watch their actions. I have found these things to be so polar opposite sometimes that it’s ridiculous. If you frame things this way, it’s really hard to be on the fence about people. And I’ve found generally that the only ones that make me mad are the ones who are saying something totally different. I think, especially in a band situation, which is a live-action…