Stream of consciousness rambles that beat screaming into a pillow. (Though I might do that after this.) For the past weeks, I've been sleeping later (around 2:00) and waking up at 9:30. I get out of bed around 11:00. If I'm lucky, I'll eat breakfast and continue on with my day. If I'm not, I'll be riddled with an intense fatigue and retreat to the bed and sleep another 2 hours or more. I tell myself I should get to bed earlier so I can wake up earlier. But why? What's the point of waking up…

Out for coffee this morning with my wife, as is our Wednesday morning routine, and this little guy came to sit with us. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

My physical therapist told me I'd need to ice my knee for a few days. I asked if it would need more than one icing per day. She laughed bitterly. "More than once per day? I should hope so!" It was plainly ridiculous to imagine any therapeutic effect at all from a mere single application. I was directed to ice it three times. She was making an a priori argument in a situation that couldn't support it. If 5 icings were required, or 20 or 150, one might just as easily ridicule the notion of three…

Church CrawlingWalk 23 from the new Cicerone book finds me on a butterfly trail. Seems a bit cheeky stealing the council's work to put in a walking book. Just like blogging about it, I suppose. A publicly available PDF showing the exact same route.ConservationInformation on the groundThe PDF tells you all you need to know about the Brown Hairstreak - including the conversation work to perfectly maintain their required environment. Hawthorn hedgerow management taken seriously in this part of…

The weather forecast changed and now there was rain in the morning and cloudy skies in the PM. Based on that I decided to wait on changing the belt until tomorrow. The skies looked like they would open up at any moment and drop rain like a cow letting loose on a flat rock.doneGot the jig set so both aprons are inset an 1/8" from the outside edge. The first leg was 1 1/4" and this one is 1 3/16". The dowels didn't bypass each other so I had to adjust and play with them until the aprons seated…

Architectural detail of the façade of Uptown Dallas’ Hôtel Swexan, designed by noted Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. The post Glass Lattice appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

When it comes to optical disc testing, while tests done “at home” are not as reliable as tests done on professional analysers, they are still better than no test at all. I’ve often been looking for ways to increase my testing capabilities, especially as there are “holes” in the capabilities of each drive – for example, I hadn’t any means of doing TE/FE tests reliably on CDs and the number of drives that report jitter on CDs was fairly limited. While I had a fantasy of owning a “true” Plextor…

After a Covid booster yesterday, I'm completely einsturtzende. Every joint in my body is letting me know it's there, and it's damned if it's going to do any work today.Luckily, my head is functioning!Here are some upcoming things:https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/punk-brighton/I remember a really fun day of filming and reminiscing a few years ago and I'm full of delight and admiration for Kevin's fortitude in finishing this. He managed to get a whole lot of us together to slice through the…

As if Denmark - Germany long distance international connections were not already bad enough thanks to the Talgo saga, now the regional train connections between the two countries are getting worse as well.There will be rail replacement buses at least throughout the whole of 2027 between Flensburg and Padborg at the border - DSB confirms this here (see "Ændringer, når du rejser internationalt" - I cannot link directly to it).But the problem starts this time not with Talgo, but with another…

checked my voter statusbetter safe than sorryactive in elections nolonger means you won’tbe shut out/down…you’re just another numberthey’re willing to e r a s eto get what they want

I made the same resolution a few weeks ago. I’m getting better at trusting that inner voice. PSA: I will post nothing further about AGI/machine learning. I will read nothing further on the topic (and am purging my RSS feed accordingly). I have other and better things on my mind and heart. Alan Jacobs https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/13/psa-i-will-post-nothing.html

Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public…is a reasonable expectation. – Judge Sara E. Hill Bad Girls At least this report doesn’t pretend she was a real sex worker: A woman who admitted to drugging and robbing four men, killing three of them, in New York City was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison…Tabitha Bundrick…would give the men the drugs, sometimes claiming it was cocaine…[then] take their phones, money, watches, clothing, and other items. Mario…

What’s a connection between Edgar Allan Poe and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel? Poe’s story The Pit and the Pendulum describes a pendulum with a semicircular blade being lowered on a cable. This is an interesting variation on the usual harmonic oscillator because the length L of the pendulum is not constant but rather an increasing function of time L(t). Using the small angle approximation sin(θ) ≈ θ, the equation of motion is L θ″ + L′ θ′ + g θ = 0. If we assume the length is increasing at a…

a couple of weeks ago, I was invited to a (late) equinox celebration at a campsite. my husband and I were invited by some friends, and the afternoon went like this: everybody brought a bit of food to share, plus an ingredient for a communal soup. we had a fire where we made the soup, cooked sausages, baked some bread and toasted marshmallows. it was also the perfect cosy spot to sit around, talk and snack. and, in a typical office manner, the next workday I told my co-workers about my weekend.…

Dublin, Ireland This cafe is attached to The Mercantile hotel where we stayed. It’s right on the corner with only a handful of seats. They offer plenty of standard coffee drinks, several quick food options, and overall a nice little place. We split a ham and cheese toasty and each got an oat milk cappuccino. Everything was very good.

