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.…

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Hi Crowd! Anticipation is a funny thing. About to happen. Almost there. Not quite just yet. Soon? Soon. I’m slowly de-Google-ing my life with the help of a number of services not the least of which is Proton. Mail is/was easy as I’d been kind of juggling the two for 15 years or so anyway. Migrating from Google Calendar is not as simple, in part because Proton Calendar is encrypted so syncing back and forth is a bit problematic. For assistance I went to Google’s AI SI Gemini and told it I wanted…

Hayden Field, reporting for The Verge: We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta’s new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active users in the US, by an Apptopia estimate. And AI agent platform Instinct, whose eponymous creator is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation, has been making the rounds in the tech industry. Under the hood, though, there are some obvious similarities to the platform that started it…

Well... we are half-way through Halloween 2K26 this year, and I have quite a few more Halloween/spooky season themed posts to come. My original plan had a daily post for all of October, but I've decided to save some of these for next year to offer a little more balance to the blog. And to be honest... after the initial work on writing up these posts, it really hasn't gotten me into the holiday spirit as much as I hoped. In fact, I'm more interested in watching Star Trek and superhero stuff…

When I was younger1, I thought of myself as a man without pier. But after 19 bags of concrete mix and a ton of work with a post hole digger, my thoughts of myself have descended closer to the average: Two weeks ago↩

Making final revisions to Don’t Be Too Sure on the Terrace. An all-tuba band on the Terrace Stage playing an all-tuba cover of “Black Hole Sun.” Sorry for light blogging lately. See “making final revisions” above. Just realized I misspelled the first name of Katharine Briggs, who’s mentioned several times and who I read a whole book about. How many mistakes are left in this thing? (I suppose if I’d kept a rigorous log of mistakes found and plotted it over time, I could curve-fit and estimate…

Today came in densely foggy. Enough that we were getting fog advisories from the weather department. While the girls were out doing the morning cat feeding, they heard was sounded like rain, but it turned out the fog had condensed on tree leaves so much that it started to “rain”, but only directly under trees! … Continue reading A pretty good day, and trying it out

Love those pickled onions you get at your favorite Mexican place? How about the escabeche of jalapeños and carrots? Well, I've got a new favorite condiment to lavish on tacos and in burritos, and scatter with abandon on egg dishes. This batch had garlic and those habanada peppers, but feel free to add any or none! I first heard about fermented corn from my friend Hank Shaw, who ran across it in a book titled "Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes" by Ronni Lundy. Smacking my head…

One of the most successful and memorable shows of the Almeida's Gooldilocks era was Rebecca Frecknall's rediscovery of Summer and Smoke, which took an obscure Tennessee Williams play and revealed it as equal to some of the playwright's most famous works. It came to mind with the penultimate show programmed by Goold, as director Sam Yates has spotted the potential for a striking night at the theatre in a 1937 play by the influential but largely forgotten American playwright Clifford Odets. Where…

Detail of the cruise ship Carnival Fantasy, docked in Cozumel, Mexico. The post Fantasy Waterline appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

★★★★★ I finally watched the first season of Severance. There isn’t a bad episode in the bunch. The slow burn from Helly waking up with no memory, through Mark finding out about their missing colleague, through the revelation in the season finale of who the rest of the Macro-Data Refinement team’s outside selves are (not to mention the wellness counsellor) is utterly gripping. And some of the curveballs really hurt. If you're not familiar with the premise, it's set in a high-security workplace…

Next stop, one of my favourite Japanese restaurants. Nice way to end a day of walking Montreal. I’m at: Kyo Bar Japonais, Montréal, Québec Location map: https://misterchrisjones.ca/location/chris/7389/ Note tags: checkin, food, montral, qubec, japaneserestaurant

minimalismI bought a mattress under the pressure of my dear old mom when I moved in last month. I didn't want one so I could save space, but I come from a family where no actually means "pry until they say yes". Bought it for $300, slept on it for a month, back was destroyed. I crammed it into my brother's old room, and bought a $60 floor futon from Amazon and some cheap boat mattress liner as my tatami. First night was uncomfortable. I could feel the blood rushing to my head when I laid on my…

I started gt4carp in 2020. It is an IDE for Carp in Glamorous Toolkit, or at least it has been threatening to become one for about six years. The first…

I asked Grok4.6 to summarize the usual human pattern of “othering”:Humans typically other out-groups differing by ethnicity, nationality, religion, politics, class, or status. We stereotype them as less fully human, more threatening or inferior, reducing empathy and moral concern. This justifies suspicion, exclusion, discrimination, or hostility toward them while granting in-group members greater trust, resources, and benefit of the doubt.In fact, we treat some outsiders as beasts or…

