I hold a newly banded ovenbird at Bird Lab’s Hays Woods banding station, 15 September 2026 (photo by Shaina Kenny). All banding is conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey. 19 September 2026 “The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” — Robert Louis Stevenson On Tuesday 15 September I visited Bird Lab’s banding station at Hays Woods. Migration had been intense the night before and they were…

I joined Mastodon in 2019, and right off the bat, I was very intrigued by the possibility of running your own instance under your own domain. I originally wanted to setup an instance for A Possible Space, similar to what Panic or Tapbots have done. This didn’t happen for a variety of reasons, and soon enough I found an instance after my own heart: Merveilles, a wonderful community of thoughtful and creative people. Merveilles has been my social media home for the following seven years, but, as…

first mortise choppedThe width is a snug fit with the slat. The R/L is several frog hairs over but I knew that. What I wanted was the width to be snug or slightly undersized too. I made the depth of the mortises 3/8". dry fittedI like this trim and fit step. I get to control how tight and gap free the mortise is with the slat.almost made a me-steakI had all four of the long aprons but I was missing one of the short ones. I was holding it in my hands without knowing it. I was looking for the…

Shortcutting to output using AI gives me a similar feeling as using cheat codes when gaming , short term reward but skipping the interesting journey.

I’ve been going to the movies more this summer than the past 6 years combined. I had some expiring monetary credits to spend in May so I dumped all of them to purchase 25 tickets to my local movie theater. I now can go to movies with a very low threshold. I need to spend them all before they in turn expire by the end of this year so whenever there’s something even slightly watchable, I use one of those tickets and go see a movie. A movie theater experience is supposed be a premium experience…

I have just found some old notes (inadequate at best) made years ago, on a very jolly topic. The Cup of Death. It’s from a publication ‘Germania: Comparative Studies in the Old Germanic Languages and Literature‘, edited by D G Calder, T Craig Christy et al, 1988Chapter 12: The Drink of Death in Old English and Germanic Literature’, by G Russom The writer cites Old English as well as Latin writing, that is Pre-Christian and Christian.‘Maxims’ 1…

Fremantle2026 September 19 (Saturday), 6:36PM The old RAOB building at 19 Stirling Street: Trades Hall plaques: Epoch café: ← 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…

I’ve been going to the movies more this summer than the past 6 years combined. I had some expiring monetary credits to spend in May so I dumped all of them to purchase 25 tickets to my local movie theater. I now can go to movies with a very low threshold. I need to spend them all before they in turn expire by the end of this year so whenever there’s something even slightly watchable, I use one of those tickets and go see a movie. A movie theater experience is supposed be a premium experience…

Ibn ‘Arabi: Receptive, my heart became, to every form. A meadow for gazelles, and a cloister for the monks, A house for the idols, and the pilgrim’s Ka’aba, The tablets of the Torah, pages of the Qur’an. My religion is love’s own and wheresoever turn Her caravan, that love is my religion and my faith.

The sun rises on the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston, Texas. The post Galveston Gulf Morning appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

EuRuKo happened this week in Brno and even though I was planning to be there, I didn’t go at the end, and I’d like to explain why.

I bought this 2005-era translation device because… because… OK, here’s the thing: Normally when I’m reading something in French, I’ve got some proper tools handy for doing translation — I’m gonna need it. But other times, like when I’m reading an English book from the 40s, there’ll be a few French phrases here and there (because there was an assumption that all proper Englishmen have at least a basic understanding of French), and that’s fine: I have no problem (finally) reading French at a…

Today (17 September 2026) is the second anniversary of my omg.lol membership. To celebrate the occasion, I am happy to announce my new project: PyOmgLol, an unofficial cross-platform client for omg.lol! I joined omg.lol since the platform's fundraising campaign for St. Jude in 2024, and I have not regretted it. I have been enjoying the various features omg.lol provides, and the omg.lol community is one of my favourite online communities. (Speaking of omg.lol's fundraising campaign for St. Jude,…

In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: A week on from the record breaking tripBullshit Meter: New Eurostar trains to have double deck cocktail barsGood and bad week: Rail Baltica train procurement fails, but a contract is concluded for a key track section in PolandBad week: Sabotage on the Dutch railway networkAnother bad week: More level crossing incidents in PolandPhoto of the week: TGV and my Birdy bikeNewsletter 030, Friday 18th September 2026.Subscriber-only newsletter, sent every Friday at…

I'm on holiday in the seaside town of St Malo, in northern France. Their mascot, who appears on their flag and other official signs, is this fantastic little guy. All I've been able to find out about him so far is he's an ermine. Although his "fuck off" vibes seem appropriate for a city that spent a lot of time defending itself from sea invaders (often anglo-dutch, ahem). I'm having a lovely time here so far exploring the medieval city walls and speaking bad French. On the journey here we took…

