Looks Unfamiliar with Nina Buckley talking to Tim Worthington about Colin's Sandwich, Baby Boom, Hinge And Bracket and more...!

The picture above is dark, the important thing is that little bit of light on the top of Grand Teton. We got up extra early to watch that triangle appear and slowly spread down the range. I should mention we did this without coffee because of the water issues in Jackson (and poor planning on our part). After basking in the glow, we headed into town and luckily found coffee before packing our bags. We spent a large chunk of the day winding north through Grand Teton National Park, checking out…

Training a @bot to manage an updated version of ThocStock for me.I’m not sure about the necessity of a personal assistant, but a semi-personal business associate makes a lot of sense to me.

I went to the GP about my recent urology clinic appointment. The letter sent from the clinic had been generated by AI from a voice recording of the consultation - it wasn't wrong, but it was incomplete. Apparently this isn't unusual! I wanted my GP to do two things that were agreed at the clinic but weren't clearly documented in the letter. I wanted to add Tamsulosin to my Finasteride prescription to which the GP agreed. I also wanted the GP to request hormone assays that the consultant…

Lance blogged on the OpenAI solutions to many problems here and also created a website of the TCS-related problems OpenAI claims to have solved here.Scott blogged about it here. Terry Tao seems to have had an infinite number of guest bloggers talking about AI and Math even before the OpenAI .... WE NEED A WORD FOR IT.Now it's my turn. For now I will just discuss some of the results without getting into what it means for the future of mathematics, the future of academia, and the future of…

This week’s Culture.pl newsletter offers retrospectives on its 25-year history of reporting on cultural developments in Poland. Here are some excerpts from a 2025 retrospective by Patryk Zakrzewski, translated in 2026 by Agnieszka Mistur, offering A journey to the graveyard of Polish social media – before Meta products took over the world. Before the word ‘selfie’ became established in the Polish language, the Fotka.pl service was launched (the portal was inaugurated on Valentine’s Day – 14…

What happened? Some time ago I realized that I'm part of this stupid rat race, and I no longer wish to participate. Also, I watched The More Boring You Are, the More Impressive You’ll Become - The Paradox of Boredom last night. P.S. If you need to relax, why not visit the Koi Pond? Companies are trying to redefine our understanding of what happiness means to us, instead putting us on a treadmill with a ‘happiness’ carrot in front of it, and all that you have to do is to not fall off the fucking…

As you might have already surmised I have been taking a break from writing Breakfast and Travel Updates. This tour has been amazing but also extremely busy and the spare hours in the day have refused to surface. Please rest assured that I am still enjoying a breakfast every morning, and please accept my apologies that the contents of these meals have been kept a secret. Ben

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Let us see what is underway in a world in which all disputes can be settled via the medium of fisticuffs.I know little of the contents of this one but I do know that Christopher Priest, John Buscema and Ernie Chan give us a story titled Resurrection.One that manages to cram in the Council of the Seven, the Legion of Assassins and the Devourer of Souls.It's a miracle Marvel didn't decide…

Tall grass grows in the evening light at McKinney, Texas’ Erwin Park. The post In the Evening Grass appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Email isn't personal anymore. Inboxes are flooded with automated mail, and real messages from real people are hard to find. We need a government-level verified email standard.

It’s been… a while since the last time I made a spaceship. The last one was all the way back in 2024. Modeling spaceships is one of those things I always want to do, but never seem to be able to actually follow through with, so I’m very happy to finally have been able to finish a new one.For whatever reason I find it an incredibly difficult to do, which probably means I should make an effort to create spaceships more often. And so I am going to do just that. So, unless I happen some have some…

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Can you guess what I did yesterday, what gave me such a bright sense of euphoria? I went outside. I walked around for a couple hours, ate some good food, and bought books. The simple joys really, but such are so incredibly valuable to me. It's actually a little surprising I was so joyful the entire time, because very early on I managed to get both of my shoes nearly completely soaked with water and had to spend the rest of the day airing out my shoes and socks on and off so that they could dry.…

In our value statements, we usually say we value diversity, but our strategies and plans don’t quite live up that. Academics are themselves diverse. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all job description. The 40-40-20 model itself doesn’t fit everyone, and doesn’t fit every stage of the career. It is natural to focus more on different roles at different times, depending on opportunities and energy. Some of us are just not meant to be president, and not everyone has to lead large EU projects to…

I hope you’ll excuse me for saying that “The Secret of the Candlesticks” is a bit of an odd duck. It starts out as a comedic adaptation of Les Misérables with Uncle Scrooge as Jean McJean, Daisette, Donaldius Duckmercy and the rest. Then it takes a swerve and turns into a treasure hunt. See, the bishop had bought the candlesticks from a secondhand seller, who bought them from Thénardier, who stole them from one of Napoleon’s supply wagons at Waterloo, and Napoleon had collected them from the…

BASICS Armies are composed of homogeneus groups called Squads. Squads have a base amount of HP from 1 to 4, depending on the number of men on them. A small squad has 1 hp, while a complete one has 4. Having even more men makes you start another squad. (Use incomplete squads when you want to represent poor or unstable armies, use complete ones normally for convenience)HPs do not represent an actual number of people, but a fraction of a serious contingent. There is more people on a 4 HP footmen…

This week brings some resources on neurodiversity and cognitive accessibility, explains why design struggles to justify its value to business, and how AI exposes design’s craft crisis. Also don't miss some nice accessible color combinations and funny wildlife photos.

Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the framework doesn't fit you -- so how do you find one that does?

Christmas in London: let’s talk logistics. Not everything needs booking months ahead. But some Christmas experiences sell out fast, some only have a few good slots, and some you can simply turn up to and enjoy. Christmas at Kew, for example, has timed entry and limited capacity. The Christmas lights, the festive window displays and most markets (especially the indie ones) don’t need booking at all. This guide is updated for Christmas 2026. It covers what’s worth booking now, how early you need…

For me, boredom is just a signal. It means I've hit a roadblock and my brain is trying to convince me not to go any further. "Give up. This sucks anyway. Why are you still wasting your time on this silly thing?" That's how I feel when I do things I'm really bad at. I think I'm not good at making YouTube videos. Whenever I think of a subject I find really exciting, I start writing, record a first pass, and then load DaVinci Resolve. With my current schedule, job, family, and responsibilities,…

For one of the long weekends back in the spring my super amazing wife and I decided to go to New River Gorge National Park! It was beautiful. We had a couple of motivations, the major one being that it was a three-day weekend and so it would be a waste to not get out of town. The second is that my super amazing wife is a big fan of going to national park sites, and New River Gorge has the claim to fame that, besides all the natural wonders, it is the newest national park. I hadn’t realized…

Three gyms, including an out-of-sequence one on Saturday afternoon, because I was away on Friday. I took Friday off work and got the train to Cambridge for an overnight jolly. I had vegan fish & chips for lunch at The Architect, a delicious but chaotically-served dinner at Novi, a beer in The Eagle, then on Saturday I had coffee & lunch at Indigo which appears to have miraculously survived COVID (unlike my other favourite, Rainbow Café, which didn’t even make it that far). Between eating and…

Until I started reading (mostly for research, but I'm enjoying it) Apocalypse: A History of the End of Time by John Michael Greer, I had forgotten that the world was supposed to end in a mighty cosmic collision on the 21st of December, 2012. This could apparently be inferred from the ever reliable Mayan calendar (or one reading of one version thereof – these matters are never simple), and the event was confidently expected by various New Age crackpots, who descended in their thousands on the…

I had a dream yesterday. I was a rigid, formed substance without movement, then I became less defined and more like honey. In that form I tried to fold into myself and become nothing, but each time I did I was expelled outward back into form. Later that morning I saw a short video highlighting how the Star Trek universe evolved over time. How the original Star Trek engineering section evolved, and even the complete re-imagining of the Klingon race. I had this sense there was something to learn…

Some interesting things at work, lots of good cooking, and a metric ton of CONTROL: Resonant gameplay! Personal After a long, long break I was finally back in the gym this week for a couple of days. Not remotely as good a schedule as I wanna keep but a small victory nonetheless. I’ve been equally lazy about getting a haircut, and it’s starting to get to the point where my mother would’ve started teasing me to tie it up in a ponytail. I might take her up on that offer given I’ll be home in some…

I have no problem with people getting rich, even filthy rich, as long as they do it without screwing everybody else, or their pension funds. But don’t you think that what’s pompously called “finance” nowadays, which is how much of that wealth comes from, is a showcase of galactic imbecility? I do, and this is a short rant about the three things in current finance that are the worst ones for me.You are fervently encouraged to add your examples down in the comments, with obvious thanks in advance…

A few weeks ago I wrote about Education by Design, the graduate seminar I taught at ASU last fall, and about the paper Emmanuel Adeloju, Lindsey McCaleb, Nicole Oster and I wrote describing it, “Designing in Uncertainty: The Course I Love to Teach”. One of the arguments in that post (and the article) was that […] Source

🍿 The Running Man (2025) was: Better than the 1987 Schwarzenegger version. Not a high bar. More enjoyable than Edgar Wright’s other post-Cornetto trilogy movie, which was still quite good. A satire as likely to be misunderstood by the average American movie critic as Verhoven’s Starship Troopers, and glancing at some of the reviews about the implausibility of its dystopian world, yep, they did not disappoint. Easily dismissed as yet another eat-the-rich movie, but as Wright has a gift of…

I've started a vanilla run while waiting for all the mods I use to be updated or abandoned. First time starting as Duke Vratislav in 1066. Possibly also the first time I've started as a vassal. Was surprised to see House Seniority succession. On the one hand, this means there's no struggle to keep the realm together. On the other hand, the usual shenanigans about grooming Vratislav's children doesn't hold. Not sure yet whether that's refreshing or going to be annoying, but I'm rolling with it.…