Winter must be on its way here in Mount Joy. Last night the air had a distinct chill to it as it got into the 40s early and stayed there all night. It wasn’t the first time this fall but today it felt cooler in the house as we have lost some heat. Yesterday whilst I was mowing the grass I noticed that the breeze had a bit of a nip to it. It was in the upper 60s but the air felt a little cooler than that. I say bring it on! I t was a long and hot summer. If Molly sees this it might be my last…

If you’re looking to get into the erotic waffle business on a limited budget, there’s a seller in Tampa who has what you need! Each press sells for $150. Links to their Facebook Marketplace pages are below: Male version Female version Some men may require instructions on how to consume the female waffle. A strategically-placed Hershey’s Kiss might help. The post Tampa Bay deal of the day appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

I learned a couple years back that I have ADHD. Insert a half-serious joke about RFK Jr. throwing me into the camps. Since then, I've explored fidget toys as a way to focus better during meetings or when spending some time thinking, and they've really helped.A few months ago, I stumbled on something even better. I got back into model-making thanks to Boylei Hobby Time's diorama videos, and I've been thinking about little else since tiny plastic angerry bois came back into my life. One day, I…

littleFedi One binary.A whole fediverse server. littleFedi is a small ActivityPub server written in Go. It ships as a single static executable with a server-rendered web interface, a Mastodon-compatible client API, a durable federation queue, moderation tools, and optional PostgreSQL and S3 support. No runtime to install, no services to wire together. [littleFedi - Jack Baty being social](Jack’s excellent write-up/demo) 👏 😎

John Fahey - CBGB, New York City, December 7, 1996John Fahey at CBGB! That sort of sounds like something some hack like me would write about an up-and-coming new artist in a review no one reads. “It’s like if John Fahey opened for Television in 1974 with Don Cherry sitting in!” And then you’d listen and likely be disappointed. But no, John Fahey did in fact play CBGB in the mid-1990s right when he was emerging from his wilderness years and beginning to explore the underground. (In fact,…

When I was running at the Toronto Zoo a few weeks ago, there were volunteers cheering along the sidelines. At around the 3km mark, I started hearing them say, “You’re almost there!” My immediate reaction was relief, followed by the thought, “No, I’m not!” I may have crossed the halfway mark, which was a great milestone, but I was by no means, “Almost there.” I was hearing, “Almost there!” for 40% of my run, which defeated the purpose of it. It felt like false optimism to me. The post Almost…

Gerhard Richter, Pane of Glass/Glasscheibe, aka Antelio Glas GR 876-5, 2002, glass and steel 95 x 100 cm, selling soon at Sotheby’s Like a wind rattling the windows in their aging frames, a decent auction result can shake loose other Gerhard Richter Pane of Glass from their storage spaces. With its dark steel banded frame, GR 876-5 seems completely different from the other [also retitled] Antelio Glas works, which only have tiny steel prongs, too small to sign and label. And all apparently too…

There is this lesson every programmer learns when building or debugging something, and it’s “reduce your blast radius.” Let’s say I want to draw some stylized text showing current time in some code I haven’t touched in a while. Instead of doing all that in one fell swoop, I should: use a non-changing test string, instead of the current time (so I reduce the surface area of things that could fail) start with unstyled text, instead of immediately stylizing it (same as above) or, even, begin by…

Ikea's very inexpensive Timmerflotte temperature sensor, which supports Matter over Thread, is very difficult to resist. It's slim, stylish, and has a pleasing on-demand LED display. Unfortunately, in its current form, it's severely flawed. The issue is that it frequently drops offline. The only way to revive it, if you're lucky enough to have physical access to the sensor, is to remove the batteries for several minutes. To date, Ikea has not released a firmware update to address this issue.…

We’ve been adding additional inks to our Tono & Lims selection, including most of the “Souvenir” inks from the Friendship line. Yesterday we listed some gorgeous inks that shade in multiple colors, including one with shimmer (Souvenir ao, Moanalua). These are some of the more interesting colors from the line that I’ve seen. Be sure to check out these and more, as we are adding new stuff every day now that the new site is up and running. You can see these and more in our Nashville shop from…

IntroductionThis is part three of a discussion about variance in golf that I’ve been working on for months. That work is done, but I’m breaking it up into three parts so it will be a bit more easily digestible. I’ve been trying to build toward something throughout the three-part series and we’re finally here.Part one was about how hole design transforms uniform dispersion patterns into different probabilistic outputs.Part two was about visualizing variance: how we can show strategic tradeoffs…

There’s a drone high and to the right of Sutro tower, just parked there. Watching… what? It’s too small to be a helicopter, and how often do you actually see those truly hover, fixed XYZ, more nor than a few moments? But it’s also much larger than the little bird I got for a present a while back. If it weren’t, I wouldn’t be able to see it from this distance.

Food Network's Josh Peck-hosted series Sweet Deceit is just like Netflix's Mikey Day-hosted Is it Cake?,—but in reverse, and that improves on the formula.

