...I'm telling myself that, in a kind voice. I fell short of completing Unofficial Blaugust. For my BIRTHDAY MONTH, I decided to take it real easy. I took the time I needed and more. But how to start up again?By Goofin', of course!ragin (positive)In the previous entry, I mentioned running National Rage Week which is usually held in the 3rd week of September. But I never did. I'm tired of ragin', ragin' is tiring and I've been pretty tired.But hey, let's do it! Right now! It's Delayed National…

What started as an exercise for my Witches of Appendix N project has become a rather thorough immersion in the works of Manly Wade Wellman. I have spent more than a couple of months reading his works and listening to his books. I went in looking for witches and any number of useful ideas about magic, and to add another piece to the puzzle: the literary landscape behind Dungeons & Dragons.I did not expect Wellman to start reaching backward into things I had already written.But here we are.The…

Here is another week of indie games I’ve (Josh Bycer) had a chance to check out for my shorts series.

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Wendy’s new emo rock album, Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot is probably my favorite fast food promo project since the anime-styled “choose your own adventure”/dating simulator game I Love You Colonel Sanders. With songs produced by Matt Squire (credits include Panic! at the Disco, 3oh!3, All Time Low, Simple Plan and Sum 41) and featuring the following artists… Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire and Anberlin Chloe Kinnon of Winona Fighter Shane Told of Silverstein Beau Bokan of…

Rain at first but some sunny intervals later. Car washing. H.Doc.B2. H old car on Wednesday making 125 to date. Cleared all the lab bins out. A big truck load today. Got some rags off Mrs K.

This is very much a repeat of part 22 ‘remission again’ from earlier in the year. Milo in his car carrier on a trip back from the vets with a bandage on his foreleg The fifth protocol has worked, and once again everything went smoothly until the visit to NDSR for Epirubicin where we had to delay things a little whilst his neutrophils recovered. I should probably pay more attention to the treatment tracker spreadsheet to adapt things to past patterns so we’re not wasting time and money on vet…

John’s TASCAM 788 The device to the right is the external CD RW backup, which I purchased from Ebay, since I (foolishly) discarded John’s when we were clearing out his apartment. I need this player in order to be able to be able to read the CD backups of his music that he left, since the TASCAM 788 wrote the backups in a proprietary format.

Robert Howell Yard Show in Virginia 1992. I never went back,it was too scary. Original photograph 1992 Robert Howell Folk Art Environment by Jim Linderman #folkartenvironment #yardshow. #folkart

(Just a quick reminder that if you like and appreciate my work, please consider signing up for a paid subscription tier. It genuinely helps keep the lights on. Consider it the equivalent of buying me a coffee every month. I very much appreciate your time and readership!) Last week I wrote about how the press spent the last few weeks falsely "informing" the public that software had gained human-level awareness and was poised to kill everybody on the planet. This was, just so we're clear, not…

In his Rails World 2026 keynote DHH talks about one-shot apps built almost instantly with an agent as part of Omarchy. His canonical example is Omacalc, a dead simple calculator. It’s a good demo and not a hard problem. Let’s take it further and rewrite a more advanced calculator in Rust that we can also run as an MCP server, so an AI coding agent can outsource arithmetic to it instead of hallucinating a square root. In 1994 I wrote an expression evaluator for a lab assignment. It grew into…

Bits, that is. Mitzi is taking a trip to Montreal early next month, and she's going to be gone for almost two weeks. You know what this means? It means I can take over the table. (I almost wrote "dining room table," though it could be considered "the kitchen table," except this house doesn't really have a dining room or a kitchen. It's all just one room. Hence, "the table.") To distract myself from new house matters, the unfolding collapse of American Empire, and everything else that doesn't…

Webster's 1913 Dictionary (github)by Tim Cieplowski (‘New project: Webster's 1913 Dictionary website‘) It’s a static website serving the complete text of Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary from 1913. James Somers wrote a popular blog post about Webster’s 1913, explaining how its definitions are more vivid and literary than what you’ll find in a modern dictionary. There already exists another site, that I sometimes use, websters1913.com, but unfortunately it has an SSL cert issue, and is…

A week in September in Port de Sóller, Mallorca (15th-21st), for sun, sea, mountain-trail hiking, and more. Goat-haunted paths with Blue Rock Thrush, Firecrest and Mediterranean Spotted Flycatcher, Booted Eagle, Kestrel, Red Kite, Raven, Cinereous Vulture, Audouin’s Gull and Herring, Yellow-legged Gull, Little Egret. Fergus Style Soller Beach Butterflies and moths were less numerous, but Lang’s Short-tailed Blue was everywhere, with numerous Vestal, lots of Hummingbird Hawk-moth, two possible…

You had me at “retro Balkan pop music night.”

