In my Mothership open table, a character named Manny Vasquez recently died. One of the other PCs, Dürmig Ableton, decided to use one of his downtime actions to arrange a memorial service for Manny — a chance for everyone who had worked with him to share their memories and commend him to the wisdom of the stars. I loved this idea, but it was also problematic. Sure, we could play through the memorial service with the four players who were currently at the table, but what about the other twenty…

Dear podcasts and apps, Stop telling me your subscription only cost one cup of coffee per month. Because my daily cup of coffee cost me about SGD 0.25 (about USD 0.20) per cup. And your subscription is much more expensive than that. Thank you. Sincerely, Not a picky coffee drinker.

I was working on one of my “back of the envelope” diagrams for a post on microsegmentation and decided to draw the one pictured above as a warm-up exercise. It turned out well enough that I thought it was worth posting on its own. You might find it useful with clients when they look at you with puzzlement when you talk about “north-south” versus “east-west” in network security. You can also use the text below when explaining the concepts; feel free to “copy, paste, and adjust to taste”:…

Silver Porsche gets a champagne gradient from the setting sun, in this shot from last week. エレクトリック 先週撮影。夕日を受けて、シルバーのポルシェがシャンパンゴールドのグラデーションに染まる。

Currently, I am recording computer screens on Windows, MacOS, and ChromeOS almost daily while testing web applications, creating demo videos for assistive technology settings, and creating screen recordings for teaching or class presentations. Instead of using paid or free screen recording apps that require internet access or additional downloads, I mostly use the built-in free screen recorder options on each device record part or all of the screen, as well as record system audio and/or…

Let’s take another break from those endless TIFF reviews, with Cláudio Alves and Eurocheese appointing themselves juries to choose the best of the fest, beyond Best Actress chatter. I AM ROCKY was the People’s Choice Award runner-up at TIFF, just behind LA BOLA NEGRA. Will its popularity be reflected in Cláudio and Eurocheese’s picks? EUROCHEESE: Having covered our favorite leading ladies at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, Cláudio and I will be naming our favorites in a…

In Steve Reich’s music, repetition is a method of survival. A phrase returns carrying the microscopic damage of having been heard, while attention acquires an unfamiliar capacity for desire. Recordings on ECM brings that reciprocal transformation back to vinyl, gathering the three albums ECM released between 1978 and 1982. Revisiting the collection issued on CD in 2016, this three-LP edition arrives on October 2, 2026, one day shy of the composer’s 90th birthday. Sourced from the original…

I will be attending the Black Mountain Zen spring sesshin for 7 days starting this Saturday. This is a traditional Zen meditation retreat. Off-grid, off-line and off-piste. A chance to encounter the great matter up close and personal. “Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days’ worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched…

Hulu's look behind the scenes of Fox's The Swan is worth a watch for the interviews with Swan cast members, who explain why they participated and what really happened.

I get very life reflective this time of year. after I get home from my birthday trip every year, I isolate. I go outside and take walks and buy groceries and take care of things, but my only social activity during that time is the belated birthday dinner with my family. during this time, I think about my last year, the things that touched me and the stuff I hated. these are not linear thoughts. I'm social after that time before summer ends, but when September starts my Halloween seasonal…

People think of product reviewers as influencers, and I can understand why. Many are. But there is another category of reviewer out there as well, and I want to draw your attention to one today. Keyana Sapp is the writer behind a publication/public accountability ledger called Worse on Purpose. I'm a fan of this kind of reviewing. It's the product of investigative journalism, not affiliate relationships. It's motivated by the most honest force we know of: care. Someone gives a shit about the…

Originally Written June 2000 Hera & Zeus is a two-person card game designed by Richard Borg, who won the coveted Spiel des Jahres in 1993 for Bluff. The title of the game should be a highly suggestive give-away of the concept which is being put into play: Hera and Zeus are feuding, and this time things have gotten serious – hostages have been taken, and the Gods, Demigods, and Heroes have divided their loyalties between them. Each player receives a specialized deck: One for Hera and one for…

It is our pleasure at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog to celebrate National Silent Movie Day with classic cartoons. Leading off: Walter Lantz! Batting second: a mosquito. Now it's INSECT TIME, courtesy of Winsor McCay.Felix The Cat is the predecessor of The International! Here, Felix the Cat tangles with a germ - not The Germs, a germ! And. . . speaking of silent era cartoons, some of the best of the best were produced by the Fleischer Studio. . . YouTube playlists for both the Out Of The…

Those of you that visit my website, rather than reading my writing via RSS, will notice that I've updated the colour scheme and fonts used for the first time since I began my blog Brennan.day, last November. I have had a deep affection for the gruvbox colour scheme I've been using—it's easy on the eyes and gives a rather cozy feeling. But something compelled me to ditch the muted browns and yellows to go with a stark greyscale of black and white, the rainbow now a custom palette I made myself…

Overall, it’s an enormous leap in efficiency and precision. It’s a personal assistant, a second brain, a ChatGPT of your own life. You just have to will yourself to use it. After 19 years of performing the unlock-phone/open-app/search routine, you’ll need some time to acclimate. But once you’re used to it, you see the future. Suddenly, the screen isn’t really that important. Suddenly, you understand why Apple’s latest projects are said to be screenless. Sounds like I need to start using the new…

Perfume PosseOn Heat and Balmain Cuir Élysées So in my comments on Cinnamon’s post for this week (and I forgot to write on that how cute is her house?) I noted that the Autumnal Equinox has brought us cooler nights but oddly, warmer days. Like into the… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseOn Heat and Balmain Cuir Élysées

The Kickstarter for the new Microscope is launching in one week: Tuesday, October 6th. This has been a long time coming. I’ve been tweaking and testing and experimenting for years, so I can’t wait to deliver a leaner, cleaner Microscope to you. Spread the word!

