Musical highlight of the week was a recent Tim Reaper NTS show: an hour of drum’n’bass/jungle that was just right for drowning out the music at the gym. And I forgot to mention last week that I especially enjoyed the American Twilight edition of James A. Reeves’ Midnight Radio. Good night-time US road-trip vibes: § It’s been seven weeks since I started taking SSRIs and ten days since they increased to “the most common” dose. It’s impossible to know if it’s down to them or not, but I assume so:…

As a recent subscriber to Shudder, I assumed that everything in their catalog would be appropriate Spooktober viewing. When I got hit by the triple whammy of the title “The Terrornauts,” a fantastic logotype, and an evocative screenshot of a woman on a planet with two obviously-superimposed moons, I was hooked. This was going to be some charmingly old-school sci-fi horror. During the opening credits, I saw that it was from Amicus Productions, which got me even more excited. None of the Amicus…

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Dieby Greer StothersGenres: Fantasy Pages: 383 Rating: Synopsis: In this hilarious, off-the-wall queer fantasy romance, a reclusive sorcerer is forced to protect a cowardly knight after a prophecy ties their fates together. Funny, touching and inventive, this book is perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and Dreadful. All his life, Sir Cameron has tried to stay as far away from danger as possible. But when the Church hands down a prophecy to his fellow knights…

It hovers, it hums – but it is not a hummingbird. Take a look at one of, if not the most amazing, certainly the coolest insects on the planet - The Hummingbird Hawk Moth. The Ark in Space has a great feature on this very unusual species, an example of what is known as convergent evolution. When you see the full screen pictures this little guy will take your breath away. Image Credit Flickr User ComputerHotline

It is common to refer to survival horror games as using theme park-style design, but few games literalize it like Illbleed. The titular theme park, referred to in the opening crawl as “Michael Reynolds’ Virtual Horror Land,” offers its patrons an unparalleled experience in interactive frights that fluidly breaches multiple level of performance: park operators involve themselves personally in the attraction narratives, veering further into true fourth-wall breakage as needed. Attraction topology…

One year since I bought myself an Android tablet: the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Lite. It was definitely worth it. I use it a lot. Mostly watching videos and reading the newspaper (which a little n8n workflow downloads every day from the library), but also the occasional web surfing and research session or writing blog posts. For many of those use cases, a bigger screen (compared to the phone) is simply better and more pleasant. But it’s still handier than a laptop on the sofa, the kitchen table or…

Things that require either a miracle or a time machine.This was written in response to a prompt at IndieWebClub #35. These are things that may not even be humanely possible or me just being delusional. Become a licensed sniper Meet my past self See KK and Michael Jackson perform live Use a 40% keyboard Own a private jet Visit another planet Type 150 WPM Meet Chester Bennington Find the cure for cancer Witness first contact with aliens Get NIFTY to 100,000 (copium) Solve a 3x3 Rubik’s Cube under…

Over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed more and more “mutual aid” posts. These are posts in which someone is asking for money (usually) or some other kind of support, other than on a commercial basis.) Mutual aid posts are nothing new - I certainly remember them from Twitter - but I don’t recall seeing the same volume of them. Just counting those in my feed right now (mostly boosts by people I follow of other people’s posts) there are 16. It could be that I am just seeing more of them. The…

My blog began as a blosxom (Perl) site running on a VPS. In 2011 I moved to the new GitHub Pages, with the site generated statically by Jekyll (Ruby) on a GitHub server. It was a no-brainer: easier, faster, and cheaper, better in every way. After 15 years of Jekyll, this week I replaced it with a new, custom-built static site generator, dubbed ssg, in “C with templates” C++20. The ~8KLoC source closely follows my personal coding style including templated arenas and slices, zero dependencies,…

Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text Read Time: 12 min Topics: AI, total annihilation Tone: Grumpy Pick Your PerditionEveryone's talking about the money. I'm stuck on page 80. The coverage of Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus has been almost entirely about capital. A $42 billion net loss (most of it on paper, an accounting artifact of investor obligations, but still). Nearly a quarter of its revenue coming from just two customers. A valuation pushing $2 trillion. Fine. Big numbers. But the…

