look at mom reaching for that fig! (right side) she decided it wasn’t ripe enough Highlight of the week: we were eating lunch when this family of raccoons — one adult and two little kits — came to look for figs (none looked ripe to me but they found a few they deemed edible) Looking forward to: the wildfire smoke is supposed to clear out this weekend after a long smoky week, will be happy to have clean air again! Stuff I did: 0.75 hours consulting admin — project officially on hold 4.25 hours…
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Several weeks ago I missed my 25 year high school reunion. Actually, missed is the wrong word. I skipped it. I avoided it. The event was held less than ten miles from my house, and I went out of my way not to go. To be honest, this was the closest I've come to going to one of these reunions. A few weeks prior, I had pulled out my old senior yearbook and spent an afternoon looking through it. I read the messages that were written in the interior cover pages, looked through the team, club, and…
Gareth Heyes, CSS: the bomb inside your inbox: "It's quite common for webmail clients to render untrusted CSS in a trusted UI. They attempt to make this safe using CSS sanitization. In this paper I'm going to show you how to break out of trust boundaries, exfiltrate tokens, compromise 3rd party websites and even steal passwords." Previously: 2001: Why HTML in E-Mail is a Bad Idea 2002: 7 reasons why HTML e-mail is EVIL 2004: HTML email considered harmful | use plain text email 2006: Force Apple…
I have previously discussed several of the anti-drugs and alcohol posters found on the set of the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department. These include the “Mom and Dad, I Use Drugs” poster along with several Reader’s Digest Foundation Drunk Driving posters. There is one additional poster opposite the “Mom and Dad” poster in the hallway just... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – “The Odds Are That Marijuana…” Poster at the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
My favorite battle I've run in the campaign has been the boss encounter at the end of the second arc of my campaign. Arc Two, which had run about fifteen sessions, investigated why sahuagin were attacking coastal villages. They discovered the sahuagin were worshipping a forgotten being from the depths, and had taken on its madness. The players eventually sought out the protector spirit of the ocean - a nature spirit in the shape of a massive whale, who turned out to be the mother of the…
Pega Um! mini music player widget (2026/08/08) As I'm working on the site for the local fanzine project Pega Um!, I want to welcome with music the people who pick up the zine and find it interesting enough to visit the site. The playlist is made up of songs by local artists they won't hear on the radio, and is an homage to old alternative events called Junta Tribo (Tribal Gathering) that would have rock, hip-hop, punk, reggae, metal and ska groups all in the same line-up. Check it out here.
Mercado Little Spain – New York, New York I heard about Mercado Little Spain, a food hall with Spanish Restaurants, and thought it would be a great place for dinner. My wife agreed. When we trekked up the High Line, we planned an early dinner here, located in the basement of the shopping mall at Hudson Yards. They have a few sit-down restaurants and multiple bars and kiosks. As you can see, it’s very festive with ample details. Perfect for some interior photography. I’ve included multiple…
Has anyone else noticed random guys writing “correct” under other people’s web comments? They are responding to something that makes sense to them or that they agree with, but to me it comes off as a combination of arrogance, ignorance, and social ineptitude. Is this usage of “correct” a weird side effect of judgy social media rhetoric? Or do I need to recalibrate what I think I’m hearing? Perhaps it is shorthand for “you speak the truth”? In this age of epistemological uncertainty, such…
A little report on the state of contemporary LLM-based tools. Yesterday, I decided to try to use Claude to automate a workflow I do a ton in my composing: Export the mockup audio from my notation software as a WAV file Import it into an audio editor and bump the gain a bit. Export it as an MP3. Add the relevant ID3 tags. Import it into Apple Music. Fix one thing that the ID3 tag editor I use doesn’t handle: setting the track to use “work name” rather than “title” as the primary field — pretty…
Now that we have installed bun, Anthropic's package manager, and scaffolded a Playwright framework and closely examined the results, we are going to explore with our Bun-Create-Playwright project ways to check if our code is correct. The first method we will be exploring is typechecking. Why Typechecking? As the Playwright.dev / Node.js Introduction mentions:"[...] Playwright does not check the types and will run tests even if there are non-critical TypeScript compilation errors. We recommend…
Between bad apps that try to scam customers, and good apps that are rejected for seemingly wrong reasons, shouldn't Apple deploy more and better reviewers to their App Store to justify their high margins? ~ Links: Browsers have standards, the App Store has judgment, by Terry Godier App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours, by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
As part of my quest to optimise my energy bills, I’ve been looking into power stations and building up my arsenal of energy storage. Whenever I spot a reasonably priced power station (and budget permits), I decide to grab them for my own needs and run them through tests along the way. When it comes to big-brands in the charging world, Anker is definitely well-recognised and their products usually carry a premium price-tag, up with the likes of Bluetti and Ecoflow. But just before the financial…
This is one of the most infamous computer games from Japan ever made. You can mostly blame the 1967 film The Graduate. I’ll explain along the way– From the first issue of Genma Taisen, the original manga. Genma Taisen, the manga, was first serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine starting in 1967, with writing by Kazumasa Hirai and art by Shotaro Ishinomori. By then both men had established careers, with Hirai writing the 8 Man series (1963 – 1966) and Ishinomori launching Cyborg 009 in 1964; both…
Dave and I went for an early Saturday morning walk. Afterward, we went back to the hotel to meet with Dave’s family and then to the konbini (convenience store) for breakfast. Though still early in the day, it was already getting quite hot, so I quite enjoyed the frozen mango slices I picked up there. We squeezed our way onto a bus and headed over to Nijo Castle. A bit of history about this world heritage UNESCO site from Wikipedia: In 1601, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa…
First, there was the issue with Hide My Email exposing your actual email. Now, we discover that Apple's iCloud Private Relay may not be private sometimes. Not a good couple of months if you are relying on Apple to protect your anonymity. ~ Link: Apple's iCloud Private Relay Isn't Really That Private by CybersecKyle.
