Hiiiiiii not a real post this week since I need to save most of it for a Real trip post!! Rapid-fire trip summary: SLC is a fascinating city from what little of it I saw. Really beautiful views of the mountains and then shockingly flat down the grid-aligned streets Lots of great food, Red Iguana and Perch Coffee in SLC, Communal in Provo Kind of crazy how gorgeous the landscapes are, so, so different from the northeast, wide expanses of rock and low vegetation Listening to Miles Davis In a…

In the otiose evening of August — it is always August — you are dead. Death is so loud, I say, or think I say, between the clamorous pangs drowning a whole world out. I do my best to sit with your death, a wish whispered to the heavens, returned as something so deafening, as something so boisterously full, it fills my body until I’m dead too. Death is so hungry, I say, I’m sure I say, this insatiable mass of knowing, floating high above myself, my death reaching to catch your death, keep it…

The entrance to the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford is via a staircase whose walls are illustrated with maps from the Center’s collections. To mark the Center’s 10th anniversary, RJ Andrews and Ray Marshall… More

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All I play anymore is trick-taking games. At times, that feels like an invitation to make me regret what little time I have left on this Earth. Shards of Creation is the latest unfortunate example. Designed by Hayden Dillard, it fails to utilize the past decade of sound tabletop design principles, let alone the trick-taking revolution that has produced so many wonderful trifles. It is the anti-trick-taker, the title I would place before someone I was hoping to dissuade from getting into the…

People are saying that AI is the end of university, but I see it quite differently. What you have to do is break down the university experience into its individual parts so that you can see the situation more clearly.For example, there is exposure to textbooks and base knowledge that is supposed to be the state of the art, which is what textbooks are for. That was already bad and broken long before AI got here, so good riddance to that. AI is much better, especially when a proper AI is used to…

[1968]Futuristic psych that pre-empts all the arty post-punk, Beefheartian new wave and shambling... Back then I guess this woulda just been an electronic novelty......an anomaly of the psychedelic era. Pretty weird kinda normal, know what I mean.

sometimes when i feel particularly depressed, i forget to keep with daily routines like showering. a week may go by and i'll have showered like twice or maybe three times. time will pass in a very strange way and then i'm lying on my bed literally doing nothing, feeling like the worst version of myself. thankfully, today is not one of those days, though i did notice the tell tale signs of those depressive episodes. i've been growing my beard a little, and it was starting to get shaggy near my…

Click here to book for my tours In response to the nights closing in, I have been spending more time under my quilt. The great majority of my stories were written beneath this quilt that I made a few years ago and which has special meaning for me. Once dusk gathers, I retreat to my bed to work each afternoon, abandoning my desk that has become piled with layers of paper and taking consolation in the warmth and comfort under my quilt, as the ideal snug location to devise my daily compositions.…

Last week was pretty quiet honestly. I was supposed to drive down to New Jersey for my grandma's 85th birthday party but we got hit with a nor'easter so I ended up staying home since driving in it would have been a nightmare. Was kinda bummed about it, myself and the cousins all chipped in cash so she could get a nice new recliner and it would have been fun to see everyone. I do want to go down for thanksgiving though so I should book a hotel room soon... at least staying down there is pretty…

saw this recipe on television and wanted to tryServes 2: from Sakurai Ariyoshi the Yakai Kitchen1 block momen tofu (hard), drain and cut into easy to eat pieces100 grams beef belly, cut into bite sized pieces50 grams onion, thinly sliced10 grams ginger, grated40 milliliters sake (rice wine)40 milliliters mirin (sweet rice wine)240 milliliters water10 grams honey16 grams sugar20 milliliters

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The decline in fairies makes me sad. But toadstools are alive and kicking and for some reason, 3 dimensional.https://walzr.com/kids-trends/

It seems odd to say I am mourning the loss of a computer program. But, with Microsoft eliminating Publisher at the end of September, I find I am. More so, I am mourning the loss of my work. I am mourning the loss of decades of work forever frozen in PDF or in files that […]