I mentioned in my last monthly review that I’m currently switching from Deezer (my streaming alternative after the previous cheap YouTube Premium trick stopped working) to a self hosted music setup. I first tried Nextcloud Music, as I already have Nextcloud, a Storage Share at Hetzner, so I just created a new folder for music, copied my MP3s into it, and installed the Nextcloud Music app. It offers a Subsonic and Ampache API that can be used with various apps. After doing a bit more research, I…

Finsbury Park is a neighbourhood in north London which straddles the boundaries of three London boroughs; Haringey, Hackney and Islington. It is noted for its diverse mix of cultures and has a total population of around 18,000 people. You would imagine that Finsbury Park would be in Finsbury, but the latter actually lies three miles to the south adjacent to Moorgate and Clerkenwell in the City of London, so is a completely separate area. However, the two areas are linked. The expansion of…

First light of day on Paris Las Vegas. The post Morning in “Paris” appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Video Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, 'Pervert Glasses' and Killer AI Clique x John Ternus, New Apple CEO - CANAL+ Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A - Steve Jobs, Tim Cook & Bob Mansfield Vivo X500 Pro Max vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: Camera Shootout Pitstop Bilpleie made my 13-year-old 2013 Tesla Model S look like new! Xiaomi 18 Pro Max vs iPhone 18 Pro Max Camera Shootout! Why Memory Prices Are Crazy High Apple Watch 12 Review: Even More Health Tracking I seriously should NOT be dropping this. iPhone 18 Pro…

The Variax guitars are an "old" series of modelling guitars from Line6. The early models don't even feature any magnetic pickups since all the sound comes from piezo pickups in the bridge. The guitar actually has a piezo pickup for every string which gives it the ability to do good pitch-shifting and modelling. At least a lot better than the modellers I've used. I've known about these guitars since getting my first Line6 guitar effects unit that had a very interesting connection on the back.…

Rebecca Solnit is one of those drop-everything writers for me, and it’s because her pieces have staying power. I find myself coming back to this post from The Guardian she wrote at the beginning of 2026. You see a lot of discussion about how AI replaces people at work, but not as much discussion about how the same thing happens outside the office. Have you noticed it, too? It seems to happen when we feel the pangs of loneliness, confusion, or, especially, insecurity. It's tempting to reach for…

Oh okay, it's those damn pesky feminist sluts who ~politicize everything~ who are behind the global rise of fascism, and not armchair philosophers who throw around words like "degenerate" and clutch their pearls at the idea of a performer with visible skin, won't SOMEONE think of the CHILDREN. No the real authoritarians are those awful American liberals who won't let people enjoy things (except vulgar smut of course, the worst thing you can enjoy) please touch grass.

⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS The poster for Blitz features a woman and a boy surrounded by floating flowers, with a lone child standing below. My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐½ (3.5/5 stars) Final Verdict Not bad, but a heavy watch. After seeing all the kid went through in this movie, you almost wanted to reach out to him through the TV and say, “Let’s get you home.” If this is a true reflection, it does amaze me how much suffering and damage there is while people try to carry on like nothing is really…

⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS The poster for *Blitz* features a woman and a boy surrounded by floating flowers, with a lone child standing below. My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐½ (3.5/5 stars) Final Verdict Not bad, but a heavy watch. After seeing all the kid went through in this movie, you almost wanted to reach out to him through the TV and say, “Let’s get you home.” If this is a true reflection, it does amaze me how much suffering and damage there is while people try to carry on like nothing is really…

I have a bunch of scripts that I have written over the past many years that deal with tabular data. Even though libraries are available to read and write to Excel files, I've always preferred to have my scripts deal with CSV files instead. Yes, there is then an additional step to convert between Excel and CSV formats. But I rather have that one more step (plus whatever nonsense Excel throw on-top of CSV files…), so that my scripts only need to deal with plain text files. Too bad the other…

