Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind (1956) Vitals Rock Hudson as Mitch Wayne, oil company geologist Texas, Fall 1956 Film: Written on the Wind Release Date: October 5, 1956 Director: Douglas Sirk Costume Designer: Bill Thomas (credited for gowns) WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background German-born director Douglas Sirk’s third in a trio of lushly photographed melodramas starring Rock Hudson, Written on the Wind, premiered in London seventy years ago this week on October 5, 1956.…

One of the reasons I write book notes in my notebook is because of the friction. It forces me to evaluate if the idea I intend to capture is worth the effort it takes to capture it. If it feels like too much work to take the note, then I'm voting that the note isn't as valuable to me as it seems in the moment. Yes it may be more efficient to take notes directly into my Obsidian vault, but I don't do it and have no plans to speed up my notes by changing how I take notes. But even more than that…

Cats are pretty awesome, you guys. The purrs, the head-butts, the constant disapproving stare that makes you question your life choices; they've got it all.Kind of like this cutie-patootie kitty cake! (By Tasteful Cakes in California)Isn't it purr-fect?(I'm getting the puns out of the way early. You're welcome.) Check out this sweet vintage style: [By Moja Slatka Radionica in Serbia]D'awww. The ruffly roses are a sweet touch. John and I have two felines of mass destruction and for some reason…

It says positive things that we are no longer so starved for content that a book with fairly accurately written and realistic descriptions of both a femdom relationship getting off the ground, and the kinky sex itself, could get low marks from me. Ten years ago I would have reacted like my socks were blown off my body. Five years ago I would have conceded we still need to nurture works that take risks, even if they are flawed, and given this one a conditional 4 stars. These days, and nearing…

After I began playing in an improv theatre, I've been observing people more. The more I observe, the fewer people I see who are willing to move out of their comfort zone. Even when they have the energy and really want to do something, like sign up for a hobby class or host a dinner with friends. When I ask why they aren't doing the things they would love to do, I hear the same answer from everyone, like they are in a choir. They are busy. Everyone is busy. People want to do a million things and…

§ Hi. I’m having a hard time believing it is already October. § Early on in the week Caroline and I borrowed my mom’s old pressure cooker. We’ve never been particularly interested in cooking gadgets—air fryers, sous vide, etc.—but thought we may as well give it a try. Over the course of the week we made a pot roast, carnitas, and a particularly good vegetable and red curry paste soup along with some less successful experiments including rice (which was fine but not worth the trouble) and…

On 4 October 1911, Earls Court opened to the public the first underground escalator. To reassure passengers ‘Bumper’ Harris, a clerk of works, was assigned to assuage passenger’s anxiety by demonstrating the escalator’s convenience and its safety. He had, unfortunately, a wooden leg leading to the speculation of having lost it in a previous escalator journey, the leg had been crushed between two carriages carrying rubble. On 4 October 1936 The Battle of Cable Street took place as Eastenders…

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THE TAGS MAKE SENSE NOW. Here's what I did: Export the whole blog as .csv so I could have all post titles (I remember what I wrote about, duh) and tags on two columns; Read all tags and take notes which ones are duplicated (e.g. "videogames", "videogame" and "games") and which are used in only one post; Read all titles and find a short amount of tags that could fit each, noting down each new tag as it appears. Consider merging different tags if they're rarely used and can be replaced by a more…

How do I describe this week? Well, I have been feeling a bit burned out from studying and fitness, as well as reckoning with other some small things over the week. So in an act of kindness to myself I decided to slow down on a few fronts for the week. Opened the week with the annual health-check, and I am pleased to report that I beat my score from last year (not deliberately). This was also a much more pleasant experience than last year: I guess afternoons are less popular? I then proceeded to…

This week was super fun as I got the chance to meet my colleagues for the first time in weeks, played a ton more of CONTROL: Resonant, and watched two movies! Social Fenil pitched Yash and me on a breakfast place nearby, except we chose to go there on Tuesday. Guess the one day in the week they are closed :) To celebrate Cloudflare’s 16th birthday, we had a team dinner at the Hilton hotel in Embassy GolfLinks. It was nice to chat with everyone again after nearly a month of not having an office.…

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Ahmad Zahir, the Afghan johnny Haliday(?),was rocking it, Afghan style, from early in the 70's and probably continued around hipsville Kabul well after the Soviet Invasion of 1980. Rumor has it that Osama Bin Liner was a big fan. Doubtless a big hit at those wild Mujaheddin parties in the Bora Bora caves using that Hi-Fi as donated by the CIA, along with all that American ordinance that defeated The Soviets (y'know Jeans and Beatles records), and financed Al Qaeda at the same time. Including, I…

Days blurred so much that I completely forgot it was October. I don't care about the Inktober brand other than it being a nice shorthand for "the month where we make things and share with friends", so it suits me just fine if folks want to use any other name. We can always make things all year long anyway, a designated time just makes it easy for people who want to feel a bit of festival cheer. Anyway. I forgot it was October already, but I more-or-less kept up with painting something every…

An earlier post presented an elegant plane geometry theorem discovered by the 19th century school teacher Auguste Miquel. This post presents his pentagon theorem. Start with a pentagon. It may be irregular, but it needs to be convex. Extend each of the sides of the pentagon to form a star, then draw give circles, one through each of the triangles formed by a side of the pentagon and a vertex of the star. The five circles intersect in pairs at ten points: the five verices of the pentagon and…

