Cool and mostly clear, with a wind that keeps the shadows in motion—and the blue jays, too. Each hard gust brings another few acorns rattling down, and the driveway is filling in with walnuts.

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), Almansor, lines 1291-1296 (tr. Hal Draper): I am so tired, And sick, and sicker even than that; for ah, The worst of sicknesses is life itself; And only death can cure it. This is sure The medicine that is bitterest, but the last, And everywhere available, and cheap. Ich bin recht müd' Und krank, und kranker noch als krank, denn ach! Die allerschlimmste Krankheit ist das Leben; Und heilen kann sie nur der Tod. Das ist Die bitterste Arznei, doch auch die letzte, Und…

I literally cannot remember the last time my Flighty widget was empty.

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The Dungeon Anarchist's CookbookAuthor: Matt DinnimanGenre: Fantasy, Sci-fiReleased: 2021Rating: ★★☆☆☆Welcome to the Gun Show! The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down. Down is up. Close is far.…

I love Devi Sridhar. Yes, I fancy her but that is BESIDE THE POINT. Her recent book How Not to Die looks like self-help at first, but is in fact a brilliant call for radical change in public health (and for an expansion of what that means). It’s not entirely our fault, as individuals, that we’re unhealthy or suffer a low quality of life. It’s that public policy currently nudges us away from making the obvious healthy choices when it should be doing the opposite. And we shouldn’t be at risk of…

Got up at 9.30. A better day. Did all the mowing. Little Jane came just before dinner. Played with her. Girl and Allan came in the afternoon. Brought me a good coat.

I just ordered a Fairphone 6+, Fairbuds and Fairbuds XL. I have an iPhone 17 as my daily driver, but I couldn't help but order this phone and headsets once I became aware it was a thing. I had never heard of it until a colleague got a phone.

In the world of fountain pen inks, is there any better collaboration than Kobe and Vanness Pen Shop? These two recently worked together to produce Vanness Hummingbird, a wonderful Emerald Green ink, exclusively for Vanness. I have one bottle to give away this week, and the winner is: Congrats Jeremy! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping address.

Once in a while we have something that one of us has done to promote, and so is the care today. It’s been a while in coming, but at last my second print book, a greatly expanded version of We Love Mystery Dungeon, is now out through Limited Run Press! It’s just $25, but it’s packed with information, from the original Torneko through to Shiren 6: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island, with absolutely no generative “AI” (always use the scare quotes) used in its creation. This edition has…

Chris Harvey’s video on hyper-local photography came at a good time to accompany my post on the façades project. His main points – you know your area, you can watch it change over time, and the tired glut of “honey pot” travel locations – emphasize why I love photographers who capture their local landscapes and […]

🍿️ The Dead Don’t Die (2019) looked exactly like you would imagine a zombie movie made by Jim Jarmusch to look, especially if you knew that he spent his childhood watching matinee double features. Not his greatest, but it hit the right spot: between the fracking references (the apocalypse came about because some brilliant minds decided to frack the Earth’s poles), Murray and Driver’s deadpanning, Tilda Swinton’s out-of-this-world turn and the Iggy Pop cameo, there was much to love.

September 26, 2026 As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The Verge

Today’s TDC says: Make a dramatic photo at sunrise or sunset. I was in the car driving down the A9 at 10am today, so I grabbed this one from Flickr and tooted it. Findhorn Bay earlier this week, as we were walking home. Findhorn Bay flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Doesn’t this post feel familiar?It’s nice to feel like I am not alone.

I have moral queasiness about the fruit fly work going on in the AI world – I’m not 100% sure why. We need to invent new prayers, that’s where my thoughts take me. Bear with me while I think it through… In case you missed it: Google Research and partners mapped the complete brain of fruit fly (3 September). It’s a common bug and common in scientific research. The male fruit fly has 166,000 neurons across the brain and main nerve cord; the map is called the connectome. Long story short, the…

One of the most plentiful wild fruits I know of, autumn olive (elaeagnus umbellata) also known as autumnberry, may be labeled as a noxious weed, but one taste of the fruit and anyone will agree there's worse invasive plants to have around. Easy to identify and simple to process into sauces, jams, jellies, juice, fruit... Read More The post Autumn Olive / Autumnberry appeared first on Forager | Chef .

