I mean… lol. Will be an interesting 3rd act, I guess.

I am supposed to be getting some of this steel soon but I wanted to write up an analysis of the composition first. There was an article from BladeHQ about the steel and also a video from TKell Knives so I have gotten some questions about it. Background I was able to talk to Robert Buck, the developer of these steels, so when I got an answer to questions I had I will provide it, otherwise the following is my own analysis and speculation and shouldn’t be construed as anything official. Thank you…

The biggest loser in yesterday's landslide was not Donald Trump. It was another Boomer, Newt Gingrich, who managed to redraw the political map in ways that have kept the Republican Party in or near power for the last five decades. While the Democratic base eroded, with the Northeast losing relative population and the Midwest turning purple to red, the Republicans secured hegemony in the rapidly growing Sunbelt, with the exception of California. They have evidently overplayed their hand. In one…

For me the most important thing about the election is not just how many Democrats won but the margins of their victories being large because that sends a message. Some may be tempted to declare this a victory for democracy, but while the act itself was an exercise in democracy I think the results are more a consequence of the economy. Where democracy may have begun regaining some ground is in state legislatures where several super majorities were broken.

My question isn't if I want to play it. It's how I'm going to pry the Switch 2 away from my girls to do so . The post The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Review appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

[Onward. Forward. Upward.] In what must be seen as a repudiation of Donald Trump’s abhorrent second term as president, as well as the failures of the Republican-controlled House and Senate to actually govern, yesterday’s elections saw voters across America shift left in remarkable numbers. As a result, Democrats will take control of both the House and Senate in January. When they do, the legislative branch can hopefully return to its proper role providing a check on the executive branch, rather…

I went through a minor health scare several years ago. Whenever I tried to focus my left eye on reading or watching something, I felt nausea. It had been a few years since I had seen an optometrist for a routine visit. When I called my optometrist, I found out they’d be on vacation for a few weeks. I read a lot for work and fun, so I couldn’t do that anymore. I also couldn’t watch TV. I had to let my clients know. I passed the time calling friends, listening to podcasts, and exploring the city…

From the WebKit blog: In the spring of 2019, Safari 12.1 became the first browser to support dark mode on the web. A lot of people love using dark mode, but not every website has a dark version. Almost 40% of web page loads are from users in dark mode, and yet only 10% of page loads support it. If you love dark mode, you’ve probably hit a site that felt particularly bright. Adaptive Dark Mode is designed to close that gap, providing a consistent dark experience across the web. You can try it…

• 4-star hike • 2 to 10 mile options • Easy | Gain 50 to 350 feet • Newburyport, MA | Northeast Region . Walking the main drive to a house that's long gone. Maudslay State Park sits on the former Moseley family estate along the Merrimack River in Newburyport. After the state bought the property, the Department of Conservation and Recreation took over its management. A sprawling network of old carriage roads and trails winds through the grounds, making it easy to design a hike of almost any…

The reviewers are thrilled with the Ocarina of Time remake. Metacritic of 96. I am so ready!overkill.wtf — Everything I am so ready, too!

There is an undeniable coziness to Twin Peaks that contrasts with its dark subject matter to create a tone that is wholly unique. Part of this coziness is established by the show’s believable clutter, and the set decorations at the Hurley residence are a prime example. Nadine Hurley loves her knickknacks, and one item from... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – UCTCI Pigtail Figure at The Hurley House appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

by Amber Dubin For October's installment of Night Gallery Season 2, Rod Serling once again fails to disappoint in the quality of the storytelling. All the episodes have at least one really thoughtful and well-crafted story and nearly all of them are drawing from short stories written by well-established titans of science fiction. The comical … Continue reading [November 4, 1971] Night Gallery: Fears of Spiders, Academies, and Phantom Farmhouses → The post [November 4, 1971] <em>Night…

Who are you?My name is Karen Foxlee and I’m an Australian children’s author. I live and write in Queensland, Australia in a little town called Gympie.What do you write?I write for the middle-grade audience, everything from magic realism to literary novels. I started writing when I was in grade two and fell in love with the notion that I could create something out of nothing. I felt a little bit magical, and I still do each time I finish a story. There hasn’t been a time in my life that I…

Hello Future Me’s “I read all the Star Wars books, and now I understand the prequels” explainer video (30 August 2026) features classic red string in its thumbnail (but not the video itself.

