Yesterday while I was in between making graphics and removing the backgrounds from them, I decided to take a break and make a new tag. This time I chose another of my Lady Pirate images and I really…

I was sitting this morning and thinking about how fantastic Agentic AI, autonomous commerce and programmable money is. It is the focus of my next Pulp Finction book Birth of a Unicorn being released…

Things might get cheesy.

Donald Trump has stopped pretending. He is waging economic war on Canada. He's imposed a 50% trade tariff designed, in his own words, to ruin Read the full article...

A friend was helping his aunt sell a used iPad, barely used and a generation newer than my current one. My current iPad's battery has been degraded already, dropping quite a lot after a single…

Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune on 25 August 1989. It is the only space probe to have visited this planet so far. Voyager 2 is one of five space probes currently on…

Some thoughts about Please let me interact with your blog post! You can probably tell from my blog that I am quite asthetically spartan. I am a huge believer in function over form, and while that…

2009’s This is Not a Game is the first of Walter Jon Williams’ Dagmar Shaw thrillers. Discovering that her now-ex lover was married was an unpleasant surprise for augmented-reality-game…

Lately, I’m suffering whenever I’m ready to press the shutter on my camera. It’s a strange feeling because I might even see a scene that I’d like to shoot, but then my gut…

Connect to a persistent Herdr session from a phone over SSH, use the narrow-screen interface, and safely check running coding agents.

Kiwi Jr.’s new album has been out for over a week, so you’ve probably already heard it. But if you haven’t, or if Chopper left you missing some of the pop and edge of Cooler Returns…

Birmingham, Alabama-based singer/songwriter/guitarist Taylor Hollingsworth has spent years refusing to fit neatly into a genre box, so naturally he invented his own: Folk N’ Roll. On his latest…

The day started with painting my coffee. I adore this one particular mug because it fits under the espresso machine, which saves me having to wash one of those little...

As well as adventures down by the river, photographing beavers , August has also seen Evelyn and I turning the moth trap on to see what we could find in the garden. I was really surprised at the…

One of the first things I do before writing a draft for the day’s post is to read through the previous day’s post. I review it to see if I...

The other day, at a party-organised Chhatron ki Goonj event in Pune, Rahul Gandhi fired a cheap shot to indirectly put Hindus on the defensive. His point was about women fighting patriarchy, but he…

    There is a very sweet scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when the 30-year-old Toula Portokalos goes back to college as an adult to take a course in computing and tourism, having decided…

Sharing an assortment of things here that I’ve been having fun with! Bookbinding: I went for a bookbinding workshop two weekends ago. I have never thought of myself as a crafty person (in fact, quite…

Summer is almost over, and it’s time to resume regular programming with the next example from the Segment Routing workshop I had at ITNOG10: multi-vendor SR-MPLS . I used the same lab topology as in…

I can't wait for my days to be filled with quiet nothingness and the blissful peace that comes at the end of a chapter, with the thrill of becoming, lit hazily from behind, its face obscured,…

“Burlington, Vermont, circa 1911. ‘City Hall Park.’ Hotel Vermont in the background; bench-warmers in the foreground. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.” I like…

As a designer, I see lots of little problems in the world. I look at something in search of its flaws. I will be bothered that things have to be the way they are. And then I channel that negative…

Installed the macOS 27 beta. My favorite part - consistent corner radii.

Cereus & Limnic: Escape From Okinawa - Type B: 40K words second draft

So this post is doing two things for me right now. It’s showing myself and anyone that reads this that I’m not a mechanical robot with a linear story to tell, topics on this blog don’t have to follow…

Writers, do you wanna be a rule follower? A nice little meek writer who follows all the commandments out there on social media? I hope you’re a bit of a rebel and wanna write some stories that…

Sunday night here in Austin, I was lucky enough to go to a talk that Professor Jiang gave. He is the guy from Predictive History , and he uses classic books and knowledge from the past to get stuff…

In Part II of the Practical NLP for Risk Modeling series, we fine-tuned DistilBERT end-to-end on NOAA tornado event narratives. Instead of treating DistilBERT as a fixed feature extractor, every…

Today on the Carmelite calendar it is the feast of Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified, Miriam Baouardy, known as the "Little Arab." Miraculous phenomena surrounded her. Let us pray to her for Christians…

Like the rest of us, poets often favor certain times of the year. They return to a season or month they find thematically or emotionally rich. Keats, obviously, was an autumn man. Winter I associate…

I was recently chatting with some colleagues about deployment tooling and FleetDM came up. I felt like I was aware of most deployment tools but this was new to me. Logos are how companies show brands…

Use Grok Build with local and OpenRouter free models alongside Grok-4.6. Copy-paste config.toml for Gemma, Qwen, and GLM — same harness, switch with /model.

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Apple has reversed its decision to move Hide My Email addresses to a separate private.icloud.com domain that would have make it easier for others to differentiate between ‘real’ and pseudo email…

Gary Lineker is at it again, sharing a video from notorious antisemite Tony Greenstein comparing Zionists to Nazis. Continue reading Gary Lineker Shares Zionism–Nazi Comparison By Notorious…

David Nield : Six decades on, the view has lost none of its impact. ~ Link: Five Images, Six Decades: Capturing the Iconic “Earthrise” Photo , by David Nield, Nautilus

of all the hosting places i could've platformed my website on, why did i choose bear blog? if you were ever curious, it's time for some 'splaining. so, sit back and grab some popcorn as i take you…

Someone asked on Slack about how many more revisions I'd be making to the 88 Illini list (I change it CONSTANTLY all summer) and I wanted to share my answer here as well as there. This year,…

I finally played through Unhinged, Night School's final game, which runs in the Netflix television app on a variety of platforms. Shortly after its release, Netflix shut down the studio. I know a…

David Simon learned that television writing does not live on the page. Wardrobe, camera, sets, actors and timing decide what the words become.

The MOLCOS (Maintenance Of Law Cybernetic Organism Suit) appears in Case 02 (Psychic Trooper) of Yoshiaki Kawajiri's 1990 cyberpunk OVA Cyber City Oedo 808. Designed by the military as a ruthless…

The promise was calm seas and light winds all day. It started perfectly with another early one Gorgeous smooth calm paddling right down to Simmonds islands This view is looking back up the coast from…

“All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close, this is gonna be your lucky day!” –Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson After Bungie’s Halo: Combat Evolved launched on November…

Adrián Adamec is taking on the classic cosmic horror tale, and his early footage looks very promising.

Highlights: Bloggo redesign Achilles tendonitis more interview prep went to a kid’s birthday party Bloggo redesign I ended up redesigning Bloggo, my android app that I use for blogging from my…

Judomaster #94 is dated April 1967. The only credit is "McLaughlin" so I assume that Frank McLaughlin is again responsible for both story and artwork. The story titled "Tiger Hunt" begins with a…

We’re all a little bit hoarder.

Saint Louis IX, King of France , whose feast we celebrate today, is the epitome of the Christian knight, king and crusader . He is the patron saint of Franciscan tertiaries. In addition to his…

8/24/2026, 11:46:37 PM Cat VortexThe prompt was to create a sonic zoo, so I took a 30-second sample of Oatmeal (a cat we’re taking care of) and repitched and stacked it using a web audio tool I wrote…

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