Gerhard Richter, Untitled [sic], 2001, oil, ink and graphite on paper, inscribed, “Dear Marian, have a great and happy new year/ All best, Gerhard and family,” either 8 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. or 22.2 x 21 cm, but not both, at Christie’s Now this is the Marian’s Richter I want to see. A squeegee New Year’s card signed from “Gerhard and family.” “All best, Gerhard and family”: Thomas Struth, The Richter Family I, 2002, 1356 x 1942 mm sheet, c-print facemounted on acrylic, ed. 10, I think? collection:…

We begin the week with a fetch quest: I ran around the office delivering a gift and later trying to track down a package, which it turned out had just been delivered to the wrong department. But as a result: Now everything on my is the same colour. Great! Had a great time at Oimachi Tracks, as promised the view was excellent. Sitting under a canopy in the falling rain brings back memories, it is one of my favourite sounds. On a fly-by visit to the Apple Store to procure a spare part, one of the…

sun peeks through clouds over blooming cornfield— each keeps its place Just a quick reminder, since October 2025 I've been posting monthly photo & haiku for my monthly supporters. If it's something you find interesting, or you'd like to support me and get something in return, this is the best way. As always, I appreciate you all, thank you for reading and checking out my photos :) Please take care. Comment via guestbook.

“Shadow AI” is a term that’s been climbing hard in search data lately: nearly 3,000 searches a month and rising. What is shadow AI? In one sentence: employees using AI tools your company never approved, sanctioned, or even knows about, the AI-era version of “shadow IT.” If you run a business with more than a handful of people, I’d bet money it’s already happening to you. This Isn’t a Hypothetical Someone on your team has pasted a customer email into ChatGPT to help draft a reply. Someone has…

The FiiO Snowsky Disc keeps getting firmware updates. Slowly getting there. Took a long time before it became properly usable, though.There is even a custom OS now: diskOS by b0hemia.Flashing takes 15 minutes. Give it a spin. Ha ha.

Why should you work on hard problems? I personally believe this is a really interesting question to answer. Because if you can convince yourself to work on hard problems without losing the zeal, you can do wonders. It is important because you have the opportunity to change the world. It is understandable that a lot of people feel intimidated when presented with something hard. If you are already knowledgeable about the problem well enough, that’s called the curse of knowledge.

many years ago, i subscribed to the listserve. this is my favourite, that i always keep in my notes app whatever it is. Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man…

Thank you to editor David McMurray for selecting my haiku for Asahi Haikuist Network! Source

Vertipecten fucanus (Dall, 1900)Some water-worn samples of the bivalve Verdipectin fucanus, Clallam Formation, Clallam Bay, Washington State. Miocene.It all began one gloriously sunny summer weekend when the planets aligned, the calendar gods smiled, and my mother and I were simultaneously free. Naturally, this meant one thing: we were going fossil hunting. I still get out collecting

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. When I put it like that in the title it sounds like it’s going to be salacious but it really isn’t, it’s just anthropomorphized representations of the various enemies in Wii Play Tanks. Okay… you don’t know what that is…. I’ll explain. Wii Play was a mini-game collection on the Wii natch, a burgeoning genre on that system. It was an excuse to release a bunch of Wiimote experiments…

This post is not sponsored nor endorsed by Chuck Lorre Productions, Warner Bros. Television, or any other organization. All views are the author's own. Most spin-offs of renowned sitcoms usually end horrible. See: Friends' Joey, or The Golden Girls' The Golden Palace, and so on. So it shouldn't have been a surprised that when Chuck Lorre, one of the co-creators for The Big Bang Theory, announced that they were creating a new spin-off centered around Stuart, the comic book owner, there was more…

A Doonesbury cartoon, ca. 1981:

One thing I have been wanting to do is work up to rowing a half marathon again this winter. It has been a while. I was planning on it in 2024, but I got very sick, and that stuck with me for a bit, then other things came up. All summer long I have been itching to sit down on the Concept2, though, and just get some longer pieces in. WODs are great, and I will continue doing them along with my lifting, but there can be something entirely different about getting into a longer row. A variety in…

A lovely warm sunny day, like yesterday. Joe and Bet got married. Car washing T.B1.G. making 121 to date. Went for ½ gall of juice. Burnt a lot of rubbish this afto.

shapez 2 - Factory by tobspr Games— I’ve been playing, and enjoyed, this indie automation game in-between searching for a new game to fall in love with. I’d love it if it had speed controls, but as that would spoil the point of the game… I continue watching my shapes trundle along slowly as I languish in narrative-game-less ennui. FrameThrower — "FrameThrower is a searchable film-still library." Leo from FrameThrower emailed me about this, and while the concept does look kinda cool, I haven't…

This week's bookshelf—my last bookshelf!—is another one devoted to DC Comics. It contains some of the earliest comics I ever bought, certainly some of the oldest collections, some of which were purchased long before the publishers regularly collected their serially published comics.The organization of this particular shelf makes perfect sense...at least to me. I suppose anyone else would be hard-pressed to find a particular book on this particular shelf.First, there are the oversized books:…

Keywraith — typing game, type to kill Type a word to destroy it. [ 📌tdjones ] SPENCER BUTTE A huge photoblog of tasty landscapes that “infinitely” scrolls all the way back to August 1, 2012 - OMG! 😎 [ 📌driscoll ]

It’s an egraph that supports well-scoped alpha aware binders.

