We were invited to play a game we did not understand but rich and famous people played it all the time so we thought it’d be okay. The object was to find our way out of a large house with many floors and confusing hallways.On the seventh floor, a mouse scurried past us and a lady in our group thought it was cute. A low voice in the walls said, "Cute huh?" and the floor suddenly became a nest of teeming mice, soft and screaming beneath our feet.The woman who liked the mouse grew an extra finger,…

okay lets get the meta blogposting talk out of the way and say despite part of me wanting to change weeknotes to tuesday to match up with my birthday next week i think i will keep it monday because i'm going to feel left out if i switch days. weeknotes on mondays just feels Right. i was going to link some of my favorite posts from this past year but i realized some posts have some broken images... i need to fix it... i should do a lot of things like update the blog layout. i actually don't have…

It's October! I'm starting my blog titles with a 1 instead of a zero! And I'm almost at a full year of weeknotes!!! Time flies! And I did a lot of fun stuff last week so I have a lot of good things to write about. Saw two concerts last week! First was Ninajirachi. I Love My Computer was my favorite album of last year so I was chomping at the bit to see it live. Two openers at this one, 2charm and MGNA CRRTA. 2charm was super fun, I really liked their album that dropped earlier this year and…

Marvel Unlimited has been the (legal) way to read older and new-ish Marvel comics online. However, come December it will be ending as come November 16th, the company known as Webtoon Entertainment is partnering with Marvel for the launch of the Marvel Comics App. Yes, it has a boring name, but within this news is something very interesting indeed. Marvel Unlimited had subscribers wait for comics to have been out for three months before they could be accessed on the site/app. The Marvel Comics…

All the trusses are up. Roof decking should begin tomorrow. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 21:30 Monday, 5 October 2026

Whoo-hoo! We managed to get a reservation to visit Yamaha’s Innovation Road museum in Hamamatsu, Japan! Innovation Road is Yamaha’s interactive museum, packed with instruments that the legendary company has made over the past 130+ years. And yes, you’re allowed to play them, because the museum is meant to be a hands-on experience. I hoping to at least see, if not play, the Yamaha DX1 (pictured above), a synth of which only 140 were ever made, and one that I’ve never seen in real life. For any…

Regarding my last post about Muse routinely wiping and rebuilding itself for some reason, it finally replied to my inquiry as to why it was blowing up my usage with: The backend worker runs every 2 minutes and the panel poller every 3 minutes; both are generating usage with no pending work. The system can reduce or stop them. Options: Disable both background checks (generation requests and panel decisions would only be handled when requested directly). Slow them to every 30 minutes. Keep them…

My recap of the finale of Below Deck's best season in years: Below Deck Mediterranean season 11. It packed in a lot of awfulness and entertainment!

Bravo's Below Deck Mediterranean season 11 is over, and I break down what made this season great—and horrifying. Nathan vs. Joe, Aesha's growth, and Chef Joy's joy, and how much the production has to do with all of it.

I think I have to revise dramatically down my earlier estimate that the Muse free tier gives you more usage than you get for the lowest paid tier of ChatGPT. That first week of use, I was able to get tons of code-based work done, and now I can barely get through a few rounds of text-based work before finding out I’m out of usage. Not only that, though perhaps related (?), I got many messages like this yesterday alone, without having taken nor scheduled any actions: The environment wiped systemd…

After Hiruko and White of the Eye, I’m accidentally on a late ’80s kick… help. Straightman Treat Williams and his wacky partner Joe Piscopo (Wise Guys, SNL) are in trouble with their cop boss Robert “The Cowboy” Picardo for being reckless out of control loose cannons who do not follow the rules. At a sketchy science lab investigating some major crimes committed by zombies armed with machine guns, PR Hotgirl Lindsay “Sister of Mark” Frost fails to distract them and Joe easily finds the zombie…

Before I moved to Portugal, almost 10 years ago, I had a semi-hollow guitar from a Brazilian brand called Hofma. It had the most comfortable neck I had ever played at the time and I loved it, but alas, I couldn't take it with me and, considering I would have access to international brands at a lower price than in Brazil, I sold it. I came to regret it later. I played every musical genre with it and it was a blast. In Portugal, I first bought a Gretsch hollow-body, but then sold it and bought a…

Look at many early DVD releases, and you’ll see interactive menus touted as a selling point. Coming from VHS (or LaserDisc), which had no menus to speak of, this was a genuine improvement. That isn’t to say all DVDs had interactive menus, however. Many of the earliest releases just entered straight into their content, and the same is true of some cheaper releases. However, once DVD became widespread, publishers started to really embrace the capabilities the format afforded them. The format…

signs of a genuine autumn a chip off the few year old headstock to the extent there is - satisfaction knock, knock - there it is well, that was the broad side of what's the point. you know - what's without it? other things said exposure It Was Just Like Yesterday :: Monday, 5th October 2026

There was extra rosemary from a pot roast and this Williams Sonoma Signature Simmer Pot recipe magically appeared in the algorithm. It was perfect timing as we were emptying the fridge before travel. Verdict? Thumbs down. Smelled weird. I like the notion of a simmering air freshener. This just wasn’t it. YMMV Currently Listening: The Album Leaf & Nicole Miglis “Turns”Reply via email

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 3rd April 2026 Formed as a solo side project from former Stortregn vocalist and guitarist Romain Negro, Apolaustic look to channel the Swiss masters of melodic black/death metal and add a more personal vision to his sound. I’ve always quite enjoyed Stortregn’s work, so I think that Apolaustic could have some real potential. Their debut record, ‘No Plenitude Without Suffering’ (plenitude means abundance or fullness by the way, save you looking that up because…

It was a long day running the kids around. Selfie a day for a year, day 43: Oct 5, 2026 edition.