I was on my Mac this morning, just minding my own business, when suddenly I found myself using the Linux laptop, and I liked it. On Sunday mornings, I do system maintenance. This means running updates on all my computers. Right now, that's five machines: one Linux desktop, two Linux laptops, one Mac desktop, and one Mac laptop. Yes, that's too many, but it is what it is. Both Linux laptops run CachyOS, which is Arch-based, so there are always updates. I started with the Framework. Once it was…

St. Francis Day falls on the 4th of October so I thought I would repost this sonnet which reflects the way Francis responded to Christ’s call by casting away the rich trappings he had inherited and embracing holy poverty. As always you can hear the sonnet by clicking on the ‘play’ button or the title My sonnets for the Christian Year are available from Canterbury Press Here and on Kindle here This sonnet for Francis is taken from my book The Singing Bowl, published by Canterbury Press. It is…

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The previous post discussed a superficial connection between modal logic and topology, that both give use the terms regular and normal to indicate added sets of axioms. McKinsey and Tarski developed a deeper connection between modal logic and topology that we’ll discuss here. Starting with a topological space X and a proposition p, define [[p]] as the set of points in X at which p is true. Define □p to be true at points in the interior of [[p]] and define ◇p to be true on the closure of [[p]].…

You can’t say much about modal logic in general. You have to be more specific to get anywhere. You have to choose some axioms. Ideally the axioms you need for your application correspond to a named set of axioms that has been studied before. The situation is similar in point-set topology. You can’t say very much about a general topological space. You have to specify some separation axioms to get going. Bare bones Modal logic A modal logic is any set of formulas in the modal language that:…

Here is a copy of an activity from a 1919 issue of the Danish magazine Familie Journal.Click to download the full-sized imageChildren were invited to cut out these blocks and rearrange them to make a paper castle. They held a contest, asking children to submit their designs: whoever made the best castle would earn five crowns. Because each block was numbered, they could send drawings of their number arrangement instead of disassembling their papercrafts to enter the contest. Old-school…

Comics Detective Comics No. 428Cover Date: October 1972Release Date: August 31, 1972Script: E. Nelson BridwellPencils: Dick DillinInks: Joe Giella Colors: ?Letters: Ben Oda Bird’s Eye View Note: This is a Hawkman review, so the main Batman story is not covered here. I'm sure you can easily find three dozen sites that review his story.Hawkman is asked by Midway Police Commissioner George Emmett to find out who is stealing artifacts from the Bleakhill Manor museum. Only the fake duplicates of…

Just read this from baty.net All this to say that the conflict between running macOS, Linux, or both is still a thing. As troublesome and complex as it can be, I think the answer will always be “both”. Surely I can manage it, right? Maybe if I only use the laptops for simple things like blogging, browsing, or journaling, things will be easy enough. I’ll never be able to settle on one or the other. Just admit it. I’m on the couch typing this in Emacs using the Framework, both things I told…

A local Qwen3 study repeated every model outcome and validated every citation. All 18 runs still failed admission. A frozen claim-skeleton compiler narrowed the model's job, yet 12 of 18 new runs remained refused.

During the reign of the Sassanian dynasty's Emperor Kavad I (r. 488–531), Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion. An Iranian priest named Mazdak started preaching a different version that came to be called Mazdakism.The Zoroastrian clergy were very powerful, wealthy through donations at a time when the empire was having economic problems due to the need to provide tributes to some of their neighbors who had defeated them in some military struggles. The control of the Zoroastrian clergy meant…

★★★★: An impressive, overwhelming experience. The world is huge and absolutely stuffed with quests, characters, battles, and secrets. Its open-endedness is pretty staggering- there's a bunch of ways to do every quest and you can kill every single NPC, so the quests available to your party depend on how murderous you all are. The quests were wonderfully written, with lots of twists and details that really gave you space to build your story how you see fit. There were a _ton_ of systems, many of…

★★★★: A delightful continuation of a series that's quickly become a favorite. I appreciate his commitment to fair-play mysteries even if I basically never solve much myself. The clues are there if you're paying attention though! The heist setting was great and there were a lot of layers, per usual. The whole thing is wrapped in a great frame story, too This is maybe my favorite Ernest novel yet! FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the…

AI;DR – The first part of this blog post was written by me, implementing the new feature and writing the rest of the post were done mostly by Claude Code. If you don’t want to read “AI slop”, stop reading after the list. Prompted by feature request #95 from 2019: “Have Installer detect keyboard conflicts and allow re-mapping” which linked to a now defunct site TPersistent.com (Archive link) I would like to point out several GExperts features that might help finding such conflicts: The Keyboard…

Working with Otto this morning to create a new version of my mb utility that will extend features and provide an MCP interface for agents to interact with micro.blog.

September 29, 2026It finally happened - the colder winds made it through the heat dome. It feels AMAZING, even though I had to put on an extra layer. All too soon I’ll be pulling out mittens - and loving every minute of it.An egret finally came closer!It’s funny, when I was younger, I lived for summer. In my twenties and thirties, I was a golfer and couldn’t wait for the weather to warm up. But now, I look forward to all the season changes. I have loved the hummingbirds and butterflies AND I am…