I've spent today reading through a blaugust 2026 RSS feed that I imported courtesy of 82MHz. Thank you! It's been really nice to have all the blogs in one place in my RSS reader and has pushed me to make a point of reading even more of folk's blog posts. Very fun. I'm also trying to make a point to email people more this month. It makes my day when someone emails me about my blog posts (you mean people read these?) so I hope to make someone else's day in the same way. I've spent the rest of the…
Old Scottish joke:An old man at a bar is complaining. “You see that bridge there? I built it with my own hands! But do they call me ‘MacGregor The Bridge-Builder’? No! And I raised five beautiful children! But do they call me ‘MacGregor The Child-Raiser’? No! But, you fuck one sheep . . .”Has MacGregor been treated unfairly?This was my complaint in The Beauty Of Settled Science. Psychology laid bare the secrets of the brain - it performs computations through a neural network communicating via…
As the title says. A set of three railroad tracks cutting through a forested area.
It's about Groudle, so therefore, brilliant. What more is there to say? OK, there is a bit more. This latest version of the guide, at 70 pages, is far more than a simple stock list. The text takes the reader from the earliest days of the Glen, and then the railway at the end of it. It introduces the steam locos, then their electric replacements, and exactly how badly those worked out. We go through dereliction, and gradual restoration before coming up to the present day. Only after this, do we…
Exciting news, readers! My copies of THE SHRINKER are on their way and should arrive tomorrow. I'll put the book up on my Ebay shop as soon as I can. It does mean the early bird discount will be coming to an end, so if you want to benefit from a bit of money off, order your copy now. You have until the weekend.I'm keeping busy with the next couple of books, the first of which will
I had no idea that this existed until recently. Back in 2024, Kate Bush released a short animated music video called Little Shrew (Snowflake) – the word in brackets being the name of the track from her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow that is used as the soundtrack for this startling and poignant anti-war story. Apparently, the image of the destroyed block of flats that you see in the video is based on a real photograph that Bush saw – an image of the war in Ukraine. Yet the video doesn’t focus on…
Stamped hands and plastic wristbands cover the sweaty crowd as lights flick on at the end of the show. Crowds bump and grind to the bathrooms as eyes adjust and ears pop. Minutes later you pile into the car with your friends and buckle up for a slow, traffic-jammy trip out of the lot, down the highway, and home to bed. Killing an hour on your way home from a concert is a piece of cake, though. Just roll down those windows, pump those fists, honk that horn, and get ready to scrape that scratchy…
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 10 through Sunday, August 16! 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, August 10 Tuesday, August 11 Wednesday, August 12 Thursday, August 13 Friday, August 14 Saturday, August 15 Sunday, August…
Gambler x Gamble!! (two exclamation marks) is a game from Japan released in 2024. It is a reimplementation of a 2016 game called Gambler x Gamble! (one exclamation mark), which won the Group SNE Contest in 2015. We all know what it will be named when it gets a third edition, don't we? When I read the rules, the first thing that comes to mind is this is Machi
This is David, your freshly recharged human web crawler, back from a holiday in the Swiss Alps. You are reading issue 580 of the Weekly Filet, the newsletter for curious minds who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!». As every Friday, I'm here to help you make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be. It's great to have you.Before I forget: I found some spare time to give collections a bit of a glow-up, making it more fun to explore the rich…
I spent a lot of today thinking the decline in how people treat each other. Eventually I landed on a hazy kind of point about how a way that people are dumb, rude, mean, and inconsiderate offline is clearly influenced by the way people speak to and about each other online. I spent a lot of today thinking about that because Sydney Towle, a social media influencer who documented her three-year battle with cancer on Tiktok, died yesterday at the age of 26. In her New York Times obit, Katherine…
New York NYThis is a Kyoto based chain, apparently. This one is just outside the iconic Tonight Show marquee at Rockefeller Center. It’s a pretty trendy looking place and was quite busy.I ordered an iced Kyoto Latte with oat milk. It was pretty good and refreshing in the ridiculous heat.
Hosting some friends and showing off our backyard last month. Read More ... Continue reading Showing Off Our Backyard at PMags.com.
