Dark machines print.Fourth thousand trimmed.Script reborn. Autumn window chills.Slime glows on screen. That Time I Took A BreakThat Time I Got Reincarnated as a SlimeOn The BlogLink BloggingPhoto 365Terminal AccessDipping the StacksReadingMusicRemember Kids: That Time I Took A Break Usually, when I take a break from my weeknotes, it’s because I’m on holiday. But this time around, it was just because I needed a break, and felt like I didn’t have all that much to say. I could have course always…

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While American Truck Simulator is certainly not the first video game to try mapping out the entire United States of America in digital form, it's the first where racing isn't the intent behind the game. Games like The Crew and Test Drive Unlimited have tackled the task of making a shockingly huge map of all or part of the United States and letting you race through it at high speeds with performance vehicles. However, ATS is seeking to map out the entire USA (and soon, parts of Canada) from the…

Just when it feels safe to step back into the water, something sparks the gods' anger; they immediately respond by unleashing havoc, delivering yet another unhinged and surreal week.On Monday night, a major thunderstorm brought local flooding and a severe explosion at the electrical substation at Waltloo. Half the city was left without electricity. Over here, the continuing storms and unyielding dark skies rendered the solar backup system more or less obsolete, and we had power for exactly six…

Well, after writing about gratitude every day for a month, and writing over sixteen thousand words on the subject, you'd think I've become a very grateful person as a result. Well... I guess I can say that I'm still working on my narrative. This morning, I was driving to church and playing music on shuffle from my personal collection. The song that came on before I got to my destination was from an album I bought fifteen years ago, from a small local band that only ever produced a single album.…

This has been the most-asked-for feature for NEO, and I’ve been working on it in secret for a while now. It’s rough, and it’s going to be a kinda-hidden feature until it’s been stress-tested, but if you want to write a screenplay in NEO, now you can! To start one, right click the “new document” icon on any shelf and choose “New Script.” Type in your title and hit enter. NEO will give you a scene heading, and it tries to autocomplete entries just like Final Draft and other industry standard…

Note: This review, as with all content I write on this site, is my opinion. It does not reflect the opinion of others, including the American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI), the cutlery trade group that I advise on legal matters.Second Note: Ben Petersen, the designer of the knife and owner of Knafs, is a friend of mine and all around good dude. It doesn’t effect my score, but I want you to know. In the knife world the combination of OD green scales and red liners means something. It is a…

It is time to give my personal AI access to more of my data, so it can start answering questions with context and in a more relevant way. As part of this I wanted to address something I have been thinking about for a long time, funneling most of my data into a searchable PostgreSQL database. Obviously this will not be your typical data warehouse, I do t expect more than a few gigabyte of data to accumulate over a year. The stack will be Python and PostgreSQL. I could certainly make…

Man, I could not be happier for these kids. Baltimore REPRESENT

This wasn’t a fun night. My sleepy brain convinced me that removing it or taking out the batteries would set off the alarm, which was the last thing I wanted at 3 in the morning… So I tried to ignore the beeps until I couldn’t anymore and took the batteries out. Solved. I feel dumb. And tired.

It’s been a quiet weekend here in rural East Vineland. I was in a fine mood all day Friday, buzzing with weekend anticipation. Next Saturday we’re going up to New Brunswick for a quick overnight visit with Aaron. We’re going to dine out at Casa Ragazzi before he heads out for social activities. I’m looking forward to taking some pictures and having a nice dinner with him. It’s a three-day weekend for us next weekend, so that will make Sunday a nice treat, too. We can push off the scaries for a…

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The wonderful Myrna Loy is the October Star of the Month on Turner Classic Movies.A whopping 56 Loy films will be shown every Monday this month, in both the daytime and prime time hours.Loy was previously honored as the Star of the Month at least three times, in May 1995, September 2004, and December 2016.The entire schedule appears below. Please click any hyperlinked title for a complete review.October 5thNOAH'S ARK (1928)THE SQUALL (1929)THE GREAT DIVIDE (1929)SHOW OF SHOWS (1929)THE TRUTH…

This past week I spent a good deal of time experimenting with XMPP, a messaging protocol that works kinda like email when it comes to it's design. In that journey I re-encounterd Joshua Blais in a few channels, as well as his IRC channel #technicalrenaissance. I was curious, as I can't say I've really tested IRC, so I joined. In the conversations I was also reminded of how Joshua uses Emacs, and his numerous YouTube videos on the topic. Again Emacs was something I had seen in passing, mostly…

For those that shy away from YouTube and other Google products, I have now started publishing my videos on PeerTube. From Wikipedia: PeerTube is a free and open-source, decentralized, ActivityPub federated video platform. It can use peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual servers when videos get popular. I’m using fedihost.co as my PeerTube hosting company at the moment. I may have to manage the size and availability of my videos to manage storage space, but so far we are off to a…

From the annals of asking for what you want. Read here.