Here is a bad sketch I did of a woman I saw waiting across from me at the pedestrian crossing. The dog was closer to her face, so that she could kiss it's head while they were waiting. It was a furry, shaggy dog, grey and white, like and English sheepdog. Not as big as one, but bigger than you would think for a dog that was being carried. I tried to remember this moment and draw it because I really wanted to take a photograph. But I just don't think street photography like that is ethical now,…

The suggestion to “be mindful”…[is] going to prevent absolutely no one from recording others. – Chris Hoffman Policing for Profit Cops usually make up some pretext, however flimsy, for their robbery schemes: A [Las Vegas cop named]…Antonio Chavez…and his wife, Claudia Guzman-Marquez…intentionally used their credit cards to purchase expensive items and gift cards in the tens of thousands of dollars…and…the[n]…dispute[d] the charges with the credit card companies, claiming that their wallets…had…

Finally! After claiming TWO* pixels in Pixel Area, it inspired me to finally make a button for this blog. * X:91 Y:95 and X:92 Y:95. They are neighbors in Signal Basin.Here it is: I'll also add the button somewhere in the ABOUT section so it'll be easier to find in the future. Feel free to download it directly as I don't think I'll delete it anytime soon. I plan on making a button garden someday so I can add blogs/websites I love visiting. I want to be better at sharing other blogs, but not in…

In March 2023, someone pointed a home-built GPS receiver at the sky and found this: N9Y2L L'O:CJL O2AY"WMG It was not noise. The parity checked out. It used exactly the peculiar little alphabet permitted by the GPS specification. Other satellites were transmitting the same 22 characters, and after a day or two they would all switch to a different, equally meaningless string. GPS has been doing this for at least nineteen years. That sounds like the opening of a spy story, which is why the…

Oddly, despite it being Euronews reporting it, this one will likely be true.Eurostar's new trains are Alstom's Avelia Horizon design, known in France as TGV-M. And as you can see from the photos here from Hourrail from the launch of the French version, there is a double deck dining car - with fridges on the lower floor, and a place to sit on the upper floor.Whether there are going to be real cocktails on board remains to be seen. But if there are, then they can be served on two floors.

Maps nav used to be good. But on a recent trip to Thailand, I lost count of the number of times it sent us on really stupid routes (round Bangkok via Rama III, rather than thru the centre, despite traffic being worse). I thought this was maybe due to route changes on Thai roads, but back in the UK, it keeps sending us off the motorway to carry on the motorway. Traffic doesn't explain the re-route. If this is AI, they have really screwed up Maps. Bad enough that I'm looking for alts.

The Feynman–Kac formula connects stochastic processes to partial differential equations.

It all started with seeing my kids consuming their media. Unlike their predecessors, Gen Z and Alpha are now more curated and personalized than ever. My kids’ main source of entertainment is mostly streaming services: Netflix, Disney+, Youtube, you name it. They are rarely exposed to ads, and even if they did (through Youtube), it was a simple click of a “Skip” button or an immediate switch to a different video. Gone are the days of sprinting to the toilet when the ads appeared, or when kids…

An end of week fortnight recap “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. It is easier to wage a battle against distant abstractions than to fight the quiet war inside one’s own soul. Yet this is the only war that ever mattered.” – Leo Tolstoy (Three Methods of Reform, 1900) It is mighty good to be back with you after my extended break. I had great fun helping Mrs J celebrate her BIG birthday, but the time has come to cease all revelry and devote my energies…

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What caught Frugalist’s eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to get future editions direct to your inbox. The post Weekend reading: Well, that escalated quickly appeared first on Monevator.

I have been using RayCast from ~4 years. I built 2 extensions, ~20 custom scripts, contributed to existing extensions. I raised support tickets related to automating RayCast exports & settings. Unfortunately, there was no good resolution. FOSS Alternatives When looking at open source alternatives I stumbled on Vicinae, RustCast long back but they were not drop in replacements. Recently TinyCast came out and I am using it as a primary launcher on one of the Mac. It is working well as a drop-in…

September 19 is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, as well as Software Freedom Day. There was, for the first time in a while, here in Wellington the Software Freedom Day (un)conference! Organized by OpsDev.

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Welcome to your weekly tabletop RPG newsletter. This week the most popular posts on the blog were Kickstarter Whales, Running Red Dragon’s Tale, Improvised Daggerheart Encounters, and Prepping Myths in Mythic Bastionland. If you like the blog, subscribe to get this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday, plus my other posts when they appear! Table of Contents Discord Discussions Blog Posts to ReadProjects to bookmark and downloadArrivals Chez PaladinPlay ReportsPoem Discord Discussions…