12:28 - I'm getting better! But pancakes take me over an hour to cook... Maybe I should cook on medium heat instead of low heat.

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NervesConf is coming up and I'm very excited On the wind-whipped, rain-beaten shores of Sweden's west coast we took a stand. As the respite of summer fades back into the wet, cold misery and on into the snow-forlorn winter of this miserable coast we saw a moment. The summer crowds scattered. The sun not quite gone yet. And we seized it. -- Unnamed Goatmire organiser At long last, the time has come to start packing for my trip to Varberg, Sweden. I'm going to Goatmire aka NervesConf EU! This is…

Same week as every week, except yesterday I went to a small comedy show with my brother-in-law. It was okay, I guess – four comedians. One was good, one was very obviously at the very beginning of their career, one was okay-ish and one was an ex-cop who joked about bullying teenagers when he was in uniform because he didn’t like their music. Turns out, sometimes the C in ACAB can mean comedian. Also I found a place where I can get banh-mi without having to travel so that’s something that I’ll…

Following on from previous post on 'the terrible gift of others' misfortune'... and celebrating foxes... Two Step Duet ‘Tragic’ and ‘magic’ rhyme for no reason yet – as it happens – it’s a perfect duet like mystery and history neither exist, nor have they met and yet… they dance reality’s dreamt paradox as silent and cunning as a barking fox a vixen calling to an unseen mate pulled by no reason but pleasure to fuck and procreate. #non-dual #rhyme #paradox from 'Nover the Rainbow ~ musing about…

Well it’s been a quite a week and a half. Some real ups and downs have been had in that time. Just over a week ago a lot of my friends and coworkers were made redundant and it’s awful. I feel really bad for them, I also feel guilty for “surviving” and also for worrying about what things will be like for me once they leave. I guess we will just have to wait and see on that one but things are going to be stressful on this front for the foreseeable future. On the flip side of this my son, who is…

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Amazon’s AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage Amazon Web Services cannot restore access to its cloud-computing facility in Bahrain and ‌one of three data-hosting zones in the United Arab Emirates following damage during the Iran war, according to a status update seen by Reuters on Tuesday. amazon fail storage war 🔖 Ethics of the Real:Kant and Lacan The idea of Kantian ethics is…

Had a bit of a milestone a couple of weeks back — a test run of Shattered By Light finally took me to the end of chapter two. Now, you may consider that to be a slightly ignoble occasion rather than a momentous one. I mean, four years of work and I’ve only just made… Continue reading Blog 1035: Milestones

They’re letting police do just about anything. – Randall Kallinen When Dolly Parton died a few weeks ago, I seemed to be the only one who remembered this 1976 guest appearance on Captain Kangaroo; the video was clearly taken from the edited reruns of old shows aired on PBS in the late ’80s. Of particular note: Dolly reading a children’s book aloud, almost 20 years before starting her Imagination Library charity. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Radley Balko; Lucy…

Last year, I came across the work of fan-lator Mitsuda Konno, formerly known as Mitsuda Madoy, who's translating first-rate Japanese detective fiction with "cosmmiicnana" such as Kie Houjou's superb "The Ryuuzen Clan" series and Danro Kamosaki's insane "Murder in the Golden Age of Locked Rooms" series – which have become personal favorites. I keep my fingers crossed Houjou's Jikuu ryokousha no sunadokei (The Time Traveler's Hourglass, 2019), Katou no raihousha (Visitors to the Isolated Island,…

Day 8 in Tokyo In the lower divisions, Hikarumusashi lost to Amane, picking up his first loss of the tournament and falling out of the Jonidan yusho race. He will be joined in Kyushu by Sunamusashi who debuted in this maezumo cohort. He’s second from the right, next to the 57kg Shinmichi. In Jonokuchi, Kotofuno … Continue reading Aki 2026: Nakabi

Today’s TDC says Time to write a 5 card Flickr story If you have done one before, you know it is fun. If not, you are in for a treat. Need examples? We haz examples. I couldn’t make it work, though, I kept getting errors like this: Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ‘<br /> <b>Warning</b>: Undefined array key’ at line 1 in…

Tri-X and two Leicas (2016) - Nikon F3On most days I start a new daily note here, first thing in the morning, just in case there's something I want to write. I usually end up writing a sentence or two and that's it. Is it even worth the trouble? Why am I always in such a hurry even though I'm not actually going anywhere? ✍️ Reply by email

This was an uneventful week. It was work-heavy, especially the second half. I finished the first chapter of The Secret History. Progress has been slow since last week. I’ve mostly been sinking time playing Skyrim and watching random videos on YouTube. I also watched The Fellowship of the Ring yesterday. Not much progress has gone towards making art this week either, except for loose thoughts and ideas, of which there are now two: making a 'landscape' of sorts, or working with colours…

🏃‍♂️ I’ll be doing a 10km race with my brother-in-law in the afternoon and I hope I’m ready for it. I’m not worried about finishing it, but rather how well I’ll perform as it’ll define my pace for my upcoming marathon.

