Well this is interesting. Not exactly sure where these are being manufactured, but they’re distributed by Nestle USA. I’ve always wondered why Maggi noodles really weren’t here; I mean the 2 Minute Noodles from India aren’t too hard to find, but nothing to speak of other than that. Hopefully this is the beginning of an onslaught of different varieties! Let’s give it a looksie. Maggi Chinese Spicy Garlic Noodles – United States Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Looks to be meat free…

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here. The series will, when necessary, go into detail on the development of my sandbox for Dungeon Module B1: In Search of the Unknown, but will also discuss sandbox development more generally. You can read play reports from my B1 campaign here.A man of disputable wisdom once said that "YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT." This has since become a bit of a meme…

Note: Eighteen years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay titled “Better Than Free.” In this essay he focused on the ease of making and sharing copies of things with the advent of digitality and the internet. It stood to reason, he argued, that when the price of making copies drops to zero, the price of […] Source

Sorry, sorry, I've fallen out of the habit of blogging, again. That's the problem with being a part-time dev, there's always something that can get in the way... Eggnob But there's been progress! Restart Best's UI now shows each level, with the number of lives you had on your best run. This ended up being an almighty hack. The EH500's not built to support arbitrary images, and it has a pre-built structure about what constitutes a level, and what's torn down and brought up on entry & exit to…

• 4-star hikes • 7 to 8 mile options • Moderate | Gain 2,200 to 2,700 feet • Albany, NH | White Mountains . 52WAV South Peak views of Passaconaway & Whiteface. Mount Paugus sits quietly in the shadow of its more famous neighbor, Mount Chocorua, and tends to get overlooked by hikers heading for bigger names in the Sandwich Range. That's a shame, because this loop turns out to be one of the most enjoyable hikes you can experience in the area. We chose a looping trail that begins on the side of…

I am now pixel [X:55 Y:45] at Pixel_Area! how cool is that? Pixel Area is a 100×100 coordinate grid with room for 10,000 websites. Each pixel belongs to a real person and links to whatever they have online: a blog, a project, or just a small site they made. You pick an empty spot, choose a color, add a short description, and visitors find you by wandering around the map, one coordinate at a time, without really knowing where they will end up. which is a fantastic idea! there are 10k pixels…

I am now pixel [X:55 Y:45] at Pixel_Area! how cool is that? Pixel Area is a 100×100 coordinate grid with room for 10,000 websites. Each pixel belongs to a real person and links to whatever they have online: a blog, a project, or just a small site they made. You pick an empty spot, choose a color, add a short description, and visitors find you by wandering around the map, one coordinate at a time, without really knowing where they will end up. which is a fantastic idea! there are 10k pixels…

I am now pixel [X:55 Y:45] at Pixel_Area! how cool is that? Pixel Area is a 100×100 coordinate grid with room for 10,000 websites. Each pixel belongs to a real person and links to whatever they have online: a blog, a project, or just a small site they made. You pick an empty spot, choose a color, add a short description, and visitors find you by wandering around the map, one coordinate at a time, without really knowing where they will end up. which is a fantastic idea! there are 10k pixels…

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viv 0.14.0 is out. It installs PHP dependencies from a composer.lock and writes the same vendor/ Composer would, byte for byte – 20 of 20 pinned projects identical in this release's sweep. This is the last release where that is the whole point. From here viv is a research vehicle for package manager design, one measured chapter at a time, with the compatible mode frozen as the control. Looking forward to learn a whole bunch! #projects #vivace

The Folger Library alerts us to a mention of Artificial Intelligence in a book in their collection printed in 1588, John Harvey’s A discoursiue probleme concerning prophesies. You can see the mention eight lines from the bottom of this photo, just above Democritus’ name. “This predates what the Oxford English Dictionary identifies as its first use in a proposal that John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon authored in 1955 to investigate the feasibility of machine…

I started psychoanalysis at a moment when I was trying to run away from multiple things. Running away from one meant running towards another. I was stuck. I don’t feel like that anymore. In the last session I heard myself say: nowadays I’m not running away but always running towards. I now have more uninhibited self-expression. I don’t feel stuck, I’m simply ever-moving. So, why do I continue psychoanalysis? That’s the wrong question; better to ask: what is the function of psychoanalysis for me…

Michael Hurley - Quiet Life, Brooklyn, New York, March 24, 1990I’d never heard of Quiet Life, the short-lived late 80s/early 90s Williamsburg music venue, but it sounds like a hoot. The Village Voice’s Richard Gehr wrote: On most (and only) Saturday nights since last October, dozens — heck, scores — of locals have meandered into Quiet Life after discreetly making their presence known by tapping the door of this appropriately renamed former funeral chapel. In the dark, from the street, it lacks…

Fake prints, bodies, and films won’t destroy the Bigfoot legend, even though they are ubiquitous. Hoaxes just make the cryptid more cryptic, and controversial. Hoaxing shenanigans are an unfortunately common part of cryptozoology. Those serious about finding Bigfoot must deflect ridicule resulting from the parade of hairy hoaxes that appeared at the beginning of popular interest in the creature and continue up to today. Some incidents are obviously ludicrous and an embarrassment to researchers…

And it all comes down to this. . .There is only one truth and no amount of acting or pretending can change the truth So then, what is true?I suppose truth is often questioned because some people deny their truths and say “well, this is not true to me.”But truth is truth.Truth does not concern itself with us or how we think or feel about these things.Truth is truth.That is all. Truth is often seen as an opinion, in which case my truth might only be true to me. And again, there is only one truth…

14 GOES TO ORBIT: SpaceX announces Starship Flight 14 scheduled to launch NET Sept 28, to become the first Starship to reach Earth orbit. The hour-ish suborbital flight tests prior will be succeeded by a 10-hour mission, completing 6 orbits before splashing down in the Indian Ocean.

