We released Matilda today after almost 3 weeks in our spare bedroom. She has only one foot now but she’s managing well. The antibiotics have cleared any signs of infection and her remaining foot which was also swollen from the previous entanglement looks much better too. It will be tough for her with just one foot but probably no harder than life had already become with the entanglement she’d been living with. It must have been very painful for some time. At least that source of pain is gone…

Detail of a tree at McKinney, Texas’ Pecan Grove Cemetery. The post Strong Arms appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

• 4-star trail • 5 miles each way • Moderate | Low Gradient • New Boston, NH | Merrimack Region . Refurbished Lang Station Passenger Shelter. With an October 2021 grand opening, the extended New Boston rail trail celebrated a new lease of life for the former railroad route, offering 3.9 miles of compacted gravel trail suitable for two legs, two wheels, or even four hooves. Beyond the official route, we also mapped the old railroad alignment to its historical terminus at the old passenger depot.…

Quavo's new solo album, QRÖMELIFE, is out today, and the tracklist he posted a week ago set off one of the warmer reactions the internet has managed lately. Fourteen songs. Nine featured artists. Pharrell Williams produced every track and executive produced the whole record. Offset, Future, Lil Baby, Justin Timberlake, T.I., Yung Miami, Tyler, the Creator, and A$AP Rocky all appear, with Pharrell also on the mic for "Baby Breath." Quality Control and Motown released it this morning.What the…

Ain’t livestreaming grand? We had a few rough-around-the-edges moments in today’s episode of Ziti TV (I worked on the demo a *little* too late last night), but the important thing is: THE DEMO WORKED. The demo built on the previous episode’s work where we took the OpenZiti Appetizer (a service that displayed whatever text you feed it on a public web page via a secure zero-trust OpenZiti overlay) and added a RoBERTa classifier to it to prevent users from entering offensive messages for the…

Four months in and things are starting to really progress! We hit the four-month milestone, and we are starting to see some of the developmental expectations at this time. Specifically, a change in sleep patterns. This started probably two weeks ago, so I'm a little worried where it will go from here. Our little one is a little harder to put to sleep, and when she wakes up in the middle of the night for a feed (we still aren't getting a full night's rest), she is a lot more vocal and aware. But…

Just over six years ago, I installed a shiny Fanvil i10 SIP doorbell. It was little more than a SIP phone in a doorbell box (as the configuration options made clear), but I wanted something which would ring my phone and Sandra’s phone when someone rang it, wherever we were, and I wanted it to go as SIP/RTP, rather than using a proprietary app. So I installed it, popped it on its own VLAN (because I had to run an ethernet cable to the outside of the front door), configured it to talk to our PBX,…

One of my pet peeves of living in America was how fresh herbs were treated like gold. You'd get less than an ounce of the stuff squished into a palm-sized plastic container for 2 bucks or more. Egypt has the opposite problem. Fresh herbs are in great abundance, and they're always sold in big bunches that go bad faster than you can put to use. So today, we are oven-drying a bunch of rosemary for the first time before it goes bad. 4-6 hours apparently on the lowest setting for best results.…

After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten worse. I’ve already ranted about the Liquid Glass material in general, but these two design changes in particular have really been grinding my gears. I’ll reiterate that Apple’s latest OSs look substantially nicer to me than the previous set… but that only makes these setbacks more glaring. Also, many of these issues aren’t nearly as bad in…

Firefox 157 has a slick new interface. And the internet is losing its shit. The updated interface has been dismissed as “round” and already you can find instructions on how to roll back to the old look. And that’s a mild insult compared with “needless and ugly.” Such drama! At first the only difference I noticed was the tabs. They are more of a pill shape now and have an outline around them. The background has a subtle gradient that you can customize. After clicking around a bit, I discovered…

Biological naturalism about consciousness will, I predict, soon be hot. As AI systems start to look more and more like conscious or sentient entities, at least superficially, doubters will be increasingly drawn to arguments against their consciousness. Especially appealing will be arguments that characterize consciousness specifically as a biological phenomenon, one that can't occur in ordinary, non-biological computer systems. Accept biological naturalism, and it looks like you're safe from…

A lot of bands I cover here fit very well into genre pigeonholes, and a lot of those like being in those pigeonholes and a lot of their fans like them in those pigeonholes, and that’s all fine. But sometimes there’s bands who don’t really fit into any kind of strict category, and because one […] The post Dabda – “Choo-Choo” appeared first on Space Echo.

