Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]

The Book of Wizard Craft by Janice Eaton Kilby, Deborah Morgenthal, and Terry Taylor, 2001. One of the things I thought was interesting about this book was that it was published at the height of the popularity of Harry Potter, and many of the things in this book are clearly meant to appeal to Harry Potter fans, referencing activities and pieces of folklore included in the Harry Potter books. My mother gave this to me when it was new because I liked the Harry Potter books, and because my…

Now in ferry bar drinking beer. Fingers feel caloused. Listening to Megadeth to drown out the noise of the other people in the bar. It’s been a characteristically bumpy first day. I wasn’t thinking about cycling to Mannheim until 4 days ago. It had crossed my mind. I cycled last year - to the small un-conference. Why not do it again? There’s something appealing in it. The tickets were sold out. I begged the organiser. I’m on the list. I’ve booked my hotel. I have 6 days to cycle around 900km to…

she’s been hanging out while I read after lunch — potentially because that’s where the sunshine is lol Win of the week: went to Front End Study Hall and got help figuring out why my site wasn’t displaying correctly on mobile — plus learned about text-wrap: balance (and more) Looking forward to: researched options for a quick San Francisco trip this fall — want to see my sister’s new house! Stuff I did: 6.25 hours book outline thought through how I’d approach using scripting to update my “words…

Good: the HackerGadgets 21700 battery board for uConsole seems to be very nice. Bad: Triple-check the 21700 cells you order. Most Nitecore batteries with the protection board, such as the NL2155HP, are 75.3 mm, 1.9 mm longer to fit in the holder. They mean it. Pay attention. Don’t be me.

I'm really excited to show off today's installment of Trick or Treat Through 31 Days of Toy Terror: The Hooded Vampire/ Dracula from the vintage Flexy Halloween Creeps toys. Have you ever seen or heard of this guy before? I've had this vampire for as long as I can remember, and I think I have a few more of these floating around somewhere in my haunted house. What's the deal here? Well, the "Flexy Halloween Creeps" were sold out of big cardboard box that was set right on the shelf of a drugstore…

This week’s Disquiet Junto project explores reverb. It is not a coincidence that the project started the day after I toured the massive space that is San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral.

Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot The post Saturday picdump for Saturday, October 3 appeared first on Global Nerdy.

Just watched an absolute banger of a playoff game between the Dallas Wings and the Golden State Valkyries after doing a somewhat funny thing to make fun of someone who deserves it. Somewhere in the middle, my partner brought me socks because she said my feet were cold, which is one of those really romantic things that you don't often see depicted in film or television. There was a pizza, there were some cookies, there was a tremendous episode of Adults, and then, right at the end, a Cynthia…

Lately, I’ve been thinking about a warning I read over a decade ago. It was in the course registration system at Carnegie Mellon University, and it said this:Warning: No Automated RequestsPlease be responsible when accessing the registration system. Attempts to inundate the system with automated requests to register for a course will be logged and result in your being denied access until AFTER the entire registration period. CMU is a place where most students learn to code. But registering for…

Apple: We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to function properly on the Mac. Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their systems—including files, mail, messages, and even browsing history—without users’ full knowledge…

As you may already be aware, there's an adjunct to the PNAERC list that I've been maintaining for a few years, the "not-quite-preserved" list. If you view this blog on desktop, the link is at the bottom of the right column; if you're viewing the mobile version, there's a link at the bottom to view the desktop version. Anyway, this "non-preserved" list includes cars that don't qualify as "preserved" by PNAERC standards: they're electric cars that are currently in use as houses, sheds, buildings,…

Here are some things I did between 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27 and some words about them. This week's theme was testing if I can do something every single day of the week and will the escapism, movement, connection, and catharsis help feel less empty? table of contents goal achieved and solo dumplings septum piercing river ghost (play) seeing Tony again with my brother dinner with a friend and a gig coffee, parents, gig x 2 zine, dosa, film goal achieved and solo dumplingsmonday I had been working…

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, October 5 through Sunday, October 11! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes: When the event will take place What the event is Where the event will take place Who is holding the event This week’s events Monday, October 5 Tuesday, October 6 Wednesday, October 7 Thursday, October 8 Friday, October 9 Saturday, October 10 Sunday,…

I first saw UNMASKED (1950), a 60-minute Republic Pictures "B" film, at the 2025 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival.I loved it and said it was probably my "favorite" new-to-me film of the festival.Now, to my delight, UNMASKED is available on Blu-ray in a beautiful print as part of the Dark Side of Cinema XXVII Collection from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.Even better? It has a commentary track by Alan K. Rode, who programmed the movie as producer and host of the Arthur Lyons Festival.I never would…

This week involved 6 cups of blueberries, 60 bulbs, 100 plants, 114 pounds of tomatoes and one *poof!*. Here's how this past week went. The Healthy Salad Loophole I've switched from my regular kale salad to a more demanding kale salad. It's also more a more delicious salad. It has roasted squash, pomegranate seeds and...Read More

Its time to migrate to a new pocket journal again! I‘ve been using the one on the left since August 11. I love the process of looking through my old journal, reminiscing, and then manually transferring things over to the new journal.

Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Dec. 1937, pochoir on collotype with stamp, 13 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. including the signed stamp, which is absolutely part of the work, not a margin, via Christie’s Warhol bought this 1937 print edition of Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 from Duchamp’s estate, and in 2000, someone bought it from Warhol’s foundation. Now they’re selling it. Duchamp began with Nude Descending a Staircase to make hand-colored prints of his earlier paintings for inclusion in…

Started reading: Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson by Mitch Albom 📚 I don’t know if it’s the changing of the leaves, but I’m craving a story that is wholesome and stirring. This is another book from my Goodreads shelf that I can’t remember when or why I added it, but the description sounded like just what I’m looking for.

The Crowd at the Brooklyn Bridge – New York, New York As I teased a couple of days ago, my wife and I made it to the Brooklyn Bridge. It was certainly her first visit to the iconic bridge, and believe it or not, despite being a New Yorker and living there for 18 years, I had never been there either. When I grew up in New York, I didn’t do many touristy activities. Part of the reason was that I lived there, and you often don’t do touristy things in your home city. Plus, as I’ve mentioned several…

Well, we most definitely dropped to freezing last night, so I was expecting to see much of the garden finally killed off for the season. I didn’t make it outside for quite some time, though. I was doing great in the wee hours when my alarm went off – so much so, I skipped the … Continue reading Frost damage, garden and transplanting progress

Finished reading: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli 📚 I should not have read this as an audiobook! It was beautifully written and I was excited to listen each time, but the material was too dense to fully absorb audibly. I’m planning to write up a “book review” on this soon, as inspired by: my college pastor Eric Asp (who recently read and wrote about Don Quixote) this article that I happened to come across today: Why I started writing about every book I read This quote from the article…

Still rips.

A shot . . . of EspressoLuca Turin once bluntly said, "Coffee fragrances don't work." This was after a year or two of waxing poetic about several fairly expensive coffee fragrances. It left me wondering if he'd been overly enthusiastic about the advent of coffee perfumes, only to realize with some chagrin that most of them smelled outré, chemical, unwearable. Thierry Mugler's A*Men was the

Step one of my latest mini project was acquiring my word list from my Weeknotes posts over the past few years. Spoilers: I was able to do it all in Notepad++ and Excel. Although this wasn’t what I expected, I learned new ways to use tools that I already have, and I feel slightly less intimidated by my database — I even learned how to write a (very simple) query! I thought this was going to take potentially weeks to learn everything I’d need to, but instead it took a couple hours (including some…

Maybe it's the back-to-school illness or maybe it's the change in seasons bringing on a slight case of seasonal affective disorder. It could be the unsettled nature of my employment situation or could be the challenges some of my family and friends are facing. Possibly the strain of geo-political tensions, the slowly shrinking savings account, or the realization that my circle of friends is more line than circle.Perhaps it's just a math equation that includes all of the variables to a different…

Yes, they will spin and spin, but, in general, Apple doesn't outright lie. For example, remember when Apple was asked why apps on iOS couldn't have the similar relaxed restrictions like apps on macOS? Craig Federighi, back in 2021, said: Today, we have a level of malware on the Mac that we don't find acceptable. If you took Mac security techniques and applied them to the iOS ecosystem, with all those devices, all that value, it would get run over to a degree dramatically worse than is already…

Yolgurgis of Vhesh - Vile Eater of Stars. Graphite and oil pastel on Canson paper. Not sure how happy I am with this. It seems to harmonise better in person. I just free-wheeled this one and it turned into something - an abstraction of a dark God. RSS feed. /

Naval Ravikant says that a major source of depression is inward-looking behaviour and I cannot agree more. The more we look inwards and attach every happening with something being wrong with ourself, the more depressed we get. We are constantly in debate with ourselves about ourselves and thus judging, passing comments and comparing ourselves to others. We are constantly finding flaws in ourselves and are always in the unending ruthless process of "Self-improvement." This creates one of the…