I guess I’m getting my moneys worth for my $200 Claude Max account. I went through the local Claude Code history on this Mac: 120 sessions and 254 subagent runs from Aug 6 to Sep 26, about 52k model calls. At API list prices that comes to about $13.7k. If you’re on a subscription, treat the dollar figures as a measure of how fast you use up your limits rather than a bill. Recent weeks run about $2.1–2.5k each. There are obvious efficiency improvements for me to make. 😬

This is my approach to making a bacon sandwich. I’m not even sure if this counts as a recipe really, but I’ve had too many grim ones where the bacon is stringy, and you have to tear it with your teeth.

after the negativity of the last post, i wanted to do something positiveso anyways the Deltarune Unofficial Message Boards is revived from when i talked about it lastfor context, DUMB1 was set to be shut down a week after it was announcedand within 3 DAYS, people already had a new forum frameworked and actively developedand within 2 of the actual shutdown, the new forum was "finalized" and wiped to serve as the successorthat was a WEEK and 2 DAYS of STRAIGHT DEVELOPMENT to mold a brand new SMF…

Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Isabel! I’m a game developer, artist, and writer based in NYC. I make web games like Number Gacha and Breadwinner that deconstruct game mechanics and interrogate why we play. I also sometimes write stories. I love exploring the intersection between games, storytelling, and psychology. What do you use to get the job done? I use a M3 Macbook Pro for development. Usually it’s paired with a huge, curved monitor, which I got from my job a few years ago and now…

The past days I was in London to visit the Big Data LDN event and meet with my friend Paolo and his company’s team at Activate Intelligence. It made for interesting contrasts, and those contrasts made the trip worthwhile where the event on its own would not have. Big Data LDN is a yearly event. I realised as I explored the venue it’s been a long time since I was at a trade fair style event where the focus is on enterprises and business for business sake, as opposed to mostly an exchange of…

What does the metalhead do on their day off and why is it ambient? I listened to all the “black ambient” releases from the 90s to find out. Black metal ambient (Part I) In Part I we ranged through Central Europe, taking in the Austrian syndicate, on to the bonkers peripheries of France’s already bonkers Les Légions Noires, and pockets of life in the surrounding Fauna of Northern European and South American black metal. For Part II we take on perhaps the biggest names in black metal adjacent…

An interesting phrase that I have been attributing various aspects of my life to is "existence tax". How I will initially define this, is: Existence Tax, for a particular person, is the additional cost of living due to unexpected consequence. What quite do I mean by this? Instead of an explaination, how about instead a set of potentially embarrasing situations from my life? I mean, what else are you here for... So, one classic example for me is phones. My family will gladly affirm that I have…

During lunch in Holland Park, London this week, the water bottle had the text ‘ethical glass’.

New York will always be a very special place for me, having been the catalyst for many things in my career, from working with Hillman Curtis in the 2000s to having Cinema Redux appear at the MoMA in 2008 to name just a few. This week I travelled to this favourite city to attend the opening of Gazelli Art House's New York gallery with the show Put the Kettle On which Persian Dreams was appearing in alongside a multi-generational array of artists which Gazelli look after. On the morning of the…

Snapkin is live on iPhone and Android. 😄 Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play For the past few months, I’ve been working on a calorie tracker. I originally built it just for me.

I say the same thing all the time. I tell everyone if you don’t know, then you just don’t know.And to act like you know or to insinuate that you do can be seen as an insult or counterproductive.There is something to be said about the act and the process and the actual motions of going through something.And I get it. Everything is subjective. Everything is left open to interpretation and of course, fiction can become facts and facts can become fiction.True things can be disagreed and be false…

When Dawn of War released I actually had no freakin’ clue what Warhammer was, let alone Warhammer 40K. That didn’t stop me from playing the shit out of it. I still don’t really know that much about Warhammer, I’m pretty sure I’d really like it if I looked into it further. All I remember back then was when my brother came home with a dodgy copy of Dawn of War burned onto three equally dodgily… Source

Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Johann Theodor Henrich Oelerich, son of Johann Henrich and Phennenna (Brinckman) Oelerich, was baptized in Schöppingen 4 August 17571 and died there 23 May 1828.2 He married there 4 November 1800, Anna Maria Adelheid Garteil,3 daughter of Theodor and Anna Margaretha (Steggenbrick) Garteil. She was baptized in Welbergen (now part of Ochtrup) 19 November 17744 and died in Schöppingen 27 August 1806.5 Theodor is called a Tagelöhner (day laborer) in Adelheid's…