StarCraft was surprisingly never one of the staples growing up in our house. The closest we got to owning it was seeing it on the shelf at BlockBuster Video before they all closed down. You know the one, smaller box with Brood War bundled in for something like twenty bucks. Our neighbour also had StarCraft 64, so I guess that made us StarCraft …adjacent? I think we’d seen enough of the game to… Source

i forget we have a blog bc lowkey vs code is such a ballache to open and upload things to, but while i am here, i’ll dump 2 things i wrote for other people »> first is an essay about KITSCH! in the Polyester Book of Bad Taste »» u can buy it here or anywhere else tbh i do not mind! i wrote about the kistory of kitsch & its relationship with the avant-garde, clement greenberg, my gujuarati family’s whatsapp groupchat and the glittery e-cards we send to each other (and the messy performance i did…

Woo-hoo we're gonna make some graphs heck yeaaaaah let's go. I'll be using the Letterboxd data I used yesterday, because I like it a lot better than the sample data W3Schools is using, which is "Age of Nobel Prize winners up to the year 2020". It's...fine, I guess. But movies are more fun. HistogramsI didn't know a histogram was different from a bar chart, but it apparently is, because it focuses on quantitative data. It shows the number of times a value appeared in the data in set intervals.…

In light of all of the brouhaha around existential AI risk, we recorded (with Tom Adams) a rare mid-week AI Skeptics episode which I think will brighten all of our days: Apple Spotify YouTube

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start filling jars with brined cheese, filing for divorce, and finding that almost everything is better with a generous knob of butterHi there! As Dazed writes, we're living through an explainer epidemic, where thoughtfluencers with tiny mics are part of the same attention economy that runs food content.Let me explain something to you, then!When something's off, I start looking for comforting hints basically everywhere. You know what my favorite…

Ruby-throated hummingbirds August 2019, Alberta (photo by dfaulder via Flickr Creative Commons license) 14 September 2026 Ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) are heading south now to their winter homes in Central America. This week they are still abundant in Pittsburgh but their numbers will wane rapidly. They’ll be gone by the end of the September. Eventually they reach the Gulf coast and pause to fuel up for the next leg of their journey. They swarm these feeders in Mississippi…

Were we always fearful of information technology? I was wondering that recently as I considered the current wave of hysteria over A.I. I know in the 80s there was a fear of people losing their jobs due to PCs in the office. In the 90s there was a fear of people using the Internet to … Continue reading Computing in the 90s vs now: the fear factor

Beautiful day yesterday. Most of the vaulted ceiling parallel chord trusses have been landed. Pretty exciting. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 08:05 Wednesday, 16 September 2026

"Mill Food Recycler" is a machine we have in the kitchen where we put all food scraps. It produces highly nutritious fertilizer which I sprinkle on the grass and bushes about once every 1-2 months. It doesn't smell. It's very silent. And it feels kinda fun to use because of that feeling of making a small impact, one banana peel at a time.

The product of four consecutive Fibonacci numbers equals the product of two consecutive integers. For example, 3 × 5 × 8 × 13 = 39 × 40. I ran across this theorem in a note [1] that says “The product of any four consecutive Fibonacci numbers is twice a triangular number.” Since triangular numbers have the form n(n + 1)/2, twice a triangular number is the product of two consecutive integers. The note also gives a way to find the numbers on the right hand side. We have Fn Fn+1 Fn+2 Fn+3 = m(m +…

Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest places.- Christopher Eger. If you enjoy my always ad-free Warship Wednesday content, you can support it by buying me a cup of joe at https://buymeacoffee.com/lsozi As Henk says: “Warship Coffee – no sugar, just a pinch of salt!” Warship Wednesday 16 September 2026:…

One by one, the hotel guests got the look. They’d come to Cherie’s concierge desk, eyes nearly crossed, listening to the voice in their head. And when they tried to pair with Cherie, and found she didn’t have hOS, word got back to management. So one Thursday, after a one-on-one with her supervisor, Cherie stood in line at the hOS pop-up kiosk in the subway station. She read three screens of instructions, ten screens of contracts, and seventeen screens of waivers on her tab. She gritted her…

It's been said that Labor Day represents the end of summer. I've never been too crazy about that idea, because when I was a kid, the end of summer meant the beginning of the school year. Well, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.But it hasn't exactly been a secret in these parts that I haven't been as present at It's About TV as I usually am. And it occurs to me that some of you might be wondering what's been going on. (Some of you, of course, probably don't care, but that's okay, because…

Not a recent entry but a classic in its own right.

Where trauma dumping and programming meet. Surreal, yet so relatable.

