Flixy (disregarding my advice at the time) told Trombone Tracey not to pay her last month's rent, she would use the deposit for it. As an avid watcher of Judge Judy and The People's Court I warned her not to. The room as I find it is a collection of non-compensated dilapidations. Ruined paintwork, scuff marks, gouges, nails, blue-tac, oily/sticky patches, water damage, sun warping - and is filthy. But Flixy being Flixy insists, 'I've made you up a lovely bed, with my nice cushions.'Orange…

Up at five to clean. My upper knuckle wound still weeps. Apple peeler stigmata. #diary #memoir #lgbtqia #gay #funny #humour #brighton

The International N Gauge Show is always a bit of a work trip. I'm on the lookout for layouts that will photograph well for BRM, and this year, despite being a little emptier than normal, the show delivered. I think there were 5-6 that I'd like to point a camera at properly. One of the highlights was Kato's "Oscar" - a tiny 009 locomotive which is very near being delivered. It really is tiny, with a very useful-looking chassis built around a coreless motor and brass worm gear/flywheel…

Panorama from today. I enjoy riding waves quite a lot. I went to Ocean Beach. Kelly went to San Diego Design Week. I updated my avatar on lots of services. It was a bit easier to do on my Elsewhere page. I also added it (still out of order and with duplicates) to my “PFP” page. I used to make sure I didn’t have any profile photo older than a year on the primary silos I use. It’s good to have something fresh. Ended the day walking Gwen home from daycare. And then dinner. Kelly made great Thai…

To have a positive career you need to be appropriately recognized and rewarded for your work. But there are a lot of ways that credit and/or rewards can get missed. Often it’s something unintentional, like your boss or some other executive simply didn’t realize what you accomplished, or didn’t understand the right way to compensate you for the value you’re adding. Sometimes it’s more nefarious, and someone is trying to take credit for your work or otherwise keep you down. Either way you need to…

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Fremantle2026 September 20 (Sunday), 12:08PM· beer · Buffalo Club · It's the same name, but a new beer. Does that make it new? I'm not sure. This one is from Limestone Coast Brewing, who are one of the companies that run lots of little microbreweries in pubs and restaurants around the place. ← 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 sam@samwilson.id.au or leave a comment below…

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot The post Sunday picdump for Sunday, September 20 appeared…

19 September in Melbourne.We had just left the Footscray Market and crossed the intersection, packed granny trolley in tow, when we heard the unmistakable quality of live music. It sounded pretty good, too. So why not investigate?A band were playing in the Trocadero Arcade outside the Say Cheese sandwich shop. (I have had a sandwich from there before - they are good!)Also good were the band! It was a six-piece which included percussion, keys, violin, clarinet, guitar and bass. Looking at their…

I created this game in 2018, my first completed game. It is presented below, untouched.What is this?This is a solo game, a story creator, and an imaginative exercise of mine. It’s hard to describe; basically, by the use of random generators and your own imagination, characters have things happen to them and make things happen in a world you create. Similarly to D&D, it creates structure for your imagination. Hope you enjoy.Rules:These rules are how I play. Try my methods once or twice. Anything…

Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 09-13-2026 There were 3 links posted this week. 09/17/2026 @16:36 Post by Maybe It Will Happen Today — BlueskyA digital illustration of Max Headroom, a shiny, fast/talking electric man who lived inside a TV who we all liked in the 80s. He has a very tall head with an odd stripey blond hair cut and a goofy grin. He’s wearing white wayfarers and a shiny white, wide shouldered jacket over a lilac colored shirt and black bow tie. The background is intersecting…

18 September 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Dogworld and Ebop.Just to be clear straight up, I wanted to go to this gig because of Dogworld - I had not even heard of Swapmeet before. Whereas usually I will go to a show and arrive for the support acts as a great way of discovering and enjoying new bands, in this case my magnanimity extended to staying for the headliner. It helped that Swapmeet sounded promising on paper.(My typing hands keep trying to type Swamp instead of Swapmeet. Did it again…

Two months ago we bought our own home with a garden. The people who build it eight years ago also planted some trees and one of them is a jujube tree. I have never seen them before I moved to Korea, here they are called 대추 (daechu). They are a little sour but mostly sweet. The more brown they are the less sour they are, so best is when they just start being brown. They are rape now and we just picked those we could get with a ladder But we had to stop because there suddenly were a bunch of…

Mark Gurman, reporting in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg: Apple prepares a retail store shake-up with a renewed focus on a dedicated Genius Bar and revamped pickup and classes areas… Here’s what Apple has planned: New and upgraded retail stores will feature three major changes: a revamped Avenue — the sections along the sides where accessories and Apple services are featured — a return to dedicated Genius Bars, and the removal of the giant video walls found in many locations. The changes…

I am falling behind a bit in my painting queue.I am printing far more aeroplanes than I can keep up with, and there are another couple of dozen in a drawer.I can stop any time I want to. Really.

