*Drone-bombed in the 2020s

I’d had Brad Woods’ garden bookmarked for a long time and liked it well before TownSquare existed. Seeing a site I already cared about using something I’d built was a lovely feeling. Part of what made that discovery so special is the garden itself. It feels more like a place than a publication: a growing collection of ideas, experiments, and pieces that are allowed to remain unfinished. Its notes can be seeds, sprouts, mature, or even decaying. That language is not a content strategy; it is an…

Sarah has been working on the redesign of the Skookworks site. It looks good and will hopefully go live in the next week or so. I’ve been staying out of the design process. After running the site myself all these years I don’t think of new and different ways it could look or could be navigated. I’m comfortable with the way it is. So having a new design is exciting. I’m not worried about the new version being perfect. I figure we can work out any bugs after it goes live. And there will be bugs.…

Last month saw “La rentree” – the return to the real world, after an enjoyable summer. Very much so for me, as it happens – but with plenty of enjoyment still to be found. I’ve taken in Frida Kahlo at the Tate Modern, a spot of luxury in the south of France, a City ritual in one of its ancient livery companies, some politics both in Liverpool and Downing Street, and the outdoor beauty around Dorset’s Lyme Regis as well as Hampstead’s own heath. Not to mention some sailing, fine dining, and wine…

Digital wellness startup Pure Focus unveiled its newest hardware product Tuesday. Marketed simply as “The Bucket,” the device is a galvanized steel pail kept on your nightstand and filled with three gallons of odorless mineral oil.The protocol requires users to submerge both hands into the vat up to the wrists first thing every morning, creating a frictionless barrier that renders modern touchscreens entirely inoperable.“We tried app blockers, grayscale display modes, and lockboxes,” said…

I’ve been enjoying these Meisho-zue (名所図会) prints from late 1700s Japan. They depict temples and other ‘famous places’, for pilgrims and armchair travelers. Notably they’re from the Shinbutsu-shūgō era (神仏習合), prior to 1868, when Buddhist and Shinto places of worship were still integrated.

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Various streets in the outer boroughs used to be roads for long-distance (as defined in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries) travel, usually named for the town, or former town, at the further end. Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn was the road to Flushing; Jamaica Avenue in Queens was the road to Jamaica. There were two similar roads in Manhattan, but one was wiped off the map and the other has a name that doesn’t fit the pattern. The remaining one is, of course, Broadway north of Union Square,…

Here is a possible world 50 years in the future, one I think is more likely than the scenario most people expect, which is one huge AI in the sky. Fifty years from now most AI is invisible. There is nothing to see. It is sort of like air – always there, always on, everywhere. Something you need and use but take for granted. AI is so prevalent we become blind to it. You don’t need to log onto it, or even to summon it. Rather you inhale it. Instead of a central AI brain, AI is like a gas,…

[1978]The power pop party continues... this time with some mighty Aussie action from The Go-Betweens label The Able Label Sometimes I think this is the greatest seven inch single to ever come out of Straya. Sunset Strip is surf influenced new-wave power-pop performed with so much youthful enthusiasm and urgent melodiousness it's impossible to ignore and hard not to like. Look out and claps galoreIrresistible. They were from Brisbane but singing about LA's Sunset Strip or a tv show or something…

I like my inches, they always made total sense to me and I think that that's because learned imperial measuring as a young child. Inches made me think, and I think the more in fractions of inches and then there is the foot distance and yard too. I picture distance in yards and miles. In my culture, imperial has been a common thing. I take it for granted as standard to me. I look at sixty-fourths of an inch and see an increment, a percentage of that inch that fits into it sixty-four times, but…

Hey, Bear. Tired. Everyone is. Everyone also gets annoyed fast and easy because of tiniest reasons. The one who is the first time and was told it will be 15 days. The second one is experienced, we were together almost all deployments this year, is sleeping for 14 hours and wakes up grumpy. I almost don't code this deployment. The developer in me fading away. Feels like I have no future anymore, it just was taken from me. We have the UAV battalion in the brigade, I spoke with the tech sergeant…

The legs for the table are in limbo for now. The belt for the planer is on order and this AM I got an email that it had shipped. A 2nd email said it would arrive on this friday. When I ordered it the write up said 2-4 day delivery, so maybe that is close? In the interim I decided to play with leg designs so I could eyeball the look of it.first set of experimentsI've been running different ideas through the brain bucket since my wife asked me to make it. Because it will be narrow and delicate…

the women without gallbladders tell me it’s my gallbladdercausing ruckus in my bodyforever full but hungryacid reflux but belchingbloating without benefitssomeone else says, “gluten allergy?”I loathe trips to the doctorI read material thatinstructs the body onwhich foods are safe andwhich foods are notI watch snippets and shortsabout healthier choices and how to reverse damage orprevent stones and I become anxiousabout the terror within medon’t we have enough toworry about? I crawl back into…