In high school, a well-liked acquaintance and I traded CDs. We'd meet at our news club, he'd give me a CD from his jacket, drug-dealer style. Stevie Ray Vaughn's Soul to Soul and the Alabama Shakes' Sound and Color are the ones that stand out to me. Especially Sound and Color, because I ripped the corner of the case and spent the rest of the week with a bad stomach ache. I felt whatever we had was uneven, so I gave him a friendship bracelet. It was purple, his favourite colour. I wanted…

@exe.dev launched Pools today: A pool is a collection of VMs that share a set of resources. Before pools, a VM’s resources came directly from your plan. You could scale VMs independently, but you couldn’t define a production or staging stack with its own resources in its own region. Pools also give you predictable pricing. We don’t want to send you a surprise invoice because one VM had a burst of traffic. I love what these folks have been building. A cloud provider with predictable pricing? Yes…

Another Akademy attended, here's some photos! Hello hello! It was that time of the year where I go to KDE Akademy, talk to fellow nerds, almost lose my voice due to socializing and eat a lot of nice food. This time Akademy was in Graz, Austria. I had never been in Austria before. This time I also had to travel alone due to my wife being busy with studying. Traveling alone was nervewracking for sure, but somehow I managed to do it. Unless I am dreaming and wake up under a bench in Frankfurt…

Today I'd like to talk about a useful tool to have in your leadership toolkit. I call it the ratchet. What is a ratchet? Ratchets are a technique for ensuring a change goes only in one direction. In engineering, an example would be a code coverage ratchet. Let's say your testing covers 50% of your code and you want to make sure that that is trending up. You could add a ratchet that every addition to the code base increases the code coverage. How you make a ratchet Someone with some power says…

In East Texas’ Tyler State Park, the trees along the lakeshore extend their branches gracefully, casting intricate shadows across the water’s edge. The interplay of light and shade creates a serene and picturesque scene, highlighting the natural beauty and tranquil atmosphere of the park’s landscape. The post Shadowy Shore appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

I got a surprise this morning! My SIL started sending messages, telling me they had an opportunity to get a whole bunch of haskaps, if there was somewhere to plant them. Somewhere around 30 of them. !!!!! I told her we’d been preparing areas in the food forest for the past several years that had … Continue reading A huge jump ahead on the way!

So much more than just a soundtrack. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Superb soundtrack to a French film from 1970 directed by Moshé Mizrahi. Recorded in Paris two weeks before the groups French visas expired. The Art Ensemble of Chicago consists of Lester Bowie in trumpet/percussion, Joseph Jarman on sax/clarinet/percussion, Malachi Favors on double…

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I previously announced my Python optimization workshop in Lisbon, on 10th October (which still has a few places). I am now pleased to add a Python/Django meetup on the Thursday before. Here are the details: What: Python/Django meetup When: Thursday 8th October 2026, 18:00–20:00 Where: Terrace Restaurant, Praça Príncipe Perfeito, Lisbon Cost: Free Register on Luma Join us for an informal evening discussing Python, Django, and related topics (AI will surely come up). This meetup is hosted by Adam…

In case you hadn’t heard of it: Hollywood Reporter: ‘Forgotten Island’ Review: Dreamworks Animation’s Latest Celebrates Filipino Folklore With Dazzling Wit and Imagination Variety: ‘Forgotten Island’ Review: A Delightful Animated Celebration of Friendship and Filipino Culture Refinery29: Forgotten Island Is The Celebration Of Filipino Culture I’ve Been Searching For The post A last-minute addition to tonight’s agenda appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

Mark Rylance helps promote Intermission Youth, a community theatre project he's long been a fan of, by starring alongside a cast including alumni of Darren Raymond's company in a new version of Molière's Tartuffe. The 17th century satire of hypocrisy and the ease with which the unscrupulous can use religion to con the unwary always feels ripe for reinvention and Tartuffe Open Brackets Remixed Close Brackets relocates the story to a modern-day blended British-Nigerian-Jamaican family, as…

In no specific order: Being fitted for a suit and/or helmet Surgery Rock climbing Rock descending Eating sixty-four slices of almost anything Applying cosplay make-up Flipping a LaserDisc Sneezing This is now on the Pieces of 8 page. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-09-29.