You can follow this blog on the fediverse. Technical issues mean I may have purged my followers, so if you already followed you may need to re-follow. On something like mastodon you can search for the blog profile @notes, clickable as https://idiolect.org.uk/notes/@notes Previously: ActivityPub on this blog (2024-09-16)

It was my birthday. I have reached the grand old age of 44. I was a little surprised to see that this year Ginza Cozy Corner had Sanrio characters for the seasonal selection box of tarts and cakes it regularly sells. Then I saw that’s exactly what they did last year and I felt even older. I had completely forgotten about the iPhone preorders starting at 9 pm JST on Saturday (why Saturday this year?) when Brandon messaged me at 8.57 pm to wish me luck getting an order in. That set off a mad dash…

16:09 - Passing the time. I'm early to my appointment.

A plain clamscan over a large home directory is single threaded. On a 24-core machine with four and a half million files, mine took over five hours and did not finish. This guide replaces it with the ClamAV daemon driven by parallel clients, and wires up a timer and an alert that tells the truth. You need a Linux system with systemd and root access. The examples assume Debian or Ubuntu package names and a home directory at /home. Install the daemon The standalone clamscan binary reloads the…

“JavaScript is garbage collected, so I don’t have to think about memory” is one of the more expensive lies engineers tell themselves. I’ve been writing JavaScript since I was a teenager, and the apps that fall over aren’t falling over because the garbage collector is broken. They’re falling over because someone, often me, on a bad day, kept a reference alive that should have died. This is the deep-dive I’ve wanted to write for years: how V8’s garbage collector actually works, why “leaks” happen…

Time to head home from Maui. A rainbow to send us off: Maui airport: Spam musubi snack: Our plane: Boarding: Seat selfie: Taking off: Goodbye Maui: Dinners: Mount Rainier: Container terminal in Seattle: Seattle; the Space Needle is visible on the right side: T-Mobile Park and Lumen Field: It was a nice vacation.

Ryan grapples with the concept of quality in Magic set design. How do we evaluate it, and are we giving sets a fair look when we do? The post I Have No Idea What Makes a Magic Set Good (You Probably Don’t Either) appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.

Mara Quill scratched a small cross beneath the label of a stewed-beef tin while her mother argued with Tern at the issue counter. The scratch sat low enough to escape a casual look, though Mara could find it again by running her thumbnail along the seam. She returned the tin to the shelf and took the powdered milk Tern had set out for Block C. He watched her hands while explaining to her mother that the weekly allowance would not cover a second packet. Nobody entered the supply room beyond the…

Dr. Andreas Gelé by Eugene Jaworski Back in 2014, I had some ideas for a superhero game. I needed a bad guy, something that would make the disparate group of supers I had want to work together for a common goal. That bad guy was the misanthropic mad scientist known as the Refrigerator. Named for the obvious cold-based reasons, but also from Gail Simone's 1999 landmark essay "Women in Refrigerators." While the game never went as far as I wanted, The Refrigerator lived on and found his way into…

The 13th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon is Here! While many think of Hollywood when they think of movies, the fact is that many classic films originated in the United Kingdom. From the Gainsborough melodramas to the Ealing comedies to the Hammer Horrors, the United Kingdom has made many contributions to classic film. The Rule, Britannia Blogathon will run from Friday, September 18 to Sunday, September 20 2026.Without further ado, here are this year's entriesRealweeegiemidget Reviews: "FILMS……

The World Wide Web is now over thirty years old. In that time, more content has vanished from it than remains now, but some of it can still be dredged up from the shadowy archives of the Wayback Machine. This is the latest chapter in our never-ending search to find the cool gaming stuff that time forgot…. Microsoft pioneered a form of hypertext that came onto the scene around the same time that HTML, the format that web browsers read and display, did. As sometimes happens with Microsoft, they…

I'm back from VCF Midwest 21, arguably the largest vintage computer festival on the planet. After being blown away last year, I decided to get a table of my own this year, to demonstrate NTP Time on a bunch of old Macs, representing every era up to the pinnacle of the PowerPC, an Xserve G5 (serving duty as a Stratum 2 ntpd server). Attending as an exhibitor is a lot different. In some ways better (I got to interact face-to-face with at least 200 people—after that I ran out of my 'time tokens'),…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like! This week’s prompt is about bigging up a book you love and think doesn’t get enough attention: If you could recommend one overlooked book, what would it be and why? This sounds quite like the prompt from the week before last, but…

. Today the very first single by The Air Contains Honey is out in the world. It's called "Sexuality" and the lyric is a quote from Kathy Acker. It is from our very first album The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes - released by Quindi Records in Florence, Italy - which you can preorder starting now. If you don't already know, The Air Contains Honey ― co-founded by Adam Kinner and Jacob Wren ― is an “orchestra” that mixes professional and amateur musicians. Its around twenty people all singing and…