Ged Maheux • The Iconfactory Inktober isn’t about generating the perfect image; it’s about pushing yourself and your creativity, exploring ideas, styles and ways to enjoy the uniquely human process of creating art. Even if you’ve never drawn before, this is a great time to give it a try. I have an older iPad my wife handed down to me. Maybe it’s time for me to really put my Linea subscription to use and attempt to draw something? 🤔 If I can get my act together I’ll make sure and post my…

Last week, I went to Red River Gorge with Danny and Ranni for a few days for a much-needed vacation. It's only three hours away, so it didn't take us long to get there. We stayed in a cozy cabin that was the perfect size for the three of us. We went on a couple of hikes, but most of our time was spent just relaxing at the cabin. There was a creek right beside it that Ranni and I waded in. We also took advantage of the hot tub, outdoor grill, and fire pit. It was really nice just being in nature…

Monday Sunrise: 6:33am – later than the alarm. We’ve crossed the Rubicon again. “She came and brought the spring” Duolingo is trying to push the story on, but not really progressing my Greek. That said, I cannot think of an end to that story. C’mon Duolingo, commit to one or the other. A litter pick day: metal nitrous oxide canisters, a big white plastic container of some car oil stuff and all the usuals. I’d love to say litter picking brings me joy, but it doesn’t. I spend at least 70% of the…

It’s a third week on top for the beautiful “Rein Me In” by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, as well as a third week at #2 for “Private” by The Neighbourhood, who’ve spent much of this year on their world tour which began in late March and concludes in their hometown of Los Angeles in December. Fontaines D.C. are the biggest upward movers again this week as their mesmerizing song “Marianne” jumps 10 spots to #7. There are two new entries to my chart again this week, starting with “High Hopes 3000” by…

Off and on rain and the sporadic crashes of falling walnuts. I watch a yellow tulip tree leaf tumbling down, end over end, the air slipping through its four Mickey Mouse fingers.

I'm a bit late this month, for which I blame AI. More on this later! The three that I am looking out for are: Nineteen Days in Autumn: A New History Of 1066, by Erin Goeres. Coinciding with the surprisinly popular tapestry exhbition at the British Musuem, this promises to be a blow-by-blow account of the critical days leading up to the conquest of England in 1066: a tragic but compelling story! Out of Chaos: A Global History of the Nation State, by Jon Wilson. Most countries are young. I think…

I'm exaggerating a little, you are after all (probably) reading this on the website which therefore can't be totally broken. What has been broken is the popular history books database that I have been maintaining for the last three or four years, showing all hardback history book publications (that I can find) in the UK: those books aimed at the general market rather than academia. With luck it may be up and running at the point in time you are read this. (What hasn't broken is the reviews and…

The job of an automatic transfer switch (ATS), put simply, is to let a load be powered from two power sources, selecting the preferred input if it is available and the backup input if it is not. A good ATS will do this quickly enough such that the changeover time is short enough that a majority of appliances won’t even notice the interruption in power. Such switches are extremely useful where you want to have single-input devices be powered from multiple sources, or in my case, where you’d like…

You cannot, in the present era, sell a used item to another person for a stated price. If an item is worth $50 and you price it at $40, you will either be ignored (because there's clearly something wrong with it) or else be counter-offered $25. It's been years since I've seen anyone accept an offer as-is. I don't think it's stinginess. It's competitive imperative. People rush forward to perform the juice squeeze to indulge their adversarial impulses. An opportunity to conquer and crush!…

A few days ago, the first beta for Vapor 5 was announced. If you don’t know what Vapor is, it’s probably the most popular web framework for Swift. I’ve posted about it before. Vapor 5 is the first new major version in six and a half years and promises a lot of new features, particularly when it comes to concurrency and other performance enhancements. This is the list of highlights from their announcement blog post: No more EventLoop or EventLoopFuture! Vapor 5 is fully async/await with real…

Tickseed beggarticks at Sewickley Heights Park, 11 Sept 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 20 September 2026 This flower is a closeup from the field of yellow flowers at Sewickley Heights Park. Tickseed beggarticks or bearded beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) are pretty flowers but they make annoying seeds. The path of yellow flowers on the Pipeline Trail at Sewickley Heights Park during 3RBC outing, 11 Sept 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) Fertilized flowers create “hitchhiker” seeds, each with two barbed…

I like both Everybody's Golf Hot Shots and Easy Come Easy Golf, but both of them lack something the PS4 entry had - making your own character and improving their stats. I miss this element. Not really any other casual golf series out there to turn to either.