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies cannot help but recreate their civilian social structures on the battlefield. Last time we looked at the importance of generating cohesion in these armies and the ways cohesion could come either organically from the underlying society or be manufactured as part of…
POSSE, in the IndieWeb world, stands for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. It’s the idea that you post content to your own site first and then post copies or share links on other sites (for example, social media). I like that as a concept, but sometimes I want my site to be the only place for the content, and I don’t necessarily want to share it everywhere. One, I don’t want to feel like I have to broadcast everything I post here. Two, there are lots of times I’m tired of social…
Bit of eye candy for the lovers of low-brow, low shelf kaka from the former colonies of the Far East, and these are out there now, with Peter Evans having provided some, while I found the others locally. We've seen Red Deer before, but these are further branded, or ascribed to an OTL of Leeds . . . and Poland?! Hing Fat Japanese Infantry clones (and that's funny in itself!), in pink, with a
JACQUES MESRINE – The Death Instinct. Originally published in French as L’Instinct de Mort. Filmed as L’instinct de mort (released in English as Mesrine: Killer Instinct) is the first part of a 2008 French biographical crime film about Jacques Mesrine, a notorious real-life French gangster. Directed by Jean-François Richet and starring Vincent Cassel. Autobiography of a French bank robber. Mesrine lives for thrills. His favorite is the double bank robbery. You rob one bank, and when the cops…
Truly has become unbearable. Losing efficiency and my patience with it. Perhaps it’s time to try Codex. _ Reply via email
ECM Autumn Highlights is a sampler curated by Manfred Eicher and released in collaboration with the Italian magazine Musica Jazz. Drawing from ECM’s late-2017 catalogue, it covers a broad expressive range while retaining the sense of a single, carefully plotted journey. The Vijay Iyer Sextet opens with “Poles,” also the first track on Far From Over (ECM 2581). Saxophonist Steve Lehman enters with fierce momentum, pushing against a rhythm section that never settles into mere support. Stephan…
After Rails’ Dear Leader DHH once again espoused far-right views on his blog (which I’m not going to link to here), some of the Ruby community said “enough is enough” and decided to fork Rails into a project called Amiko. I don’t want to mince words here, so I’ll talk straight: I think this is a vain attempt at virtue signalling, and will ultimately end up achieving very little. The Amiko project has started out this fork by renaming all the Rails things into Amiko flavoured things. They have…
The last one was called panic ep 2. Today's didn't involve panic, but it did exhaust me, and it did cause some symptomatic behavior to surface. Today's productivity wasn't an intentional time block like the last two. I meditated, then blogged about it, then got myself motivated. I got new books from the library - I had started another romance-fantasy The Foxglove King. It's far better than a Court of Thorns & Roses (a terrible book), but it's still not my style. So I got new books. I went by…
A couple days ago, I wrote the blog post titled "Five Interesting Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of". I was really happy with it—being able to share the work of others that deserve support and can help foster digital indie communities. But, regrettably, I had to rescind one of my recommendations. Let me explain. As I mentioned in the post itself, BlueDwarf's "rule enforcement is informal, and I admit I've stumbled upon some... peculiar opinions and takes during my time on the…
So the past couple of days have been SO much better, it just blows me away! Yesterday, I was not only well enough to go into the city for the stock up shopping at Costco, but felt well enough to keep on going after everything was put away and we’d had supper. I headed outside … Continue reading Catching up
Recently, I have been thinking about something and I had to decide between two options and this situation reminded me of the concept I read about a few years ago. Things and situations in life come in a package. When you decide to do something, you are basically agreeing to the whole package despite not acknowledging it consciously. Indeed, It is not possible to grasp the complete sense of everything that we do, due to our own weaknesses, yet anything that we do in this life comes as a package.…
I haven't been inspired to post on august morning for quite some time now, even though I have a bit of a backlog of photos I would like to share one day1. Recently, I came across Inventory Full's Blaugust Class of 2025 post again, where my photo blog was mentioned. It reminded me that I do, in fact, miss sharing some of my just day to day photos. Maybe until I'm ready to commit to posting on august morning again, I can share a few photos here occasionally instead. This photo is from a visit to…
My Flow utility class was applying margins around invisible elements like <style> and <script> tags, throwing off the vertical rhythm around them. Here's what I did to fix it, and why I also swapped em for lh while I was in there. This article uses some custom styles that may or may not work in your feed reader, so I recommend checking out the web version instead: https://chrisburnell.com/article/ghost-wrangling/ If you’re not already familiar with the Flow utility class in CSS, I recommend…
Does anyone else want a portion of easygoingness? I mean, it's not like I have a whole lot of it myself right now. But I'm happy to share what little I have. 🤗 Reply by email