Bill, it seems, is quickly running out of friends. And, apparently, also sureties. Which is an interesting development I'll come back to in a minute - but first, the email.The EmailI'm not going to reprint the entire email (just most of it). As I said above, there are parts that are simply not fit for public consumption for various reasons - but I will show you as much as I can, beginning with Bill's "Motion".Bill sent this email to "COAPublicPortal@ontario.ca" and he thinks that means it's…

I’m feeling a bit better today. Migraine plus a head cold isn’t a fun combination. Selfie a day for a year, day 38: Sep 29, 2026 edition.

This past week I retooled my development environment after close to two years on Cursor. I wanted something that could coordinate agents and let me switch models per task, so I could maximize my tokens while minimizing my spend. After a little research, I landed on a setup with two layers. Oh My Pi is the harness that runs my agents. Orca is where I run and interact with many of them at once.

One of the recurring questions when people familiar with HTML discover the Gemini protocol is: Why? Why not just write really simple HTML? I came to see the appeal back in 2021, but taking a fresh look at Gopher this month, and actually building a basic Gopher site, helped me crystalize something: It makes the most sense to look at Gemini and Gemtext in terms of the Gopher revival it came out of. It’s less “what do we want to throw out from the web?” and more “what bits of the web do we really…

The first time Ronald Coase uses the word “reciprocal” to describe the problem of harmful effects is in his 1959 FCC paper (Coase 1959), but this observation begs the question, what is the source of Coase’s reciprocal-harm model? Did Coase borrow or steal? Or did he discover it on his own? Today, I will one consider one possible source of Coase’s reciprocal-harm model: Wesley Hohfeld’s influential theory of legal relations. (Hohfeld 1913, 1917) Among other things, Hohfeld (pictured below)…

[This is a guest post by Rachel Webb. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] The way I do math experienced a great upheaval once before, halfway through my PhD. I was in a seminar with a group of graduate students and faculty developing new discipline-specific writing courses. The facilitator asked the question, What does it mean to write well in your discipline? Then, as now, I use writing as a proxy for doing. As a mid-career grad…

Today’s recording starts with the end of The Story of Tracy Beaker. There’s a promo for the Beakeriser website. Then it’s What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman. I didn’t quite understand what the title of this episode meant, until I realised that “Simple Plan” are a pop group and they are playing themselves in this episode. They’re Canadian, apparently. And use the same barber, it would seem. (I looked them up, and in fact they are the band who played the theme to the…

Alex Ross is a modern master of the comic art form. He's incredible, full stop. If Marvel Dimensions were advertised more as being just a collection of cool Alex Ross art, as opposed to telling a story, that might have been better. I say that as Ross wrote and illustrated this big hardcover story about the Marvel heroes going up against alternate-universe evil versions. It is beautiful and has some creative design elements, but the plot left me bored. I mean, when the story actually seems to be…

Paraphrasing the Soul Sonic Force and sorting through today`s releases for tunes that could have graced Alfie & Leo’s Amnesia dance-floor… Dexys Midnight Runners / You Got The Love (David Holmes Remix) / Heavenly Records David Holmes’ remix of Dexys Midnight Runners’ single “You Got The Love” is only currently available as part of the deluxe download of their new album “Love”. Holmes, who also produced the original, has a whole lot of fun, teasing with the song’s emotions by chopping it into…

Wally’s “Flashes of Insight” have served him well…so far. He has made Central City a safe place. I mean, truly safe. Absolutely nothing goes wrong in Central City. Thank you, Flash! Oh, and Metropolis is just as safe now! Thank you, Flash? And even Star City…no thanks, Green Arrow, thank you…Flash? Wally means well, but is he going too far? We’ll get the answer in this issue, along with some JL members who aren’t too happy about what our favorite speedster is doing. Wanna know more? Follow us…

Around the workshop These are the main projects that I am focused on these days: Wonder of the Word templates – I finished up work on the two templates that needed to be done for the October 1 launch of these pages. I have been working with our backend developer to refine some dynamic pieces. I started addressing some issues that came up in the design and content reviews. I am planning that there will be some more updates this coming week before the project goes live on Thursday. Study through…

school update day 4 of school, you cried so hard that you didn't want to go second week of school, lots of tears third week of school, 2/4 days with tears fourth week, you did it!!! no tears friends update we love our neighbors and their friends (especially little B!) we had a playdate with the other half Colombian girl in school, and now we're good friends! did a playdate at New Belgium & dad and I just went rock climbing with her dad all of our neighbors in the community are so fun! school…

Surreeality Standing on Monday morning in Noordeinde in the Hague waiting for a friend I was drawn to the window of an art dealership across the street. I hadn’t realised how weird the picture would seem until I printed it. Quote of the Day “Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I’ll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?” Spike Milligan Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Peaks | The Cormorant Link This was new to me, but a real gem. Peaks is a musical partnership…