Eight years, and doneby Bryce WrayA departure post from Bryce where he talk about his exit from blogging and his motivations for doing so.Read post ➡ It's always sad to read these kind of posts. Yet another blog has fallen by the wayside, but I understand Bryce's rationale. I've been quietly following his blog for a few years now, so I'll be sad to see him gone from my feed. Bryce, if you're reading this, all the best and thanks for many great reads. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is…

18:32 If you judge me by the books I read, I am one of the dumbest people. Because I read what interests the present me. And he is not the same every day. So, don’t. 20:14 I have been struggling recently to decide on anything. Fatigue is real. Reply to this post

Another HE board. 67 keys Wired only Hall effect A bit over 3 mm travel Four profiles North-facing LEDs Web configurator CNC aluminum case, hard anodized Bare version tested; comes with switches, but no keycaps No knob No side or back lighting Compact: only 12 ¼ inches wide Comes with a nice padded case I installed a set of Awekeys caps, which pretty much block the north-facing backlighting. Feel is crisp. Sound is more clicky than thocky. Sure sounds different from the same keycaps on a…

Heard about Andrew W.K.’s new album (allegedly we’re calling this jazz-noir) in, of all places, a marketing email from Blackwing. Darcy Smyth describes it perfectly: This is lounge music for a room that might not exist, all smoke and red curtains, the kind of piano that sounds like it’s remembering something it can’t quite say. Total Twin Peaks Roadhouse energy, like Lynch left the lights on and wandered off. Been in rotation for days now.

A somewhat moralistic tale of the earth’s population exiled to vast space arks (one thousand of them) in order to teach humanity the folly of destroying its environment and the evils of capitalism. All is well until we encounter what Iain M. Banks would call a “smartmatter” outbreak. There’s quite a bit of horror (which Squeamish me didn’t really like) and Gareth is not afraid to kill off fairly major characters and millions of innocent bystanders. The origin of the “smart matter” is quite a…

Cat + Gamerby Wataru NadataniGenres: Manga Pages: 160 Series: Cat + Gamer #7 Rating: Synopsis: Office worker Riko Kozakura lives to play video games, but her life changed forever when she adopted a kitten! Now she has two cats and takes lessons from video games to help raise them. Riko Kozakura continues to learn and grow with her two cats. With twice the fun, twice the laughs, and twice the trouble, Kozakura has her work cut out for her! “Leveling up” in skills, surprises, and adventures, Riko…

Introducing the world’s most powerful model, at least by some measures like Artificial Analysis or any standard benchmark list, which is now Claude Opus 5.5. Anthropic is claiming Opus 5.5 is outright as good or better than Fable 5.1, while being actively cheaper than Opus 5. That means it’s time for a good old system card reading. Due to the situation becoming increasingly hard to monitor, I never got a chance to publish my model welfare review for Claude Fable 5.1. My plan is to combine that…

23:05 - Been playing a whole lot of the Witcher 3 DLC, Blood and Wine. I've been wanting to blog for the last two days but I'd rather be sidequesting, teehee.

The checklist mindset is when you make a checklist of all your open tasks and then race through the checklist with the intention of just finishing the checklist with no actual concern for how well you are doing the tasks or how important is one task over another. The checklist mindset at face value is really good at getting tasks “done”. But thats not the only important thing is there? Some tasks are long running tasks which need planning or more careful consideration. Some tasks are risky and…

So I am a TO-DO list person. Whenever I think of a task that needs to be done I add it to my TO-DO list. I have been using Asana in which you can classify the tasks into multiple lists based on importance or urgency but honestly all tasks end up in the same list. It is hard to stay organized on that. Now TO-DO lists become this massive dump yard if they are not cleaned once in a while. My usually policy is to clean them once a week but my TO-DO list is always overflowing and the promised glory…

Josh Withers, quoting Chris Martin, quoting a post he saw on Twitter: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence.

