Many rumor sites are speculating that Fujifilm will introduce the next generation of X-T camera the first week in September. I believe the speculation is for September 8th. About a month from now. I wonder what the X-T6 will be as compared to the X-T5 and will it be something I would consider buying? Unlike previous weeks leading up to a new release, rumors and information from the trusted rumor sites have been scarce. Usually, in the months and weeks prior to the introduction of a new camera,…
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I purchased this slide in an online auction. Two things caught my interest - a nearly new CN cowl locomotive, and a green Burlington Northern "B" unit.
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In light of Blaugust, I've been looking over some of my past posts here to get ideas, and I've realized that...I love this blog. Sometimes I get self-conscious about my writing here, like it's not very good or interesting enough for anyone to want to read. And it is largely personal, largely for myself to be able to look back on and reminisce about times gone by. And that's exactly what I've been doing lately, so I suppose it's serving its purpose well. I've always said that the point of this…
what kind of tracker would make sense? morning/evening messaging/emails (1 square/day is enough, just fill it out in two halves) morning/evening mastodon and blogs (same as above, maybe they could just be One Category - morning/evening social stuff) One Video, even if i watch it in bits and pieces (1 square/day is enough, just color it in when the video's done) 1h random internet per day (seems like a lot, maybe half an hour??) - maybe posting on my blog, uploading a sketchbook, or just…
After today I will have read at least one story (in fact it looks like I will have read at least three stories) from each of the six issues of Weird Tales with a 1943 cover date. We are making progress in our grand quest to have read something from each issue of Weird Tales, a periodical the life of which spans from 1923 to 2025. And today may be a red letter day, with stories by blockbuster writer Ray Bradbury, fan fave Manly Wade Wellman, MPorcius fave Edmond Hamilton, and Lovecraft…
Only yesterday I had a grumble about Apple tricking me into upgrading my iPhone and iPad to iOS 26, despite my efforts to avoid it. Today I find iPadOS 26 is even worse than I thought, with UI glitches and poor handling of the simplest of things taken for granted for years (I’ve found rotation from landscape to portrait messes up the screen paint of Messages, for example). I’m finding that many simple operations are now more steps than previously. In the App Store, the list of updates would…
Overlooking the dunes at Durness, this chapel has an 8th-century connection with St Maelrubha, 'The Red Priest'
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks: Have you watched Stranger Things on Netflix? Even if you haven’t, imagine just how strange the world can get. Then write a story or create an image, or a soundtrack, or a video, of the Stranger Things you imagine. We won’t judge. Too much. The worlds is strange in ways I don’t really want to imagine at the moment, so I jumped over to Lunapic to see what filters I could use. I chose…
Yesterday was a good day overall, but also a bit overwhelming in understanding ways. I went from summer days when I'm around one or two people a day to a day full of humans. I went from the unstructuredness of summer days to a day of a rigid schedule.Happily, I was surrounded by other humans, my colleagues, who are delightful. I went from the free floating thinking of summer to focusing on teaching. I gave a workshop on using haiku to assess student learning--yes, it's a workshop I've given at…
Galen, On Avoiding Distress 14 (tr. Sophia Xenophontos): You should thus assume that I too have become the person I am because I am by nature similar to my ancestors, and also that because I received the same education as them, I have the same qualities of soul. I know that my father used to despise human affairs as of small importance, which holds especially for me too now in my old age. νόμιζε δὴ οὖν κἀμὲ καὶ φύσει μὲν ὅμοιον τοῖς προγόνοις ὄντα γενέσθαι τοιοῦτον, καὶ μέντοι καὶ παιδευθέντα…
ta daI did go back to the shop and chopped the stopped dadoes. First thing this AM I got the top seated in the dadoes. I didn't have to trim/shave either end to get them fitted. However it was awkward and a Royal PITA - I could get one side seated and then I couldn't get the other side seated. Then it seated and the other side would pop out. After see sawing and letting loose with my choicest expletives, I finally got them seated and clamped.glued and cookingI had to go to the VA to check on a…
Detail of a T-28B Trojan on display at the USS Lexington Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas. The post Prop appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
What I have watched happen in my profession in the past two years, I am still struggling to describe. The first time I knew something was wrong, roughly a year and a quarter ago, I noticed a colleague replying to me using AI. His response was obviously generated by Claude. That’s the opening of Appearing Productive in The Workplace. The entire essay is good, you should read it. I’ve been noticing something similar, both at work and, worryingly, in personal spaces. Tale of fixed disk size A…
Tasks often vary along a dimension where some tasks matter more, yet are also harder to judge for quality of performance. This spectrum appears in org management, where it is harder to judge the quality of higher level more important decisions. It also appears in academia, where STEM tasks tend to be less important but easier to judge, compared to those in humanities.In management, the usual strategy is to first test people at lower level, less important, easier to judge tasks. Then as some…
When I was leaving HK, these 3 control towers came to say bye bye. They promised me next time I came they will be waiting to say welcome.I often complained about this Muji new paper. Actually it’s good for pencil sketches. Anyways I will remove the reaming pages and put the former laid paper as soon as I back home. I don’t enjoy writing on it much.
