As I may have said a hundred times, I’m a great believer in Proust’s dictum than when we read we read ourselves. Without a reader a novel does not exist, and when we read we, like the author, engage in a creative act, although not nearly as intense, arduous, or prolonged as that of the author. We bring ourselves to the novel, create a unique work, and take away from the novel something that belongs only to us. I found all this to be particularly true in The Infatuations by Javier Marias: lines…

On Halloween, the smallest details can bring an entire decade back to life: a plastic mask, a homemade cape, a paper party decoration, or a group of children lined up on a front step with their candy bags. In the United States, October 31 has long been a night for costumes, neighborhood traditions, and a […]

CrystalMeet got rejected, so this time I am doing science. MDMA is built for a cluster of inference engines that you spawn at will on the machines you already own. It started with a GPU shared by processes that could not see each other's memory.

Older brother Jeremy is acting up, parents are worried. Little sister Sasha is probably more focused on living her life, dad sees family as a distraction from his computer. They go see herons at a nature center and learn that after the birds raise their kids, the bond between parents dissolves, hmmm. Jeremy goes missing, is found by mom, shoplifts and is brought home by the cops, is sometimes sweet and mostly blank or hostile. Child psychologist is little help, the parents agree that he’s an…

Up a Creek, by David Schurman Wallace, The Baffler The Cosmos Brought Back My Ex. Did It Also Give Me Cancer?, by Ellen Vanstone, The Walrus (Excerpt from Is This a Funny Story? A Stage-Four Memoir) ‘People Forgot I Existed’: Audrey Niffenegger On Taking 14 Years to Write a Sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Sophie McBain, The Guardian “Perfect Breakfast”, by Alejandra Kamiya, translated by Daniel Hahn, Literary Hub (Excerpt from The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest)

To end the flight on an amusing note, a stern announcement came over the PA from the head purser. “The aircraft’s landing gear is down and we are landing and all passengers must sit down!” “Her kid is having an accident!” “I don’t care! Sit down for landing” We landed on schedule. The landing wasn’t a greaser but it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t like a Ryan Air slam or anything. Apparently the kid was crapping his pants during short final. I hope it ended well in the long run.

I found out there was an "Alaska Owned" online casino via the Anchorage Daily News (the state's largest paper), with it having a full page ad on August 24, 2026. It is in my understanding and to the best of my knowledge that this online casino operates illegally, or at the very least is not fully compliant with US-based laws and guidelines. These claims are made by me alone, and through my own experience with the site. All claims are made with a combination of screenshots, video recordings, and…

Let f(d) be the smallest integer so that every set of diameter one in can be covered by f(d) sets of smaller diameter. Let g(d) be the smallest integer so that every finite set of diameter one in can be covered by g(d) sets of smaller diameter. Clearly g(d) ≤ f(d) Test your intuition: Is g(d)=f(d) ?

I want to give an agent a job, walk away, and come back to the result. A password manager asking me to approve access on the machine I just walked away from breaks that flow and led me to briefly create passwords.csv. But there is a better way. My 1password is doing a great job at managing syncing of all the passwords, but then requires my finger when the agent tries to use anything. I tried MCP, CLI, and its own user in my 1password organization and it still was bugging me. There are website…

Sono stata in contatto con uno zoologo che scrive sul suo profilo pubblico di amare la vita. Amare la vita è bello. Ma voglio fare un passo in più. È possibile fare l’amore con la vita? Penso che la risposta sia sì. Making Love to LifeI have been in touch with a zoologist who writes on his public profile that he loves life. Loving life is beautiful. But I want to go a step further. Is it possible to make love to life? I think the answer is yes. Hacerle el amor a la vidaHe estado en contacto con…

Today’s only recording is a repeat of What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Gold Paw. Media Centre Description: Children’s animated series about a group of teenage sleuths and their cowardly dog. The gang’s visit to Fort Knox uncovers a priceless monster. Recorded from CBBC Channel on Sunday 29th August 2010 08:00 BBC Genome: CBBC Channel Sunday 29th August 2010 08:00 After this there’s a trail for M.I. High. Then some continuity from Chloe and London. Then the recording ends with the start of The Legend of…

Earlier this year, I slipped on ice.I tried to do my usual morning shortcut on pavement that wasn't clearly marked with a caution sign. I went slow; I've been north of Florida long enough to not take snow-covered pavement at face value. And sure enough, the boots crunched through the white fluffy stuff, met ice, and I slipped. The accident report was filed despite my insistence on feeling fine. (And for the record, always file that report no matter how you feel.) But, I did! I slipped, got up,…

Our guy slashes his girl’s throat during sex Gone Girl-style, but she’s too respectable to bleed more than an ounce or so. The flipside to Police Python, which also starts with a police chief killing his girl, this chief explains his moral power-play games to himself on tape, then manipulates the murder investigation away from himself, then toward himself, with no apparent difference in results. “We must know everything, control everything,” he rants, “Repression is our vaccine,” he exclaims.…

I popped out west to see my daughter and grandkids. Everybody is impossibly lovable, of course, and I was sorry to leave them, but also… happy to get home. Beloved offspring has two kids under the age of three. She is several months into a job doing community social work. This is where the social worker stops by the house to see if you managed to get to any of your 12-step meetings this week, if your children showed up for school, and if the nasty boyfriend has honored the no contact order. If…

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-11.