Tim Ferriss, the author of self-help classics such as The Four Hour Work Week, noted a very sharp drop in his book sales since the arrival of AI back in late 2022. He viewed this as a real turning point for the ‘self-help’ genre of writing. He asked, ‘Has AI already killed nonfiction?’ and concluded: “The death of prescriptive nonfiction books, at least as a mass-market information business, is nigh. Sure, there will be temporary outliers, but the trend line points in one direction.” – Has AI…

Many of our friends mourned the passing of the Sir Patrick Stewart this week. He was a kind man (so says one of my pals who met him at PlanetCon in KC a few years ago), a talented actor and the embodiment of role he played as Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard. I am not usually affected by celebrity deaths but Sir Patrick Stewart’s roles have touched this Trekkie-nerd’s heart. So, I’ll be pouring a cup of Earl Grey, hot, in his honor. Pens: New Month, Time to Rotate Those Pens (via Fountain Pen Chronicles…

My girlfriend has vacation this week. We knew we wanted to get out geocaching. It has been a long time since we have gotten out. Her work schedule hasn’t been ideal for that and when she had off we were normally doing something else. Looking at the weather last week we knew we had to get out. We were thinking for a hike but then I remembered the Enola Low Grade trail and thought it might be nice to get down there again. The leaves are past peak now but thought it might be the perfect time to…

📚 The Pine Barrens by John McPhee – I would not have thought I could enjoy a series on the ecology and peoples of an obscure yet famous, out of the way yet vast, part of New Jersey. Or such a place would be the setting for idiomatic language, proposals for supersonic jet ports, intense but rejuvenating forest fires, requisite tall tales, and remarkably clean water. I guess that’s a point in McPhee’s favor as a writer!

I always forget to go back to Hacker News. Not because I don’t like it. I do. It just never shows up where I am. Nothing reminds me it’s there. It’s a URL I type when I remember, and most days I don’t. Somewhere along the way it vanishes into the deep web of tabs I once had open. So the conversation goes on without me. I read the threads. I just never see the discussion next to them, never add to it, never come back to it. So I built Discuss on HN to fix that for myself. It’s a free Chrome…

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the 5. Lost in the Fog challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. First lookBellingcat has posted a picture made by Nick of a foggy field. According to their information, there's an airport nearby. It's our task to find ICAO code for the airport. I prefer to inspect photographs closely before starting my search and making a…

New version of this blog, heavily influenced design-wise by the venerable and inestimable sippey.com. The website is built with Eleventy and just creates a bunch of files on the server, while posts are files mirrored in my main Obsidian vault. Now I’m also trying out something very old school, or at least very “log” in “weblog.” I have one weblog.md file with short microblogging (tweets basically) entries one after the other, just split by a *** (<hr />). The vibe coded app splits them into…

Another trip to the Harz to collect stamps for the Harzer Wandernadel. Got my first badge! It is always a delight to discover nice places while collecting these.

America showed up big time last night. We need more of that. Albion, Michigan – shot on the Canon 5D (classic!) and EF 85mm f/1.8.

Snigdha Poonam, author of Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud That Preys on the World, writes on the lucrative world of literary scams. A British author has also just written in The Guardian about his own encounter with these scammers, and the grim reality behind at least some of them: Last year, authorities raided a facility in Bamban, north of Manila, freeing nearly 700 people who had been trapped there and forced to work as scammers. Inside the building, it resembled a hybrid between…

Cycles Hyped No More on November 4, 2026 The American electorate has spoken. And it’s not just MAGA Trumpism which has been repudiated, but the unseemly reign of douchebag techbroism. Cycles Hyped No More is a monthly column by Jared White where he takes a critical look at “hype cycles” and the ways Big Tech attempts to steer public discourse towards its own financial goals and away from grassroots development of person-centered tech. No product or service is “inevitable” and we can choose the…

The Wonder: An Unofficial Television ArchiveYou sometimes hear jerks like me reminisce and rhapsodize about “the old, weird internet.” An algorithm-free digital wild west, untamed by search engines and social media. A vast landscape of oddball outposts, labors of love and questionable HTML skills. It wasn’t perfect, mind you. But it was ours! The Wonder, an unofficial website devoted to Television, was a great example of the old weirdness. Launched by Keith Allison in the early part of the 21st…

The New Yorker‘s 26 October issue carries a large profile/interview with James Daunt, head of Barnes & Noble, head of Waterstones, thus Foyles, Blackwells, Heffers etc., etc. and the biggest name in bookselling in the world. The piece is surprisingly badly written. Within the first three columns I was stopped by “Though less well-known than many authors . . .”; “the leafy parts of London” as location of his first store, Daunt Books; and “Outwardly, Daunt carries faint traces of the social caste…

From The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (Harper, 2013), pp. 239-241: Even if we were to assume that the foreign policies of the pre-war European powers were formulated and managed by compact executives animated by a unified and coherent purpose, reconstructing the relations among them would still be a daunting task, given that no relationship between any two powers can be fully understood without reference to relations with all of the others. But in the…

Seth Godin on fake async: Over time, async creeps toward sync. It’s ironic that Slack messages, texts and email which succeeded because they were async, now create an expectation of real-time response. These are async tools used with sync expectations, so you get the interruptions of sync without its energy. Seth Godin https://seths.blog/2026/11/the-power-of-sync-2/ Personal discipline can’t solve this one. You can block two hours for focused work, but if your team expects an answer within…