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For a while I’ve been thinking about how I want to view my relationship to GenAI as a tool, and I think I’ve settled on a metaphor: I use GenAI in the same way…

Proud my my mate Joe releasing his third excellent book. Funny, touching and hilarious. https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-author-liberated-after-growing-34634024

I haven’t been over to Rough Banks since the butterfly walk last year, and today Glorious Grasslands were seeding a substantial meadow and also cutting some green hay on the site. I joined the haycut team with David and Chris. We were going to take a green hay cut from a very species rich bank on the reserve and add it to the seeded meadow. The main idea was to just cut the patches with sparse grass, and just enough to get the seed heads. No need to go very low, as we might do during winter…

Spending 15 minutes on a call with insurance annoys me much more than it "should" but I think my feelings are correct here. I can only call the insurance company Monday to Friday, 7am to 7pm. Mornings are for getting my son ready, commute is too loud for a call, work break is for resting, evenings are for dinner and family time. I have maybe like an hour a day when I could make the call. In other words, free time during the workweek is very scarce. Call to insurance company takes 25% of that…

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Navigating homeownership panel (L to R):Jennifer Pratt, Stephanie Schumacher, Matt Skogman,Ann Roushar, Zach Kucharski(9/23/2026) Prospective homebuyers, both first-timers and "right-sizers," heard a lot to ponder Tuesday morning at the latest edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette's Business Breakfast Series, held at the NewBo City Market. Realty, finance, and community development were represented on a panel hosted by the Gazette's Zach Kucharski. The owner-occupied housing market has not been…

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Usually I’m so busy chatting and marveling when I visit Helmut that I totally forget to take a few photos. Fortunately someone stopped in for some ribbon on a Hermes yesterday, so I took a moment to document some of the density of typewriters in Helmut’s spectacular typewriter shop. I only got photos of about half of the space, but tried to cover all the various refurbished machines ready for sale. Generally not pictured are the client machines for repair. If you’re looking for a really great…

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Happy 100th Birthday Trane! View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize John Coltrane was born 100 years ago today. In celebration of this occasion I’m posting this classic on Atlantic which has eluded me for years.Such an iconic album with a title track for the ages. It’s so bloody good. No wonder the album gained major commercial success. At this time, pre Reggie Workman…

In this episode we're going to see possibly my favorite Data East game, Guns N' Roses, which I would also say is the first band-themed pinball game that convincingly plays their actual music. (Cactus Jack's and Al's Garage Band don't count.) Unlike most of Data East's previous games, we won't see a "Coming Attraction" attract-mode ad for it on a previous table. The recurring feature where Data East games would advertise an upcoming game, with a light show and DMD animation, was on the way out…

Charles de Gaulle was France’s president when I was born, but by the time I was paying attention to affaires internationales he was long gone, and apart from seeing his image on old stamps I never knew much about him. Since moving to Britain, I’ve flown into and out of the airport named for him, which seems to be the only time most people here think of de Gaulle nowadays, other than remembering him as the man who opposed the UK’s entry into the EEC. When I heard on social media a few days ago…

I’ve finished the game; I was nearly at the end. My previous posts are needed for context. From the Microbee Software Preservation Project. I had left off on an apparent combination lock with four symbols, where you had to enter an “input” as a string of numbers. I had tried every permutation 1234, 2341, 4231, etc. with no luck. I decided after enough further struggle that I must be missing an item, so I re-checked every location and item in case some of the ones that were previously red…

In the 1930s, caring for people with mental illness in the United States was largely centered on large state hospitals, where patients could remain for months, years, or sometimes much of their lives. These institutions were designed to provide housing, medical supervision, and psychiatric care on a scale that smaller hospitals and community services could […]

I travel in the wrong direction the distance between us greater yet I feel closer to you in this place of unfamiliar faces where I can be anyone, anything `` I feel closer to you

Continental Army Uniforms: Brown Was the First Red, White & BlueNew video!Search for a Continental Army uniform and you'll find a blue coat, trimmed with red and lined with white. But the first American uniform was brown.A uniformly dressed American soldier did not exist at the outset of the Revolutionary War. Continental soldiers varied tremendously depending on which colony, region, or regiment they belonged to. New England colonies paid soldiers to bring clothing from home. Massachusetts…

Want to read a bold public transport plan for Melbourne but concerned the state government hasn't written one for many years? The Rail Futures Institute has stepped into the breach with its 30 year plan out to 2060. Read the overview (4 pages, 3 MB pdf)Read the plan (34 pages, 7 MB pdf) Order a hard copy ($40 posted)In the last decade Melbourne has spent record amounts on transport megaprojects. Car drivers are now much less likely to be stopped at railway boom gates and have the West Gate…

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG, for no particularly reasonAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick BangIn a rare case of a supporting player overtaking the popularity of his former co-stars, Shaun the Sheep clearly has stolen the Aardman spotlight, since his unassuming debut in 1995’s Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit animated claymation short, A Close Shave. When one of the flock members accidentally grows a cauliflower, instead…