(Twenty Years Ago on FITK) … and now I know. The thing about love is that yes, I am certain I was in love before, but it was never like this. Before, I was always stressed, and panicking, and acting, and the reason for that was simple. There was no trust. I did not trust him, and I did not trust myself, and to be honest, I think he trusted me even less and himself not at all.And I thought

A few weeks ago, I went to CppCon 2026. Unsurprisingly at a C++ conference this year, one of the most prevalent topics was AI and how we should use it — better — in our industry. There were ten talks mentioning AI or LLMs in their titles - excluding pre/post conference workshops: AI is UB with Better PR — Matt Kulukundis, Andy Soffer C++ in an AI World — Jody Hagins C++ in the Age of ...

This issue takes a trip to Switzerland with the stunning 'Helvetia' Gauge 1 layout, proving that world class modelling can fit in surprisingly small spaces. Also inside: Build your first Gauge 1 locomotive with the latest beginner-friendly G1MRA kit.First test of Garden Railway Specialists' new Hudswell Clarke live steam locomotive.Create realistic water features to bring wildlife and extra interest to your railway. Build a Tin Turtle armoured Simplex from recycled parts. Explore the history of…

With a theme of toys that focus on the holiday of Halloween for this year's 31 Days of Toy Terror you just know that Michael Myers will make more than one appearance. Today I'm excited to check out another figure from Plastic Meatball's retro inspired Halloween action figures though this time it's from Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. This 1988 sequel continues the story from Halloween II and introduces Michael's niece, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) and is the first part of the…

Violent, gritty and unrelenting, Action comic was the brainchild of Pat Mills and Geoff Kemp. Tasked with creating a new anthology comic for the IPC’s boys adventure division, the pair rapidly developed a winning formula: reimagining existing story ideas from fresh perspectives and infusing them with a health dose of modern realism. With strips such as Hookjaw, Dredger, Look Out

When this happens it’s like your day is winking at you. It sort of feels like all the mysteries of the world are about to unfold before your eyes as the universe puts up its hand and says “Hey, stop for a second!” Also applies to 11:11. AWESOME! Make your inbox awesome: Photo from: here The post #577 Looking at the clock and seeing that it’s 12:34 appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.

A couple of weeks ago, I shared Jacob Coxon's Twitter thread in re: his resignation from Anthropic, and also referenced it in this post. Coxon was Jon Stewart's interview yesterday and it's worth watching. Stewart doesn't necessarily explore depths in re: AI we haven't all thought about, but at one point, this happens: Stewart: We hear a lot of the utopian talk. "We're altruistic, man. We're doing this for society." But what we see is, it's really they've stripmined the entirety of human…

There is no skull in Dürer’s Melancholia, although one might have been expected. But this great thing, blind as a stone, closed as a tomb, this geometrical block which seems to have allen into the engraving like a meteor, as a speculation of the most abstract intellect into the midst of what should have been a place of life and confidence, is surely the nearest thing to a death’s head, to a skull. And it induced Alberto to perceive in his own geometrical form, first conceived, who knows, as an…

Trinket Hunting – New York, New York I’m sneaking in one more picture from the Brooklyn Bridge. Although it’s from the bridge, it isn’t about the bridge, as you can tell. All over New York in tourist-dense areas, street vendors set up shop. Often they sell fake designer handbags, the most popular display I’ve seen. But the merchandise changes based on the context. Near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I saw large displays of artistic prints and old New Yorker magazine covers. Apparently here at…

The trees have finally decided to get on board with autumn, and the ground and everything else is covered in a layer of small yellow leaves (locust trees I think.) The nights have finally turned chilly, though the days have been sunny and mild, the usual for early Octobers unless it's raining or stormy. We were out in McHenry over the weekend for the drive in and it was actually cold enough in the car I had to cover up. We're hoping to get back for some horror stuff the end of the month, by…

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The Trans-Pecos Region is a completely different world from the lands east of San Antonio. The land out there is untamed and less touched by the modern world. The small touches of development feel unwelcome in such an arid and harshly beautiful place. This lack of population density means that old adobe ruins or relics of the people who live here are fairly well preserved. So many buildings in cities like Alpine, Marfa, and Fort Davis have been occupied for generations. And on many a long…

Back in the day1 when I was still using a Mac, I always enjoyed the simplicity of Time Machine backups that Apple introduced almost 20 years ago. Simply plug in your dedicated drive, let Time Machine do its thing and hey presto, snapshots of your precious data. My wife’s MacBook Pro from 2013 is still backing up to a Drobo 5N of a similar vintage over SMB to this day. I tend to synchronise my important folders such as documents, photos and videos via Syncthing and that works without issue.…

This weekend is Thanksgiving in Canada. The menu will be exactly the same as it always is. The flow blue will come out. There will be turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and pumpkin pie. At some point I'll think I'm unusually organized. That feeling won't last. The $10 Thanksgiving Plates I got these at an...Read More

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I learned a group of jellyfish is called a smack. I also decided to have two kissing, just in case. This one was done quickly, but I may revisit it later!

