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In which I make the journey from the SE corner of Greater London to the City, via a few pubs and a short stop to enjoy some rather splendid views of the Thames.At the end of the last post I was hopping aboard a train at Chislehurst station, making the short one-stop trip to Petts Wood.The Pett family gave their name to this little corner of London. They were prominent shipbuilders between the 15th and 17th centuries who leased the woods in this region as a source of timber. One of the warships…

Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’“Among men, the most frequently reported time to diagnosis was less than three months. Among women, it was one to two years.”Cool, cool.

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As part of my recent website redevelopment, I added a suite of slashpages (indexed at /slashes)1. /pfp is a new one, and I've got mine here! I'm not sure this particular standard will ever reach the status of being truly well-known or widely-used, but I like it as a concept. /pfp is an archive of the "profile pictures" you've used over the years, chronologically-arranged. As such, it acts as sort of a time capsule and sort of a timeline of how I've "presented" myself online over the decades. I…

This morning I woke up feeling pretty good. I was warm enough last night to sleep with the fan in the window. The cool air felt great and helped me get a restful night’s sleep I even slept in a little this morning until nearly 5! I got up and started drinking my coffee. I had to make a small little tweak on my sass files because I had misplaced a rule. That was a pretty straightforward fix after I tried everything wrong first. I realized what I did after I moved the at @media and @supports rule…

A Pokémon fan called Adam remembers his first experiences of collecting Pokémon cards during the late 90s and early 2000s

Me and my grandson (2026). Leica MP. Photo by Jessica.I swear if I hear the word "slop" one more time I'm going to punch someone in the throat. I just did a nice and thorough de-cluttering of my office and I feel much better. ✍️ Reply by email

This is the marvellous production from the Bridge Theatre, and I append my oroginal review below. But it’s worth recording how wonderful a second viewing is, in the rowdier, sometimes newer to it, West End. The audience around us felr different, less faithfulky Sondheimite perhaps, and a lot wuite young. So today I will just add things I maybe didn’t make enough of: how funny the two princes are, how important and centring the presence of Michael S Seigal as narrator, the adult who tells the…

Today was the day: I got my National Swimming Diploma C, the last of the three diplomas to reach the national swimming safety norms in The Netherlands. It’s been an incredible journey, and I’m very curious about what’s going to come from this. I started swimming lessons back in January, after enrolling for the third time. The previous times, there was a waiting list, so I kept postponing it. In April I got my Diploma A, in July my Diploma B, and that same month I also did the Zwem4daagse, where…

Today something different! Not a review but a note about a game i participated in. A while back I joined Eric's RPG Discord to participate in his "Once upon a game" series and managed to land a spot in a Tales of Argosa one-shot. The series is essentially a group of experienced players and GMs coming together to kick the tires on as many game-systems as possible and see what we can learn from them. See below if you are interested in watching the actual play! Skip here if you are only interested…

My Mom (Daisy Schwartz Burk, 1919-1981) had a lot of first cousins because both of her parents had a lot of brothers and sisters. On her Schwartz side, one of her first cousins in New York was Burton S. Wirtschafter (1914-1966), who sadly was lost to cancer on this day 60 years ago. Burton was the only son of Mary Schwartz Wirtschafter and Edward Avram Wirtschafter. He was a respected leader in the American handbag industry and very active in community affairs.Redoing my newspaper research, I…

350/365 Lemon Meyer flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Write a three line poem about lemons without using the following words: lemon, yellow, round, fruit, citrus, tart, juicy, peel, and sour. I wrote a haiku: Sunlight on a branch Zesty tingles on the tongue Summer in a glass

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Very pleased to announce three new titles from Materials, now available for pre-order from http://material-s.blogspot.com/.They are: —The Eye and the Night, by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated and with a foreword by Howard Slater, with an introduction by scholar Khalid Lyamlahy, a glossary, and Abdellatif Laâbi’s original afterword to the 1982 edition. (We’ve been working on this book, Abdellatif Laâbi’s “literary birth certificate”, for the past three years, so I’m especially pleased to announce…