In late summer 1990, David Lynch was “hotter than Georgia asphalt.” His roadtrip film Wild At Heart was released in theatres in mid-August. ABC Television was rebroadcasting the groundbreaking first season of Twin Peaks. And the show’s second season along with product tie-ins would soon be released in September. The world couldn’t get enough of the Eagle... The post Reviewing Peaks – Kathy Huffhines Profile of David Lynch on August 19, 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Had the great pleasure this weekend of taking in several performances at the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, and the highlight was a late Sunday set, October 4, by Robert Plant and his band, Saving Grace, which includes Suzi Dian on vocals. They did some Led Zeppelin favorites, including a fantastic “Ramble On” early on, all rearranged, stripped down, and made more rhythmic, plus some old folk music from the UK and the US, and a few contemporary songs (including…

Aerial view of the entrance to the yacht harbor at Marina del Rey. A beautiful day for sailing. マリーナ・デル・レイ マリーナ・デル・レイのヨットハーバー入口を上空から見た様子。セーリングには絶好の日和だ。

Today’s game came out of a game jam dedicated to alternative controllers: the original version was played with actual bananas, and you could call a phone number to be a NPC in the game. It must have been a super weird experience, but the game like this is still very fun! You are in charge of a call center for monkey, so you have to solve plenty of monkey related issues, taking the form of Wario Ware-like minigames. The originality is that they are all playable with the numpad, like you used an…

Country names aren’t always unique in the world. Look on a world map and you’ll see 2 Koreas, 2 Congos, and a full 4 Guineas. But there are some examples that are more hidden. Specifically, there are many combinations of countries whose names might look different in English, but ultimately come from the same meaning. Let’s look at some international etymology buddies and see what we can find. Many country names have multiple candidate meanings, so we can’t be certain which meaning is the most…

Work is busy, political work is busy, social life is busy. The machinery of life, thankfully, is interesting. Busy, busy, busy. I spent ~12 hours in the studio working on my next sculpture. I initially thought that this would be my simplest one to date, but it’s not. I still can’t make the hand look right. After 12 hours I’m almost at the same point where I started, if not further behind. This is frustrating. On the bright side, I now have the turntable at home, so I’ll be able to practice…

I’ve just bought a new iPhone. Nope, not the Duo; I got an iPhone 18 Pro. But here’s something: in my last phone upgrade post I said… If I upgraded each year I don’t think I would appreciate the new features quite as much. Even after waiting two years, though, I haven’t noticed as much of a difference as I’d hoped. Well, except for the case, but I’ll get to that later! The biggest difference I’ve felt was the switch from Touch ID to Face ID when I upgraded from iPhone 6 to iPhone XS. Going from…

From Japan, 1941: Countdown to Infamy, by Eri Hotta (Vintage, 2013), pp. 29-30, 35: Tojo, in his selective explanation of the events leading to Pearl Harbor, insisted that the war Japan had just initiated was a “defensive” war. He faithfully echoed Japan’s deep-seated feelings of persecution, wounded national pride, and yearning for greater recognition, which together might be called, for the want of a better phrase, anti-Westernism. It was a sentimental speech, and it was notable for what was…

In these days of super expensive memory chips, maybe we will see a whole bunch of devices that rely on the cloud for most of the storage and processing? Maybe a home camera system that has minimal storage, but requires constant connection to the cloud to save videos? Or maybe a TV box that not only stream television programs, but also stream video games and apps? And, hopefully, device makers will not just add new features (AI!), but also focus on optimizing their operating systems to use less…

This show has managed to transcend its original premise and is growing into something even better. What’s the first season was a series of intellectually stimulating puzzles for our hero(acting as his brother under the guise of trying to find him)This second season develops the character in a realistic way. Acting without the authority of the law, merely being a consultant to it, it is clear that John is now finding the cases that must be puzzled out an annoyance and distraction from what has…