Today’s TDC says Draw “nonsense upon stilts” I asked NightCafe to help me capture this phrase from Bentham Nonsense upon stilts flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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I'm considering making Pagecord invite only for November to eradicate spam signups once and for all. I mean, I'll probably get few legit signups but at this point I'm actually comfortable with that. If you really want to use Pagecord, you still can. Thoughts?

One of the most interesting of anuran groups – in my humble opinion – is Hyloidea, also known as Hyloides…. Caption: a montage of hyloid frogs relevant to this article. From left to right: a young Helmeted water frog (or toad) or Gay’s water frog Calyptocephalella gayi, an australobatrachian, Southern cricket frog Acris gryllus, a hylid, and Common toad Bufo bufo, a bufonid. Images: Asiel Olivares, CC BY 4.0 (original here); Stephen Friedt, CC BY-SA 3.0 (original here); Darren Naish. As you…

The Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institutes (PIKSI) in Boston aim to “broaden inclusion within professional philosophy.” In part because such efforts are currently unpopular with the powers that be, its primary funding, from MIT and Harvard, has been cut. To cope with the cuts, its organizers say that “it is our plan to shrink it a bit and see what we can do to raise funds for 2027, with the hope that we can build it back up with other funding in 2028 and beyond.” In the following…

Today, I’ll be writing about a story that we all know – though quite a few people I’ve spoken to didn’t realise it was ever a book. As the title of this post has already given away, this is the book that led to the smash-hit musical The Sound of Music – and my 1970 edition shares that title, though it was originally published as The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. So, yes, Maria von Trapp was a real person – and a surprising amount of the film appears to be based on truth. Or, at least, the…

Book review for The Power Of Habit by Charles Duhigg. I rated it 4.5 stars. I originally gave this book 5/5 stars when I read it 7 years ago, and classed it as one of my all-time favourite productivity books so I figured it was due for a re-read and a proper review. It’s a fairly entertaining read filled with stories about the ways that habits work for and against people - from a gambling addict who ruined her life, to how Starbucks train their employees. The one problem with The Power of Habit…

So, I recently entered my first game jam and got second place. A couple of weeks ago molegato announced on Bluesky he’d be hosting a game jam for Halloween. I’ve always been reluctant to enter game jams; I’d say to myself I didn’t have the time or that I already had enough deadlines as-is, but the timing on this one was unusually good so I decided I’d make something simple for the fun of it. My entry was called “Theodore’s Great Hunt”. If you want to play it, please let me know what you think…

It has been some time. For me, it feels it has been much longer. In these past month I've had to consider many things about the now and the future. For certain, this country is not a place where I would enjoy living at all. And I also discovered just how much I love Europe. There is a word that is always brought up when talking about the Portuguese language, it is saudade. It is brought up because there is not quite a translation that fits in other languages, but it can be roughly be associated…

It’s a windy Wednesday this week, but enough about the weather, we start with Andy who has finished painting his sci-fi german power armour. Both the standard troops and the heavy weapons. Next up and Chris St has made a start on some Late Roman cavalry to support the infantry we saw last week. Dropping down scale or two and Stephen has started a new project with 15mm dark age unit bases. And lastly for this week Tony F has been busy preparing for a Halloween themed Stargrave game. He has…

I’ve been reading a fair bit of William James of late, and greatly enjoying it—partly due to the topics under discussion, but also in no small part due to the period style. (Those among you who have noticed a turn for the somewhat Victorian in my diction may therefore wish to clap yourselves on the back; that’s a sharp eye you have there.) As for the topics, it’s amusing—and, to some extent, a source of something close to relief—to observe how many of the debates of the present moment were very…

So we’ve entered the era of personal AI agents as assistants. The most famous one being, of course, Meta’s new assistant Muse. What’s the obsession with personal assistants? Is this a generational thing? In my dad’s generation, having a secretary was a marker that you had made it. You were important enough for someone else to take drudge work off your hands, to guard your time against intrusions. It was a status marker as much as it was a means to increase efficiency. I feel like I came up on…

Airbnb coffeeNikon Df, 28-200 f/3.5-5.6G AF Nikkor2026 I made this shot at dark thirty the morning I gave up sleeping in my Airbnb in Vandalia, Illinois. I explained in this article but in short some post-whiskey jitters and loud AC clicking on and off all night robbed me of meaningful sleep. Margaret and I started using Airbnbs in earnest during the pandemic, like many people did. We found them to be quirky but endearing, and usually less expensive than regular hotels. At a time when we were…

The Lyceum Theatre on Wellington Street is well known today as having been home to Disney’s The Lion King musical since 1999. It does, however, have a history that stretches back much further. It is a tale that involves waxworks, a ‘stupendous ostrich’ , a Victorian star of the stage and a world famous author. […] The post Pulling back The Curtain On The Extraordinary Story Of The Lyceum Theatre appeared first on Living London History.

Before I begin this entry onto one of the crumpled pages of the Martenblog, I shall do two things. Firstly, I shall list the ideas this entry should cover. Secondly, I shall go through the last eight bars of Memories of Tomorrow seventeen milliard, four hundred seven million, two hundred three thousand, thirty one times. Let it be known that this is a prime number. The transformation of flavigula.net into its corresponding Gohper site Progress on the album that is workingly called Bleary…