Digital tools make it easy to capture and store information before we have really processed it. But once the device has it, the mind may quietly let it go. As soon as we come across an interesting…

Looking for a free hosting site for a simple online project. WIX was one often suggested as being 'fully featured' and 'easy to use'. Obviously there is a difference of opinion on the meaning of…

China’s Chang’e-7 lunar probe sitting atop its Long March-5 Y14 carrier rocket has been rolled back to the assembly and test building at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan.…

Went outside and had a good chat with the electrician. Realized we hadn't planned a penetration for the fiber, though I guess I thought it would just come in with the power. We're cutting the main…

First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit . You can't polish a turd Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collection of security issues which I can only…

Roundhouse now has four applications in flight. Status for each is here . Each one is there to test something different. Blog is the conformance oracle — small enough to support completely, and the…

An in-universe reference for the myths of Glorantha. The post The Prosopaedia (2023) appeared first on Vintage RPG.

Inside a Chinese MSC manufacturing facility: what cell banking, culture conditions, microcarriers and secretome research reveal about the future of regenerative medicine.

last week i played man i just wanna go home . that wonderful experience, combined with the fact my pc died (although its back working again yay), made me finally pick up renpy and start tooling…

This is the second post in a series, so I encourage you to go back to read the previous post about Building Healthy and Sustainable Projects Using CHAOSS Practitioner Guides if you haven’t already…

Matthew 5:4 reads: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. [Matthew 5:4, NASB 1995]μακάριοι οἱ πενθοῦντες, ὅτι αὐτοὶ παρακληθήσονται.[NA 28]...

While driving to the celebration of life this past weekend, I always take state roads from Tampa to Tallahassee. Typically less chance of accidents and though you have to slow down through the small…

The removal of Kehinde Wiley’s 2015 painting, Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, from the US Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic was part of a whole graphic makeover of the building…

As of August 17, 2026, the original Bard Music Player (BMP) program has been retired. I first wrote a guide about the original BMP back in 2018. I do believe that has been one of the most popular…

I had a really… interesting search on this site, with the Jekyll rewrite. It worked, I guess, but I never found it enjoyable to use, and it actually was a lot heavier than it should have been. It was…

Discover how Expeditione turns curiosity, questions, and classroom exploration into student-led learning adventures.

​In a podcast appearance on the Cleared Hot Podcast to promote his own paranormal podcasts, Jack Osbourne claimed that a friend had told him the Donald Trump alleged that UFOs are in the ocean:…

Last Friday I found myself standing at my computer and staring at it, realising that I have no idea what I should be working on with my precious free time. So I decided to make this unordered list as…

Our plans for dinner were simple; drive over to Stourbridge to collect a present and go for a quick, one-course dinner at The Old Wharf Inn. Sophie wanted […] The post The Gurkha Bar and Grill,…

On Linux, Citrix Workspace (wfica; icaclient 26.04.0.105) crashes, printing the following error message to console: *** WFICA CRASH: SIGFPE (Floating point exception) *** Crash log saved to:…

Reviewing every movie ever made,in alphabetical order: King Kong (1933)King Kong (1976)King Kong (1978)King Kong (2005) — — — King Kong (1933) “Hey, look out! ... [read more]

PTown's Hammock on the 26th & FR MoCA on the 5th

For presenting number-y things, I think internal consistency of numbers is probably the biggest self-own mistake you could commit.

Evaluation infrastructure is not the same as production infrastructure, except that it increasingly is — and the gap between those two sentences is what let an OpenAI agentic system reach into…

This video analyzes the rise and fall of the Apple Vision Pro, describing it as a $20 billion bet that ultimately failed. Despite impressive specs, early hype, and selling out within 18 minutes, the…

Open standards and specs are often more powerful than open source. Especially in the age of AI. Open source has been a dominant force in software development and operations. It’s enabled the…

The FT has the story: Germany becomes Europe’s largest regulated cannabis market. Critics are calling for legislation to be tightened two years after the drug was partially liberalised , by Aysun…

We spent months building a 164-member ensemble forecaster. NOAA already publishes something better, free, professionally calibrated. Here is how to recognize when you are reinventing the wheel.

A Fabric-powered Pi session won all 25 ARC-AGI-3 environments in one run. This post explains the setup and the parts of Fabric that carried it.

Covering a tune by Norman Blake.

Financed forecasts recruit institutions to create the demand they predicted, making later adoption a poor test of accuracy.

Two problems survived every prompt patch, so I threw the pipeline away

I don’t often get my nails done professionally. It’s not really part of my usual routine - between skincare and hair care, nails have always been the thing I quietly skip over. But recently, I had an…

Reflecting on 48 years of marriage, the friends and family who've faded away, and why a good adventure needs an uncertain outcome.

A 1972 paper that predicted the iPad (or, rather, it's spiritual opposite) but is actually way more important than that.…

Ukraine sent a flamboyance of Flamingos (cruise missiles, not those pink things) and struck a Russian space complex in Samara. This complex was responsible for assembling Soyuz-2 rockets, as well as…

How to make life feel long and rich

I love running fanlistings. I love going into Photoshop and making a layout, I love tweaking colors to fit a new theme, it's all very fun. The not-so-fun part comes with people not bothering to link…

Rarely have I found a main character both so appealing and so annoying. Yet Sybil Van Antwerp, in Virginia Evan’s novel The Correspondent, is just that. Sybil’s cantankerous,…

The stalk lasted almost exactly six years

For many years the first words of Van Dyke Parks’s song “Orange Crate Art” — “Orange crate art was a place to start” — served as what Blogger calls a “blog description line.” In May 2010, I began to…

Leadership often rewards action. Philanthropy does too. Money deployed, programs launched and people served are visible evidence that something is being done. But sometimes the highest-value decision…

The Republican Party of the future is not going to be the party of Milton Friedman. We're going to enjoy spitting on his grave, metaphorically speaking. -- J.D. Vance *** The Committee to Unleash…

The father of the four sons who were mentioned fighting each other's divided Frankish kingdoms yesterday was Clothar I (one of the four sons of Clovis I, the king who first united all the Frankish…

A year ago I wrote the blog post Why I'm Bearish on U.S. Stocks (for the Second Time Since 2017). Since then U.S. stocks are up 16% (total return) and my bearish prediction turned out to be…

Repository fragmentation turns shared work into internal transactions. Pricing those transactions reveals opportunities to move faster, release capacity and simplify control.

Who’s Who Important characters in the Royal Occultist mythos – both good and bad. 9. Philip Wendy-Smythe Philip Wendy-Smythe is the last of a once-proud line. Avowed orientalist and…

I've released a new library opengl_extrusions which is a Numpy and Cython library that does 3D extrusions (like the GLE library) and tessellations (one of the things the GLU library does). The…

Cats is so silly! In the olden days, after a wild animal was slaughtered, the tribe's shaman would wear the skin and re-enact the hunt. As he became one with the beast, the people slowly…