Home from a week spent in quietude amongst the roos and birds and great swathes of violet Salvation Jane (Echium plantagineum) that ran the valley and drew in air-dancing clouds of pollinators. A white kangaroo came to visit most afternoons, and a wise old shingleback lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) would pinecone creep amongst the garden rocks in search of snails and Bogong moths. And other things happened or did not happen, (or both happened and did not happen) but that would be to say too much….

i love the idea behind this website. there’s a whole section dedicated to dumbphone reviews, along with ideas for what to do offline and a guide to starting your own club: https://slowerliving.club/

2026-10-11 Autobanning Bad Requests (Part 2) I've been reviewing the auto-banning solution that I described last week and discovered that it isn't performing as well as I had hoped.1 The issue was something that I predicted: Eventually, I might speed up the detect and block loop. There are a few minute of latency between bad requests being made, and the client being blacklisted. That's enough time for the bot complete scraping the site which isn't ideal, but whatever. I didn't realise at the…

Capturing the zany Mel Brooks sensibility, StageBugs Productions earn abundant laughs with their deliciously daffy production of Young Frankenstein. The overblown 2007 Broadway premiere season Young Frankenstein proved unable to capture the zeitgeist of mega-hit Mel Brooks stage adaptation The Producers. More successful was the reduced and revised West End 2017 production of Young Frankenstein, upon which this staging is based. Smaller again here, the musical is actually very well served by the…

StarringRyan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista, and Robin WrightDirectorDenis VilleneuveOverviewThe key to the future is finally unearthed.Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.Review Blade Runner 2049 I know I’ve seen…

Mark Frost and David Lynch’s groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks made its debut in the United Kingdom on October 23, 1990. On that day, several newspapers published an interview with Russ Tamblyn by reporter Huw Rossiter. This syndicated article was edited for space in several newspapers at the time but I was able to piece together... The post Interview with Russ Tamblyn by Huw Rossiter in October 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Sunday morning, listening to jazz again. I fell asleep accidentally, as is bound to happen these days, and woke up half past 5 with my lights off and blanket drawn to my chin. No idea when either of those happened. Some days I think I live with a benevolent ghost: myself in the ungodly hours, a version of me I'll inevitably forget the next time I open my eyes. I wish she would remember to brush her teeth before logging out of the body more often. I spent about an hour or so, probably more,…

If you deeply care about security, there are really two choices: You're sending satellites into space, and you should probably use seL4, a formally verified operating system. (I'm still a bit salty about the Australian government disbanding that team.) Everyone else should seriously consider unikernels. Stop trying to harden something that is very hackable. Invert it and design from the other direction. — Geoffrey Huntley in unikernels were hard. key word: were. I have been a fan of Unikernels…

A milestone birthday this year had more of an effect on me than I expected. I thought I’d be one of those cool people who say age is just a number, or that growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional. Well okay, I still believe the latter. Truth is, my views of the world have changed massively in the last twelve months. I can’t say whether this was coincidence, or my brain realising I’m getting older. For example, this year I realised my brain works a certain way. I know, right? People…

# I think I've just fixed a bug with the <source:markdown> element in the RSS feed not getting populated. Testing works when run directly — this post will test it's also okay when getting triggered by a new post. Update Looking good. 👍

Sleeping Puppy, Rembrandt van Rijn, etching and drypoint, 1 1/2″ x 3″ (4 x 8 cm). This print is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. From their page, you can zoom or download the large image. This tiny etching of a sleeping puppy, hardly the expected subject for a Rembrandt etching, has an intamacy and warm feeling, leaving me to wonder if it was actually Rembrandt’s own dog. Look at how Rembrandt’s seemingly casual hatching and cross hatching follows the contour of the dog’s…

Bet you weren’t expecting a View From A Hotel Window double feature today, were you?! While my father is in New York City, I find myself in.. Cleveland! Yay, Cleveland! Jokes aside, I am very glad to be here with my friend for the next couple of days and we have so much fun stuff planned. I know it’s gonna be great! Hope you have a nice couple of days, as well. -AMS

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Years ago, I became enraptured by a hundred-year-old collection of four thousand lantern slides. They were once used for educational lectures by the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society at the Bishopsgate Institute in Spitalfields. When Stefan Dickers became archivist there, he discovered the slides in dusty old boxes – abandoned and forgotten since they became obselete. Yet over the last decade, it has become apparent that these slides,…