My husband's maternal grandmother, Floyda Mabel Steiner McClure (1878-1948), was an expert with a needle. She loved to embroider, sew, crochet, and more. Even as a young girl, she stitched alongside her older sisters and shared their love of needlework. As an adult, she created or embellished lots of household items and clothing accessories. She also passed her love of needlework to her only granddaughter, teaching her to sew doll clothes. That anecdote was handwritten by the granddaughter and…

My second sculpture, Étude, was exhibited yesterday. Here are the photos of 4 months of work and progress. 8 May 2026 1 June 2026 8 June 2026 19 June 2026 22 June 2026 8 July 2026 30 July 2026 13 August 2026 20 August 2026 16 September 2026 19 September 2026 19 September 2026 19 September 2026 Reply to this post via email

Did Colin Baker ever appear in The Young Ones? And if he did, why the hell can’t I remember ever seeing him, when I’ve endlessly watched those 12 episodes for years? Certainly, Wikipedia claims that he was in the show: “Baker returned to television, notably guest-starring as the villainous Bayban the Butcher in the 1980 Blake’s 7 episode “City at the Edge of the World”. He also had a regular role as James West in the ATV soap opera For Maddie with Love (1980). Other programmes in which Baker…

the more i try to use up my inks (even just the samples, my god), the more i'm convinced i can only treat Black as somehow Real Writing. it definitely helps if a color is dark and the only one in use (vs alternating with a contrasting color - maybe if they were more analogous?) but it still feels like "someone's playing around here, not worth reading"?? maybe with the samples i could just toss them without regret, or use them up in a wacky art project, but i have quite a few full bottles, too…

Recap of my collection of Scratch built/Kitbash Robots: It is robot mania here with this collection of DIY robots. They are, for the most part, built from left-overs, scavaged parts and the bits of these parts. This is a beautiful and wonderful collection. The author mentioned something about spending a whole year building robots. I beleive he should.

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If you are at a funny age, as I am, then you are probably not unaware of Artificial Intelligence (AI). You probably even use it to one extent or another. However, this area of technology – both attractive and scary as hell at the same time, develops so quickly that perhaps a lot of us simply shrug our shoulders and let the tsunami of terminology flow over us, nod knowingly (or give our best approximation of being fully savvy with it all) and carry on regardless. If you are nodding knowingly…

Bombarded by the deception and lies of the AI industry I chose to sample boy Amodei for the ironic outrage about Chinese companies stealing their dataset. Thus the tune title. Usually I barely manage to finish up my weekly beats track on a Sunday night. This week I've somehow had some extra time to sink into polishing an actual full track on the Dirtywave M8. Built around the bassline where I've mimicked the approach used on the Analog 4 of fading in a modulated filter and volume pulse over…

Fremantle2026 September 20 (Sunday), 4:30PM· internet · websites · The radical history of personal computing—looms, coding, beige boxes and AI, ABC Radio National, Conversations, 18 September 2026: When I found out that anyone could put anything online, and anyone could access it from any other computer, the idea just blew my mind. ← Previous My main RSS news feed: https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss(or Wikimedia.rss, Fremantle.rss, OpenStreetMap.rss, etc. for topic feeds). Email me at…

My feet hurt. In the best of ways though, as we spent several hours dancing last night, alongside a couple of thousand other people, as AnnieMac did her thing. Shout out to Jade Edwards who got us well warmed up with some slick grooves and mixes, deffo one to keep an eye out, she cranked the tempo up and you couldn’t help but start moving. Before Midnight — named because “nightclubbing is not designed for people who need sleep” — is in the same vein as daytime discos but, of course, with…

At La Pointe courte, in Sète, France, where Agnès Varda shot her film of the same name.

I have rhapsodised at some length about the superhero-themed Fighting Fantasy book, Appointment with F.E.A.R., on several previous occasions: a loving homage to superhero comics, down to the cover art provided by 2000 AD artist Brian Bolland, the book gives you the choice of four superpowers, namely Super Strength, Psi-Powers, Enhanced Technological Skill and Energy Blast.The adventure will play out completely differently depending on which superpower you choose, for on each possible…

I should be building Cwmbach, my long standing N scale shelf layout. Instead, you’re reading about the latest in a long line of Mosslanda based projects, this time set once again in North America…From sketches, to mocking up inlaid track to ‘testing’ the track plan on my bench things have moved at pace - which is usually a good indicator of a scheme well formed. I hate building baseboards though - thank goodness a Mosslanda is usually fairly straight forward! In this case, some 9mm ply and a…

Daily Drawing 994

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a median calculation and box fitting. (Note that this ends today.)