From James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages, reminding us that the current state of illiteracy may just be a norm to which we are reverting:A world in which everyone can read seems obvious to us now but it is an astonishingly recent phenomenon. Much of the history of reading might be characterised less as a story of social and cultural change and more as the progress of an esoteric secret passed down by elites.It’s an eagerly anticipated book and everyone seems to be talking about it, by which I…

pic from the pastThis shaker step stool had been on my A list to do for a bazillion years. I finally made this one (my first) about 11years (?) ago. I gave it daughter #2 and she uses it as a plant stand. That aside what interested me about this pic was the back wall. Not only doesn't it not look like this anymore, the workbench has changed too. At the back right is where I first kept my drill press. The left side of the workbench has the remnants of a back tool well. I didn't like it and I…

We are all of us descended from creatures who—while figuring out how to feed and protect themselves in an oft-dangerous and unfriendly world—somehow found the time to invent poetry, trebuchets, the microprocessor, and Love Is Blind. We contain multitudes, in other words, but many of our social norms and internal pressures hobble or compress our multifarious natures, flattening our full complexity into something easier to label and organize. We thus end up narrowly self-defining for public…

Translated from Portuguese into English by Anthony Doyle. This year I've been enjoying listening to Antropoceno's latest album, No Ritmo da Terra, a work about climate collapse, Western imperialism, the destruction of everything that is precious by our modern industry, and indigenous resistance. Recently I read that their music was inspired by the works of Ailton Krenak. I looked up Krenak, but it appeared not much has been translated into English. This was one of the few translated works I…

I chuckle when people make big pronouncements about choices other people make about where they live or work. “I will never live there” or “I will never work at that company” have way of being satisfying put downs. Over the years I’ve come to see how much of this is just context and choices. If you’re truly in need, there’s very little you wouldn’t do. For most things, the honest answer is just that it depends. And if you’re in a position where you don’t have to make choices you don’t want to…

These weeknotes are pulling into the station a little late, because I’ve been busy starting my new job! I’ve joined the crew at HotDoc, as a manager slash engineer. It’s been a great time so far! I noticed Dry Monads CI was failing in production due to version 3.0 of the json gem removing the json/add custom serialization machinery (and for good reason). I switched this over to the new JSON::Coder API and pushed up v1.11.0 of Dry Monads. I forgot to mention it last week, but we landed the…

Each new post on this blog now has a Digital Object Identifier. This post looks at the how and the why of getting one, whether it is useful, and any issues you might experience if you go down this path. Table of ContentsBackgroundGetting a DOI the easy wayLet's Go Rogue!Automatic Submission of New ContentManual Submission of Old ContentGetting the DOIGenerating your own DOIMaking the DOI discoverable in HTMLDownsidesLoss of ControlTracking CitationsLicencingVerificationExcluding ContentDeleting…

Japanese chashu is tender and flavorful pork belly that melts in your mouth. I have made chashu many times at home, and I have found that cooking it gently over low heat, then letting it rest in the braising liquid, makes a big difference to both the flavor and texture. It’s a classic topping for ... The post Chashu (Braised Pork Belly) appeared first on Chopstick Chronicles.

I almost decided to skip this week’s blog entry because the subject matter is sickening, but I can’t stop myself from standing on my soapbox and yelling my opinion at the world. Deacon Jim Miller, so named because he was a respected church attending man, was born in 1865. When he was 8 years old, the Sheriff concluded he shot and killed his grandparents and lied about it. His grandparents were his caretakers at the time. It was 1873 and nobody knew what to do with an 8-year-old homicidal…

I know some of you aren't video people, but this is one of the most sensible things you'll hear in this increasingly overheated debate. Brown has long been one of the most reliably clear-eyed and knowledgeable voices in the fields of software and (more recently) AI. This is well worth your time, which is something I can't say about easily 90% of the coverage of this story.

To put these memories in a book, so as to be released from it. These thirteen years of it. Like a sacrificial offering. To bury it in the ground. Writing as a way not to remember but to forget. Or if not to forget, to attempt to leave behind. from Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno

Stream-of-conscious ramblings about how I'm going to get my finances in order. Finances are not my strong suit. I didn't learn it in school. When I asked my mother for advice, her response was, "Nobody taught me, so why should I teach you." I think she saw it as tough parenting. But if your kids aren't being taught finances anywhere, shouldn't that be the parent's responsibility? Soapbox This is why I believe financial proficiency is hereditary*. If your parents are bad with money and that's…

While I remember here’s a quick preview of an event at Maynooth during Space Week 2026. This will take place on the evening of Thursday 8th October 2026: The event is free but, in order to make sure there is enough space, we need you need to register, which you can do here: Register on Eventbrite I know it is three weeks away, but demand for these events is very high so I encourage you to register ASAP!