I started the week off with D&D at Luke’s which was fun. The start of a new campaign where I get to be a player 🎉 a reasonable four hour session which we’ll be doing weekly, I’m excited for tomorrow! On the subject of D&D I was really pleased with the session I ran on Wednesday for my FT group. A nice little combat, lots of new world lore, and a little cliff-hanger. Lovely stuff. I’m really enjoying making pen-and-paper battle maps at the moment. On Tuesday I left work a little early on short…

Some deaths are abrupt surprises, some deaths you see from miles away. I've been thinking about resigning for a while now, a notion I initially tried to dismiss given how awful the current job landscape is. I told myself the signs I saw were merely projection of my dissatisfaction. By now, there's no denying that we're on a sinking ship. A deteriorating venture is a sight to behold, an odd party to be in. People sending customary goodbyes in Slack channels, at first getting none of your…

My Maker Space is now in a totally workable and ready spot!

2002 I've been leading geology field studies trips to lots of places in the American West for 38 years and started to take digital pictures in 2001. I sometimes struggle to find new things to photograph when I visit a place for the 38th time, but in some cases, it is not a problem. There are geologic changes that happen on a yearly basis, and with twenty-four years of photos (minus two due to Covid), the changes become obvious. This is a continuing update from a post in 2013, and I'll probably…

The promised snow has arrived, sort of. It's melting off the street as quickly as it falls, but it's building up on the grass and fence tops. As I write, the clouds are moving off to the east, and the sun has almost broken through. Supposedly we're going to have nice weather for another week, but you never know anymore.It's not just an el nino anymore. Now it's a super el nino, that apparently is going to affect our weather here, about 700 Km from the Pacific Ocean. It sounds like we are going…

I was off work this week. There weren't really any plans, but I was quite grateful for the lack of structure that meant I wasn't feeling guilty about doing nothing. Like the 8 hours that I spent playing Marvel's Wolverine on the PlayStation. Despite all the time I spent playing, I'm pretty sure the point at which I stopped is the last level. I had my first basketball game of the season. It was a tough game against Worthing D&D Black, but the Worthing D&D White team that I play for won 81-68. I…

gelassen Ich hatte eine erholsame, aber auch produktive Woche. Mein Knie fühlt sich viel besser an. Ich habe meine Knieorthese getragen, wenn ich draussen war. Ich denke, dass ich sie nicht mehr brauche. Für Halloween dekorierenIch habe nicht nur das Wohnzimmer, sondern auch meinen Blog für Halloween dekoriert! Ich habe darüber geschrieben. Das Wohnzimmer ist allerdings noch nicht fertig. Ich werde nur ein paar kleine Dinge schaffen. FinanztagAm Mittwoch habe ich meine Finanzen erledigt.…

StarringMaria Sten, Greyston Holt, Adeline Rudolph, Matthew Del Negro, and Damon HerrimanOverviewFrances Neagley is a private investigator in Chicago and former military colleague of Jack Reacher in the Army's 110th Special Investigations Unit. When she learns that a beloved friend from her past has been killed in a suspicious accident, she becomes hell-bent on justice.Review Neagley All of the action of Reacher but with (hopefully) a team that returns next season. Neagley is a fun character…

Many years ago, a colleague in Biology introduced me to the paper "Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis". It is a funny and educational look at the different approaches to understanding in biological sciences and electronic engineering, including such gems as:How would we begin? First, we would secure funds to obtain a large supply of identical functioning radios in order to dissect and compare them to the one that is broken. We would eventually find how to…

• 3-star hikes • 2 to 9 mile options • Moderate | Gain 530 to 1,240 feet • Washington, NH | Sunapee Region . All three hikes begin at the trailhead by Mill Pond. Known for its quiet woodlands, secluded ponds, and rich wetlands, Pillsbury State Park offers a peaceful escape for hiking, mountain biking, paddling, and camping. While many routes follow broad snowmobile corridors, narrower single-track paths lead deep into the forest, including a stretch of the 51-mile Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway.…

i use my microblog like craigslist missed connections actually maybe i should start posting there again too ... a place to air my feelings without anyone else getting involved .. i love it really

i cam feel that the tides are truly changing in my life bc my opinion on brown hair / brown eye supremacy is slowly waning ... its not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but ... i am beginning to understand the allure of blonde hair and blue eyes .. it feels a little weird bc ive felt the same way for so long tht ive never really witnessed my tastes changing in real time like this ..!! kindof cool. i might make a blonde oc to play with ... ( im starting to think green eyes are cool too !!)

last updated 1 minute ago hey hun, it's weeknotes number 67, the new funny number! the more funny number to the olds (myself included) is still to come, don't you fret. working on a few bits near enough simultaneously, and worrying a lot about actually finishing anything this side of the new year, but i'm unsure the worry helps anything. if you have trouble finshing what you start definitely get in contact. sorry to anyone who emailed me recently i was in a funk (derogatory) but now i have my…

i like using my microblog to send thoughts directed to a handful of people in my life directly into the void instead bc i want to be alone 🤍 just for a little bit

ive been listening to bright eyes lately .. i might wait a little longer to write back bc i feel .. i feel weird. but i miss you .. my life feels a little emptier without my big brother around .. say hi to doggie for me ..

