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.
Finally got Uma, the VRRV's most pressing issues repaired. The last repair was replacing the front shock absorbers as they were toast according to the mechanic!Being almost 20 years old, it's not surprising stuff is wearing out. After all, we have put more than 105,000 MI on the motorhome since we got it. The new shocks had been replaced sometime ago, but the tire cupping issue I saw on the old one tires dictated new shocks.Anyways, I decided to do some short term camping, to test everything…
[This is me reposting a comment I left on Lobsters about “Taste Is All That's Left,” a post about vibecoding. I think my comments works well enough on its own here as a post. —Sean] As I read this, I was reminded of two quotes. The first is about the taste gap from Ira Glass: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just…
I use the Shunting Yard algorithm to handle precedence when parsing expressions in my assembler. It's great because not only is it simple to implement, but it simplifies the code in a hand-written recursive descent parser. The BNF is effectively: ; BNF per RFC-5234 expr = factor *(op factor) op = '*' ; just the basic ops for now / '/' ; adding more is just adding / '+' ; them to this definition / '-' factor = literal / var / '(' expr ')' literal = DIGIT+ var = (ALPHA / '_') (ALPHA / DIGIT /…
🍿Finished watching: Ted Lasso S4E1, Home. It’s good to have Ted Lasso back! Super annoyed that I can’t binge, but honestly that might actually be a good thing. Having gulped The Bear in a sitting this weekly dose might be a good thing.
I was on auto-pilot in July. It's probably my worst month this year, or in quite some time. I'm still wondering how I survived, but here I am anyways. I didn't shout into the void that much, at least in digital form. I did plenty of shouting in real life. ⚠️ Want to learn what these Micro Thoughts are? Read the explanation here July 30, 2026 @ 11:13 AMToday is @lescar and my first wedding anniversary. We’re celebrating a year of marriage while grieving our best friend, Cocoa. It’s a bittersweet…
I have documented free things seen around Brooklyn, New York City, in these humble pages. For example, I have reported on five free desks across three articles – one on Hamilton Avenue, three in Carroll Gardens and Columbia Street Waterfront District, and one in Brooklyn Heights. In those cases I did not take any desks home, although I do have a free desk story in my front room that I still need to write about. I also have a discarded monitor that I picked up for free that I should also write…
Kati Outinen is the whole deal here, wearing a mask of impassivity the whole movie but always with so much bubbling under the surface. This is still middle period Kaurismäki, with the same icy gaze that also haunts Lights in the Dusk. But it’s a much gentler version of that; a downright optimistic movie under all the melancholy. I can see why some real Kaurismaniacs might love this movie, but for me it just doesn’t have the same life that’s in Shadows in Paradise, or the sharpness of Match…
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I wish more people understood that the future of human things is not already determined and just waiting for a wise oracle to reveal it. It is a dynamic system created by the actions of billions of human beings, natural forces, and the world of plants and animals. Nobody from a president to a panhandler can control the future, but they all have a chance to shape it. Anyone who says that a technology or institution is inevitable is selling something, and anyone who thinks that a wise council or…
As I wryly commented on some Slack space somewhere, Matt's short story this week (#291) is such a perfect parable it should be in all children's books everywhere throughout all of remaining time. Then again... not exactly the sort of thing one would read to a little Callum or a wee Circe. ::chuckle:: [ day still in progress... ]
