walking in nature has become one of my favourite things in recent times. yesterday I had the opportunity to have a little stroll in a forest, with some of my family ♡ today, i still feel recharged. here are some pics:

Recent Comments grab bag vol. 4 — jg: “Another cozy thing is the narumi YT channel. More slow living. I don’t think this is cottagecore.”

If you haven't looked at the Napster website lately, get ready for some major AI-related indigestion. The former music-sharing rebel is now peddling AI digital twins of teachers and serving the Saudi market.I’m a strong advocate for doing things to keep historically relevant websites and companies online. But not like this.Recently, word broke that Napster, a company that you once knew as your primary method for downloading mislabeled Phish covers, had pivoted to AI educational tools. Which is…

Man there’s so much of this movie that rules, but there’s also so many checkhovs guns that are set up and then politely holstered that I didn’t feel the tension of the setups concluded. The ending truly sucked.

Surely every gamer knows Command and Conquer. Console gamers, PC gamers, new and old. SURELY. If not, FOR SHAME. Command and Conquer is widely considered one of the games that defined and popularised the RTS genre as we know it. We were a little late to the game in our house, we first rented it for the PlayStation from Blockbuster Video (Blockbuster seems to be a recurring theme this month… Source

Alex Dupree - Talking to the DogThe new record from Alex Dupree has an array of classic singer-songwriter touchstones — vintage JJ Cale, the thin, wild mercury of “Tombstone Blues,” Mickey Newbury’s weary poetics, No Other-era Gene Clark, the hobo wisdom of Michael Hurley. And a brilliant re-imagining of Hurley’s quietly cosmic/comic “You’re a Dog, Don’t Talk to Me” provides the LP’s spiritual centerpiece. There’s much more to Talking to the Dog than a tasteful record collection, though. Dupree…

[Daisy seems like a good dog, but she’s no Lassie.] It would be pretty terrifying to fall into the earth while walking in your own back yard. Fortunately for Danielle Tammon, her neighbors eventually heard her calls for help, and called 9-1-1. Emergency responders used a ladder to get through mud, water and roots to rescue Tammone. “Firemen, cops, ambulance, special unit, EMTs – they were wonderful,” she said. … “And they all sang happy birthday to me. It was great,” Tammone said. 🎶 Happy…

I’ve begun making my way through Alias. This was the show that made Jennifer Garner famous back in 2005. Up until the pilot, she had just done some bit parts in Felicity and Pearl Harbor. The show ran for five seasons and 100+ episodes.Sydney Bristow is a UCLA graduate student recruited by a secret branch of the CIA. I remember the sweries being the classic format of a relatively self-contained episode in service of a larger story. The larger story here is whether the “secret branch” of the CIA…

For years I used compfuck, my little Brainfuck-to-Carp compiler, to explain the shape of a Futamura projection, even though I knew it wasn’t quite…

My Tokyo Game Show 2026 CoverageLast week, I played the Final Fantasy VII Revelation TGS demo. As you might expect, it's a lot like Remake and Rebirth.I had opinions about both of those - Remake / Rebirth - and for the most part I enjoyed them. However, I haven't returned to either since my launch-window playthroughs, which means that I struggle to recall which mechanics changed between part one and two, and my comparisons between them and Revelation may not be all that reliable. With that…

A motley crew of puppets depicting farm creatures with Fido the Farm Dog. Handmade and hand sewn. Homemade farm puppets collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

The link. The paragraph: “Our understanding of the impact of picking windows and growing conditions on flavour has increased dramatically over the years,” Pete (Gillespie) continues. “The hops have changed the character of that beer, and I believe personally that they’ve kept it tasting contemporary. By picking later, we’re seeing more tropical fruit—richer passionfruit and mango, plus more dank, weedy notes in the later pick versus the cleaner, flintier Sav Blanc grape notes.”

The last time I tried Immi I was impressed with the broth, however the noodles were rubber bands. A lot of influencers were extolling its virtues, but to me it was literally hard to eat. I know they changed things up a bit, but I never received any samples as the company had sent them originally. I asked for some as I really wanted to give them another chance. Years later, I went to the Grocery Outlet store and lo and behold, they were selling these packs for 99 cents, a fasr cry from the price…

Brain dump on a recent depressive episode, moving away from digital piracy, starting therapy again, getting back into art, and resuming work on my trans men website.

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This blog is still a bit behind reality. In real-time, we are on a cruise to Alaska this week. We should have internet available, but I’ll take a break from updating this blog during the cruise. Stay tuned for some exciting news next week.

