🚛 Bear blog migration in progess, moving everything to Pika, as I did not renew my subscription with Bear. 2026 and most popular articles have already been migrated, and URL redirects are in place so people visiting those old entries will not end up on a 404. All other entries will be migrated in the next days/weeks. It’s a lot of work as I have entries for a few years, but it allows me to clean and update according to my new setup. Follow-up is done old-school 😁

I loved the late ’80s atmosphere, the colors, and the photography of this movie. Also the cast is perfect… We need more of these little gems! Rating: 🔝Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!

Meh. Great incipit, but this movie feels like a half-wasted opportunity to me. It does not even explain the time period in which it is set —the ’80s— well, except through a few subtle details that are easy to miss. In contrast, for example, Riddle of Fire excels in this regard. Rating: 🫤Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!

New links… A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — “The Oath and the Office” is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there’s still the question: “what counts as good scientific evidence?” “Behind the scenes at Ethics” — editor Douglas Portmore shares how the journal works “Cambridge philosophy gave Scruton a sense of the…

摘录 Cycles are so hard to predict, because it’s easier to forecast in straight lines. What’s almost impossible to detect in real time is the same forces fueling public opinion plant the seeds of their own demise. When times are good, people get complacent and stop caring about good governance. When times are bad they get fed up and say, “Enough of this.” And I think we’re not far from that today. I have a theory about nostalgia: It happens because the best survival strategy in an uncertain world…

Day Thirteen in Tokyo. Takanosho kyujo. Hakunofuji will pick up the walkover win. This news is sad but also a relief. Takanosho appeared to be in real pain with that foot/ankle. I hope he’s chilling on the couch with his ankle iced, watching the action on TV. In another sad development, the Sumo Association also … Continue reading Aki 2026: Day Thirteen

a thought that has been cooking for a while in my head now. it’s still rare, at least medium rare - is it going to get any better? there is a difference between the focused, pin point-sharp center vision and the more broad, peripheral, one might say contextual vision. i feel like, in japanese culture the latter is important and widespread. not strictly in the sense of seeing (different note: myopia epidemic in asia) but rather the field of communication, the use of language. let me explain what…

What’s your favorite love song, and why? Hard to beat a classic like this, not just the soaring melody, Etta’s voice, and the slower sensual pacing, but the whole idea of finding a love ‘at last’ sits well with me. Becca and I have been together for 8 years, and despite the age difference, since we first found each other everything just clicked into place. I didn’t think I’d find love like this in my mid-40s, had consigned myself to being mostly single for a while at that time, but then, there…

One of our sons and his family flew to town and stayed with us for a week. I was busy most of that week preparing to speak at a tech conference the following week, so I missed out on most of the fun everyone had. But I did make it to the Indianapolis Zoo with them, at least. Nikon Df, 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D Nikkor. Get more of my photography in your inbox or reader! Click here to subscribe.

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Please click on this link for my YouTube and Substack reviews of: Jean-Paul Gaultier Fleur Du Male (2026) and Jil Sander Salt, Shiso, Vanille, Mahogany, Sesame and Lily. The post is not behind a paywall and you shouldn’t have to subscribe to be able to read it. Persolaise The post Jean-Paul Gaultier Fleur Du Male reissue & Jil Sander Olfactory Series I Part II reviews – 2026 appeared first on .

An absolutely staggering book. A hundred or so eyewitness reports of events throughout history from Plato to Aztecs to Vietnam, ranging from a single to a dozen pages. It could be retitled ‘Man’s Inhumanity to Man’ as it consists mostly of war, death, massacres, and suffering - Irish famine, black hole of Calcutta, slavery, nazi medical experiments, human sacrifices etc. There are a few light-hearted stories but they are far outweighed by the grim. The story that I found the most fascinating…

Music in the streaming age is weightless. It reaches you through the aether from servers thousands of miles away into whatever speaker happens to be nearby. It seems almost infinite, is completely free of friction, and incredibly easy to take for granted. I recently bought a record player and my first three records, with plans to buy more. To anyone used to tapping a glass screen to hear any song ever recorded, this looks like too much work to listen to a limited number of tunes. Records are…

Music in the streaming age is weightless. It reaches you through the aether from servers thousands of miles away into whatever speaker happens to be nearby. It seems almost infinite, is completely free of friction, and incredibly easy to take for granted. I recently bought a record player and my first three records, with plans to buy more. To anyone used to tapping a glass screen to hear any song ever recorded, this looks like too much work to listen to a limited number of tunes. Records are…

