Romance & Cigarettes (2005)

*NOTE: WORDPRESS FAILED ME YET AGAIN. This post was scheduled for release on Sunday and here we are at Wednesday. SIGH.* Oma’s friend Joanne came for a visit and now they are both gallivanting around the island and I am mad. I am happiest when the whole pack is together and Oma keeps leaving. Daddy is away again too, for something called “werk”. I miss him a lot. What is happening?!?! Me and Daddy, hanging in the Together Times… In other news, I am getting my eyebrows back. Very slowly. Thank…

Quick bits Something I’m still not used to in the UK: external doors generally have handles and don’t fall into a lock. In Germany, you better make sure you have your keys with you when you leave; if the door falls closed you won’t be getting back in. (I’ve never been locked out of my flat.) I upgraded to macOS Golden Gate and after installation, it reopened the windows that I had open previously. The smoothness of this OS upgrade is impressive. Not sure why I upgraded otherwise, though.…

Design, the practice deemed worthless two decades ago via the tired meme “should designers code?” is now the only way to prove your humanity (and worth?) in the age of slop.

And after some searching and some buying (and some exchange with sombody I know) I built my HomeLab core/main server.1 “It” is ZimaBoard2 2 2 WD Red Plus Internal NAS HDD 3.5 4 TB3 I set the HDD in Raid1 for replication and I install ProxMox VE as OS4. The installation software for the distro make the RAID1 for my HDDs. After some problem (I only have the TV as monitor and I don’t have very long cable) I had a working HomeLab for start.

Flixy has always said Trombone Tracey is 'spectrumy' and awkward; and tried to make Flixy move some of her (they're dead, actually) plants, and some other 'stuff' (junk), etc. She also stressed that, in comparison to Flixy's regular performances for Tits on Tour, Trombone Tracey wasn't doing anything much at all, just hanging around upstairs thumping and being demanding. Whereas actually Trombone Tracey performs stand up at the Top Secret Comedy Club, played trombone for Anne-Marie on a reload…

Dear Creative Soul, For years I dreamed of being the kind of person carrying around notebooks everywhere. Sitting on a park bench staring at a tree, taking my time writing a poem, or lingering in beautful cafe’s and writing something profound while sipping a cup of tea. To sustain that dream I wrecked my back carrying big, fancy notebooks with me everywhere. And that’s silly because I’ve known for a long time that I’m most comfortable with pocket notebooks. That image I sketched in the start of…

Afternoon chucking a lure about and two lost jacks before the one above stayed on the hook. Then a proper pike hit my Storm Bleak, cracking fight before the first double of the season was in the net. Then it went wrong; unhooked in the net I went and set the camera & scales up - returning just in time to see my net slide in and my prize escape. About 12lb - but no weight or photo - BUGGER!

It has been a week of strange, slow-paced sci-fi from the 70s at the Ganzeer cinema this week for some reason: 1. WORLD ON A WIRE (1973) Second screening for me. The first time I was probably too young and immature to pick up on what it was actually about. This time around, I was actually surprised to discover that it dives into simulation theory, the core premise of the entire film! What with simulation theory kind of being the topic du jour in 2026, the movie is way ahead of its time having…

Another Sunday, another Meals of the Week post! Sundays is the day that I set apart to share with you, my readers, all of the delicious meals I have cooked, shared and enjoyed over the past 7 days. Most days I eat at home with the occasional meal out.Just because I am a single person, living on my own, is no reason for me to not enjoy tasty homemade meals! I refuse to be someone who eats out of boxes and cans. That is okay occasionally, but for the most part I want to put together meals for…

n.b. This is not today's intended post, but I didn't manage to get to the seaside yesterday. Yesterday I found myself in Pratt's Bottom, the most hilarious of Bromley's outlying villages. It has a pub called The Bull's Head, a church called All Souls, a short parade of shops including World of Sewing and a bus every hour and a quarter. It's also unusual in that part of the village is in London and part isn't, thanks to suburban development whose boundaries didn't matter so much when all this…

We didn't make it again Sunday. But don't worry, we will be back Monday. No polls today. Click here for full story

I've just listened to an audiobook about maps, and I was entertained, I was impacted with knowledge and trivia, and after reading, I was curious enough to continue to read a whole bunch of Wikipedia articles. Did you know, once up a time, you could be watching a television station on Friday afternoon and, without changing channel, you could be watching a totally different station on the same evening? Did you know that there are many reasons why you cannot find the country of New Zealand on a…

When I’m on my bike and do a little evening tour, I often follow the same routes. Some variations here and there, but not too many. On Friday, I did more of a detour from my usual paths. I went along a beautiful lake in Braunschweig towards Wolfenbüttel and then through a little forest next to where I studied. After that, I went back home using the way I regularly rode with my pedelec going back from university. While riding, I was thinking about Wolfenbüttel. It’s a small city near…

