Current goings-on Tonight is the walk to raise funds for Blood Cancer United here in Wilmington. I blew through my original fundraisng goal and doubled it, and met that too. You can read my…

This is my neighbour's dog, Stanley. He's a mad little pooch, and I love spending time with him. He visits most weekends for a rip around our garden.

Google has released its annual popular Halloween costume list, based on search records. A mix of horror media, current pop culture and... "disco Scooby-Doo?" Source

Here's a photo of an orange sky. How very October. I don't got much going on right now lmaoTabF5.com

Five Little Lines

I got 2 of these sticks from Sascha, the owner of Indiaroma, in 2024. He’s currently offering them for €5… Continue reading “Paropakaram – Musk”…

I spent last week in Bern, Switzerland, for the second edition of the Open Transport Community Conference, attending that but also being part of the organizer team.

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here.Let's start with a big one. Loud Numbers, my…

journal entry on 2026-10-17

Another week heavy on decompilations and native console ports, next to a growing batch of local inference engines and one Wi-Fi router turned into a software-defined receiver. There is also good…

Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past…

Hello again, sweet friends! #SAVfact: I have CASED card designs or print images before [ C opy a nd S electively E dit]. I usually am inspired and then make the design my own or use the supplies I…

I’m on a roll! So many posts in a row! This morning I watched “When You Clean a Stranger’s Home” a 7 minute short from 2020. It was lovely and made me feel grateful for the mess we share. The poem I…

This journey back into tropical aquarium keeping has proven beyond engaging. Everything has changed so much, especially with the Internet. I could go on and on about the things I’ve learned. Instead,…

If you’re subscribed to this blog, you may have noticed that I’ve not written anything for a couple of months. There’s a reason for that. Even though I’m making slow progress at improving my go…

No rain this week. He had some beautiful weather

What I learned this week Software Jev vs the trolley problem Business/Finance Delta picked up biscoff because of a peanut shortage Interesting Links NFL Kicker MVP in 1982 Math/Stat Travel Zugspitze,…

This time last week I was in San Sebastián, in T-shirt weather, where I paddled in the warm ocean and stayed out late pintxos-hopping the bars. On Tuesday I was back at work in London, where it was…

We are heading towards Black Mirror reality one day at a time. This week, I visited Majestic metro station for the first time since moving to Indiranagar. And I was greeted with this:…

~1 in 10 Bay Area households has no car, ~269,000 households across the 9 counties, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey microdata for 2020-24 . The share has barely changed…

web developers do not look ok nowadays.

I wrote a bunch of thank-you's four years ago and am finally publishing them!

Exchanging a traditional meter for a smart one didn't go very well.

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week. Things I worked on I try to follow updates from T3 Code but with their "nightly" release actually being 3-4 times a day, my email was…

Last updated: 5 days, 17 hours ago Intro Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! No classes on Monday, meaning half my course load is gone this week. Project Management (Monday Morning) Lecture No Lecture.…

Happy Friday! Today is National Boss’s Day (I’m a boss!) and National Dictionary Day. Which is cool, because about two weeks ago, I bought an actual physical dictionary. I’m moving…

As a follow up to my last post about the L'il Dipper from Schon Design, I wanted to relate my experience swatching another ink with it. I got a bottle of Platinum Classic Lavender Black today…

Under the ashes.

I found a friend in an unexpected place

How I came out ahead buying and selling used guitars, with real prices, mistakes, and practical rules for keeping a music hobby affordable.

The other night, we went out to dinner with our friend Eric before the Sting concert (which was amazing, BTW). That's when he learned that there was a method to my madness of nights out at taprooms;…

I try to write a post every year for my birthday. Even if I don’t have anything else to say for an entire year, even if the content is just how much I expected (or even wished) I wouldn’t…

iPhone Duo Fail • I Saw Everything • Apple & Meta • Amazon's Bee • Netflix Shake Up • OpenAI Spy

Hey, did you already look up at the clouds today? You didn’t I can believe that, maybe you were spending too much of your time staring at your phone or a computer screen, just like I did. I…

original post by jila. believe me, jila, i understand how arduous the journey towards great achievements can be. it would be really nice if success could just show up at our doorstep one night... but…

Want to be in photos like these or buy prints? Send me an email . I’m no longer on Instagram , so if you message me there, I won’t see it. You can also drop me a line on Signal , Mastodon , or…

L, formerly known here as Earthgirl (that's new Shakey), asked me to again go to No Kings with her tomorrow and of course I said yes. Unlike the previous two, the nearest one won't be on the…

Journal ## ITEM! ## My number finally came up on the bowel cancer screening lottery and the vial with instructions appeared in the post this week. Pretty simple stuff, except I’ve can’t…

It Cometh, Be Strong

The clock struck ten bells. Closing time. Caster wheels squeaked on black-and-white linoleum. Mayonnaise, the tiniest jar, was still on the shelf. The bottom shattered when it dropped in the cart.…

My grandson Ezra is almost one year old, and he loves being held upside down by his daddy. The more upside down, the… The post “You’ll Never Be Liver-Growed”: An Appalachian Family Story…

There are secrets for privacy and silence; let them only be cultivated on the part of the hunted creature with even half the method with which the love of sport - or call it the historic sense - is…

It’s finally October and as you may know that means Hacktoberfest! This year the theme is open-source and AI. If you want to share Ham Radio / AI tools check out the event next week at the…

Sorry if you received a copy of the previous Weeknotes a second time by email. That issue is fixed. I turned 51 this week. It was an unremarkable flipping of the calendar other than it was near 90…

PUPPY ENRICHMENT, SIMPLE WAYS to KEEP PUPPY HAPPY. Bringing home a puppy is exciting, but raising one involves more than feeding, training, and cuddling. Puppies are naturally curious and…

Here are the Metro trains that will run on Mumbai’s arterial Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) Road. To be run on Green Line 4, the line starts from Thane (Gaimukh as Line 4A) and will pass through…

Today marks one month since we adopted our newest ham!

“Before I die I want to… grow old with love,  apologize to my husband, see the leaders wake up, collect many flowers, see the lighthouse again, forgive and let go, invent a cure…

Monday was Sports Day (Wikipedia). In the spirit of endurance and overcoming obstacles, I went and saw Christopher Nolan’s the Odyssey. In the process, I discovered that it’s really easy to ride the…