[The Clichés]Got Something For You BabyPama 1001(1965)Cleveland, Ohio According to buckeyebeat : Pinky and Jim Jenkins were a husband and wife act who were part of the Cleveland's folk scene in the 1960s. They played local clubs, including several appearances at La Cave opening for touring acts. In 1965 they were on .one side of a split 45 that was released on Pama. On the other side was a recording by the Cliches of the James Brown song "Good Good Lovin" mistitled "Got Something For You Baby".…

What I'm...Working on Mostly my job. Prioritizing getting courses finalized and ready for next semester WHICH IS MOSTLY DONE NOW Reading and filling out The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Workbook. Contemplating Playing Xenoblade Chronicles X and starting a gaming journal for it Practicing Acting (Acting Class is happening now) Singing (still working on You'll Be Back) Eating Reece's mini pumpkins, bats, and ghosts Drinking Folgers Classic in our new coffee maker which messes me up.…

What this isHere is another peak into the campaign setting I'm calling In the House of the High King. It's the same setting as my recent knight class.How it worksIn brief, sorceresses memorize "Signs." You can memorize a number of signs equal to how many first-level spells you can cast. So a fifth level sorceresses can memorize 2 signs per day.When you have a sign memorized, you expend spell slots (as normal) to cast any spell from your sign. For example, a fifth level sorceresses might have…

OpenAI just dropped 372 math proofs on the world. They dropped a Navier-Stokes proof about a month back and there was a bunch of controversy so I guess the new PR strategy is shock and awe. I’m not qualified to assess quality but watching the reaction of mathematicians, some of these results are v significant. e.g. this post on X from a Stanford math prof: Another one: The Kakeya problem in 4-D! Just this summer, Hong Wang won the Fields medal for the Kakeya proof in 3-D (Wang-Zahl, 2026) So,…

I picked this up on the premise of it being a D&D themed romance novel which isn't really the case. The cover and title lean a lot into roleplaying whereas the story itself is much more of a band romance than anything else. I felt a little bit tricked by this at times and it left me wondering if, since this is part of a themed trilogy of solo stories, the publisher was pushing for the nerdy themes to remain as much as possible. At the end of the day, I still enjoy regular YA romance and this…

Yesterday evening I once again travelled into Dublin for a concert by National Symphony Orchestra Ireland at the National Concert Hall. No rain this time, I’m glad to say, either going there or coming back! The concert, under the direction of Artistic Partner Peter Whelan, was very definitely classical music in the sense that all three works were from the classical period of the middle to late eighteenth century. First up we had Symphony No. 22 in E♭ Major by Joseph Haydn. This is usually known…

following my last post, blog stats and insights, i prompted ai with: Why is race and class such a theme to me? Why am I scared to write about it? the ai responded with: Because race and class are where a bunch of your deepest conflicts meet. Not just “politics.” For you, race/class seems to touch: family history money shame masculinity status anxiety guilt resentment belonging being white / passing / ethnic identity / Calgary / Toronto class codes fear of sounding cringe fear of sounding racist…

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I prompted ai with this: I downloaded my blog raidendedo.bearblog.dev in a zip file in the download folder. Find skills for Psychoanalytic literary analysis and Psycholinguistics. Use that to tell me things about myself from my writing I might not know about myself. ai responded with: I found the zip and analyzed it. Scope: 192 usable posts ~97,293 words Median post length: ~408 words This is a real enough corpus to see patterns. Not a diagnosis. More like: psychoanalytic + psycholinguistic…

...will not appear this weekend, as I'm attending the Lone Pine Film Festival.The column will also not appear next weekend, when I'll be on the TCM Classic Cruise.I have a few posts prescheduled for while I'm offline, so please check back from time to time for new content.Around the Blogosphere This Week will return on Saturday, October 24th.For my most recent classic film links, please visit my October 3rd column.

As a partner to yesterday's Words that are not right here are some words that are not officially right but feel correct. I'm extremely fond of words that are often labelled 'archaic' in the dictionary. Bring back the old fashioned definitions of awesome and terrific. I use 'handsome' regardless of gender, which people sometimes correct me on. First of all, more female-specific terms have other connotations that are less palatable - if I were in such a position I'd much rather be called handsome…

Japan Tin DrumGet It At DiscogsPartially growing out of their success in the country they were named after, as well as growing friendship and affiliation with such bands as Yellow Magic Orchestra, Japan made their most unique, challenging, and striking album in Tin Drum. It was also the final full studio effort from the group, and what a way to bow out -- there was practically no resemblance to the trash-glam flailers on Adolescent Sex anymore. Rather than repeat the sheer restraint on…

I’m still not sure what exactly I was thinking when I decided The Autopsy of Jane Doe would be fun Spooktober viewing for somebody like me, who’s so easily triggered. I guess I heard the idea of “father and son coroners trapped in a funeral home with a vengeful corpse” and concentrated on the ghost story part, and not on the fact that the autopsy mentioned in the title would play such a big part. So I was already watching much of it through my fingers, and that was before they put a cat in…

I love how proactive agents have gotten in showing their work. Completely unprompted, Opus 5.5 shows up with a screenshot of what it implemented.