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Not only did I get surprise pastries, they also came with a surprise visit from Anna. I can’t imagine anything better happening to a day that, until then, hadn’t offered much in the way of interesting or joyful experiences. Earlier that day, I had unboxed some new, very(!) expensive ink: Platinum Chou Kuro, which promised to be the blackest waterproof ink you can get. Except it wasn’t waterproof. When I tried to paint over the face in the first panel with watercolor, the ink started smudging…

Guest Post by: David Tonaszuck A reflection on the Gospel of Matthew 13:24-30 Dear Friends in Christ, There was once a boy, not much older than fourteen, who wandered the dusty back roads near a small farming town at the turn of the century. He was an orphan, left to fend for himself in a … Continue reading Rest for the Weary: Trusting Jesus to Lighten Our Burdens The post Making Christ Present in Ordinary Days first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The post Making Christ Present in Ordinary…

Tags: #sketches #attentionI just saw an oversized plastic bag, upright and drifting along the shoulder with the entrained wind from the traffic, decide that now is the time. It changed direction, floated right up and over the jersey barrier, and did a jumper off the Almaden Expressway overpass. Did it right in front of me, happened pretty fast too. It was just gone. I didn’t have time to do anything about it, and I was driving, traffic was flowing pretty good in that moment on 85, but not for…

If you’re like me, you have a LOT of inks. Like, so many inks that sometimes I think I need to declare a moratorium against acquiring more. So when I was browsing at JetPens several weeks ago and came upon Kakimori Pearlescent Solution ($33.50, 35mL), I couldn’t resist. The pearlescent solution is made to be added to other inks to give it a bit of a pearlescent look. That means you can take some of those plainer inks and zhuzh them up. I decided to try with a simple ink that didn’t have any…

One of my favourite pairs of earrings are a simple set of pearls. I have worn them pretty much every day since 2016, when I received them as a gift. What is it about pearls that makes them so appealing? I am certainly not alone in this. A simple search will show you a vast array of pearls being used for their ornamental value in cultures from all over the world. I suppose the best

This morning I’m sitting with the windows open, listening to distant city sounds of traffic and construction, mixed with bird calls and the wind in the treetops. It’s October 5, and Austin has just now begun to cool down after yet another unbearable summer. The sounds coming in have been a literal wakeup call for me. As if hearing a voice from a thousand years ago, I am reminded of magic I once knew so well it was indistinguishable from my personality. The past decade has been an exercise in…

On the latest changes to the super-configurable web page minifier.

For better or worse the web industry is going through a bit of a phase. The reasons are largely irrational. People still need the web, nothing has changed there. Regardless, the financials of this business are a struggle. Longterm career prospects are looking dicey.Because I openly reject the driving force intent on destroying my profession, and ruffle a few feathers doing so, I often get asked privately for advice from like-minded peers. I can only offer an uninspired but sensible reply: don’t…

The Western Veil Nebula

In this post I share the third and most recent iteration on the uptime monitoring for all my homelab services. The main job of this subsystem is to alert me when some web service is down. I have two different systems that detect and alert uptime issues on my homelab services: cloud-status and uptime. Both are small pieces of Rust code that I've written for my use case. They both read my Caddyfile to know which hosts I have and probe them one by one. The main difference is that cloud-status…

Since Daniel and I started The Rocker Step —— subscribe for excellent indie basketball coverage like Doc's Night Shift btw —— I've levelled up my live-clipping game. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! 🏀 GG Jackson grabs the board and goes coast-to-coast. 🏀 Hawks rookie Kingston Flemings with a beautiful bucket. 🏀 Flemings, again, with a beauty of a pass to RayJ Dennis. 🏀 Another solid pass by Flemings, also to Dennis. 🏀 Hawks sophomore Asa Newell with an emphatic slam. 🏀 Pistons rook…

I'm not generally one to be paternalistic in how we treat our employees. My mantra's closer to: "We're all adults here, folks." But we're also all humans here, folks. In today's post, we'll have a delicate conversation about why you might want to split your new business sales team from your expansion and renewals teams.I’m sure your company has spent plenty of time discussing who owns what across land, expand, and renew. You’ve probably approached it from first principles, learned from recent…

They could take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay. Trump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego (As a person who resides in San Diego, I disagree) Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me

A sensitive mind is a curse sometimes. You remember everything. That remark someone made. How they made it. How much emphasis they placed on which word. What their expression was while saying it. How many jokes they made at your expense. How much they were relishing it. How many people were genuinely laughing at it. It feels like a curse. It affects how you deal with people too. You notice them more deeply. How they say things. Whether they meant them. How much they want you. The gap between…

When I was a college sophomore, I had four roommates. We'd all been randomly assigned to the same dormitory floor as freshmen and liked each other enough to give it a go in a large two-bedroom house just off campus.Many of our other friends from the dorms had joined fraternities, but none of us saw ourselves as the frat boy type. Our house was located to the west of the majority of the frat houses, so we mockingly called ourselves Frat West. Our joke caught on. One evening, while I was there…

On Mastodon I try to write a list of 3 good things every day. It’s such a great habit to have and I decided that, instead of attempting to update my now page, I’d make this post, wildly inspired by this post by cygnoir! I’ve finished a headband in nålebinding and I love it so much! Just look at the beautiful pattern it creates. detail of my headband in purple wool I went to Amsterdam, hitching a ride with my husband. It was SO nice to have a couple hours in the city centre. I brought the…