The second day of the Tyndale Arts Trail, so we decided to visit all the venues and look at the exhibits. First off was Leaf & Ground, which was slightly more convoluted to get to since the main road had been closed unexpectedly. But it was a good start, with some interesting furniture art in among the paintings. We then headed back to Kingshill house which is one of the main two venues. Pretty much all the rooms were full of exhibits so a lot to look at. Most of the artists were also there, so…

A few months ago, around the time Googlebooks were announced, I became really interested in Chromebooks again, partly because I’d completely lost touch and partly because I heard good things about the new ARM chipsets, namely the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra. But Chromebooks are not a common thing in my neck of the woods. And, even then, there aren’t a lot of manufacturers that ship interesting hardware in this field. I’ve been seeing ARM laptops slowly take over the lower tiers of the Windows…

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A weekly recap of the articles and posts I’ve read that I think are worth your time. Mick Jagger Tells the Story Behind ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Merry Clayton’s Haunting Background Vocals | Open Culture — “We randomly phoned up this poor lady in the middle of the night, and she arrived in her curlers and proceeded to do that in one or two takes, which is pretty amazing. She came in and knocked off this rather odd lyric. It’s not the sort of lyric you give anyone–‘Rape, murder/It’s just a shot…

While reading Inside the Box today, I came across the story of Mendelev and how he discovered the periodic table. David talks about how, in a book about sleep, the author mentioned that when he slept, his unconscious mind made sense of all the facts and gave him the solution. Then, David says that's not it. Mendelev had a book contract and he had to write about around 53 elements in a single volume, so he was trying to find a way to group the elements. Of course, this in a book about…

A yellow onion, diced, and laid to rest in a pool of shimmering olive oil in a medium sized cast iron skillet. Low to medium heat, give it a stir, add a few grinds of salt and black pepper. Let caramelize slowly while I cube (or sort of evenly chop a yellow potato). In goes the potato. Season with smoked paprika, cumin, more salt and pepper. My sibling once told me cumin is the magical potato spice, and I wholly believe that. It accentuates the warmth the starch already has within it. At this…

🍿 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) was better than it had any right to be. You can figure out within minutes whether people know, understand and love the IP they are trying to bring to the screen, and boy does it show here. Pitch perfect family fun.

I like Fire Emblem. It’s one of those things where I end up In The Mood for it at some point every year. There’s never any warning…it’s just, at some point, I’ll be back in that Fire Emblem mood. I feel the same way about Pokemon, about deckbuilders, and about platformers. It comes and goes like seasons. And every time I dip back into it, it’s always good. It’s good when compared to other Nintendo series, and also good when compared to other tactics RPGs. I’m glad to see the series is still…

General first week of surgery recovery so not terribly much happening, primarily going through some backlogs like recordings from last year's c3, articles and updates for various pieces of my infra. the one noteworthy thing that doesn't fall into one of the below categories is the successful tinting of my mask (on the second attempt with darker foil) and creation of a new account :3 Reading Nullification Surgery an artist i've been following for a long time recently got bottom surgery and…

The West has developed a self-fueling story about Muslims that is used to wage a non-scrutinized forever war on Islam. Both the story and the war need to stop.

Went back to Gruga with the kids today. We carved two small pumpkins. They won't make it to Halloween, but they are too friendly for that anyway. 👉 View 4 more images

With the exception of books originally written in German or in English, I have to rely on translation in order to access world literature. As someone who grew up with and in one language but who now lives with and in another, I know that translation involves more than merely replacing words. Even languages such as German and English that, in the larger scheme of things, are fairly similar often express ideas very differently. In addition, social contexts and expectations differ significantly.…

October 4, 2026 Sarah Perez, TechCrunch Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed — Apple announced that it’s introducing additional controls around a setting called “Full Disk Access” on macOS. […] AI agents that run on the desktop allow users to provide their respective apps with greater access to the files, messages, and other personal content on their computers by adjusting macOS settings. […] In Muse’s case, the AI…

I have gone to Mass several times with my mother and step-father. But yesterday I attended my first Catholic Mass by myself. Here are my thoughts and observations. I decided to go to the Saturday 5pm Mass. Although I am not Catholic, I have learned enough to know that Saturday evening Mass satisifes the Catholic obligation to attend Mass every Sunday. Sundays are complicated for me right now, as I am still attending Latter-day Saint meetings and the times for my ward overlap with the 10am…