While I was recently browsing the web for interesting physics papers, I came across one in Nature titled ‘A thermodynamically favoured molecular computer’. The work itself seemed interesting but what caught my eye was a pair of lines in the abstract: “… computation can be embedded in a system relaxing to a thermodynamically favoured equilibrium state. Machine learning and search algorithms use this idea, although executed on non-equilibrium architectures at enormous energy cost.” I have come…

My blog is standard.site ready but I’m pausing full integration for now. I desperately wanted the fancy button but after its novelty wore off I’ve accepted the truth. The Bluesky button is bad UX. This has been widely complained about from day one.The problem is obvious for Bluesky users. Clicking the fancy “View publication” button opens the homepage and not the actual article. This subverts the UI design pattern for ‘card’ components which is long established, evident by unhappy feedback.I…

Today's arXiv update includes Joe Waldron and Jakub Witaszek's paper, “An irregular smooth Fano fourfold in positive characteristic”. Here, irregular means that $\mathrm{H}^1(X,\mathcal{O}_X)\neq 0$. This is not possible for Fano varieties in characteristic zero, by Kodaira vanishing. But the authors construct a Fano fourfold over the algebraic closure of $\mathbb{F}_2$ with $\mathrm{H}^1(X,\mathcal{O}_X)\cong\overline{\mathbb{F}}_2$. Whilst this is very interesting for questions about…

Today I learned how to setup a Rust project that can be called from Python with PyO3 and maturin through uv. When you follow the PyO3 getting started guide to create a simple Rust project that can be called from Python, the instructions you get assume you'll use a global Python installation to create a virtual environment and to install maturin into it. You can use uv through maturin, but if your project also has a Rust binary, things may break. When you run a command like cargo run, cargo will…

I've wanted to make some Rogue Trader ferals for a long time. The template was already there with a couple of the figures from the Adventurers range - half-naked lunatics wearing tattered rags and furs, but still sporting advanced weaponry and carrying the odd high-tech bit of equipment.My theory is that my group of ferals are the survivors from some disaster. What probably happened is that an Imperial troop transport ship ran into difficulty whilst passing a wasteland world mainly composed of…

When someone is explaining something to me, I ask on average one question every thirty seconds. I’m sure this is frustrating to some people, but it’s actually a good habit and you should do it too. Trying to understand Most of the questions I ask are very short, and require very short answers. Typically I’m asking for confirmation: “so when you say X, you mean Y?”, or “this X is the thing you mentioned earlier when you were saying Z?“. The point of these questions is to make sure I understand.…

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1990 war, dir. Jack Sholder, Powers Boothe, Rebecca de Mornay: IMDb. Terrorists fire a nuclear missile into the USSR. Things get worse.

It's a big one! Over 800 pieces are due to be added to LEGO® Pick a Brick (PaB) on Thursday 1 October 2026. The included elements are from sets released in June. READ MORE: See the list of all October 2026 PaB new pieces Continue reading »

Heart of the Beast (2025) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated R, for violence, peril, dramatic intensity and fleeting profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.27.26The potentially dire implications of this film’s fleeting prologue constantly hover, like a dark cloud, over the subsequent drama. As they begin their long trek back to the safety of civilization, Belmont (Brad Pitt) and hisloyal dog Odin make a point of replenishing their…

"Johnny Mnemonic" is a 1981 science fiction short story by William Gibson. It is about a man with some sensitive information implanted in his head, who is running from a Yakuza hit man. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: The story follows Johnny, a man who stores secret electronic information inside his head - for a price. When one of his clients is killed he has no way of retrieving the information, so he relies on Molly - one super bad chick with mirrored implant eyes. She doesn't let him…

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Since writing a book on the night sky (The Wild Dark), I can’t help looking up. I’ve slept outside most nights since the end of February, more comfortable falling asleep under stars than in a bed. The other night, I woke startled at the brightness of the Millky Way, thinking it was a wildfire. The nights that drive me inside are some of the best, hauling in my sleeping bag and pad and falling back to sleep to the sound of rain on the roof. Which brings us a post I wrote in 2021, looking up and…

The next frontier in worm research is to be able to visualise (map) the locations of worms, in-situ, and if possible, at the paddock scale. We know so much more about the movements of ants, spiders, beetles, bees/pollinators and the above ground invertebrates. Yet so little about everything below ground. Frankly its a blight on us all we don't know more. Okay maybe that's a bit dramatic, but for a group of organisms that are so important to soil fertility and health, we know so little about…

There are plenty of maps that show you where the world's lighthouses are. Lighthouses, live does something much more interesting: it shows you how they actually work. Instead of just showing each lighthouse as a static point on a map this map gives you a sense of what its light signal actually looks like at sea.Lighthouses, live plots charted coastal lights on a dark, night-time relief map and animates each one according to its real-world light characteristics. Some lights sweep continuously…