Yesterday I went with and saw Perturbator & Health live @ Roundhouse in Sydney. It was honestly one of the best gigs I've gone too in a really long time - Insane aura, great crowd and rlly fucking good music. The show opened with King Yosef, who set the vibe rlly well and pushed Alice and I to actually go join the pit, which I'm insanely glad I did. Perturbator live was also fucking insane IRL too - I didn't know how they'd go live, but they had a real drummer going with them, and it was so…

Electronic Frontier Foundation has a guide on limiting how Siri AI can access your apps and data. Apple claims what’s sent to PCC is not stored by the company after it is processed, but there are certain types of data or certain apps you might have on your phone that are not worth the risk. That’s especially true if you’re using a feature like Advanced Data Protection, which turns on end-to-end encryption for much of what’s stored in iCloud. Sending data that’s stored with end-to-end encryption…

Sandra Davie reporting on screen exposure on young children: According to the researchers, one explanation is that the bombardment of fast movements, sounds and scene changes can leave few resources for the brain to build self-regulation skills. This then leads to an inability to follow multi-step instructions or persist in challenging activities. ~ Link: What Happens Inside a Baby’s Brain When Looking at Screens? Singapore Study Shows the Impact, by Sandra Davie, Straits Times

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,…

Parade of Armored Figures on Horseback – New York, New York With all the recent architectural coverage, I’m changing it up, for at least one post. These armored figures on horseback are certainly dramatic and, probably for a lot of people, more interesting than architecture. I realize that not all of us are architecture nerds. We were running out of time, and the museum’s closing time was rapidly approaching. We had no idea The Met was so large. I’m sure you can tell that we are no longer in…

A handful of other activities I got up to in Singapore on my holiday earlier this year.

It was a rainy day, but Ayano and I went out to do a little shopping. We had lunch at this cute Italian place, with just the perfect colors: blue and white stripes, pink and green glassware, cute logo, blue-rimmed bowls, and that golden, eggy, cheesy pasta.

I had Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman on my to-read pile for months. But it turned out to be a goldmine, with practical advice for marriage, work, and kids. Here are my main takeaways: #1. Emotions are impulses that makes you take action. #2. You have a rational and an emotional brain. The emotional one is faster. #3. Emotional intelligence is a better predictor of success than IQ. Skills like self-motivation, delay gratification, self-control, and empathy. It reminds me of who is the…

Fremantle2026 September 20 (Sunday), 10:14AM· ArchivesWiki · Lua · I've been playing around with improving the item details panels on ArchivesWiki, to split the bottom text into two parts: date, and ident. The ident is the unique identifier of the item (the bold bit in the top left is the sequence number, shown only for the galleries used on storage location pages, because the sequence in the storage location is the most useful thing in that situation). The ident is used in the URLs, e.g.…

I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of the highlight bouts on day 4 featured Yokozuna Onosato vs Takayasu. Takayasu delivered a brutal hit at the Tachiai, forcing the Yokozuna back. Onosato backpedaled, and circling away, tried to guide Takayasu out of the ring. He very nearly succeeded, but Takayasu gracefully twirled one leg, staying in. Unfortunately for Yokozuna Onosato, he ended up twirling as well, but without the…

Subscribe and Listen: https://youtu.be/WpCp3VrOgkI🎙️ The Design Fiction EditionWelcome to the What The Fudge podcast for Sunday, September 20, 2026. This week, we are changing up the workflow and diving deep into several macro themes that have crystallized in the news, pulling heavily from design fiction concepts that are rapidly becoming our operational reality. Going forward, I will be bringing the interesting links into the topics I am referencing.📉 Macroeconomics & The Engineering ShiftThe…

The past year has been exciting for w64devkit, which like any software distribution is never complete. Peter0x44 joined as co-maintainer, and has pushed the project in good, new directions, with ideas I would never have considered. Many of his improvements have gone back upstream, and so you may benefit even if you don’t use w64devkit. I’d like to touch on the various odds and ends from the past year. Release security In April I announced that release packaging is now signed. Today all EXEs and…

I remember back in the days of the early internet in the 1990's the concept of news, information and things that where beneficial to being a well informed person, being behind a paywall would have been a very foreign idea. How did we let that happen? Why should I have to pay for information, unless the goal is to keep us from being truly informed. This should not be a new concept — people like Plato, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and of course, George Orwell, warned us that…

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