Peter Bex (website) is a CHICKEN scheme maintainer and professional Clojure developer. We got to know each other on IRC over a few months and discussed: CHICKEN Scheme and its 6.0.0 release Scheme’s community and standardization process Postgres, the horrors of MySQL and (default) SQLite Clojure My ongoing core contributions mainly focus on the numerical tower code, keeping the in-core copy of the irregex library up-to-date with the upstream version (of which I’m a co-maintainer), squashing…

More on EBV and multiple sclerosis (a topic I’ve written about before). Not only does EBV cause MS, it also appears that MS relapses are linked with EBV reactivation. This may mean that inhibiting reactivation could inhibit relapses.Synthetic tissue-specific enhancer sequences for mice. I wrote about the Stark lab’s Drosophila enhancer research previously on this blog. But mice are cooler than Drosophila (fight me, fly people!)Old news in this corner of the Internet, but several antibody…

I nearly stepped on this little guy!He didn’t budge.I had to draw my foot back. That’s the way my photography has been going lately.And this turned out to be the best image of the day and I learned something. My 75 year-old eyes can’t judge a picture by looking at the small screen on a smartphone or a camera.I need to wait until I get home and look at the image on a computer screen.(Probably on a no-less-than 27” hi-res monitor). Note to self. Today, I was experimenting and shooting in…

My daughter came in from doing the morning feeding of the outside cats, so very excited! She was able to pet the shrine baby. The single older kitten – who has started to come to the house, not just eating at the shrine feeding station! What my daughter noted was that if she made eye … Continue reading We pet the baby!

On reflection… Semur-en-Auxoise, last week. Quote of the Day ”Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” Bertrand Russell Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Keith Jarrett | My Song Link Long Read of the Day A Meditation on Train Stations A really sobering essay by Timothy Snyder which brings home to one what the Ukrainians are having to deal with, courtesy of Putin and Trump. “If you weren’t here, then you won’t believe it.” Thus the gentle pronouncement…

★★☆☆☆ The Overbite Project is an effort to bring Gopher access to modern software and operating systems. Mostly in the form of web browser extensions, plus an Android app. Unfortunately, modern systems are a moving target. Why Gopher is still relevant Firefox Extensions Overbite has written three different Firefox extensions to enable Gopher access over the years: OverbiteFF used the old extension scheme and connected to Gopher sites directly. No longer supported, and might work on SeaMonkey,…

Those who check in with the propaganda being pumped out by the City of London Lie Machine will have noticed a press release last week about a Blue Plaque honouring Francis Barber being unveiled by Lord Mayor (in waiting) Tim Hailes and Michael Bundock* at Samuel Johnson’s former house. The press release states: The remarkable life of Francis Barber, the servant, friend, and heir to Dr Samuel Johnson, has been commemorated during a ceremony at the writer’s townhouse on Gough Square in Fleet…

CLICK HERE TO BOOK . Years ago when I first visited the National Collection of Fruit Trees at Brogdale outside Faversham in Kent to enjoy the spring blossom, I vowed to go back in the autumn to admire the crop. This year, I fulfilled my ambition in the company of Contributing Photographer Rachel Ferriman and we were blessed with a golden afternoon in the North Kent Fruit Belt. Nothing prepared me for the seemingly infinite variety of fruit that exists in nature. Walking into an orchard of…

I couldn’t figure out how to watch yesterday’s Virginia Tech game. ChatGPT found only one way (adding YET ANOTHER subscription on top of the ESPN rider we already added to Disney+). I would have paid half a month’s sub cost for just that game. But signing up and canceling was just too much work.

I was watching a television program and was intrigued by this recipe by Kobori KiyomiLuckily, I found a version online to tryNazo no Chicken (Mysterious Chicken) by Kobori Kiyomi600 grams chicken thighs160 grams mayo160 grams sour cream30 grams curry powder20 grams lemon juice80 grams chutneyMix all the ingredients except the chickenCut the chicken into bite sized pieces and put in the "sauce"

sorry for the negativity. I just went and touched grass (not literally but I went for a run outside). Life is not that bad. Sometimes I just forget to go outside. Hope you are staying sane out there; I know it’s not easy. Happy Sunday.

Tenant for Deathby Cyril HareGenres: Crime, Mystery Pages: 200 Series: Inspector Mallet #1 Rating: Synopsis: Two young estate agent's clerks are sent to check an inventory on a house in Daylesford Gardens, South Kensington. Upon arrival, they find an unlisted item - a corpse. Furthermore, the mysterious tenant, Colin James, has disappeared. In a tale which uncovers many of the seedier aspects of the world of high finance, Hare also introduces his readers to the formidable Inspector Mallett of…

Aviation came to Denver mainly in the form of mail. Like much of the inland West, the first airfields served a smattering of passenger flights (both expensive and uncomfortable in the 1930s) and a regular schedule of contract mail carriers. Postal Service air mail contracts built many of the nation's major airlines—and its major airports. One of Denver's simple airstrips, Denver Municipal Airport, transformed from a mail stop to a busy airport when Continental Airlines moved its headquarters to…

