The main highway through Hawi is Akoni Pule Hwy., though it looks more like Abbey Road in this photo! This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Your Home Town.’ See more responses here. Downtown Hawi is only about a block long, but it can be a busy little place, and popular with tourists on their way to and from Pololu Valley. Locally made ice cream is available at two spots, across the road from each other! A new business in town. Saturday is Farmers Market day, though it got rained off…

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From Stay Alive! Berlin 1939-1945, by Ian Buruma (Penguin, 2026), pp. 315-316: When the Soviet Red Army finally launched its attack on the city with Stalin Organs, tanks, howitzers, and other artillery, it was faced by forty thousand Wehrmacht and SS troops, and about forty thousand Volkssturm men, assisted by Hitler Youths. Volkssturm and Hitler Youths were called “casseroles” by the veteran soldiers, a mixture of old meat and green vegetables. The casseroles were armed with little else than a…

Got up at 5:30, got to scottsdale, ran the course at 30:36, got first place for my age group! Woot woot! It’s a benefit for the u of a cancer center. This post (5K Run Fore Cancer) was last edited 15 minutes ago.

Working on a Raspberry Pi (RPi) feels like a trip back to memory lane. My undergraduate degree was in electronics engineering, and I still remember my final year project which involves an RPi.1 Now that I’m in the field of NLP, I’m quite curious how we can fit large language models into these small devices. In this blog post, I document my journey in running a language model in a Raspberry Pi 5! First, I want to lay down the price list: Raspberry Pi 5 16 GB RAM (230 GBP): it was my birthday so…

Barry Lachapelle is the creator of cDox, a Canadian Google Docs alternative. His recent blog post about the "small tech" movement had me nodding along throughout. He calls it a return to the original promise of technology, which I grew up seeing as a force for widespread good. Something we can use to become more expansive and interconnected, not more paranoid and withdrawn. What can I say? It's a great read. Co-signed. Here's what I highlighted: Over the past few years, I have found myself…

"Countdown 4-3-2-1" "Boney Maroney O Yeh!"* [Post from 2010 updated]Record listed in Rockin' Country Style (no location) as Souvenir From Geno Lanzi.Location : Long Beach, California This is the first record of a series of 8 recordings (last issued in 1967) produced by Mark Hendrix who operated the United Artists Theater in Long Beach, California. All following records were either by his son Marlow Hendrix (also using the pseudonym Marlow Stewart) or by The Monacles of which he was the…

Opus 88 Mini Fountain Pen in Baby Beluga (via Pen Addict - Sarah). Now that we carry Opus 88 I’m looking more closely at the Opus 88 Mini. I’ve tried this pen in the past but couldn’t deal with the difficulty posting for longer writing sessions. That said, many people love this particular form factor. A Whole Bunch of New Inks from Papier Plume (via Inkdependence). Papier Plume has revamped their ink lineup, and I had the opportunity to see a few of them in person at this weekend’s Dallas Pen…

After already selling off their collection of modernist houses filled with iconic design and postwar art, Gabrielle and Michael Boyd are now liquidating their vast art, architecture & design library. Richard Prince, orphaned screenprint from Human Nature (dub version), 2001, 24 x 17 cm, signed but unnumbered ed. 250, being sold by the Boyds at Wright20 The Warhol catalogue raisonné AND the Sotheby’s sale catalogue. Thirty eight Donald Judd books at a pop. Thousands and thousands of books,…

“Triple Threat” Josh Collinsworth has a brand new daily puzzler game called Tupo. On it’s surface it looks like a simplified 4×4 Sudoku block but with colored squares. That is the foundation for a simple ruleset: Every row and column contains each number exactly once Every row and column contains each color exactly once Every number + color combination appears exactly once Mini Sudoku with colors. Got it. How hard could it be? Hahahahahahahahahaha. You naive bastard. It’s deceptively difficult…

The Circle is an idea to bring together writing from other private bloggers who are closely observing the world we inhabit together. Working at the edge of dream, symbol, the body, and the unseen. Interpersonal connection. Some people thrive on it, others fear it. Some abuse it, some cherish it. Whatever our relationship to it though, it seems to hold a great power. Do you believe in magic? Anna Sinski · The Underworld It’s a torch in the underworld, a candle flickering in the dark tunnels of…

Cheltenham Open Data has really grown in the last week or so with loads of new pages and I discovered I would need to run some activities from my Raspberry Pi rather than GitHub Actions. As one cannot reliably trust actions on a 5-minute cadence, I also noted an hourly job based on its cron was only executing once or twice a day. With no feedback from GitHub this was happening. Madness. Elsewhere; Work; I’m actively looking for a new job. It looks like a pretty rough market at the moment.…

