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…

by Gideon Marcus New kid on the block A couple of years ago, Jim Dunnigan took over the wargame 'zine "Strategic Publications Incorporated". As of 1971, he's turned a strictly amateur organization into a professional behemoth, releasing a score of wargames every year—and finding time to freelance for SPI's main competitor, Avalon Hill, to boot! … Continue reading [October 4, 1971] I shall return! (The SPI wargame Korea) → The post [October 4, 1971] I shall return! (The SPI wargame <i>Korea</i>)…

I am stunned to discover that it was a decade ago that I last wrote about the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival. How much has changed since then. Anyways recently (as I’m writing this blog post now posted months into the future) I went to two different Celtic festival-type things, the the aforementioned CSSM and the Fair Hill Scottish Games! The first of these, the actual Celtic Festival, I wound up going all by my lonesome. My super amazing wife had baby shower that weekend (for someone else’s…

For as long as i can remember, i’ve always wanted to be a writer. I became a journalist instead — it wasn’t that much less glamorous, the pay was decent, and i still managed to write a few dozen books on the side. Trouble is, tying your whole identity to your job is a fantastically bad idea. I ended up despising the job, and worse, writing itself. Since quitting last year, i’ve become a product design manager at a training firm, a position that’s stimulating enough, but definitely isn’t my only…

The heart of a dead star? Your mom? Pizza? [Chet here. Sorry that I delayed the rest of Quirkz's entries. There are probably two more after this one, which will carry us through most of the coming week, when I will be traveling. I should be back to my own schedule by next weekend (10-11 October). Quirkz has been shy about linking to his non-CRPG Addict material, but given the favor he's doing for us, a little promotion is in order. See Quirkz's web site here, where you can learn about his…

tl;dr: NetRoll is a public, searchable directory of amateur radio nets, plus a browser-based net logger. List your net even if you never touch the logger. If you’ve been around amateur radio for more than about five minutes, someone has probably told you to “go check into a net.” Great advice! Which net? When? Where? Unless you already know the answer, that’s surprisingly hard to figure out. Net schedules live on club websites that haven’t been touched since 2019, a pinned post in a Facebook…

I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill three. I had some peppermint castile soap for the job, but I wanted to dilute it. In order to know how much water to add, I needed to know the volume of the soap dispenser. Fortunately, I had a good source: Me. While I did not specifically note the volume in either of my two NLJ articles, I included…

After setting up my first home server using an old gaming PC earlier this year, I eventually realized that this machine wasn’t ideal for my needs. Its mid-tower case occupied too much space and only had room for two 3.5-inch hard drives. I wanted a more compact setup that would allow me to add more storage in the future. In my last post, I identified the case I chose for my new NAS build. In this post, I’ll go over the other components I chose for it and the challenges I encountered while…

Sometimes i judge people for backing out of huge life decisions they made. Like rejecting a perfect job offer or school acceptance just because of a gut feeling. Or because of anxiety. Now i'm the one being judged. by myself. I've had so many instances of "what if i just go home now?" I mean, I'd save money, get a better job, be in a familiar environment, speak my own language. So many pros. Most importantly, the underlying anxiety that builds up every passing day would be gone. After school i…

I’ve recently started a concerted effort to study philosophy. I want to ask good questions. Questions that grant me a long life, rather than a short, wasted one. ““It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint…

I plowed through Season 1 of Alias in record time, aided by a European trip involving 20+ hours in planes.Some notes:I thought the Rambaldi plotline came later, but it’s central to the first season. It takes on kind of a mythological quality — like James Bond meets Indiana Jones type thing. Lots of talk about “artifacts” and “prophecy.”I love the Bradley Cooper plotline. He’s a journalist trying to uncover the truth, while being Sydney’s friend and not knowing

📷 250/365 - Another game.

Heya! It's been a while! Mostly just because I've been really busy with life. Oh well, today I wanna talk about my favorite software licenses very briefly. Now, I'm not a lawyer, I don't know much about the legal aspects of software. But i do find software licensing kind of fascinating. Specifically, the idea of forcing people to do very silly things if they want to use your software legally. Yep, we're gonna talk about my favorite joke licenses. JSON License This license states that the…

New Patreon Supporters Thanks to new Knife Steel Nerds Patreon supporters David, A.P. McC., Brunhard, Sal Glesser, Richard Airey, Dan Cifer, Matt Cheresh, and Mark Decherd. Your contributions mean more experiments on knife steel! Video There is a video version of the following information as well: Properties When it comes to knife steels there is a whole range of properties that we might want to achieve, such as: Hardness Toughness Wear Resistance Corrosion Resistance Cost Forgeability…

Oh my, the Secrets Project is really fun and addictive!

Enforcing artificial scarcity when we finally have the technology to move towards a post-scarcity world is what’s driving us towards real scarcity. And if you think artificial scarcity is bad, wait until you experience the real thing. Much of this mess is avoidable, but we keep prioritizing #nastyfew wealth and profit over building a sustainable future. We have the technological potential to do better, but we’re choosing to keep worshipping a #deathcult that protects scarcity for the few at the…

[This is a guest post by Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Euler formulated the equations for an inviscid incompressible fluid more than 250 years ago. Published in his 1757 memoir, they belong to the earliest systems of partial differential equations in mathematical physics, following d’Alembert’s work on the wave equation. Understanding the evolution they describe has required the work of many…

Yesterday Saturday Mash-up (on CBBC) had Mr Blobby on because it was 30 years of live kids TV on Saturday mornings and some of are still going while a few have got cancelled Source

Had a great time cheering on the Twin Cities Marathon runners this morning!

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I really enjoy writing. Not typing - writing. With a fountain pen on good quality paper. I find the whole process cathartic; putting pen to paper demands far more use of my grey matter than hammering away at a keyboard. I mentioned in a recent post that when I finished an English course many years ago, I was hunting for creative reasons to type. Similarly, over the last 6 months or so I've gotten into fountain pens, and now I'm looking for ways to write creatively. I thought about handwriting…