This morning we had some clouds, but the sky was not actually overcast for a change. The past couple of days have been drier too, so I figured it was a good idea to water the waning garden. I noticed it needed it yesterday afternoon. I like to water it before the sun is actually up. My logic is that I am already awake, so I might as well do it then. I figure it would allow the water to soak into the ground a little more before it starts evaporating. The humidity is usually high then, and there…

In international development, non-profit organizations often claim inclusivity is a core value. But why does it matter? It is because we consistently work with people from different backgrounds through communication, coordination, and collaboration ("3C"). We deal with some of the most complex problems our society embodies, and they require the 3C among those living in different contexts. Importantly, we learn a lot from our experience. It's the great adaptability and flexibility of human…

One page per project in Linear, rewritten by a Loop whenever an issue changes status. The design, every prompt, the coding-agent rule, what it costs, and where it falls short.

Breezy and warmish with a few thin, high clouds. A fly walks slowly across the open document on my laptop. From up in the woods, the plaintive call of a spring peeper already attuning himself for next spring, as his body prepares for months of dormancy under the leaf duff.

Are you feeling jaded? You know, I used to think the term came from the rather beautiful green stone, but it doesn't. The stone's name came into English through French from the Spanish, as people believed jade would cure colic and pain in the flank. But, to be jaded? Well, around 1600, the verb jade meant to wear out or make dull, and jaded entered vernacular around the same time. Earlier than that? A jade is a worn-out horse, recorded from the late 1300s and with no known origin. On September…

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Check out As in guillotine... for more. In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. Since I’m a media omnivore, it also includes games, movies, and any other media of note that I engaged with. (For the second time this year, I’m combining two months because it’s been that kind of year!) Do we have similar tastes, or will you be questioning how we ever got connected? Let’s find out!…

22-09-26 Another wander to the Botanics.But first I checked the buddleia on the obligatory diversion to Dunedin Street. Bingo! A comma and a very handsome one. It wasn't too keen on having its photo taken and migrated to less photogenic shrubs. I was undeterred and enjoyed taking the berry tree photos it landed on next.hiding in plain sighthaven't seen the grey wagtail in a whileI suspect it is the same one who lost his tail a couple of years back and then grew it back over a few weeks. He…

I have been using the Brave browser for a couple of years now. I used it when it first came out, then switched to Chrome. Then, in the process of trying to de-Google myself, I went back to Brave, even though it is based on Chromium. My history with browsers goes all the way back to the beginning. Netscape Navigator was the bomb. Mozilla, less so, but still better than any Microsoft browser. I also played with Opera for a while. But up until Chrome was released, I used Firefox... begrudgingly. I…

Redlamp was developed by one of the most talented Mac developers I’ve worked with in the past, and I’m very happy to see it–especially considering the way Apple completely neglected Aperture, and the shambles Photos still is if you have an inkling about real photography workflows. It’s a native RAW editor for Apple Silicon, written in Swift and Metal, that opens folders directly and keeps edits in sidecar files. RAW development, masks and local adjustments, reusable Recipes and film looks are…

Redlamp’s editing interface (image: project website). Redlamp is a native RAW photo editor written in Swift and Metal for Apple Silicon, with a workflow familiar to Lightroom users. It opens folders directly and keeps edits in sidecar files. It is still pre-alpha. RAW development, masks and local adjustments, reusable Recipes and film looks are available, but crop, healing and lens corrections are still on the roadmap. Library management is a later track, so this is an editor rather than a…

Eyeing my reading corner aspirationally until Ikea get their shit together and restock the chair's cushioning, which they only informed me was out of stock the day of delivery. A full week after I'd originally ordered it. And I really do need to have that tinted glass replaced. Fall is here and the sun has already shifted to where it seldom enters the space. Given the above situation, not much reading has been getting done (I'm not great at reading in bed), but I did manage to write 11,451…

No, I've never watched Peaky Blinders. The hat reminds me of my grandpa.

CAMRA's second attempt at sending me one was eventually successful and it finally arrived today. I hope whoever ended up with the first copy enjoys it.In Merseyside seventeen pubs have dropped out since last year, and seventeen have come in. If you want to know which ones you'll have to buy the book.

In Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, Consuelo “Connie” Ramos is living in a mental institution in the twentieth century when she’s visited by a person from the future. That person, Luciente, teaches her how she can leave her body where it is but travel in mind and spirit to the year 2137. She is at first unimpressed by what she sees: people living in small huts, tending vegetable gardens. It reminds her of the poor village she grew up in in Mexico. But Luciente shows her how they live…

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (Ballantine, 1976) Trapped in a mental institution in the twentieth century, Connie Ramos learns to visit the future. She’s not crazy, or she doesn’t think she is: she’s institutionalized after attacking her niece’s pimp, when her niece comes to her beaten and bloodied. That’s enough to get her labeled out of control and violent, subject to experimental brain surgery intended to make her more compliant. In her own time, she sees poverty and abuse and…

This week's samu is focused more on home repairs than cleaning, and so I need to make a trip to the hardware store. I'm cosplaying as butch by wearing my sleeveless hoody. 👺 <---- This is my butch face. Am I doing it right?