It was the autumnal equinox a few days ago. For a moment our planet was balanced perfectly, with everyone experience twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days will get shorter and the nights will get longer until the winter solstice. Summer is officially over. I saw it out with my now-annual trip to Spain for the Cáceres Irish Fleadh. It was, as always, great fun. Nothing beats playing loads of tunes into the early hours while sitting…

While the Charles Dickens novel has been adapted many times, Great Expectations (2012) is probably

This post was last edited 1 minute ago. Nextcloud Dashboard One of the best ways to stay private is to just not share it at all. This can be achieved to a degree by running your own cloud server, for example using the open source software Nextcloud. I would say this is an intermediate level privacy project to set up; you need some experience with the command line, and running your own cloud server requires regular maintenance. You need to keep software updated and make regular backups and…

ELCA pastor Clint Schnekloth has been doing some interesting thinking and writing about housing and the Church's responsibility in this time of housing lack; this piece about the vacant (not abandoned so much as underused and underutilized) church space is his latest, and this piece has some specific examples of responses by individual churches.My church is much smaller, both in terms of space and members, than Schnekloth's church in Arkansas. We have had members who needed temporary housing,…

The stock we place in leaders to change the course of countries and companies is more times than not an illusion. The bigger the organization the greater the illusion. For the moment at least these organizations are still made up of humans, and in most cases to think humans march in lockstep you’ve got a hitch in your step. We watch presidents and dictators and CEOs and heads of this and that issue orders, decrees, mission statements, warnings, social media posts, and what have you, and it’s…

8693/21612The positive thing about ending the main RHLSTP show is I will have a bit more time to work on other projects. Maybe.But I don't know which projects I am going to focus on - there are a few things that I want to do. Also most days just thinking of something to write about in Warming Up and choosing a news story to riff on in Newsround seems to take up most of the day.Have I made a mistake ending my one project that actually makes me some money in order to concentrate on esoteric stuff…

At Ask a Manager, Alison Green pays tribute to her mother on the second anniversary of her medically-assisted death.I recommend reading the whole thing because it's about an important issue, but perhaps in a private setting, because it is touching, especially if you have experienced or are experiencing a similar situation.For now, I leave you with two excerpts, the first of which makes it clear that this was a very good person:My mom had always lived life on her own terms, so it wasn't…

Wassup, Traipser! Welcome to my newsletter about creativity, travel and living an intentional life. I started it writing online years ago when people still liked getting email; I didn’t use AI to write blogs (or emails) then, and I still don’t.Speaking of AI, this week this newsletter dives into:Memory dividendsAcquired tasteBook recsIt’s been an excellent six weeks on Vancouver Island!To kick things off, I dig this Time take on good phone hygiene:Open your most-used social-media app. Ask…

Only just over a month away! I hope I know all the words of my new songs off by heart by then!Support is from songwriter extraordinaire Lorraine LucasTickets here: https://wegottickets.com/f/26674

Intro My solution of a Network challenge Follow the Sequence on the CTF site 247CTF.com. Instructions We are trying to improve resource utilisation by spreading data across several subflows. We needed to install a new kernel module, but the speed upgrade is worth it! Can you combine requests and recover the flag? Exploit # 1. Pull raw MPTCP data sequence numbers and payloads from each capture for f in chall-i1.pcap chall-i2.pcap chall-i3.pcap; do tshark -r "$f" -Y 'tcp.len > 0 && mptcp.dss.dsn'…

I am currently reading this book as part of the NRK podcast Leseklubben. More to come when I've finished reading it.

Bruce J. Krajewski Under Review:The End of Modern Literature: On Permanent Revolution. Kojin Karatani. Edited by Hiroki Yoshikuni, Jonathan E. Abel, and Yoshiki Tajiri. Verso, August 2026. Known best for his notions of “the will to architecture” and “transcritique,” the philosopher and former literary critic Kojin Karatani is a bit sheepish about announcing the end of modern literature, which he says was “born by accident at the end of the last century,” when a “former student I wanted to help”…

I wanted a Journaling app for myself for a very long time but I couldn’t find something with which I resonated. For such things I prefer them as web app, they enable you to use them from anywhere, they can even be installed on your phone like an app. The main requirement for such an app was to be completely secure, all user contents must be end-to-end encrypted. The encryption method I chose was AES-256-GCM-SIV. I have used LLM-assisted coding from time to time, but this is the first time that…