Mixes notes. Movie The Lobster is great. Somehow after watching it, it mixed up with my memories in Da Nang. Maybe it’s a different way of journaling: Just adding experiences, imagination and interpretations all together and seeing how fun the result is.
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My afternoon in Hungerford began with a 3-mile walk north from the station to the hamlet of Hungerford Newtown where a new Good Beer Guide 2026 entry awaited.There was a pleasant footpath to take me most of the way, starting with braving the inquisitive horses in the Wild West.One day we will see green grass again.And complain that it's been raining too much.Yep, this was summer 2026 heatwave number 4. Fortunately, much of the path was in the shade of trees, enabling me to arrive at the pub in…
Recently I have been thinking about the fact that I really haven’t seen any rainbows this summer; therefore, I haven’t posted any. The timing of the storms hasn’t been right for one and stuff like that. I actually had thought of it yesterday morning when I was checking the milkweed for caterpillars. I know monarchs have visited. Storms began approaching and pulsing in intensity slowly from the west early this evening. The section that went over us weakened some before congealing into a line…
“the produce will kill us.”buy fresh; localfarmers welcome yourpresence… they’re feedingyou what’s best for you. over 10K cases of cyclosporiasis; 2 deaths, included… fruits andvegetables can’t catcha break. at this point, a bag ofLays Salt-N-Vinegar chips,a Snickers bar, and a Root Beer OLIPOP sounds better.
You can either self-host the service, in many different ways, or there is also an official online instance you can use. The link to that instance is on the GitHub project page at the link below. See https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
So there was a modest puff of articles last month about astronomers discovering “the edge of the galaxy”. They were referencing this recent paper, which… doesn’t really say that. But it’s an interesting paper anyway, so let’s discuss.As we all learned back in school, our Sun is one star in the Milky Way galaxy, which is a flat spiral containing several hundred billion stars. And spiral galaxies don’t exactly have an “edge”. We can’t see the details of the Milky Way, because we’re inside it. But…
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 17, § 191 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): No ancient German literature, Nibelungs and other such poets of the Middle Ages should be taught in gymnasia. These things are highly remarkable, to be sure, and also worth reading, but they do not contribute to the cultivation of taste and they rob time that belongs to ancient, really classical literature. If you noble Teutons and German patriots impose ancient…
A team of AI and sociology researchers at Renmin University of China (RUC) recently interviewed 92 residents of a Beijing urban community for two hours each, capturing migration stories, marriages, career turns, grievances about community issues. They transcribed these life-history interviews, then trained a small language model to answer governance surveys on behalf of those residents. The model gets it right about 50% of the time.1 They then deployed a live system where a residential…
I am trying something a little different with this episode. I am heading back to 1977 to take a look at the original titles for the Atari VCS. I have been a lifelong Atari fan and collector and while my top games are not from the first year of the console, I am very mich intrigued by the idea of a time when the console only had 9 titles. It would take me a while, but eventually I would get to collect ‘em all.Support the Retroist on PatreonOn the show, I start off by talking about this time in…
Early last week I reached 8200 followers on Bluesky. I set that number as a goal because it’s half of what my follower number on Twitter has eroded down to after years of shadowbanning, follower capping, and other sleazy tactics intended to surreptitiously reduce the reach of dissidents. And even at half, Bluesky is so much less throttled by algorithms and outright blocks that making exactly the same post on both sites will routinely garner triple-digit engagement on Bluesky and single-digit…
The Rúin is a dark, suspenseful debut set in Galway, first in a series. It follows Detective Cormac Reilly as he relocates from Dublin with his girlfriend, and (somewhat mysteriously) is treated with hostility by his new police department, which assigns him to cold cases (some of which are not just cold but wet - he thinks his colleagues are deliberately spilling coffee on the case files to show their contempt of him), despite an impressive 20-year career. When Jack Blake commits suicide by…
Back in May, Pushkin Vertigo released their eighth Kosuke Kindaichi novel, Yoru aruku (She Walks at Night, 1948), written by the patriarch of the Japanese honkaku mystery novel, Seishi Yokomizo – translated into English by Jesse Kirkwood. No doubt, the book title will make Western readers immediately think of John Dickson Carr's It Walks by Night (1930) and not wholly without reason. But, as Ho-Ling Wong noted in his review, it also smacks of Edogawa Rampo's grotesque tales with its…
