This plant is so good. Bees love it. It smells amazing. It's planted in a corner where a gravel path meets the driveway and it bakes in reflected heat all day. It doesn't care about anything. Also…

I n the series "other distracting activities during the heatwave," I looked into the very simple development by a "local guy"—that is, a Frenchman—who created a small computer based on the 6502…

A rant.

There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? — Mr. McQuire, The Graduate. In order to further explore the 3D printing of the Descendants series, I added a new 3D…

Meta has new $299 smart glasses. I don’t want them. But, as I wrote for Stuff, I’d happily try some AirPods Pro for my eyes. Retroid released another retro doodad. It’s more or less…

  Have a great weekend!!!!!!!   The Pilgrim  

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1967 promo film of Donovan, shot at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall and at his &#8220;Mauve Cottage&#8221; in Little Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire. Donovan also had a stone house commune property…

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This post gets at something I&rsquo;ve never quite been able to say: When I think about what I wish to accomplish if I knew I was going to die, apart from spending time with my loved ones I think…

i am currently reworking doqmeat.com, there are some pages currently available which i will be linking on the index page but it will take me a while to finish the whole thing. fun fact: this site has…

Daniel recently published an article about why trailing dots are his worst enemies and the issues curl had to wrestle with while handling them. The technical challenges he lays out make perfect…

The result is going to be a recession, very possibly a severe recession, and one that goes on for a very long time. It’s not obvious yet, because businesses are still spending huge amounts of money…

Out of a mixture of curiosity and resentment, the practice and concept of retreat has occupied far more space in my mind than it will ever deserve. As is the case with most things that piss me off.To…

puppy wants a tail so bad 😭

How shady deals and unjustifiable tax incentives have allowed Big Tech to commandeer America's most precious land and resources

In a previous life, i was a history major researching the French-Catholic migration to the Canadian Prairies between 1870 and 1915. Published in 1891, Rerum novarum is the foundational text of the…

In this post we’ll take a look at a psychological concept closely linked to eudaimonic happiness: Self-determination theory. Self-determination theory maintains that our three core psychological…

Book Review: 'The Viaduct' by David Wheldon 2 / 5 Stars 'The Viaduct' first was published in the UK in 1983. This Valancourt Books edition (136 pp.) was published in 2024 and features cover art by…

Avogadro&#8217;s number — the count of atoms in a mole — is about . The number of stars in the observable universe is, depending on whose galaxy survey you trust, somewhere between and . These are,…

It never seems as if the academic stress will end, until suddenly, sometime in late June, it just does. The students disperse for the academic year like fluffy tree pollen on the wind. The final…

(The only reason you're reading this is my need to rant and the lack of people to rant to about it) Look, I'm from 1998. That means I was there for the beggining of social media: Orkut (you are SO…

June winds down. Quick trip to Seattle to help my brother, a visit to one of my old employers, a lovely visit with my stepmom and her husband, World Cup fans, etc. On a quick trip to Seattle to help…

Added demos of subqueries, series, and aggregate functions.

I decided to add this to my online notepad because it's such a simple thing to want to do, but trying to look it up often returns excessively complex solutions (using Perl, for example). It's doable…

How many tokens does &ldquo;building a SaaS project&rdquo; cost and how many of those are non-requirements? The parts you need but are not core to the product. I have asked my trusted codex to build…

Notes, thoughts and highlights from Week 26, 2026. The post Wk 26-26 – Weekly Note appeared first on aboutSG.

It is commonly accepted that, on the morning of August 17, 1966, Miguel and Manuel boarded a bus at the Campos bus station bound for Niterói. But, as with almost everything in the Lead Masks Case,…

Wally's Compassion - 186/132 Special Illustration Rare Need: 0, but want to replace 1 common Hilda - 171/086 Special Illustration Rare Need: 2 common, but 1 of this art to replace Hilda - 164/086…

Instead of writing my personal musings on this Sunday, I would actually suggest you read these two pieces that expanded my understanding of the world: &#x201C;How funerals keep Africa poor&#x201D;,…

A human future, without horror.

The Night CircusVisitor recommendation series #70~1300 words

Andy Burnham is the first PM since Brexit not to have to make immigration his top priority. What will this mean for Britain and British politics?

In January 1848, Francesco Bagnasco, a radical Scilian who believed in the "universal regeneration" of society in the face of inequality, unemployment and hunger, spoke:The time of useless prayers…

Today&#8217;s post will be about whether (and if yes, how) to approach potential employers in a cold email suggesting you&#8217;d like to work with them. First of all, I have to say: this…

During record breaking June temperatures, a deadly thunderstorm blew down a tree, nearly killing a cyclist that only survived because my boat was moored in the right spot.

Appendix N is not a list. It is a declaration of creative freedom.

Boiling. Hate it obviously — I’m not ridiculous . Most of this week has been submerged in the woozy fever dream of being uncomfortably hot all the time. Can’t think clearly, can’t sleep properly,…

Some time ago I vented about A.I. in a post named Assistive Incompetence . All my posts are written from a humanist and disinterested perspective. I have no control whatsoever about what people do…

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Well, here we are at my 1000th posting on this blog since March 2014. Scary. I thought I would devote this one to a bit of family history. In July 2016 I wrote a series of fi

It was the vividness that was impressed on me first. I saw her halving the tablets with a knife on the table top of her sewing machine. She mumbled about making it last and prioritizing patriarch’s…

Honest review of Oya's Umami, Panjim. The post Oya&#8217;s Umami, Panjim. Honest Review. appeared first on aboutSG.

I’ve dropped the habit of logging my exercise, and I don’t miss the nagging presence of the orange app.

Want to win the story game? First, know whose story you're really telling.

I had a rare disagreement with my high school friends last night. In a group chat, I mentioned that I gave up on Major League Baseball after they introduced a pitch clock into the game. I was a…

Data scientists and clinicians provide their perspectives on how humans and AI can safely work together in intensive care units.

평소의 덥고 쨍쨍한 날은 오늘 나의 텅 빈 것 같은 기분이랑 잘 어울리지 않아서 비가 내리기 시작했을지도 모른다. 인생을 여태까지 악착같이 살아왔고, 거의 쉼없이 달려와서 그런지 오늘 하루는 아주 무기력하게 보내고 있다. 그렇지만 무슨 일이 생겼길래 이렇게까지 느껴지는지 물어본다면, 나도 모르겠다고 대답할 것 같다. 뜬금없이 발생한 문제나 심각한 어려움이…

IDK. What have you got?