i think this is becoming more of a diary on how my adhd affects my ability to stick to one damn project more than anything else... i've been cooking up another game that's a mix of a couple older ideas (you know when you have a bunch of half-finished things that don't work on their own and finally you find something new that let's you reuse all of them into a new, better work? very satisfying i tell ya). so it's technically not new... this one will have 3d because i have to force myself to at…

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LEGO® Ideas set 21371 Wallace & Gromit from is the 80th release to come from the fan-designed theme. As a long-time fan of Aardman's characters, and these two in particular, I was excited to get the opportunity to take a closer look at the set and its new contents.Continue reading »

Sunset in Hermosa Beach, at the 26th St. Volleyball Court. ハーモサビーチの26丁目バレーボールコートでの夕日。

There's a trail that takes you along the ridge of a hill behind a residence building on my campus. Fifth floor, seven from the left, light radiates from the window through the night. I used to live there. Now, someone else does. Someone else has always lived there; the building fills up with new students every year. For all the ink I've spilled in the time since I had to leave, trying to cope with that loss, I still can't claim to have moved on. Maybe I'll carry it with me forever. Maybe…

Ain’t gonna need this house no longer Ain't gonna need this house no more Ain't got time to fix the shingles Ain’t got time to fix the floor Ain't got time to oil the hinges Nor to mend the window-pane Ain't gonna need this house no longer I'm gettin' ready to meet the saints~Stuart Hamblen

Field Notes of Rahgah have been illustrated the same way since the start, until this week. Panel by panel, cycle by cycle, week in and week out, the style is evolving and so is the process to produce these illustrations. I am not consciously modifying or creating a style for this series, I am letting my own hand and process unfold, to drift into what it's asking to become. I know, it all sounds pretentious, but I honestly don't really know how else to describe it.

Kafka somewhere says that impatience is a form of laziness. I would add that it’s also a form of egotism, a presumption that our clocks ought to govern the world. We’re likely born impatient, ever awaiting the next feeding. When young, we mistake patience for acquiescence, a shameful surrender. Only later do we reluctantly accept, for instance, pain as an occasional inevitability. In short, that’s life. Dr. Johnson, who suffered a Merck Manual of physical and emotional disorders, understood. In…

Hope you had blessed Sunday! ✝️🙏 Time for another Catholic Meme Monday. The post Catholic Meme Monday— Issue 243 first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The post Catholic Meme Monday— Issue 243 appeared first on The Simple Catholic.

Hey friend! Happy Monday. Welcome back to weekly career coaching.Stuff I've WrittenYou already know. The question I ask more than any other, and the three kinds of obligation it turns up.From the Archive: The Art of Setting Boundaries: Why Saying No is Key to Your Success. Stuff I'm ReadingThe key to a killer resume might just be your perfect scrambled eggs.If you are the same as everyone else, you lose the race. How you can escape competition through authenticity.Is it OK if I share my screen?…

Millions of Large-Language-Model-generated words have been spilled on craftsmanship in this gilded-age of software development. We now have agents to plan how code will be written, agents to write code, agents to review code, agents to orchestrate and dispatch tasks to other more (or less) capable subagents (these heavily subsidized tokens aren’t going to pay for themselves). I’ve been in this game long enough to recognize self-congratulatory tooling improvements for what they are: automated…

(1965) Directed by Mario Bava; Written by Ib Melchior, Alberto Bevilacqua, Callisto Cosulich, Mario Bava, Antonio Roman, Rafael J. Salvia, and Louis M. Heyward (English version); Screen Story by Ib Melchior Based on the short story “One Night of 21 Hours”: by Renato Pestriniero; Starring: Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi, Franco Andrei and Federico Boiso; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: ***½ “Do you know what that mysterious planet in Terrore nello Spazio was made…

Twenty-six Clouded Yellow butterflies spotted - beautiful! And a couple of jacks on lures to kick off the pike season - fantastic!

My perfect Music app doesn’t exist: A long dive into the features that make my ideal music app, and why nothing currently fulfils the brief. Building a career in support: When I said I worked on the customer support team more often than not I’d be met with an… “Oh…” which sapped all questions from their brain.

From 737 to 742 the Duchy of the Venetians wasn't ruled by dukes, but by military commanders with the Byzantine title of "magister militum".