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A quiet spot along Lower Canyon Creek, Arizona This week, my wife and I (accompanied by Cubby) day tripped to the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. Lower Canyon Creek is my favorite place to spend time outdoors due to its rugged beauty, accessibility and solitude. I camp and fish this area with frequency and I am never disappointed. The creek itself is cold and clear, and supports a bountiful population of beautiful (and poorly named) Brown Trout. Although the area was burned in the 2002 Rodeo Chedeski…

Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs, CuriousMarc came across some Harris ICs labeled "F1-10-5", a mysterious part number that didn't show up in any databooks. Since unidentifiable ICs are useless, he gave me one to analyze. Conveniently, it was in a ceramic package, so I could open it up with a quick tap from a chisel. Under the microscope, the chip's most striking feature was a grid of square capacitors. With all those capacitors, I guessed…

About a year ago I updated docker-harness, a tool I’ve used in several of my golang projects in order to generate realistic integration tests by making it easy to create complex environmental stacks locally. The idea was simple - at some point you have to test the SQL you write against a real database. Or the network call against the real service. If you can self host it easily in a reusable wrapper, why not? After updating it, I realized that maybe I could take it from a test-focused library…

Nearby skyscrapers are reflected in the mirrored façade of Downtown Dallas’ Bank of America Plaza. The post City Reflections appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

I’ve been working in a heavy agentic workflow lately, and I foresee two states of what we are doing. Barebones: enough architecture for us as a species to extract data and act on behalf of the commander. And on the other side: problems utterly complex to scrape from. The first to fall will be authentication. If everything is open, there is no one left to prove yourself to. Then the web. Boxes in the shadow, communicating through obscure protocols optimized for machines, not us. Even a naive…

Walking down a path in the forest, he remembered how it had looked as a child, vibrant of colors with names nobody knew the names of anymore. His friends, just five or so years younger, would have no recollection of ever having seen a color. Nobody knew what had happened, one day, all the colors had just started to slowly fade away. He knew from the few elder to him, that had stayed around, that even what he had experienced had only been a tiny sliver of what it had once been. Colors hsd…

Help Now, Feedback Later The GOTV countdown is on and like it or not, Maine is important. There are so many feels about election season and we all deserve to give our input into making it better for 2028 but for today, there is genuine importance in getting Dems elected as a gateway to a ... Read more The post GOTV Maine – Do Something appeared first on Shay Stewart-Bouley.

I started playing Airsoft a year ago, after a long hiatus. Since then, I have played quite a lot, pretty much every two weeks (and then, during the summer, an additional Friday evening targets session, every other week). I am still not particularly good at it, and I could certainly do with getting fitter, but I have got to a point where I am content with the equipment that I have, and I can go out and play with a sense of purpose. I have played all of my games at Red Alert Airsoft, in Newbury.…

I recently finished a philosophical science-fiction novel by Soviet authors Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky called “Roadside Picnic”. Aliens visit certain places on Earth; those places (“the zones”) become riddled with alien artifacts that are incomprehensible to humans, and an entire subculture and black market develop around discovering and re-selling those artifacts. As an example, they found eternal accumulators (called “so-so” or “«этак»” in the original) that people would procure…

We are at Tucson International Airport (TUS), on our way to Orlando for a week at the House of the Mouse. The original itinerary was TUS-DEN-MCO (Tucson, Denver, Orlando), but the Denver to Orlando leg is currently delayed five hours, with a new crew and aircraft being put in place. So, we rebooked ourselves through Houston and we are getting to Orlando about the original time we were scheduled to land from the original booking. The thing is, our bags are already loaded on the flight to Denver.…

It’s crazy that I have been interested in libraries of things for over a year, and obsessed with them since XYZ in Loro Piceno, but I have never actually researched it on the Internet. It is quite typical for me (be it because of my ADHD or not), that I get super captivated or even obsessed over a topic, but I never sit down and research and learn more about it. I just let the information get to me piece by piece in my daily life, one step after the other. It has been a nice unintentional…

I am uploading my slides to my public lecture “Math 2.0” that I gave yesterday evening at Caltech. (The talk was planned over a year ago, and was initially titled “Machine Assisted Proof” and scheduled to be given back in May. It was postponed to October, and with recent events the talk changed significantly, but the old title and abstract remains on the Caltech web page.) In this talk I lay out the historical “Math 1.0” state of mathematics, the current state induced by the excessive emphasis…

Selfie a day for a year, day 46: Oct 10, 2026 edition. I need to get a little more consistent with these selfie a day posts. Just another day waiting around in a car.

AI;DR – This blog post was written mostly by Claude Code, which also implemented the feature it describes. If you don’t want to read “AI slop”, stop reading now. When you copy components from one form and paste them into another, the Delphi IDE silently drops every event link. The pasted buttons have an empty OnClick, and the code of their event handlers stays behind in the old unit, so you go through the Object Inspector and the editor and put it all together again by hand. Feature request #75…