Cui, L., Jia, R., Yu, C., Xu, Z., Yao, Y., Guo, J. and Ren, X. (2026) Associations of tear mediators with ocular surface symptoms, signs, and corneal nerve morphology in dry eye disease: a cross-sectional study. Front. Med. 13:1929287. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2026.1929287 My interest in corneal nerve function goes back to when I first used Oxervate in the mid-2010s. The patient had neurotrophic keratitis with an ulcer secondary to recurrent herpes zoster keratitis. When she finished…

If you are building at the cutting edge of AI models and infrastructure, you’ve probably come across TypeSafe’s new model, Jev. Instead of asking a model to generate more text, you can ask Jev to decide between explicit choices — what matters, how important it is, who should own it, and what should happen next. I wanted to try Jev on a problem where the output could directly change what a team does next. Community conversations felt like a good test: bugs, feature requests, support questions…

In my previous post, we saw Frank Knight’s critique of A. C. Pigou’s economic analysis of traffic congestion. For Pigou, road congestion is a tragedy of the commons or market failure that requires active government intervention: the imposition of a tax or congestion fee to reduce the number of drivers on the road. For Knight (and for his disciple, Coase), however, road congestion is a legal failure: the absence of property rights in roadways. Today, I want to take a closer look at the logic of…

Unfinished; posting anyway. As a kid I lived through several collecting manias in the midst of my peers. Hockey cards, Kinder surprise toys, Pogs, Cs… Most of them managed to mostly pass me. I had owned some, but I was never really into the thing to the point of spending my own money on it. The only exception were stickers that came with Resanka (filled croissant in package with a drawing of a girl). Collecting a full set allowed you to enter a draw for prizes or something. (I haven’t managed…

Today’s recording starts with a trail for Escape from Scorpion Island. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Australia. Steve Backshall is demonstrating how drag when moving fast through water is extremely hard to overcome. To such an extent that he loses his swimming trunks when being towed at 6 knots. This is all to explain that the Tuna is the most hydroynamic fish in the ocean, achieving speeds of up to 70kmh. While trying and failing to spot a duck-billed platypus, they meet a kangaroo. He also meets a…

Wonderful words by the ever erudite Adam Turner. Malcolm Catto‘s East London studio is an under the radar and off the beaten track kind of place, filled with vintage analogue equipment, valve amps, old recording desks and the smell of music being captured live- punk, rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, psychedelia, electronics, the full range of leftfield and outlier sounds. For this 14-track compilation Malcolm has opened the Quatermass Sound Lab archives and unleashed a slew of unreleased songs, alternate…

Pretty Girl loses her dad on the way to the gold rush, gets semi-adopted by Bad Men (her name for the notorious wanted criminals). Bad leader Bull decides what she needs is a husband, so they “hire” an Irish guy after a good scene of checking the bar for eligible men. Sure, they don’t respect land rights, and sometimes do some robbing and killing, but it’s quickly clear that the Bad Men are better than the whitehat sheriff of the town where everyone stays while waiting for the gold rush to…

19 × 23 in. Oil pastel, acrylic, and cold wax medium on Bristol. This started as a bright, fairly simple figure, then covered it with a dark acrylic wash and scraped it back. I blocked the face and built it up with cold wax.

In his albums, Logic occasionally has skits that play throughout that are part of the album’s overall story. A song in his album Ultra 85 titled In Retrospect has a skit at the end that left me wondering: [Outro: Thomas & Kai] Thank God for synthetic gravity and ribeye that never came from a cow I still don't understand how we grow meat without livestock The marvels of AI, my friend But wasn't it also because of AI that every country in the entire world deployed nukes as an auto defense against…

archived awesome-static-generators today. new generators were turning up faster than I could review them, and a stale list isn’t much use to anyone. it’ll be deleted on 1 november 2027, so fork it before then if you want to keep it going. I use Astro these days, if you are looking for a recommendation.

I thought the last book was terrifying, but this one is way, way worse. Although both books involve both mankind making bad choices as well as supernatural forces, this one is one that is more likely to happen in real life. Because it is mentioned in the first paragraph or two, I do not feel like it is a spoiler to say that this book involves Cleric Chih going to gather stories from a town that suffered from an incredible famine some 11 years prior.Full post

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Another week has come and gone, and it's time to check out the handful of links sitting in my Raindrop.io "For Consideration" category.Welcome to the second ever, Lyte Bites.🛠️ First Timers Only from Scott and KentAs someone who's definitely a #CodeNewbie, or maybe whatever the stage before that would be, I'm definitely intrigued by the possibility that I might be able to still find ways to meaningfully understand what it would take to contribute to an open source project or two.🧭 Go Make…