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AI Literacy is having its day in the sun. A quick google search will reveal at least 679 different frameworks from pretty much every organization, every state department of education and ed-tech company with a PDF budget. They may come with a list of competencies, a handful of principles, but they most definitely will have […] Source

I participated in an only workshop at the weekend and the organisers kindly provided the recording as an unlisted YouTube video. As I wanted to watch the video again at a later time I used my MeTube installation to download the YouTube video. Or rather: Tried to. As the download would fail. MeTube would say no available formats could be found. The video however played nicely on YouTube!? The setup I use a self-hosted web frontend for yt-dlp in Docker called MeTube, configured through the…

After what has felt like a mess of delays, I am relieved to finally share my Lappet Style Doll Hood Pattern is now available. The lappet style hood looks amazing in doll size! With the brim folded back, the quilted lining frames the face. With the brim folded forward, the brim shields the face from […]

General week two of surgery recovery, so again not that much happening: a couple more infra updates mask tinting v2: combining the chameleon foil with darker tinting foil slaps actually likely returning to work next week, not looking forward to that xd Reading [NL] Voorbij de natiestaat: intercommunalisme in het denken van Huey P. Newton en Zwart anarchisme a bit of a historic excursus to the american black panthers and lessons to be learned there. Music Pyrior - Nostromo redLymb - Close Your…

On an ordinary day When life tasted sweet I sat in front Of an empty chair With a table between us Waiting for conversation I sat as the world Grew older No wiser Expectant and anxious In front of that chair Quiet, empty and still I asked politely for water Which came Clear and wanting My heart thumping life In front of that chair Still waiting Shadows swallowed Pavements whole As I grew old wishing For that moment When you would arrive To sit in that chair Marked love

Frequent correspondent Patrick Wang wrote to ask if I knew Ksenia Nekrasova’s poetry, including a link to his recent post on her. I responded that I’d never heard of her, and it turns out she’s not mentioned in Kahn et al.’s History of Russian Literature (see this post), which is generally very inclusive, but she should certainly be better known, so I’m helping to spread the word. Patrick’s post starts with a quote from Anna Akhmatova (“I have met only two female poets in my life… Marina…

A busy but very rewarding week at Open Source Summit (Europe) and the OpenSSF Community Day It was a very social week - I ended up chatting to some folks I've worked with in the Open Source ecosystem, as well as meeting a lot of other big names, which was very cool! I ended up going to all the socials I could do - which was good - and found that I enjoyed a lot of hallway track this time - I ended up bumping into a few folks who I had a number of things to talk about, and Sebastian and I had a…

England's green and pleasant land is green again.

I really enjoy making these little videos, they are mostly for myself and it's a nice opportunity to back into my photos and videos instead of just adding new ones to the pile. Usually finding some music that goes along with it takes a while, but it's also always a fun "task". I have a bit of a backlog, so we've now arrived in May 2026, when I was briefly visiting Guillin for a few days. From the technical side, it's now the second time that I've been using DaVinci Resolve which I really enjoy.…

On this Saturday’s Saturday Night Live, the most relevant bit was on the Weekend Update segment where Colin Jost interviewed “Kevin O’Leary” (played by James Austin Johnson) about his plans to build his Stratos data center in Utah and the resistance to his plans. Here’s the video… …and here’s the transcript of the skit: Colin Jost: According to a new poll, 75% of Americans would oppose an AI data center being built near them, making it one of the country’s most unifying issues. Click the image…

5th October - 11th October Not claiming to be wholly responsible but, shortly after I mentioned it on my website, the water board were back looking at the leak at the junction. It was clearly a quick fix because now there's a square of fresh tarmac and, sadly, no midnight mountain stream. Today's soundtrack has been Air's OST for Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides" which has made driving to the tip to drop off a couple of broken chairs 42% more epic! There's a long straight tree-lined…

Regular readers will know I’ve had a long fascination for the Yamaha DX7–after all, besides getting a Reface DX quite some time ago, I also built a MiniDexed box and accumulated more software instruments than I have time to use, as well as an embarrassing amount of other physical gear that brands me as a victim of Gear Acquisition Syndrome. The FM-1 in DX7 livery, running Sloop firmware. I can only manage to dabble in music occasionally, but I’ve been interested in FM synthesis since the heady…

Lachie generously gave me four pairs of trousers he no longer wears for me to “do something with” because he has worn through various parts of them (most commonly the arse?). There were two pairs of grey chinos that, once I’d mended all the holes, yielded more than enough fabric for a pair of pull on trousers for my little guy and he is thrilled to have a new pair of trousers and thinks it’s really funny that they were made out of his dad’s old pairs. Tomorrow he gets to take a teddy in to…

Such a simple thing brings me so much joy. I recently bought a hummingbird feeder just like the one we had when I was younger. So many birds are showing up around my window, and some are even brave enough to come inside and fly around the house. The species I’ve managed to spot at the feeder so far are: Amazilia fimbriata, Eupetomena macroura, and Coereba flaveola. (Just to be clear, I am not a bird expert, so I may be wrong) I was in the living room, lying in the hammock, and saw quite a few…