Oscar Cook (1888-1952) is an overlooked British author of macabre fiction. He spent a decade of his life in colonial service in Borneo, which colored his fiction. Returning to England, he wrote of his experiences there in Borneo: The Stealer of Hearts, published in 1924. I am only aware of one novel (The Seventh Wave), […]

With the Autumn Equinox upon us (tomorrow), we have a period in which day and night are on equal footing for a time. Neither has the upper hand. It is only fitting to discuss witches.But not the kind you might think of as spellcasters or monsters, nor even those who dabble in the occult. I am talking about them as liminal figures. Those who make their home at the threshold. In Jackson, Faye Thorne is the prime example of that. Or should I say, Fiona Voss. So instead of ending with a Mirror…

There is a universe of Japanese home computer games that are largely unknown in Western territories, especially the US which never got a local MSX machine. Some of these games can be played officially with emulation via Project EGG, and some of those are even available on Switch as part of EGGCONSOLE. But the problem remains, most of them are in Japanese, a difficult language to pick up if you didn’t grow up with it. Well the Youtube channel Beyond the Scanlines has selected a few of them that…

Add it to the list of trivial things macOS inexplicably can’t do: turn off the laptop display when it connects to an external monitor. Until yesterday, what I did was use a utility — MonitorControl — to reduce the built-in display brightness to the minimum. It’s effectively off, but still active, meaning the mouse “wanders off” into the darkness and, depending on how the monitors are arranged, the Dock ends up hidden on the blacked-out display. I happened to come across a tiny free app by…

09/22, that’s the daythey say autumn willland. I stand, facing the east,ready for wind. my body expects perfection. and autumn, the seasonthat births cooler tempsand shorter dayswill provide it.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), "A Song to Mithras," Puck of Pook's Hill (New York: Chrles Scribner's Sons, 1916), pp. 193-194: Mithras, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall! 'Rome is above the Nations, but Thou art over all!' Now as the names are answered, and the guards are marched away, Mithras, also a soldier, give us strength for the day! Mithras, God of the Noontide, the heather swims in the heat, Our helmets scorch our foreheads; our sandals burn our feet. Now in the ungirt hour;…

One of the regular treats of my boyhood was going to see the latest Peter Sellers film as it came out. My father was a huge fan, and so was I, right from the get-go. I remember seeing a string of wonderful comedies – I'm All Right Jack, Two Way Stretch, The Wrong Arm of the Law, Heavens Above!, Dr Strangelove, the early Pink Panther movies – in big, packed, smoke-wreathed cinemas. Lolita (he was Clare Quilty) and Being There (perhaps his masterpiece) came later. I was fascinated by the…

Swedish cognitive neuroscientist and researcher John Axelsson says that our brain seeks to become expert in the environment in which it finds itself. The brain is, in effect, a "simulation machine," according to Axelsson, designed to learn about the world, then automate the relevant survival behaviors. The example he gives is learning to drive. At first we must be conscious of every aspect of operating our vehicle (i.e., learning), but with practice the relevant behaviors become more and more…

Last week, most, if not all, of the week I had some sort of a bug in me. At first I thought it was pollen, but I just felt off in general. Really stuffy head and weak with low energy. For my lifts, I did them, but I did the bare minimum effort, and actually squats felt the worst. Finally I am feeling better, starting over the weekend. Go figure; I feel better when Molly’s vacation is over. We weren’t able to do anything anyway for ourselves, so I guess it didn’t really matter. This morning I…

Fabulism and Style A week of tales; a week of words. Reading the masterpiece titled “Einstein’s Dreams” by Alan Lightman , I realized that my words were enough after all. There is elegance in simplicity, an enchantment of sorts, and thus I revisit the source of my words, my voice; though I still intend on using those blooming in my head even when I am unsure of their meaning — what is the purpose of the thesaurus after all, but to provide clarity on words acquired through the mere habit of…

Lovely warm sunny day again. A lot of stuff to burn including 4 pigs. Cleaned both jets. Did Howarth’s car. Taking it in for a new one. Cleaned the gutter over the steps. Did the office.

NYC Schools has put a pretty intense pause on the use of AI for grades up to 8th, what do our education experts think? Apple Spotify YouTube

A co-op for musicians? You have my attention.Zoë Keating linked to Subvert.fm (because she’s running for a seat on its board), and as a long-time appreciator of Zoë’s fight for independence as an artist, I was immediately intrigued. Then I found this on their About page: We are building a cooperative-owned music marketplace today, with the larger ambition of becoming a Mondragón of Music: a constellation of community-owned ventures that form the foundation of an alternative economy owned by…

I’m trying to get these weeknotes back on track: aiming for a Monday release at the latest. Happy Monday :) The biggest thing I got up to this week was reviewing all of Andrea’s wonderful work adding internal code reloading to Hanami—goodbye Guard! The Dry System piece is now merged, and the core Hanami capability is ready to go after a few small tweaks. All that’s left is for me to get comfy with the new middleware for the reloading web server. This deals with a range of concurrency concerns,…