TINGS might have been a work trip, and I did buy a bit for future magazine projects, but it's a toy train show, so I can't resist adding to my stash, just a little. For a change, it was mostly good, useful material. Sheets of Plastikard at £7 for 9. How is this stuff still in the Anorak's Anonymous feeding bins late on the second afternoon? This shows how the hobby has changed. Admittedly, this is 15 and 20 thou sheet, but still very useful, or is this just me? I did pick some 60 and 80 thou…

It’s not the only Brooklyn manhole cover with “Catskill water” embossed in iron. But it’s the one that caught my eye when I found myself at St. Marks Place and Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights earlier this summer. And it led me to do a little research and discover that in 1917, Brooklyn began getting the bulk of its fresh water from the then-new Catskill Aqueduct. I knew about the Croton Aqueduct—the engineering marvel that brought clean water to Manhattan in 1842 and helped the city…

Those who are generally judged by history to be the, "Good," guys or gals don't do certain things. They don't try to ban books. They don't try to keep the population ignorant by cutting education programs. They especially don't try to make a free press the enemy. Donald Trump is not a, "Good guy," of course. Hence, it comes as little surprise when he rails against the, "Biased/crooked/Democrat and dumb with a B," media. As his fascistic efforts continue to increase on the daily, he's taken to…

Hasn’t the sheer abundance of chit-chat made criticism, and even journalism you pay for, obsolete? Articles that would bug most people aren’t even read because something else more accessible, shorter, free, and less threatening, commandeers attention. Writing in an amusement park that has been expended across the entire city, the entire country, the earth, the galaxy, the universe (as we once filled in our schoolbooks). It is no surprise that twenty years – no thirty years – after being…

In November 2026, Voyager 1, the space probe that left Earth back in September 1977, will reach light day away. James Felton, IFLScience: In late 2026, a human-made object will reach a full light-day away from the Earth for the first time in human history. Thoughts of WidderShins: If the galaxy were the continental United States, one light-day would be about the width of a parking space. We sent the farthest-traveling object in human history into space 49 years ago, kept it running with 1970s…

Peek outside on a snowy afternoon and the world moves in slow motion. Jumbo flakes float to the ground and coat your cracked sidewalks and patchy lawns in a thin blanket of bright white. Winds whisper through the willows as you strap your boots on and bundle up to head outside. Making those first fresh footprints in the snow is a great feeling. You’re an explorer blazing a new trail, a skier hitting the slopes early, or just a suburban hiker carving a new path home. AWESOME! Even more awesome:…

First, a little background… There’s a guy who lives a short bike ride from our place who has an ongoing garage sale. It’s not on every day; just on weekends, and sometimes, the occasional weekday:His wares are set up on folding tables and shelves that seem to be set up all the time. There’s no indication that he takes them down or puts them away when he isn’t having a sale. It appears that he does cover the goods with tarps, shower curtains, and large trash bags when it rains. The stuff is a…

Bloody Breakers is a 2-player microgame from Japan, designed by Ryusei Nakata. It is a game with just 16 cards. This seems to be a common format in Japan. Box back You have four types of cards in the game. There are four copies of each card type. Each card has a scoring criteria on the left and also an ability at the top right. During the game both players will

Here are the slides for an undergraduate lecture I gave today. The slides also include the derivations I gave by hand on the document viewer.For historical background, I found a book chapter from Out of the Crystal Maze, interesting and helpful.Some fascinating context concerning Arnold Sommerfeld. Over a period of 32 years, he built up an amazing school of theoretical physics in Munich. He mentored seven future Nobel laureates. However, sadly, when he retired in 1934 from a Chair in…

Richie Havens’ recording of ‘I Can’t Make It Anymore’ is, I believe, one of the wonders of this mad old world. It is possible some know the song as a rare single or some from Richie’s 1966 LP Mixed Bag. Some may have heard it on Paul Weller’s recent Ace compilation That Sweet Sweet Music which, to me, makes perfect sense as the song has got a similar feel to ‘My Ever Changing Moods’. I have to confess that while I admire Richie’s frantic strumming and the rhythmic intensity of some of his most…

It is in a room in a giant's manor house. It is a mock house with two stories and six rooms total. Each story is 7ft from floor to ceiling. There is one stairway to the second floor. Strange figures dressed in human robes do chores and carry out domestic tasks repeatedly. The figures never speak and wear painted wooden masks which imitate the faces of humans. A bird cage hangs from the true ceiling above the thatched mock roof of the dollhouse. Inside the cage a necromancer directs the…

Marty has the brightest orange socks. He tells me, unnecessarily, Flixy bought them. His feet are very small. I don't like that he messaged saying he was coming to pick some stuff up, so not to be worried if I heard strange noises downstairs; that implies I would automatically be upstairs in my attic. No. He is there for some leads, chargers and records, he tells me. I nearly reply, 'We do not wish to hear this, kindly leave the stage', which, Ken told me, they used to sing during auditions at…

Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen at CNN: The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship.…

developing a headcanon that the chickens in Sekiro are normal sized but most of the people are tiny. the chained ogre is pretty much the size of a child. the demon of hatred is as big as a normal man

Water in the ocean is constantly in motion. Scientists can identify distinct “water masses” in the ocean from different sources, and keep track of them by measuring dissolved salts, human pollutants, and the different isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen in the water molecules themselves. This is how oceanographers have mapped the world’s currents, like the Gulf Stream that brings warm water north from the equator and keeps Europe warmer than Siberia. Of all the water masses in the ocean, one is…