Lasting change rarely fails because you lack willpower. It fails because you rely on motivation instead of a practical system. Here is a simple, seven-step approach to changing everyday habits—tested on my own goal of eating more fruit. Let me guess: you have a habit you'd like to change. Maybe you want to exercise more, get to bed before midnight, or stop scrolling on your phone late at night. Congratulations—you are human. Changing your daily routine is hard. When you slip up, it's easy to…

Sent this to my friend who's like one of the three people I call. we both never have any service though.Kk, one day, if we ever have working phones.Maybe next century, once we communicate via our Terminator bodies when our consciousness is uploaded there, assuming Claude doesn't just nuke us first.This is day 43 of #100DaysToOffload

A clear overview of PHP 8.6's readonly property defaults RFC, why the old restriction existed, and why interface properties made it worth revisiting. It also covers the practical edge cases, so you know where the new syntax helps and where it still does not. Read more

Colorful parasols on display at the 2026 McKinney Asian Art and Food Festival, McKinney, Texas. The post Parasol Colors appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Artemis updatesIllustration of a SpaceX Starship lunar lander prototype docked with the Orion spacecraft in Earth orbit, as would be attempted for NASA’s Artemis III mission. Image: SpaceX / NASAOn September 14, SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy rocket reached orbit for the first time, seven years later than originally touted, continuing its slow progress in building a Lunar Starship ready to land Artemis astronauts on the Moon for NASA. As Marcia Smith reported, the orbital flight was shorter than…

I’ve added Atkinson Hyperlegible Next by the Braille Institute as the new font for my blog. I think it looks pretty good. What do you think?

The blog campaign "Ein ♥ für Blogs" encourages sharing other blogs. I've also created new notebooks.As I sit here these days, wondering what the point of all this even is anymore, constantly wavering between "It's all pointless anyway because of AI" and "Now more than ever!", this blog campaign (German only) pops up and reminds me: "Ah yes, that's why: building connections!" So, if you have a blog and are interested in such campaigns, please join in! I will and try to link to blogs that aren't…

Table of contents: What is CBT? The CBT Triangle What do we do in CBT? CBT tools Connected notes What is CBT?Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) sounds like a mouthful. But the big idea behind it is very simple: our thoughts, our feelings, and our actions are constantly talking to each other. Whenever something happens in your day, your mind reacts on three connected levels: What you think: The story or interpretation running in your head. What you feel: Your mood, plus the feelings in your…

First coaster is complete! The glue is taking a while to dry so I won't use it yet. Will start the next one tomorrow. My fingers hurt.

Writing at Reason, Billy Binion demolishes the Vice President's recent assertion that socialism "actually means ... that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls sports"You can go to the article itself for his quick demolition of the low-hanging fruit at the end of that ridiculous pronouncement.The rest explains why Binion rather charitably labels J.D. Vance an "accidental socialist:"[T]he Trump administration has complained about socialism…

A sunny autumn week in athens, max 27ºC I noted on my weather station on friday which felt unseasonably warm even for athens. Not that you’ll find me complaining as it is forecast to plunge as low as 16ºC (!) and rainy next week. The parks are starting to green again, and the oranges on the trees are very slightly starting to turn from dark green towards orange. Mostly I have been either catching up on work after my extended holiday to alonnisos last week or reading on the balcony. Food I have…

Harebells flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license Today’s TDC says I don’t know if you have ever read the old versions of fairy tales or not, but some of these familiar stories are pretty gruesome. Walt Disney became famous for taking these very old tales and sanitizing them for modern youngsters. One of my favorite examples comes from the tale of Cinderella when the prince comes looking for the owner of the lost slipper and a stepsister tries it…

To love is to suffer and loyalty is all in Connor McPherson’s new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard opening at the Harold Pinter Theatre, the second in just a few months having already had Laura Wade’s fragile tragedy at the RSC in July. Leaning into the humour and awkwardness of the big family play, McPherson’s […]

It was Ben’s birthday yesterday and our favourite thing to do for birthdays is a walk in the woods (or hills) with a picnic cake stop and maybe also lunch and whisky. Yesterday we chose a walk in the woods at Crathes Castle, followed by a picnic cake and whisky in a lovely secluded spot in the castle grounds. Autumn has arrived and with it a beautiful colour palette. The background in these photos looks fake but it is definitely real! I saw it with my own eyes. I made a delicious almond, orange…

I know that mincemeat pies aren’t as popular as they once were, but I must have some readers who like them. And because it took me years to adapt the vintage recipe I have to modern kitchens, I’d like to share it with those who might be interested. So without further ado, here’s my recipe; I find that since I only need two quarts a year (one per pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas), it’s easier to just make two quarts and freeze it rather than canning it. 2# peeled, cored apples (weight after…

Sometimes I’m so consumed by all the new features and capabilities of AI that I forget about how great it is to actually write something by yourself. Maybe it’s a classic case of nostalgia, but sometimes I miss the “simpler” times. The time that I had to push through mental barriers, frantically going through my notes, picking up physical books and reading my highlights. Or browsing Google for research, studies, and stories about the topic I was writing about. I don’t do most of it anymore.…