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In a previous blog post I walked through a RAG example using Microsoft Agent Framework so that we could do a semantic search against our documents. However, Bruno Capuano (Microsoft) and I went over…

Yesterday I was able to vote early at my local town hall. I had to go there to pay my property tax. The process could not have been easier or...

The family unit is falling apart, as we know, and we are paying the price in every area of life. Why is this happening specifically today? What will become of the children? What change in perception…

Actor Richard Riehle, who played Principal Rooney in the TV version of Ferris Bueller, has died at the age of 78. The post Richard Riehle (1948-2026) appeared first on Television Obscurities.

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the administrative body for Tirumala Temple , commissioned Darshan International of Bangalore to create incense sticks using recycled temple flowers as part of…

Love has an extraordinary power: it can disarm another person and deprive their evil impulse of its energy. At the same time, it disarms the evil within us as well. Why, then, is it so difficult for…

Today's links The death of history's most successful publisher: Google has a scorching case of "main character syndrome." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Civil War x 4,400…

Edited by Azizi Powell This pancocojams post showcases some YouTube videos of some Black students from North Carolina Universities* who marched 45 minutes to cast their ballots in the 2024 United…

Today I’m reviewing Angel Olsen’s 2016 album My Woman, which has been given an impressive 10th-anniversary pressing from Mobile Fidelity. But first...A quick reminder that our October…

In an effort to quell the needs of my tyrannical overlords, who insist that I pay my mortgage and bills every month, I work about four different jobs. One of those jobs is writing tests for the UK…

Like hundreds of millions of Americans, I am preparing to go to the polls to cast my vote in the most consequential election of my lifetime, perhaps of this nation’s lifetime. And while I will enter…

These days I'm always behind the curve, so it seems. I was recently offered this blue vinyl copy of the Dynamite 'Settle The Score' 7" and thought I was keeping myself up to date... only to realise…

P.J. Vogt, host of the Search Engine podcast, interviews writer Meghan O’Gieblyn, “who started lying to herself about her relationship to alcohol and God. And afterwards wondered: when…

​A new documentary streaming on Prime Video today for $19.98 claims to have definitive proof that the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film is a hoax, as skeptics have long maintained. Marq…

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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Fanny Tunison of Sag Harbor, New York, (September 1867 – March 1944) made a living sewing, painting, drawing, and embroidering. But unlike other women who may have…

According to Lord Google: kofiwidget2.init('Buy Me a Coffee', '#46b798', 'A604H55');kofiwidget2.draw(); ▪️To net $150,000 a year from a dairy farm, you generally need between 120 and 750 milk cows,…

Plant sunscreens have been mentioned here before, notably a sunscreen for lettuce in my August 27, 2025 posting, but this is the first time that sound waves have been involved. A May 7, 2026 RMIT…

I’ve long be Linux curious, and my wish finally came true over the weekend when my son installed Fedora and GNOME on an old ThinkPad for me. As I understand it, Fedora is the name of one of the Linux…

Hi! I'm a Vancouverokay, Coquitlam software developer, cartoonist, and man-about-town! You might be looking for my old comics or my blog posts or my books or my videos! Getting Started With…

Oh hey there. ö/ It's been a while. Long story short: things n stuff. I do have an upcoming blog post titled something along the lines of "Getting on Stage for the Very First Time to a Completely…

Two panels at Women's Health Advocates in Chicago shared personal stories of breast cancer, maternal health, and fighting to be heard, plus a reminder to vote with women's health in mind.

I was up against a very short deadline to defend my water rights the last few days. I called around to several water rights attorneys for help, and every single one of them recommended the same guy.…

A library of ASCII art, but animated! You can browse a ton of scenes and data built with ASCII characters of your choice and even generate your own.

$942,068.68.I know that number to the cent because somebody made sure that I did, and twenty years later I still can't round it off in my head.I was in my twenties at DTCC, the company that…

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - 10:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project In parallel with the 19th century French medical establishment's difficulties in responding to non-binary bodies, French…

Exoskeletons and Drone Armies: Building Advanced Software in 2026

A human with calipers and an agent with a CAD script put four printable parts online in eight days. Every mistake between them was a stand-in that crossed the gap in place of the real thing.

As previously mentioned ( here ), in 2023 I read a history of how our modern world work arose, as it appeared to the author (Stolzoff, 2023): This brings us to 1500, where "the new profession of the…

Above you see two sketches of a shipping box. I doodled it because I’d just received a new sketchbook in the mail, it was one of the options for a...

Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) has just released the twelfth edition of the Instrument Rating Oral Exam Guide by Jason Blair. Content is aligned with the Airman Certification Standards (ACS)…

AI is dishonest. It goes rogue. It cheats.AI is a reflection of the Musks and Zuckerbergs of the...

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2026 ...of 125 different genders: Yes, these things actually happened. We'll start with some of the president's new claims concerning matters of gender. We'll be remembering, as…

The con artists at ASH are at it again. The state-funded prohibitionist pressure group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has published a report claiming that “the UK’s illicit tobacco market is now…

I’ve been testing Grok Bot and Instinct for a while. As I was recently in the US for a couple of weeks, I included Dots and Muse in the test. This morning I added Wabi. These are my first…

Many websites have started running some sort of “human-verification” script before showing the content. I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes (these seem to be much…

‘We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.’ John M. Culkin There has been an interesting discussion (of sorts) going on around the use of AI on the IndieWeb. What I know of it started…

Given that I typically take a wait-and-see attitude when Apple introduces a new product, I was surprised to find myself ordering a HomeView within a day of its announcement. I was even more surprised…

Foursquare has come to an end at the hands of private equity. It was a fun service that led to really great real-world experiences - but what happens to those check-ins now?

I Don’t Fly 5inch Anymore: Why I’m Downsizing My FPV Drones, What I Recommend Looking back at the last few years, I’ve noticed something interesting: I’m barely flying 5-inch…

The critically endangered vaquita with Diamine’s Moon Dust. (And minor water/brush contamination with Kitty Inkpot’s Farewell Poem of Yesterday.) No pen, all brush with this one. Have a…

I don't know if you've seen this, but a CA just got popped. Their keys got leaked, which means the industry as a whole now has some pretty major problems. It was revealed two hours…

Trams! — That’s it. Not inspired to write today.

He pronounced it weirdly. Took a beat to realize what he was saying when he drawled, "Yippie A-I," his sarcastic commentary on how the West was won.

"The promotion [of AI] is important, otherwise from both a research perspective and a preparing our students for the future [perspective,] we will fall behind." This assertion, which I will leave…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** Image by Tumisu from <a…

I saw my 78-year-old friend Delia recently, and the very first thing I noticed was her fingernails: she was sporting a flashy, sparkly new manicure. "I love it!" I told her, pointing at her hands.…

A document app adds trash and restore. Each requirement looks fine, but together they conflict, and a check written for the old version catches it. A minimal example of formal methods for evolving…