I wanted to keep my code in multiple remotes. github since it is still where everyone reaches to see what I'm doing. codeberg since it is my preferred forge. Apparently git supported multiple remotes for fetch and push, so this is how i configured my repo. After initializing git and making some commits, I first added the two remotes: github and codeberg respectively. git remote add codeberg ssh://git@codeberg.org/user/project.git git remote add github git@github.com:user/project.git Then, I set…
I’ve added the possibility of generating Asciidoctor-style admonitions to this website, not only in the final HTML generated for this website, but also in the PDF and EPUB outputs, and you might have seen them in action in previous posts. In Asciidoctor and Antora I liked to use such highlighted blocks, to showcase some particular information, so I wanted to have them on this website too. Although, as you might imagine, Markdown does not provide this capability per se. The Markdown code I use…
This is now, it appears to transpire, a blog about karate. I’VE BEEN TRYING A LOT OF NEW HOBBIES AND SIMILAR LATELY. As a 37-year-old white American male (even one who exercises regularly and has largely given up red meat), statistically speaking I’m damned close to my actual life median if not past it already1, and I’m attempting to handle it with with the intentionality that I try to bring to all things I do in life2. I think that most typical mid-life crises as depicted in U.S. culture are…
A look at my collection of black and white publicity photos from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me continues with an image of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and James Hurley (James Marshall) at the light at Sparkwood & 21. This print comes from a collection of prints from Spelling Films International that I won at auction.... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Spelling Films International – Laura Palmer and James Hurley at Sparkwood & “21” – 151-22 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
Homescreen on Android. Moved eSIM from iPhone to Razr today.
Today, I was feeling so good, not only did we do the Costco shop, but I was able to get the garlic strung up, and kept going until it was getting too dark to see. Which means I will be doing the stock up shop and update posts tomorrow. I’ll be heading out again tomorrow, … Continue reading What a difference a day makes!
Typesetting tables in latex is annoying. In practice, I usually have the tabular data in some programming-friendly format and need to put it in latex. I forget how to do this nicely, but it's extremely simple using the tabulate package in python. import tabulate from itertools import batched # Data A = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 26, 31, 34, 35, 39, 41, 47, 51, 55, 59, 71, 79, 87, 95, 111, 119, 131, 143, 159, 167, 191, 215, 231, 239, 287, 311, 359, 479, 551, 671, 719…
Welcome to Container Escapes 101 at the AppSec Village at DEF CON 34!! 🎯 Goal: to have a working knowledge of container escapes and how each security measure or risk maps to potential for exploitation. With actual exploits … mostly of misconfigurations or the “rough edges” of containers. Where we’re going There’s a lot of hard-earned lessons at the weird intersection of how a no-longer-...
Late start for my walks today, and also oppressively hot. This meant two trips to the gym, four miles walking each time, which took about an hour and 10 minutes for each. Still didn’t wrap up all my walking till 9:30pm. Today is 73 days in a row, and I’ve covered 823 miles so far since May 26th.
We don’t notice the small constants in our lives until they’re gone.
Entering Hudson Yards – New York, New York At the northern end of the High Line, my wife and I turned left into Hudson Yards. There was a rather smooth transition from the elevated linear park into one of the newest developments in New York City. The entire development is well executed and gives the impression of coordinated urban planning, which sometimes sounds like an oxymoron. In addition to the tall and slender mix of skyscrapers at Hudson Yards, there are two notable architectural…
This summer has felt hotter than previous summers we’ve experienced since moving to Tucson over five years ago. I’m definitely feeling the effects of what I call “reversed SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)”. I’m feeling a little ‘trapped’, for lack of a better word. I’ve never liked the feeling of sunscreen on my skin, so I opt to just stay out of the sun during the particularly crispy parts of the day. When it comes to my personal discomfort I find the sun a little more menacing than the heat.…
In past posts I’ve listed numbers that don’t have: Nine Seven Seven, again Eight Based on overwhelmingly positive feedback, today we’re looking at numbers that don’t have six. I provide this service free of charge. 6 Wait, damn it. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-08-07.
A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Marcia Muller GRAHAME GREENE – The Ministry of Fear. Heinemann, UK, 1943. Viking Press, US, 1943. Penguin #530, US, 1946. Reprinted many times. Graham Greene has a rigid-and pretentious-habit of classifying his own work into two categories: “entertainments” and “novels.” While all of his work is suspenseful and contains criminous elements, the “entertainments” are more action-oriented and their mystery elements are stronger. The “novels,” on the other hand, tend to be…
There are too many links and posts of the entire saga for me to put them all here, but I will note that last time I mentioned Diamond Comic Distributors in more than passing, it was to note how they were, "No More." Within a calendar year, they had gone from a struggling-but-sizeable part of the business to comic distribution to bankruptcy and shutting down. As I said, "One long National nightmare is over (out of many that still persist, but oh well). Yes, Diamond Comic Distributors ceased…
My co-worker is obsessed with bats. I don't know exactly when it happened, but wow: they fell hard. One week: regular conversations, or at least approaching regular. The usual detours, sympathetic complaining, mostly lighthearted, occasionally with actual work getting done in there somewhere. And then, out of nowhere, bats. All meetings must now by necessity begin with a short preamble on "bat facts". Details about these little critters are interspersed into chats throughout the day. I've seen…
Damn this is spot on. It’s a long read and you’ll get the gist a fifth of the way through, but Aeon has a highly astute take down of the technocrats’ misinterpretation of our literary science fiction past, darkly reflecting on their actions and ambitions.
