by Dan Sinker Mostly, it seems, we yell. We yell about the world, we yell about the other social sites, we yell about news stories we didn’t read, we yell about whatever sucker was unlucky enough to be that day’s main character, and we yell, mostly, at each other. We yell because we are mad at all of this. And we yell because we’re all trapped in a machine that was built, in part, to keep us yelling. It’s rare to find someone who doesn’t feel like this. Maybe we don’t find them because they…

“Bud By The Bay“ Welcome to autumn. The burning of fossil fuels within my home has already begun. And the wearing of more layers. It’s madness all this circling of the sun. A few days ago, it was too hot. Now… I wonder if it will be too hot ever again. I think deep thoughts like that from time to time because, as the poet wrote, I am a sensitive man. So sensitive that I took a photo of the scene above when I came upon a can of Bud sitting quite upright by a familar path, looking out upon the…

[All between August 28 and September 24, 2026, a moody Thursday] [Recommendation for the background is Yes I'm Changing which I heard in a coffee shop as I wrote this.] DataDays since home: 70 We have been moving Places behind me are London, Bristol, Hay-on-Wye, Windermere, Fort William. I had excursions to Seven Sisters, Brighton, St Ives and Cornwall, Oxford, Bath and Keswick. One must think and think really hard when the vibe calls for itToday I am in Edinburgh. It is a tad bit cold. Not the…

We have been looking at the historical development of the method of exhaustion in Ancient Greece and China. Parallels are often drawn, not incorrectly, between the method of exhaustion and integral calculus. However, there are important differences between the two mathematical methods. One very significant difference is in the area of mathematics utilised. The method of exhaustion was carried out entirely geometrically, whereas calculus is arithmetical and algebraic. The Greeks couldn’t really…

Yesterday, I hopped on a train to Newcastle to interview Molly Tie for a pilot Community Radio show. I will divide it into two sections: A Postcard From Newcastle, and a Postcard To Newcastle. On Friday, I'm due to interview Johny Brown of the Band of Holy Joy, who was brought up in North Shields and has relocated to London. Molly has moved to the Toon from Portsmouth, and her 'postcard' is all about what she has discovered since she has been there.Molly did a really great interview: she said…

I can’t remember the last time that I worked from home for two days in a row. It felt strange to leave my work laptop at my desk at the end of the first day, knowing that in the morning I would just pick up from where I left off. I guess I’m now fully acclimatised to mainly being in the office again. This week, we had some important visitors at our office on Friday, which meant that many of us planned to go in, bumping my scheduled days at home to earlier in the week. I love this time of year.…

A pinned local Qwen3-4B study made every compiled-context answer structurally valid while observed correctness and unsafe acceptance both rose.

Having enjoyed MacKenzie Common’s previous book, The Six Murders of Daphne St Clair, about a ninety-year-old woman looking back on her life as a serial killer, I was interested in trying her new one, another crime novel this time set at Oxford University. The Scholars follows five students who are awarded Oxford’s coveted Shepherd Scholarship, an award given only to the most exceptional candidates each year, many of whom go on to become world leaders in their fields. This year’s Shepherd…

I am back from my holidays, and also from doing another project - more soon. Thank you for continuing to look and comment while I was away, and patiently waiting for a new post. Reader comments encouraged me to go with this classic: No Wind of Blame by Georgette Heyer published 1939 This book has many fans, particularly among my readers, mostly because of the truly wonderful character of Vicky Fanshawe, a girl who is forever putting on an act, and dressing accordingly. No Wind of Blame has…

From The Verge: Apple has developed an unexpected workaround to prevent the iPhone 18 Pro Max from being hit by shipping restrictions on big batteries. There’s a “battery-firmware solution” in place on the new iPhones, according to Apple’s support page, which keeps capacity below the 20Wh limit for single-cell batteries set by international shipping regulations — but this firmware lock automatically removes itself when the device is booted up for the first time. […] If the user needs to send…

2025 science fiction novella, last of its trilogy. Ada must sneak in to not-SpaceX headquarters and hack the nanites that will fix Earth's ecosystem so that they actually do the job.

I mentioned a while back how a reread of Anri Yasuda’s excellent Beauty Matters, a work on literature and aesthetics in early nineteenth-century Japan, inspired me to acquire a book from each of the four main authors mentioned therein, and I’ve already got around to trying some rare cuts from Natsume Sōseki and a collection of assorted odds and ends by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Today, though, sees me moving away from such undisputed J-Lit giants and checking out a book by a slightly less familiar…

EMBO Live-Action Debut The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch basic figure Item No.: Asst. G2786 No. G2623 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: #406 Includes: Hat, bowcaster, alternate hands two bowcaster chunks Action Feature: Removable hat Retail: $19.99 Availability: August 20206 Appearances: Star Wars: The Mandorian and Grogu Bio: The bowcaster-wielding Embo is a lethal warrior and seasoned bounty hunter tracking prey since before the Clone Wars. (Taken from the cardback. And despite it being from a new…