This must have been one of the first things I watched on Netflix, as I can remember quite a lot of it, but it was several years ago and I think that I must’ve watched it on an iPad, as the big wall TV in the den is fairly recent. I’m not sure that I made it to the end originally, and certainly the smaller screen took away much of the impact and my understanding, because it is only on this rewatch that I have appreciated just how good it is! Also read the book, but that was even longer ago, and…

KIND is a food company that produces sweet and savory bars with whole nuts, spices, and fruit, among other products. KIND is sold in a diverse array of locations including Whole Foods, Walmart, convenience stores and newspaper stands. Daniel launched KIND in 2003. Daniel is also the founder of PeaceWorks, which sells Mediterranean spreads. PeaceWorks aims to foster peaceful relationships among neighbors in the Middle East and other groups in conflict through joint business ventures. Daniel…

In early March 2020 I went to Oban on the west coast of Scotland to talk to the local beekeeping association about Varroa management.At the pre-talk meal {{1}} I said it was probably my last in-person talk as a 'lockdown' would inevitably soon be imposed.I was wrong, but only by three weeks {{2}}.The 'stay-at-home' order, to reduce COVID-19 transmission, was introduced on the 23rd of the month.I was also wrong because during the intervening period I talked (on queen mating and polyandry if I…

TOMAR RE GREEN LANTERN (MATTEL) Hello and welcome to Friday! It’s a great day for a Friday. Or, at least, it’s Friday, which is, let’s face it, the day for Friday. It’s also the Friday before the finale of Lanterns, and I marked the Friday before the premier with a throwback to a movie GL review, so I’m gonna mark the finale with another one of those. So, let’s return back to one of my very favorite Green Lanterns, Tomar Re! The 2011 Green Lantern was certainly not the greatest thing to be…

by David Levinson New places on the map In the 18th and 19th centuries, the south-western Persian Gulf was known for two thing: pearls and piracy. The East India Company was interested in the former and so wanted to put an end to the latter. The Company and the Royal Navy moved into the area … Continue reading [October 2, 1971] Hot Spots (November-December 1971 IF) → The post [October 2, 1971] Hot Spots (November-December 1971 <i>IF</i>) appeared first on Galactic Journey.

I’ve met people who think they’re uncomfortable with evolution, but when you actually talk to them, they’re worried about something very different. They ask, “How could something come from nothing? How could life come from non-life?” Biologists aren’t sure of the origin of life. They’re working on it, there’s a whole research field on what the experts call abiogenesis. But it’s hard going, because there’s so little direct evidence. There is a lot more evidence for evolution. Evolution isn’t a…

Happy New Year! I wish you all a joyous, fulfilling, and constitutionally compliant new federal fiscal year. Hey, a guy can hope, right? The dawn of a new federal fiscal year seems a good time to survey the Trump Administration’s latest maneuvering to wrestle the power of the purse out of the hands of a rather snoozy Congress. And the news is not good. On the last Friday of fiscal year 2026, the Administration announced the “pocket rescission” of $810 million of appropriated funds for a variety…

One of the things we're working on at Prime Radiant is a new "agentic" colleague platform called Sen. I put agentic in quotes, because Sens aren't acting as an agent on behalf of an individual human. They're something a little different. There are as many definitions of "agent" as there are agents. And there sure are a lot of 'em. If you limit it to publicly shipped coding agents, we've found about 550. (If your favorite is missing, please submit it at alltheagents.org.) A few of my favorite…

tag(s): #overblown-minor-annoyances #emacs Emacs 31 includes a bunch of new window management commands. A few days ago I transposed two windows, and randomly remembered this, so I opened the NEWS[1] file and searched for "transpose". *** New commands to modify window layouts of frames. 'window-layout-rotate-clockwise' ('C-x w r <RIGHT>') and its counterpart 'window-layout-rotate-anticlockwise' ('C-x w r <LEFT>') rotate an entire window layout. 'window-layout-flip-topdown' ('C-x w f <DOWN>',…