Muse from Meta in the App Store: Muse AI in the App Store: Compare the two app icons: Muse from Meta has the app subtitle “Your personal AI agent,” Muse AI “Your professional AI Agent.” Muse from Meta screenshot headers include “Your personal agent that takes things off your plate,” “Approve what gets sent or spent,” and “Connect the apps you already use.” Muse AI screenshot headers include “Your professional AI agent that gets work done,” “Approve what gets sent or connect,” and “Connect the…

In professional services businesses, one common piece of advice is to find a very specific customer and focus on serving them. You can segment your customer by an industry, a job role, or a company’s size and growth rate. There are lots of useful books about positioning that help formalize this process. Several years ago, I applied this advice, and chose to serve only software companies that needed to create or maintain engineering blogs. I was focused and committed, only finding out the hard…

Even talking about my woes of if and how to see myself as an artist makes me feel a bit like a fraud. Imposter syndrome needs to be suppressed. When I allow myself to feel and behave like an artist, though, I get these little glimpses of something that somehow feels true. It’s great to be able to talk to Cecilia about these things. She has produced more art in the last couple of years than I have in my whole life of perhaps, sometimes, maybe considering myself an artist.

2026/09/27 Sunday Some pictures I took today: So, hey! The fanzine is finally out! (and you can read it here and here, and there's also an extra here). There was some delay with the release of the first edition, and when it was ready it fucking rained for 4 weeks straight! Then I got the second edition ready and made that other of boredon (it's actually a collection of stuff I have posted on ₱×ĦȻ). Are you reading me? ANYONE can participate so send me your drawings and poems and comics and…

Front Scarecrow, Walderslade Village Back Scarecrow, Walderslade Village

The weekend of 19th-20th September saw 160 teams in action in FA Cup qualifying 2nd round fixtures.My local club, Oxford City, had drawn a trip down south to Dorchester Town. At first I didn't think this was a game I needed to go to... Then I realised I could make a weekend of it and stay on Portland, have a beer in the Convivial Rabbit, and tick off a new non-league ground. And suddenly it became essential.I made my way through Weymouth on buses that were delayed by an Iron Man contest on the…

So we’re nearly at the end of September and autumn is fast approaching. The leaves are starting to turn on the cherry tree. We’re still harvesting potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, runner beans and lots of apples. The main stars at the moment, however, are the late summer flowers. The partially selfseeded cosmos are amazing just now. Here ‘Fizzy White’: And ‘Sonata’: I grew these from seed last year and a few more this year, while the others selfseeded. Last year I also tried growing asters,…

I’ve adored David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me for decades. Since launching Twin Peaks Blog in 2018, I’ve explored the behind-the-scenes stories and details of how this film was created. This time, I’m returning to the end of May 1991 when it was announced that the groundbreaking series would continue as a feature film.... The post When ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me’ Was First Announced in May 1991 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

The house next door is about to be renovated, including removing a chimney stack from the room next door to my office. It'll be a loud, and likely very distracting process. I've got noise cancelling headphones, but, the dogs don't. So, I decided that it would be wise to make sure that we've got an alternative workspace available. At the bottom of our garden is a summer house which currently functions as a (somewhat neglected) gym. There's currently a TP-Link Deco unit in there, meshed onto the…

Pain earns compassion. It does not earn a claim on other people. When someone tells you about their suffering, compassion comes naturally. A man gives twelve hours a day to his job while his personal life falls apart, and his boss says there is nothing special about that. Another man takes care of everyone at home, and no one there cares how he feels or whether he exists at all. You listen, and you want to help. But you can only offer so many suggestions. Beyond that, you have no control over…

Translated from Spanish into English by Will Morningstar & Samantha Schnee. This book isn't out yet, but will be in October 2026. I received a digital ARC from the publisher (thank you!). Told in short chapters, initially this is the story of a woman leaving her drought-stricken home, walking down dangerous mountains towards the sea. Some of her family have made the journey before her, and some will again after her, in search for better circumstances. I don't think this novel needs more…

It’s a rainy morning so I stopped in to grab a coffee before running errands all day. Selfie a day for a year, day 37: Sep 27, 2026 edition.

This is a game about rock, that one is clear. It is also a story about rocks with faces, having too many rock, and “decluttering” them. Apparently that’s a word. If you look at the gameplay, it’s Puzzle Bobble. But what they added to the gameplay and style makes it way more engaging. Like any Puzzle Bobble, the goal is to shoot rock of the same color next to each other, and when there’s a “clutter”, it explode. It takes about five second to understand the gameplay, but a while to get a grip on…

I’ve just started building my next mandolin. In this video, I look at making its rosette in quite some detail. Hope that you find it interesting. Cheers Gary

I'm watching, from halfway across the country, Beatrix make new friends at college. I'm cheering her on as she gets to know them, and goes on adventures, and gets a concussion from being accidentally knocked in the back of the head with a lunch tray, and sits out on the North Lawn at night talking to them as the skunks wander through the brush. I'm loving her tell us about how her friends from school are doing in their new campuses, and what her circus friends are up to. It feels like an…