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain." — Vivian GreeneHello friends! Today it’s raining, and then the colder winds are coming. I’ve seen lows in the 40s in the forecast! This time of year is all about adaptability - and having the right clothing. It also means the birds are coming!Here are my photo choices for today:September 30th - a rare moment of sunshineI still have two ruby-throated hummingbirds today!I love it when they put their…

MacTap’s knock mappings (image: project promotional material). MacTap is a macOS menu bar utility that maps one, two or three knocks on a MacBook’s chassis–or the desk underneath a stationary laptop–to shortcuts. It supports separate left/right mappings, presets and per-application actions for tasks such as copy and paste, screenshots and media controls. It requires macOS 14.6 or newer and a supported MacBook exposing its motion sensor as an SPU HID device. The README lists M2 and later and…

Some 85 years ago this month. Original Caption: “1st Army Maneuvers in the Carolinas. An M2A2 light tank of the 191st Tank Battalion. These tanks use a great deal of gasoline. South Carolina. October 16, 1941.” The M2A2 light tank ran a 668 cubic-inch (11.0 L) Continental 7-cylinder radial gasoline engine and carried 50 gallons of mogas. Photographer: 161st Signal Photo Co., Signal Corps Photo 111-SC-130131 Another view of the above, same day, same place, showing off the 11-ton M2A2, which saw…

In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: Who should set connection times to allow passengers to change trains? The Czechs have it right.Good week: Wunderline re-opens on MondayAlso a good week: Stadler electric trains to start service in Lithuania, with possible positive impact on international servicesEven more good news this week: 4th daily OUIGO service Paris-Bruxelles at weekends from DecemberEU to help this week: Sachsen seeks assistance to solve its cross border transport problemsBad week: No…

Earlier this year, we had Chase with EAA in the GDC studio as a podcast guest and got the lowdown on the company’s Windicator series of European-made wheel guns– which they have been importing for 30 years. “I mean, they’re just tanks,” he said. “And look, I mean, there’s no denying that Germans make some great firearms. And they have a very deep history in making really, really, well-made firearms. For sure. So it’s just cool to see those out there. And people kind of, you know, they’re…

The fall of 1978 is an interesting time for me. It was when I started college, and stopped paying so much attention to TV. And at Comfort TV, David's up to primetime Thursdays in 1978. What do I remember most? Those shows starting C.B.S.John's series of Patricia Hayes appearances wraps up in this week's Cult TV Blog with her performance in "You Talk Too Much," a play in the Centre Play anthology series, and his review of this series of essays.Patrick McGoohan's always worth watching in…

(affiliate link) I recently went to the DMV near my house, which happens to be in the same government center as a big library. My government-mandated waiting room time was relatively quick, so I walked across the building to browse. It’s been a while since I’ve been to the library, so I decided to wade into the comics section and see what was on offer. I’m still surprised by the sheer variety in graphic formats these days. There are now shelves and shelves of non-superhero comics. (Not that I’m…

We are not a museum, just a tiny, scruffy, neighborhood frame shop in Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb known for Northwestern University and the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, for its commitment to social justice and the arts. As in most places, that commitment often fails when it meets reality, but still, Evanston is fierce and beautiful where you least expect it. At my job, for instance. The art is unrelenting. Landscapes and dreamscapes, towers, harbors, mountains, forests,…

I was able to find 164 items that have "content creator" in the full text and were published in 1998. That's a bit down from 1997.

Handy (still from the project’s website demo). Handy is an open-source, cross-platform dictation app that transcribes speech locally using Whisper or Parakeet models and pastes the result into the active application. Its optional text post-processing can use either local or cloud models: Apple Intelligence on supported Macs, a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint (including a local server), or providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter and Groq. Speech recognition remains local, but a cloud…

Image source: Criterion Collection Jigoku (translated as Hell) initially seems to share a kinship with PSA films like Reefer Madness. A timid theology student named Shiro (Shigeru Amachi) is accidentally party to a hit and run when his disreputable friend Tamura (Yoichi Numata) accidentally runs over a low-level gangster, Kyoichi (Hiroshi Izumida). As if the guilt weren’t bad enough, Shiro’s entire world begins to unravel as everyone around him starts to die in increasingly bizarre fashion. His…

Mole’s README illustration. Mole is an open-source macOS maintenance toolkit with a terminal interface. Its mo command provides cleanup, app removal, disk-space analysis, system maintenance and live resource monitoring, including commands for removing build artifacts and old installers. It requires macOS 12 or newer and supports both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. It can be installed with brew install mole. The CLI is licensed under GPLv3; the project website also offers a separate native Mac…