It has been a busy summer over at Inanimate. Yes that is still a holding page. Bringing up a new consumer electronics company is, uh, kinda intense. So where we’re starting with the whole room computer, ambient intelligence thing is WORKS: five limited-edition devices for your AI agent and you. Firstly: five?? Yeah haha it’s wild. It’s one platform, many instances. But also: what are they? At this point I would recommend you go watch our latest vid from this week… Watch: WORKS in Progress:…

Smells like pizza. On plane to Ottawa to a friends wedding. [redacted, for now] I keep saying I’ve never been poorer but yeah… a new low. It kind of sucks. It’s humiliating. There is no dignity in poverty. I see where the saying comes from. I keep saying this is a lesson i’m learing. But man… do I want this lesson to be over. A steady income. A steady place to stay. A steady… sense of self. I see why people cross oceans for the hope of accessing it. Steadiness. It truly is a luxury. // A lot of…

Accidentally, I only bought German releases today. The full discography of Aphroe is off 50%—that’s seven releases for less than 15 €! He is one of the best hip hop lyricists in Germany and I highly recommend that purchase. I’ve owned almost all releases already, but it is nice to have the full catalog on Bandcamp and, of course, to support him a little. I finally bought Klirre’s debut album Eat Your Bricks. You can ctrl + f for him on this page, he’s come up; it’s only a matter of time once I…

I came across this post from Ben G and thought I'd try to do something similar.If I've done things right then there will be something at the bottom of this post inviting you to like or comment on bluesky and mastodon.If you could like or comment on Bluesky or Mastodon I'd appreciate that. Just to see if it's working. You don't really have to like it. Just 'like' it.I'd also like to try and get blog mentions happening too but that seems a bit more squirrely via Ghost so it might have to wait.

Happy birthday to me and a surprising number of folks in my extended family! What'd you get me, studios? Mainly, Digger, the new Alejandro G. Iñárritu film starring Tom Cruise as an oil billionaire whose operations have apparently caused and environmental disaster and brought the world to the brink of World War III. It kind of looks like a cautionary tale about trying to make Doctor

Recently the New York Times asked actors, show runners, insiders, and other TV enthusiasts to rank the best tv shows of the 21st century. They then came back and asked readers the same poll and noted the differences. Here are The top TV shows according to 100,000 New York Times Readers. I agreed with a lot of the choices (or they were shows I hadn’t watched) until about the mid 60s and then it started to fall of the rails. Rick & Morty coming in at 101 (on the runners up list) is a travesty.…

This summer I did the adult summer reading program at Melrose Public Library: Under one reasonable definition of "summer," here are the books I read this summer, in chronological order: Sartor Resartus Everything We Do is Music Notes from a Small Island Make Believe Prisoner of Trebekistan The Song of the Lark A Month in the Country Banal Nightmare Gullah Geechee Home Cooking Norwegian Wood The Hound of the Baskervilles Music: A Subversive History Persepolis Romola All the Beauty in the World…

Mix by DJ STUXNET Intertext · Digital Listen & Download Tracklist REMEMBRANCER 1: "AMOR FATI" (58:56) Notes None. Credits STUXNET is Tyler Etters.

All economies are cyclical. But in recent years the UK economy has been like a baroque town clock – one where a cuckoo pops out every 60 minutes, a peasant girl emerges every four hours to chase the geese, and at midnight the clock face spins wildly around before ending up exactly as it started. This article can be read by selected Monevator members. Please see our membership plans and consider joining! Already a member? Sign in here. The post Their first home. The next buying opportunity?…