Easy mission: I will use all $250 of these free Claude “cloud session” tokens.

We watched Mayday on Apple TV tonight. Fun movie with plenty of action and good laughs. Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh were great in it.

There were forerunners. Nicholson Baker in his 2001 book Double Fold raging at early library digitization efforts that destroyed their physical holdings. Google contracting with the University of Michigan on the quiet in 2004 to digitize their books, bypassing copyright. Other than needing content to feed the adolescent Internet beast that now controls the world, there were more high-minded reasons for digitization. Something like three out of every four books that have ever been published are…

I’ve been backing up my home directories on my NetBSD machines to my FreeBSD backup server using rsync(1). But I’ve been experimenting with using ZFS for /home on NetBSD, so I thought it made sense to use zfs send for backups to the FreeBSD machine instead. But there’s a caveat here. NetBSD’s ZFS only includes support for a subset of the features that OpenZFS on FreeBSD provides. Therefore, if this pool is intended to be used with NetBSD, the FreeBSD zpool should be created with only the…

Cláudio Alves and Eurocheese pause the current onslaught of TIFF reviews to discuss a topic near and dear to their hearts – actressing! Julianne Moore might just fake-smoke her way to a second Oscar with THE DEBUT. CLÁUDIO: For years, I dreamed of attending TIFF, always following coverage of the festival by my favorite critics and pundits. The Film Experience was my favorite haunt in that regard, and I can still recall how much I yearned to be part of the conversation when Nathaniel, Nick…

Steve Jobs probably always see Apple as his company, and that's probably why he did have the company built products just for him, but released to the public. For example: Keynote, the slide presentation software, "was built for me", Steve Jobs had announced during the app's public launch. Now, we find out there is another Steve Jobs product: Cards. Lex Friedman, Lex on Tech: Cards was announced on October 4, 2011. Steve Jobs died on October 5. “No one had the heart to pull the plug on the…

Finally, I've watched a podcast on YouTube, that I've previously only listened to. The podcast: BBC's Global News Podcast. I'm not sure yet if this is a start of something new that I'll be doing in addition to all the other reading and listening and watching I'm already doing. This is not my first video podcast though. I remembered watching NBC News on my iPod back in the day. Nowadays though, the regular podcast player I'm using doesn't do video. ~ Links: Audio: Global News Podcast, BBC Video:…

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She's running low on funds but starts a new Jay Oh Bee on Tuesday! Yay. Here's what we got for her to survive for next week: 7-Day Shopping List (Budget-Friendly & Allergy-Safe) Meat & Refrigerated * Chicken breasts (buy a large value pack, slice thin into cutlets) * Shredded Cheddar cheese (large bag) * Sliced Deli Turkey or Ham * Milk (for mac & cheese) * Butter (for frying chicken and mac & cheese) * Eggs (1 carton) Pantry Staples * Boxed Mac and Cheese (4-5 boxes) * Plain Breadcrumbs (for…

Roll d10 for a futuristic fashion trend for Mothership, Traveler or whatever your preferred spacefaring horror or horror-adjacent game is:1) O2 Deprivation - Purpled fingertips run across compressed tracheas. Vacuum fashion to take your breath away.2) Exo-Osteo Chic - Why simply get a shoulder reduction when you can wear those extra bones as a collar?3) Noo-Sophistica - Belts and jewels and ties layered and wrapped between sleek monochromatic upscale classics.4) Microdust - Shifting micro-bots…

It’s been a challenging week, full of travel and ROSCon, but I’ve still found some time to write about Scripture for VerseNotes. I’ve just finished Zephaniah, and I’m now within 20 chapters of the end.

Durian Smuggler is a small box card game from Indonesia. Well, from both Indonesia and Germany. The designer Simon Schmieder is from Germany but lives in Indonesia. The game has two modes, one best with three or four, and one best with two. These two modes are very different, and at the moment I have only played one of them, the one mainly for two players, but can also be

so if you didnt happen to see what happened in the blogospherei was yelled at again by someone i sorta looked up toat least this time it (probably) wasnt my fault??so yea basically the timeline goes like this:im reading through bubbles posts and notice a bunch of people making complaints about a blogger i sorta likedi read through them and while i understand the complaints i still saw something in unstoryi wrote an article about it (re: re: who is unstory) and email it to unstory since i…

I’ve noticed I tend to tilt my head to one side on these selfies. So I’m doing the opposite. Selfie a day for a year, day 36: Sep 25, 2026 edition.

