Episode 17 continues our discussion on Journaling for Mental Health! September is National Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Awareness month, so for these two most recent episodes we have been discussing a topic important to both of us: journaling for mental health and self-care. In Part I we discussed our own personal journaling practices that we use regularly. Part II continues the discussion by diving into less traditional journaling techniques that we have both experimented with in the…

Read the full post at - Pool on Conasauga River This long, run forming a pool is off-trail within the Cohutta Wilderness, Georgia, about 2 miles from the north Conasauga River Trailhead. The river has pooled up before a short cascade.

Today we published four papers at the Open Journal of Astrophysics all related to the Megatron Project which is co-led by Martin Rey of the University of Bath (UK), Harley Katz of the University of Chicago (USA) and Corentin Cadiou of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris in France. I will include this quartet in my regular weekly update on Saturday but there is a press release accompanying these publications so I thought I’d splash them a bit here too. I’ll show the overlays on Saturday but in…

It is a quiet morning here on Nexwlelexwm/Bowen Island. The equinox has come and gone and the mornings are darker and cooler. We have stopped changing the clocks in this part of the world, so the mornings will only ever grow darker by the clock until the solstice. I'll be walking in pitch black in a month or so. My partner is the walking champion of our household, taking her morning and afternoon walks everyday as a non-optional part of her morning. She is the one that walks around in every…

I love to listen. I like to talk a lot too. I have opinions about everything but I love to listen. It first came as a need and then as a gift that I give to others now. I wanted to be a person that people like and the thing that topped the list in every self-help video, book or an article was to listen. I worked on the skill for years. Along the way, I realised how much people want to to be heard. Becasue no one is ready to listen to anyone, either they are not interested or they want to talk…

On this page Why the session caught my eye At NixCon 2026 I caught a session by Akshay Oppiliappan. He is one of the developers behind Tangled. The sessions was not quite a workshop, more of a presentation. I signed up for Tangled when it launched and waited for it to develop a little more. Then I got busy and never returned to it, so this was a nice reminder. Oddly enough I was first attracted to the project from the federated software community rather than the Nix community. Even though I…

I've redesigned my photography website. It now features my personal work as well as a page for my documentary and behind-the-scenes commissions. I'm really pleased with it. If you know anyone looking to document daily life at their company, or with a project, please put them in touch.https://ollyheadey.com

I’d like to think I’ve been reasonably diligent in covering music from non-English-speaking parts of the world, but my attention has been mainly focused on Asia and Europe. I think I’ve gone as far south in the Americas as Mexico so let’s remedy that a bit with a look at Encarta 98. The band, not […] The post Encarta 98 – “nada va a cambiar” appeared first on Space Echo.

Smith’s, often stylized as Smiths, R.I.P., was a beloved basement pub located at 777 Courtney Street, a short walk from the Greater Victoria Public Library’s downtown branch. On Thursday, April 11, 2023, the bar closed suddenly, posting just a simple print-out on the front door: Smiths is Closed It’s been a great run, a very great run, and we’re so appreciative to all our staff, friends, customers and everyone that supported us over 17 years We didn’t want to go out like this, but things happen…

It takes two incomes to buy a home, my kids can’t play on the street any more, and I never get invited to dinner parties. Each of these is an example of a collective action failure. Put simply, individuals optimising for their best outcome leads to a collective failure: life becomes worse for everybody because we each do what is best for us individually. To take the classic example, it’s safer (and cheaper) for all of us when cars aren’t two-tonne monstrosities. But you are individually safer…

SNARL TRANSFORMERS: BEAST WARS (KENNER) “Snarl is seldom seen until the instant he attacks. His camouflage coloring allows him to sneak into Predacon base-camps undetected. Powerful legs give him the ability to lunge forward to attack startled enemies, and in robot mode he can jump straight up to escape incoming missile fire. Snarl is a fearless fighter whose gnashing, serrated teeth and razor-sharp claws are enough to fend off would-be attackers. if they know what’s good for them!” If there’s…

by Gideon Marcus Disorder in the Court This last fortnight saw the sudden retirement of two Supreme Court Justices, Hugo Black on 9-17 and John Harlan (the second, though his conservative jurisprudence could be confused for that of his father, also once a justice) on 9-23. The Court is now down to seven justices during … Continue reading [September 30, 1971] The Golden Halls of Hell (October 1971 Analog) → The post [September 30, 1971] The Golden Halls of Hell (October 1971 <i>Analog</i>)…

https://blakewatson.com/journal/polyhedral-dice-showmanship-and-loss/ I got a little nostalgic and wistful thinking about a small dice manufacturing company and the mythical man who started it.