Jimmy MillerprojectspostsadventtalksgithubCan we Make React Faster using the React Compiler? As you can see from the graph below, the answer is yes. We can indeed make React a lot faster using React Compiler. But also, as I hope you can see from the graph, these speedups are purely prototypes. In this article, you won't find big proposals for the right way to speed up React. This is instead a project I started to learn more about the React Compiler. Time and time again I've found that if I want…

Spectacular clouds from Hurricane Odalys illuminate the evening sky, at 2nd St in Hermosa Beach. This is a two shot panorama, to give my already wide angle lens some extra width. 雲の風景 ハモサビーチの2nd Stで、ハリケーン「オダリス」がもたらした壮観な雲が夕焼け空を照らしている。 これは2枚の写真を組み合わせたパノラマ写真で、ただでさえ広角のレンズに、さらに横幅を加えている。

Most people think healthy eating requires willpower, kale, and a faint sense of misery. Personally, I prefer a regimen built entirely on Pantry Math and emotional rationalization at 9:15 PM. Look, I’ve given up on pretending I’m ever going to be the person who gets excited about celery sticks or drinks warm water with lemon in the morning. To me, true wellness isn’t about eating green things that taste like lawn clippings. It’s about making tactical choices while standing barefoot in front of…

The World I think there was a UN general assembly meeting last week where Trump and Netanyahu both spouted off so much nonsense. My Week Google Fit says I walked 70,357 steps from last Sunday to yesterday, another 70k week! If I keep this up I'm likely to beat last year's step count total by a significant market. My week was a lot more chill than the previous week, though I have some lingering medical anxiety over some tests I had done. We had one more boardgames session before our friend flew…

| Camera: Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. There are a few mediation habitats I frequent. My Zaffu (meditation cushion), art galleries, old churches, sacred sites and libraries. To me, these places foster an immediate internal settling as soon as you cross into them. They are places of quietude and breath (Latin: spiritus). Presence and immediacy sit thick like warm toffee. In a culture obsessed with optimisation and presentation, where everything has to be extraordinary and flashy to have a change of…

A test blog post for now.

There’s some surf coming in because of some storms offshore. Felt like making a reel, so I did. I also put it on Instagram and TikTok. It’s fun to look back and see fun rides. Why not slap them together. And click those links below the video! artlung.com/videos/reels/rideawave2026/ Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share

When reading “The Mystery of the Blue Train”, I learned that Agatha Christie’s, and Hercule Poirot’s, very first debut novel was “The Mysterious Affairs at Styles”, so naturally, I cracked open the book to see more of the introduction of the great detective. I must say, Ms. Christie definitely opened it with a bang. Right away, smack dab in the middle: A murder in a closed, locked room. Fans’ favorite. I love how this type of case was the starting point for Agatha Christie, as she then proved…

Slop that can spawn

Juniper by Monica Furlong, 1990. Young Ninnoc was born the daughter of a chieftan in Cornwall. She was raised as a princess in her father’s castle and educated as young royalty. She is generally loved and cared for, but there is one person in her father’s household who doesn’t like her, her father’s sister, her aunt Meroot. Ninnoc doesn’t know why her aunt hates her, but she knows early in life she can’t trust her. Meroot isn’t even nice to her own young son. She has ambitions for her son to be…

My only goal was to spend the weekend by the pool. I did, and it was everything I’d dreamed it could be.

It’s a commonplace to say you can read a serious reader’s autobiography on his bookshelves. For some of us you can say the same of the libraries we’ve patronized across a lifetime. Last year I wrote about the first in that multi-state chain, when the public library in Parma Heights, Ohio, on the West Side of Cleveland, was slated for demolition. My brother and I were there in 1963 when the building was dedicated and now its replacement is open for business. The old building was notably ugly,…

As in, I need to get some. (Sorry guys). 😂 More proper bloggy goodness tomorrow. Back to index

I was refurbishing a friend’s DreamQuest Pro mini PC and throwing Omarchy on it when I ran into a surprising crash. Tapping or pushing on the top of the case would crash the whole system. Just an instant black screen that would not recover with time. It didn’t take too much debugging to find the cause. First, I ruled out the display/video stack. Switching to another HDMI port didn’t help. I also confirmed the system actually crashed by playing some music, then tapping the top; if it was just…

The best one-line summary of David Heinemeier Hansson’s (DHH) keynote art Rails World 2026 was this comment on its YouTube video, which it’s why it’s part of this post’s title: This is the most confusing funeral I’ve ever experienced This was the flagship keynote for the framework’s premier gathering, and it felt less like an affirmation of Rails’ future and more like an intellectual abandonment of its foundational craft, delivered by a creator increasingly insulated from the core community…