What is the optimal number of seats in the United States Congress? On 25 September 1789, the Congress proposed twelve amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Ten of these amendments–the so-called “Bill of Rights“–were subsequently ratified by the requisite number of States. The two “lost” amendments that were not ratified at the time are the original first amendment — the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, which would have enacted a new mathematical formula for determining the number of seats…

Let’s find out. Morning I started out looking for something interesting to read while I let the test suite at work run. I stumbled across this Why is the human body so crap except for the liver? which I found fascinating. It would be nice to be able to sleep in as long as my son does. I was up at 5:00am. He stumbled out at 8:30am. Why did I think buying fish oil gummies was a good idea? I like taking my vitamins in gummy form. This might be the exception to that rule. I’ve been slowly working…

I've heard of money growing on trees, but never shoes! This little boy evidently found the motherload - although I doubt he would want to wear heels! As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, click here.

Reflecting on pain and missing it and wanting more (unfortunately)

The first recording today is What’s New Scooby Doo? – Uncle Scooby and Antarctica. In Antarctica, a strange undersea creature emerges and throws a man called Dr Zola into the freezing water. Shaggy and Scooby are volunteering at a zoo, where Scooby has made friends with a penguin called Petey. But the penguin needs to go home to Antarctica, so the gang accompany him there. This is a very generous zoo. They meet the captain of the plane, who introduces herself as a “dedicated iceist. We devote…

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 6th August 1996 Dying fucking Fetus, a band who you really hope no one in your family asks you about when you’re wearing their shirts, are one of death metal’s most iconic bands. A band who kept the flame of brutality burning throughout the late 90s and early 2000s when death metal had disappeared back into the depths again, their 1996 debut record ‘Purification Through Violence’ is now thirty years old and was the catalyst for a band who are stronger than…

Future note to self after two hours of cleaning up old, no longer needed files on the Synology: The reason Time Machine reports that it doesn’t have enough room to perform a backup, even though 1+ TB suggest that it clearly does, is because the Time Machine user account has hit its quota, but TM doesn’t know about the user quota so won’t delete old backups to make room.

I have read the book of Habakkuk dozens of times, with and without commentaries. I don’t think I have ever actually understood it until now, today, as I struggle to encapsulate its movements and meanings for Chapter By Chapter. “The best way to learn is by teaching” indeed.

I just got back home from FanX in Salt Lake City and damn was it a blast. I wanted to go this year because the three legendary voices for Master Chief, Cortana, and the Arbiter were all going to be there. I had planned this for ages, and with the help of some bonus money from work, I made a plan to get them to autograph my Halo 3 Xbox 360. I had debated on having them sign my translucent green Halo Edition OGXBOX or my Halo 3 360. While the Halo Edition OGX is technically the most valuable of…

Last edited 7 minutes ago. If you have the answer, please send me a letter, I greatly appreciate it. If you wanna remain anonymous or send me a cute doodle, you can head to my straw.page. And if you ask me if I spent a good hour of my afternoon tweaking with that page instead of facing my problems, you'd be absolutely right but I'd deny it until my death, so don't even try. And if you need more context, what I can say is that this is a 10-year long relationship that started when I was 26,…

# Kev and Sal have both recently restored the default behaviour of :visited links, i.e. making them purple rather than keeping them the same colour as unvisited links. I'll admit to always hard-coding link colours as well, but I shouldn't. Link colours have been a convention, later a standard, since the early days of the web. I've changed the site CSS so that links inside <article> tags (essentially posts) use :visited.

Click here to book The door to Parliament Look at all the doors where the dead people walked in and out. These are the doors of old London. Some are inviting you in and some are shutting you out. Doors that lead to power and doors that lead to prison. Doors that lead to the parlour, doors that lead to the palace, and doors that lead to prayer. These are the doors that I found among hundreds of glass slides once used for magic lantern shows by the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, many…

I hadn't been on a road trip with Sean for a little while. Today was the day. We've always liked wandering along the Bow River, so today was Carseland Provincial Park and McKinnon Flats. The light was indifferent, and neither place was as interesting as we had hoped. I was quite sure I'd been to McKinnon Flats, but it turned out I was thinking Carseland. When we finally got to McKinnon, neither of us remembered being there. Of course, that could be senility striking both of us at the same time.…