Perch are hands down my favourite species to fish for. I don’t mind if it’s lure fishing, dropshotting, live-baiting or static fishing for them, be that on the float or at range with the ledger tactics. This time of year is when I really start to focus on them, hoping to find that elusive 4lb fish that’s so far eluded me. My current pb is 3lb 14oz caught from our local river. I will never forget that day, my dad drove all the way over from Ramsgate just to see the fish and take a couple of…

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I got the following question in an email. My nephew is currently in high school in China and has developed a strong interest in computer science and mathematics. Recently, we've been talking about how computers can solve incredibly complex problems, yet there are still some problems that even the most powerful computers struggle to handle efficiently. I work in backend data maintenance myself, so I often think about how much a system's performance depends on the way a problem is approached,…

The leaders in AI were invited to the White House. We left with a White House agreement that is nonzero Actual Progress rather than a step backwards. The key to success, in many situations, is to call the whole operation something else. When you have one side that cares mostly about vibes, and the other that cares about the substance, this suggests a deal that can be struck. Suddenly everyone agrees on everything. Works for me. That doesn’t mean peace in our time. The next fight is already…

Last Friday, NetFoundry’s CEO Galeal Zino appeared on the weekly live YouTube show Super Cyber Friday, hosted by tech journalist David Spark. Super Cyber Friday is about cybersecurity practitioners and vendors, and every episode has a title that follows a “Hacking [Topic]” format. This particular episode’s title is Hacking Microsegmentation for Machine Workloads, and features: Galeal Zino, NetFoundry CEO (and my boss’ boss, and therefore the best damned skip-level in the world) Howard Holton,…

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN LONDON More than anything this is about atnosphere: Patrick Hamilton’s chronicle in three psychologcally vivid novels is distilled by Simon Reade into two-hours-ten and presented with the same sensitive ear and disciplined sharpness as this company – Troupe – brought to the superb Forsyte Saga. It’s about dreams , wanting to love, growing-up broke in a tough 1929 London: the inter-war period when suddenly the old rules and courtesies were dispensable, and anyone’s life…

Remember when a bunch of the games press started handwringing in their usual way over gamers questioning Asha Sharma's appointment as CEO of Xbox? They said we shouldn't care about her total lack of experience in the games industry or even playing games, not even having an Xbox profile until after taking the role or her former role at Microsoft being the President of Product for CoreAI. They said that Phil Spencer's strategy at Xbox obviously hadn't worked--while as usual never digging deeper…

A six-run Distill study moved byte-precise proposal construction into code. Candidate recovery reached 3/3 on one fixture, but two release gates failed.

It is September 30th, the final day of this month. Before September concludes, I want to post what I have declared on multiple occasions to many people is my favorite meme for the month. Yes, the seal playing the saxophone cover of Green Day's tune, "Wake Me Up When September Ends.” Behold:I am aware the song is mainly about grief and relates to Billie Joe Armstrong's loss of his father. This can be observed if one engages in even the slightest textual reading and I'm not that dense. That said,…

I’m back from my break and I’m here with more art and comics!! My newsletters are always free and you can follow them here: RSS | Mailing List | Patreon Want to see archived newsletters? Read them on my blog or my Patreon! Click here to reveal the rest Latest Public Arts All Friday public art is crossposted to tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky, and jpawlik.com/blog and TWO months early for $1 and up Patrons, which also include sketches and thumbs with almost every piece, if that’s something…

AI discussions often pretend that there are only two possible positions: complete delegation, where the machine produces everything and the human only supervises the result, or complete rejection, where using an AI tool is treated as abandoning the craft itself. But using AI does not automatically mean believing that it should replace engineers, just as refusing to use it does not mean believing that it is useless. Especially in software engineering, the interesting question is not whether…

By Richard McKenna / September 30, 2026 Object Name: Granada TV Rental commercial Maker and Year: Granada Ltd. Object Type: TV commercial Image Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc3ZoxJ3yYs Description: (Richard McKenna) This 1977 TV commercial for Granada TV Rental opens a window onto an almost forgotten aspect of the relationship the British viewing public once enjoyed with their television sets. Despite having evolved in parallel with that of our counterparts across the Atlantic, it…

(Note: I thought I published this one back in July! I guess not… it was sitting in the “Drafts” folder. So here ya go!) I mentioned I recently got a 360 camera and I’ve been having some fun recording videos of my bike rides. There’s a playlist called: Bike Riding. It’s on YouTube. Sigh… What!? Not on Peertube!? Okay, so what is Peertube? Check out joinpeertube.org. (And maybe read the docs.) PeerTube is a federated video platform. Like Mastodon is for short form posting. (See there used to be a…

I watched Princess Arete and it got my brain going. What's the right word for this genre? I hesitate to say "Ghibli-esque" because it's so overused as to almost be meaningless, even as (especially as) a marketing term. Fairytale fantasy? French vanilla fantasy?It gave me the idea of a project, though. It's something like this setting by my friend Tom of the End of All Things / Houseless Hills blog. Here is a taste. I might theorypost later, but maybe it's apparent from the design? This is…