A cartoon cactus, altered from an earlier self-made prompt.

We got to watch the US Men’s National Team take on Canada tonight in an international friendly. USMNT won 1-0. There was an impressive amount of fireworks to go with the game and the stands were completely full with long lines to get into Allianz Field. Great to see so much enthusiasm for soccer!

Going back to 1985, to another Argento giallo, and another rewatch. Though it has been a little bit since I saw this one. This movie is notable for being one of the earliest roles for actress Jennifer Connley. This is not her first role, but it is one of her breakout ones along with Labyrinth of the same year.Phenomena (1985)This movie has it all: a serial killer and a Swiss boarding school, Donald Pleasence and some heavy metal, psychic insects, and even a chimp with a straight razor. And yet…

Crucial Track for October 6, 2026: “Let It Happen” by Tame Impala “Dracula” has been playing a lot on local radio stations. I didn’t know that was by Tame Impala until I looked it up at home. I searched my music library, and “Let It Happen” is there. Still there? I have no idea how long it’s been in my library or how many times I’ve listened to it. A while. A lot. (It was released in 2015.) The vibes are good. All this running aroundI can’t fight it much longerSomething’s tryna get outAnd it’s…

Read: When will there be good news? by Kate Atkinson ★★★★ 📚 A complicated multithreaded mystery. A delightful, unbelievable young girl mixed with characters from previous Jackson Brodie novels weave stories that somehow come together. Unlikely coincidences mostly. Great fun on lots of levels.

This is an experimental IME that lets you type a mix of English and Japanese without switching between the two. It should be smart enough to identify the language of substrings. kyouhagoogledekensaku → 今日はgoogleで検索 Unfortunately I haven’t been able to test it because it’s developed primarily for Windows and the Mac version seems pretty buggy, but it’s a great idea.

With Danny and Sharon Kleitman and Michel Goemans at the MIT Endicott house. Sharing AI progress on mathematics (OpenAI) A few hours ago, Open AI shared solution to a few hundred mathematical problems. Certainly this is an amazing milestone for mathematics, and the results will needs to be verified and digested by human mathematicians in the months to come. Several of the problems were discussed here on the blog over the past two decades and I will try to give a more detailed update regarding…

A recent addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is スヌーピー折り紙, a book of Peanuts origami projects. However, achieving hte results they show takes more than folding and connecting pieces of paper, as they want you to add faces and other markings to the pieces, which means you’ll have channel your inner Schulz a bit. This book costs about $9 in Japan. If you buy it at one of the US Kinokuniya stores (which is how my copy was acquired), you can expect to put out about $24 bucks for it… but it…

Heard on today’s walks: While petting someone’s giant dog, “her names Greta when she’s good, re-greta when she’s bad.” Some college students singing and laughing their way through “I want it that way” at the entrance of the art building.

Over the 10 years that I’ve published the Weekly Thing I have used three different platforms to send it. Each one of those had unique requirements for how I structured the issues. For a while I’ve wanted to get the entire archive updated so that no matter how far you go back the issues have the similar structure that they have today. With the help of Claude I was able to make this happen! The full archive is now updated renders cleanly. It required pretty extensive source doctoring behind the…

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stay out later in winter with a fire pit. fire pit night. and a guitar just like this would go up just like that. log, kindle, bubble. and how can i really say it's not? my darkwood window - fire pit. stars other things said (round) Yesterday :: Tuesday, 6th October 2026

It's October! If you haven't put your Halloween decor out yet, do so! If you haven't sipped a beverage with a hint of pumpkin spice, grab one! Watch the leaves fall, enjoy the weather getting cooler (but not too cool), and get ready for some assorted news of interest as we get this month going right!The abilities of AIs to mash up various gaming concepts have been getting lots of attention, thanks to advanced tech and wild processing power advancements as of late. "Let's put Spider-Man in a…

Rhett Allain, physics professor and blogger, published a nice article today about the Moon’s orbit. It follows largely the same line of reasoning as my post on the same topic (and the various write-ups I linked to in that post) from a few years ago. I nodded my head as I read through it, until I got to a plot at the end of the article. For much of the article, Allain complains about how the orbit of the Moon as it and the Earth make their way around the Sun is often distorted in textbooks. Like…