It’s ten years since we moved into this house. It seems like an appropriate moment to reflect on how the garden has changed. I kept a garden diary for the first five years that we lived here and have continued for the following five with this blog – its a little erratic but it records […] Ten years This came up on the WordPress ‘on this day’ thing. I couldn’t think what I’d been doing for ten years in 2019 – living in my current house and garden, it seems. Anyway that means we’ve now been here…

Test Icicles For Screening Purposes Only This is a cross-post from my Sound Club music club, where I regularly share an album for listening and discussion. Check out the club here. The mid-00s UK rock scene had become a relatively safe space. The rise of the Strokes and The White Stripes in the US had their own response on the other side of the Atlantic, but it had ultimately culminated in the concept of ‘landfill indie’. Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, and The Zutons knocked out rock songs with little…

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September brought a welcome change of pace for many of us; routines pick up, and we turn from loose, easy summer to disciplined, focused autumn once again. I'd like to talk about rosemary this week, because its long-standing association with improving memory and focus feels especially relevant to the return to order that September represents. An old, reliable reputationThe associations of rosemary with memory and recall date back to Ancient Greece at the very least, with students and scholars…

So, we are back on the Warwickshire Avon, Nic and I, and to be honest it has been a while. Not because I have fallen out with the river, or because the river has specifically asked for a restraining order, but simply because life, work, family, weather, fish and the general nonsense that surrounds trying to go fishing all seem to conspire against actually going fishing.Nic, on the other hand, has recently become something to appease the curtain twitchers, largely because his Seven Heaven Weir…

weather: ☀️ summer is back and i hate all the sweat-laundry it makes me do critters: HUGE swallowtail my biggest problem in life, like besides the ongoing polycrisis, is my resting bitch face. also resting bitch voice, and, somehow, resting bitch text. i think these are leftovers from a period of extreme intensity in my youth before transitioning from buttercup to bubbles (raven to starfire, veronica to betty, haruka to minako...) this is all a pain in the ass because i'm actually very silly.…

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Winter? Ham wa nich. Zumindest kommt es mir im Ruhrgebiet inzwischen manchmal so vor. Ich bin zwar eine ziemliche Frostbeule, aber bei Schnee werde ich plötzlich erstaunlich enthusiastisch. Weiße Landschaft, knirschender Schnee unter den Schuhen und diese eigentümliche Ruhe, die entsteht, wenn alles unter einer dicken Schneedecke verschwindet – dafür nehme ich sogar kalte Finger und eine rote Nase in Kauf. Richtigen Winter hatte ich lange nicht mehr erlebt. Bis ich Ende Januar 2015 nach…

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…

We've been enjoying a series of Disneyland Hotel photos from Lou Perry, scanned by his daughter Sue B. Today will be the last four! It's been fun. The Marina was added to the Hotel in 1970, adding a general nautical/island theme; this dock had a number of different types of boats moored, along with the paddle boats. I wonder if those odd flat-bottomed boats with the decorative arches were available for weddings? You, your bride, a priest, and two guests! This corner of the Hotel property is not…

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This site for me is a hobby, so I like tweaking things from time to time. It started when I noticed some cruft in the metal section of the pages, and I decided to get rid of it. In the process I worked with an if... then... else because of old habits. Just after I did that, I remembered that Tera now has a ternary function, which is actually perfect for what I wanted to do in this situation. It’s a lot shorter and cleaner-looking. That should help me a lot with the misplaced endif that I…

❮ ❯ × I have done two small “acts of resistance” lately. One is somewhat revealed by the featured image above as I have finally replaced my old Kindle Paperwhite with a Kobo Clara BW. I have for a long time wanted to replace the Kindle as I did not want an e-reader from Amazon anymore. I very rarely used the Amazon store to buy books for it as I primarily loaded books into it by using Calibre and mostly relying on the huge back-catalog of Standard Ebooks to fill it.

Ep #254 With Brad Frost ✨ Robbie and I welcome Brad Frost to talk grief and acceptance around AI, the Orchid synth, snowboarding as a metaphor for finding your line through chaos, why domain expertise matters more than ever, Van Halen's green M&Ms, and Brad's AI and Design Systems course. ⤷ whiskey.fm · spotify · apple · youtube

This Revolution Class 66 is beyond superlatives. It was after I fitted sound to my EWS example that I decided to add a second to the collection, whilst I figured, they were still readily available. As a result the DB liveried 66128 arrived earlier this year…There is nothing that detracts from the quality of finish, of finesse or of performance of this model.The intention with ‘Modern Goods’ was to model something of today’s railway, but already things have moved on with DB Cargo up for sale……

I haven't posted about this yet, but last week my friends and old coworkers still remaining at Heart Machine were all laid off. As far as I know, the company no longer has any development staff. I don't have a full list of HM people looking for jobs, but some of my friends have posted demo reels and portfolios. In general, I wanted to say that everyone who was working at HM was extremely good at their job, and any of them would be a killer hire right now. There are so few jobs in this industry,…

In a 2018 interview for the Guardian he explained that many of the stings were accidentally received due to the nature of his work. But what wasn’t accidental was his dedication to recording and capturing the unique data: “I know some people think me crazy, but I am no masochist, and only occasionally am stung on purpose. When it does happen, I initially react as anyone else would – cursing, more than I should admit. Then I get out my notebook and stopwatch, sit down and make notes.” The full…