An excellent feature of Eleventy1 is the @11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight plugin, which adds build-time syntax highlighting support via PrismJS. Official support keeps 11ty sites from worrying about client-side bloat from JS-based highlighters and the common failure mode of over-including language definitions.2 But nothing's perfect. ContentsLilliputian Adventures In Line NumberingGreener Pastures The official plugin integrates naturally, and I took to using it via the usual…

Mapping Tariffs visualizes the impact of U.S. tariffs on Canadian businesses. “Since May 2025, Tara Vinodrai and Karen Chapple have led a team of researchers at the School of Cities to develop interactive mapping and… More

I’m still getting used to the Glove80. Writing text is doable but still painfully slow. I mentioned I use tangent, which integrates the Glove80 layout. One thing it doesn’t have though is a practice layer for Emacs, with Emacs key chords like C-c C-z, for example. So I called Claude for help. I’m on the third version of this mod, adding the command names from Emacs, so that I know what the commands I’m retraining my fingers on are — because my fingers remembered these commands (and thus are now…

Dan Vanderkam: “Over the past few months I’ve been working on mapsnap, a program to automatically georeference old insurance maps. This post explains why these maps are interesting, how mapsnap works, and why this is worth… More

There are a lot of comics that I’m aware of but haven’t read. Some I plan/hope to get to some day, some I don’t. Lately, the decision on if and when I’ll get to them has been driven by my involvement with the Comic Book Club, as is the case with the latest arrival. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One and Book Two Now I just have to read the two hefty volumes in time for the next session… In the meantime, you can check back to see what else I decide to pick up in the next Mail Call. Born and…

What's wrong with seeing the world as just data for the computer… and other longreads for your reading pleasure. Who Will Taste the Cherries?, by Liam Spradlin, Aeon A Slowed-Down Kind of Loving, by Rowland Bagnall, Los Angeles Review of Books Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s Still Mysterious to Me that I Was Angry for So Long’, by Sophie McBain, The Guardian I was asked to write a new Miss Marple, so I sent her to the Alps, by Lucy Foley, The Guardian

Architectural detail of the midsection of the Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas. The post A Bit of the Middle… appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

These seven equations between binomial coefficients are ‘coincidences’: they aren’t among the four known infinite families. De Weger conjectured that there are no more such coincidences: • Benjamin M. M. de Weger, Equal binomial coefficients: some elementary considerations, Journal of Number Theory 63, no. 2 (1997), 373–386. At that time, he and his collaborators checked there were no others involving binomial coefficients less than 1030. Later they checked that there are none involving…

I’m finally able to announce what I’ve been building in my Zig game engine! If you want to support me, the two best things you can do are:Wishlist Now You’re Cooking! on SteamShare the trailer with friends or communities who are into deckbuildersExpect some follow up posts covering my market research & announce strategy now that this is public. I appreciate your support. :)Read more...

Be sure to check out the new online storefront! It’s been a long time coming and we’re happy to launch this new page for you! 2026 San Francisco Pen Show Highlights (via Olive Octopus Ink). Lisa had an epic San Francisco Pen Show recap, including some great pictures from outside around the show hotel. The dwrdnet Stationer Feed: Interview with Jonathon Brooks (via dwrdnet). Derek interviews Jonathon Brooks of Carolina Pen Company. I’m looking forward to check this one out. Out of This…

If you’re starting a long job on your Apple Macintosh Computer and wandering off for a coffee, the machine may go to sleep before it finishes due to inactivity. To prevent that from happening, also give your computer a boost with the caffeinate command, a macOS built-in since 2012 (OS X Mountain Lion). Basic usage Pass your command to caffeinate as arguments: $ caffeinate ./migrate.sh In this wrapper form, caffeinate will run your command and keep the machine awake for as long as it runs, then…

The reward for sending the first issue of your newsletter after a 3-month summer break? More unsubscribes than usual. 🤪

Peter Bex (website) is a CHICKEN scheme maintainer and professional Clojure developer. We got to know each other on IRC over a few months and discussed: CHICKEN Scheme and its 6.0.0 release Scheme’s community and standardization process Postgres, the horrors of MySQL and (default) SQLite Clojure My ongoing core contributions mainly focus on the numerical tower code, keeping the in-core copy of the irregex library up-to-date with the upstream version (of which I’m a co-maintainer), squashing…

tl;dr: Sometimes you get there early, sometimes you get there late - but even if you had a chance you never knew the game Music Monday for September 20th, 2026 Guess what - it’s not Monday! It’s Sunday, and I’m a day early! Ok, reality is that I’m over a year late for the next edition, but shush. In case you’ve forgotten, Music Monday is an idea I cooked up a long time ago to encourage myself to focus and listen to albums in their fully presented manner (front to back, beginning to end as it…

Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT The Railway Alehouse – Doncaster I was lucky enough to be invited along to the VIP soft opening of The Railway Alehouse in Doncaster, and it was brilliant to finally see the finished pub after following some of the refurbishment work along the way. The pub is just a short walk from…

In the afternoon, I attended the GOGBOT festival again and volunteerd as art guardian.