I recently wrote about how I was pleased that Daniel Way is happy now, even if that meant he basically quit making comics. I mentioned how my favorite thing he did was, "Supreme Power: Nighthawk," and it made me a bit nostalgic for the 2007-ish Marvel MAX (the mature readers line) mini-series. It spun out of the main, "Supreme Power," series which was one of the better things J. Michael Straczynski ever wrote, even if his characterization of Kyle Rayne/Nighthawk was extremely two-dimensional…

On his fascinating and long-running Windows dev blog The Old New Thing, Raymond Chen writes about the story of scrollbar right-click menus: Windows 2000 added a right-click menu to the scroll bar. This menu gave you four options that matched existing mouse operations, two operations that matched existing keyboard operations, and a new operation. The interesting new one is “Scroll Here”: You can right-click directly on the spot you want to scroll to, and then pick “Scroll Here”. This is much…

New mirror in the bathroom. So the rule is clear. (Also, I didn't have anything else to post today…)

I finished up my labs, tests, and doctor's appointment. The coronary artery calcium test (CAC) came back at 130 (a non-negative result that usually results in a statin recommendation at my age and gender. My cholesterol was reduced, but my LDL (the bad cholesterol) wasn't reduced enough to avoid the statin recommendation. So, at age 65, I'm on my first medication, designed to reduce LDL cholesterol and hopefully avoid additional narrowing of the arteries. The good news is that my doctor says…

Did you know, if you have a lot of cats who share litter boxes, and you need to bring in a sample from the litter box for the vet, and you’d really like that sample to be from The Specific Cat in Question, you can FEED YOUR CATS CRAYON SHAVINGS so that you can tell whose litter box sample is whose?? What a world. What a world. In related news, I have spent time today whittling curls of four different, brightly-colored crayons into bowls, and mixing the shavings with highly-enticing CANNED FOOD,…

Lotta zine-making energy in the world these days. I recently got to contribute Schoolhouse Rock-inspired cover illustrations to this bilingual zine on overcoming common barriers to voting: If you’re in the U.S. and want to help your neighbors get to the polls for midterms this November—especially folks who are worried about voter intimidation—this is a great resource. It’s in English and Spanish (reversible!) and came together thanks to a crack team of elections specialists, print nerds,…

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Yes, it's time for another Curious British Telly video and today it's Scragtag: The Scruffy Cat Who Hosted Children’s TV. I didn’t watch Scragtag and his Teatime Telly when it initially aired in the mid-1980s. I mean, not that I can remember at least. It’s likely that I was sat in front of it at some point, but those memories are long gone. Since discovering it about 15 years ago, though, I’ve been rather fascinated with it. That's why I've chosen it to be the latest Curious British Telly…

It is May 23, 1993. The Lady of the Past, leader of the pyramid cult “Present”, has just washed her underwear and, in the process, erased the brains of all humanity. Only you, a robot(the titular Future Knight) built over 30 years from the remains of a 90s soap opera actor, can stop her. But you are not alone. You have Two More, a benign tumor, inexplicably powerful and with a life of its own that lives inside you. I have quoted the eShop page for Future Knight to explain the bizarre plot to…

Do you want to talk to your loved ones about the HuggingFace swarm, but don’t know how? Have you watched your cousin’s face glaze over when you talk about the METR report? Do you wish there was an easier way? Now there is, with frogandtoad.ai, which tells the story of the HuggingFace attack in the style of Arnold Lobel’s classic children’s stories, where by classic I mean “older than me”. Thanks to Timothy Telleen-Lawton for funding this work! AI disclosure: this started as a joke prompt to…

✈️ Of I go to Cyprus for my brother’s wedding. Had a burger, beer and cheesecake at Caplansky’s which was seriously excellent all around (not going to lie wasn’t expecting much).

I feel like a big problem that communities, both physical and online, are currently struggling with is a variation on the “Nazi bar” problem. Michael B. Tager wrote the following thread on social media back in 2020: I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

For a very long time I was a triple screen enjoyer. Nicely symmetrical and it made it easy to split IDE, chat and documentation across multiple screens. When I got a Pro Display XDR I was on the fence if I should just keep one or two of the 5k LG displays around, but the difference in dpi was too noticeable and it threw me off. So I got a second Pro Display XDR. Turned out that was not the best idea (but not for the reasons you might think). First of all the XDR is amazing and I would not trade…