Recents Q: From Where Do Our Primal Instincts Originate? A: MTV!, Portraits Of Tracy Hound, hey, nothing Blue Island, Ravyn Lenae U, underscores Sweet Fortune, Ryan Beatty Ode to the Greyhouse,…

Thoughts all over the place. Anxious. Angry. Confused. Frustrated. Exhausted. Burned out. Sick and tired of all the things happening around you. You’re not alone. It’s a human condition.…

It look a few years of living in East Tennessee to fully comprehend what Dolly meant to the people. Shortly after Eleanor got accepted into graduate school at the University of Tennessee in…

Answer If you expect your machine to boot with a GUI and it doesn’t you might need to look at which Display Manager (aka dm) you have installed: dpkg -l | awk '/^ii .*dm / { print $2}'…

August 15, 1945 is when Japan officially surrendered. WWII finally over, American soldiers began coming home. In 1946, the baby boom began. Famous boomers born in 1946: Diane Keaton – January 5 Dolly…

We have read many stories of the ancient sages who achieved enlightenment by sitting in silence for long periods. A similar kind of advice is given by the neo-sages {not sages in true sense but still…

This one hurts like hell. This planet has lost so much with the passing of Dolly Parton that it’s difficult to even find a foothold for the grief, a place to begin to process all that she was and all…

I was so proud of my good habits (reducing phone usage, not consuming media mindlessly, eating healthy, going outside every day, keeping up with job applications) but now I've let them slip. Except…

Portrait of a Pulp Jockey Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text Read Time: 5 min Topics: Simplification, Capitalism I used to think on paper. I used to bullet journal. I used to focus on the…

I love furry cons. The first time I went to a con was two years ago, in 2024. My friend Kodu was visiting Europe for the first time, and having a very American sense of scale, he suggested I fly…

We Carry the Sun by Tae Keller illustrated by Rachel Wada Norton Young Readers, 2025. 48 pages. Review written 2/6/26 from a library book. Starred Review This is a nonfiction picture book about the…

RPG A Day 25! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers . This is a company which enters dungeons to recover loot (pretty common trope in fantasy anime like…

I wish Bill were correct about me getting paid to write this blog. If that were true, I'd easily be able to be at the courthouse every day to watch his trial. Unfortunately, he's wrong about that. I…

First interview of 2026

After well over a year working on my new book, finding deeper parts, I find myself getting closer to the core. I don’t know if there is one thing driving it, but I keep finding that things I…

Thoughts and commentary on the times we are living in

"Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep" (1999) by Gail Carson Levine Good/Very Good. On Sonora's naming day the King and Queen invited all the fairies, except one. They gave her beauty, a loving heart,…

A man stabbed in an incident in Côte‑des‑Neiges on Saturday has died, notching up the 18th homicide of the year.

Éthique à l’usage de mon fils Personal Rating: 9/10 - I read this book while I was in grade 9. It profoundly changed my perspective on life and started to spark my interest in different areas of…

Xinjiang 新疆 An autonomous zone. The “wild west” of china. Only 5% habitable. 他们有这种考的鸡蛋，必须得试一试。比煮的鸡蛋香多了。.

That's morse code for the letter B, by the way. (Click to expand)

A pure soul. We need more like her.

I’ve hit 92 days of walking at least 10 miles per day, covering 1034.8 miles which is about 11.24 miles per day. I’m down about 18lbs., and finally able to fit back into my medium hoodies…

After Saragossa Manuscript, another Wojciech Has movie full of madness, beautifully filmed, and based on an eccentric novel, which didn’t really work for me. Jan Nowicki (Barrier) goes to a…

R.I.P., Dolly Parton. And along with music and the movies, thanks for the Imagination Library. An Emily Dickinson poem comes to mind. The post Dolly and Her Imagination Library first appeared on…

This is a fun little trick I came across at $DAYJOB. I did not invent it, but I thought it was interesting enough to understand better and share.

This semester, I am giving four lectures in a third-year undergraduate course on statistical mechanics. Last year, I gave a guest lecture on the Ising model. The first thing I want to emphasise is…

Enchanted, Inc. (2005) 309 pages by Shanna Swendson Enchanted, Inc. #1 It’s just weird living in New York City. I mean with so many people walking around with wings or putting on pointy elf ears like…

I’m at home, experiencing both FOMO and vicarious joy as I see pictures of Django friends reuniting at DjangoCon US this week. And I just read that Dolly Parton passed away. I immediately listened to…

Here are some recent data centre figures to help put things into perspective. By 2035, BloombergNEF now expects there to be 194 GW of data centres online in the US. This is an upward revision of 83%!…

This morning, I went to get a bunch of lab tests done at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (for a nephrologist consultation tomorrow) and discovered that a lot of the phlebotomists recognized me,…

There's a new update in Clovenglade- from now on, every card you obtain will be saved and can be viewed in the Library. Furthermore, all horses you befriend can be interacted with at the Stable! More…

Occasionally, I see a good idea, and wonder why it’s not being done everywhere. One such occasion was at the Iowa State Fair, when I saw a prefabricated house with a sign saying that it could…

Cook Political shifted 4 races to the Left.

2026, it's turning out to be a year for many changes as forks in the road of life have become evident. The TW200 had become unreliable to me for quite a while now. Yesterday, she started to have…

After nearly seven years of conducting boba reviews, I have built up a decent ability to predict if the boba will be good or not. I will always get a drink so I'm not merely judging a book by its…

The 1257 eruption of Mount Samalas triggered global climate upheaval, indirectly leading to the death of Möngke Khan at Diaoyu Fortress in 1259, the fragmentation of the Mongol Empire, and the…

Broadway musical from 1991 that won the Tony awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score. It's about the life of historical figure Will Rogers (1879-1935), who was a performer and social…

Former CBC and CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson passed on this month, at the age of 92. He presented Canadian news for more than four decades, the longest uninterrupted stretch of anyone in North…

A long-time reader asked if I have any wisdom to share about getting one's first set of hearing aids, and I don't. Maybe some of you do?He just had a hearing test showing hearing loss – almost…

Hello, hello, hello, I'm back. I know, I know, not the most consistent, but I'm pretty happy with most days. Anyways, these days I've been watching 2 shows, avatar the last airbender and pokemon.…

The GATE research programme charter cover page I think at this point, the public has become quite tired of the debates about AI "consciousness" and the PR games being played by major tech companies…

Extremely rare officially licensed 1991 Super Mario Bros. T-shirt depicting Mario performing a skateboarding trick (top: regular orientation, bottom: rotated to get a better view of Mario).Note that…

🥰 I did get a photo I like, though.

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1961 original: downbeat, guys go broke and get injured, the girl dies 1986 reboot: a party, guys get rich and have a good time playing the game “He’s gotta learn how to be himself, but on…

If I go through the halls of X, I would probably come back with a very confused opinion on the state of open source today. On the one hand there are examples like opencode with tons and tons of open…

Open the README of Airtable’s official Ruby client and, before you reach the install instructions, you get this: We are currently transitioning this gem to be supported by Airtable. We will maintain…