Last night over dinner, my TEEM cohort exchanged notes over how tired we are. This onground intensive is, indeed, intense. We eat breakfast at the hotel, head over to the Synod office meeting space, and we're meeting from 8 until 4 or 5, depending on how long we took for lunch. Lunch is brought in, and we try to be back on task by 1 so that we can be done closer to 4:00.Monday and Tuesday, we learned about Lutheran Liturgy, the way worship is structured. Yesterday was a 1 day workshop to teach…

It has been a while since I’ve been here. A few odds and ends have happened in the week and a half since I last posted. We will get right into it in the order of importance as I see it. Jack Harvey: First and foremost, we learned the unsettling news on Tuesday that Jack […]

What kinds of catastrophes would you hope to survive? Is preparing for an economic meltdown even on your To Do list? Can you protect yourself from extreme events with judicious investment decisions? Is it even worth trying? If it’s a giant meteor heading towards Slough then you’d want to go in the first impact. Slough might gain something aesthetically, but it wouldn’t leave a future to relish. But what about a more modest society-rattling scenario? Some kind of economic collapse, say. How…

I just concluded a play-by-post play-through of the The Iron Coral by Chris McDowall. We played the first floor in the second edition of the rules (the first edition entailed only this first floor) and kicked things off with the players in a boat towards the iron coral. The initial setup is very flavorful and eerie and it was easy enough to draw the players into the world. The dungeon itself has a very high encounter frequency and an interesting encounter table that keeps things in motion and…

The Thursday Pressing Concerns! It’s got new albums from Sadurn, Pardoner, Fish Narc, and Exploding Flowers, all of which come out tomorrow (October 16th). Also, check out the Monday blog post (featuring Old Joy, Railcard, Summer Sleeves, and CuVa Bimö) if you missed that one. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Sadurn –…

First published 6 October 2008. We all have our hobbies. Some people follow pro football, some run, some make lovely quilts, some fish, some solve the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. I like to explore abandoned roads. Yeah, that’s a great conversation starter at parties. I’m not sure where this vigor comes from. All I know is that the first time I found a stretch of forgotten asphalt was the coolest thing I’d ever experienced. Here’s a photo from that day, of a bridge over White Lick…

Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club: Human-instrument control surfaces

People are starting to think about 1-3 person teams making full games with AI that rival AAA studios.The idea being that they're competing by making stuff people want.What I don't think enough people are thinking about is your AI interviewing you for 9 hours and building you 10 perfect games just for you.Soon we’ll have games customized to your favorite storylines and fetishes that are continuously varied by AI.Gaming is Metaverse 1.0 (2022)Or making you 10 full TV series like Game of Thrones,…

It’s now full on autumn here. “True” Thanksgiving last weekend* was great, thanks for asking. Had a gravy juice.** We’ve already taken drives to have a look at the multi-coloured leaves in the forests. And the walks down to the shore now need a bit of tweed instead of the linen shorts of a few weeks ago. Chilly. But it’s all going to be OK. Winter is coming. That’s all. by the way, I might be a bit short this week. Been busy, working on a PowerPoint presentation for a community group on the…

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Sorry I’ve been quiet, life got in the way. I enjoyed Ross’ post entitled “The Search for Joy“, it’s been roughly where my head has been, trying to find a meaning. Life can feel real hectic at the moment, where you’re trying to run to stay still. This is especially true as a business owner, as you’re batting away AI driven instructions as you rescue another site from a client’s mitts (seriously, I’d be a lot more open to it if – as a technology – it learned to say “no!”). It can feel…

I said, I think in 2023, that we’d have AGI between 2025 and 2028, with 2027 being the most likely year.I still say 2027 for an AI product that can replace an average knowledge worker. And I think that’s the definition of AGI to use.Daniel Miessler on X (June 2025)The whole debate is very strange because so much depends on definitions, but I think we got AGI this year. In 2026. In the form of Claude Tag.Elaborating...Why do I consider that AGI?Because it’s persistent, organizational memory that…

There are travel blogs and then there is Three Steps Off the Coast.For the last ten years, Sandrine and Geoffrey (now accompanied by their son Victor and pet dog) have been documenting their travels and sharing their photos, stories, itineraries, and budgets with the world on their popular travel blog. Now, to celebrate their ten-year anniversary of travel blogging, they have brought to life their 10 most memorable trips as immersive 3D travel maps.10 Years, 10 Adventures is a collection of ten…

Read on the website: Scheme is fun and pretty! It could be even more perfect, and that’s what I explore in this post.