Moving into our new house.

October 19, 2026 So, in essence, this is the same post as I did on Friday. No clashing accent colors, but still starting with a scarf and wearing lots of brown. Many of the same garments and…

Click above image for article The thirteen holes punched into the mailed postcard on October 6th 1970 were most probably signifying the running victim total claimed by the Zodiac Killer (of reported…

CJ is the younger of our two cats; he's ten and one year younger than McGee. He has a bit of an attitude sometimes because he figures he should be top cat. He's not, and both we and McGee have let…

At the most recent hearing in the Clancy case, Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington said the following: When you consider the evidence that the government has, you have the exercise bands,…

Don‘t expect any fast email reply this week. Am in the mountains. ☺️ Reply via Email

My weekly blog post. Links this week include a gorgeous 300 year old watercolor color-swatch book that is viewable in full page, hi res scans, a story about stadium hot dog launchers and a look at…

This list will not revolutionize your life. But it just might have a little positive impact on your or someone you encounters’ day. It is just a short list of things that came to my mind and…

2016. Finish it today. Make no mistakes. That's reasonable. Make no mistakes. Make no mistakes. 2026. I've tried 26 different ways. It's just not working. Sigh. Alright. "Make no mistakes." That's…

💧 New purchase before winter: dehumidifier ♨️ After 8 years, another heat pump check 🗺️ A sneak peek at the next Bikerouter feature ✈️ The Internet Movie Plane Database 🔲 My personal…

It’s been three years and at least once a week, I find myself saying aloud, I love Boston. There is some event, some moment, someContinue reading

13th october to 18th october

October 18 2026 - 20:00 I need to watch You Can See Everything so fucking bad. I haven't anticipated for something like this since Deltarune probably…

Two weeks in the life of…. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past fortnight.

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So many things have changed since the last time I posted 17 days ago. Grandma has been in the same UTI Factory since getting released from the hospital. She is set to be released on Tuesday and will…

When faced with difficult times, you must develop the ability to transcend the trouble around you instead of giving up or assuming that nothing can be done about your situation. Keep your wits about…

To go far, have fun

Hiiiiiiii wow it’s really fall huh……….. been waking up to 45 degree mornings when it feels like it was 75 just a couple weeks ago! Monday was Indigenous Peoples’ Day so I had the day off from work so…

I attended another edition of Devoxx earlier this month. It’s been the traditional highlight of my professional year ever since I first attended one in 2007, when it was still called Javapolis.…

My eldest son is 7 and is a lot of different things, but one thing he especially is, possibly above all else, is noisy.

Sorry, all: This blog post is long overdue. In fact any post at all is overdue at this point; suffice it to say it’s been a while. The not-so-relevant-for-this-blog reason behind this is mainly…

This is a passing thought I had last week. I don’t have any answers yet, but I wanted to record the question.

Latest updates for Monday, October 19, 2026

We live in what is being referred to as a “ post literate society ” in which 40% of Americans did not read a single book last year . This is mind blowing to me, but - I can also see that with…

Haven’t written one of these in a while! I dropped the habit of writing now pages, but I thought it could be nice to share what I’ve been up to, especially if it leads to some nice chats down the…

Ridgeline subscribers — Oh, hello. I made a notebook: ⬤. You can buy it here. I didn’t mean to make a notebook but, you see, I had no choice. A couple of years ago the Japanese edition of Kissa…

The “personal touch” nature of my work means that I sometimes take it very seriously. This is problem more often than you’d think — creative work benefits from a certain lightness of attitude.…

Darwiniana This plaque greets visitors to Christ’s, the Cambridge college where Charles Darwin was an undergraduate. Last Friday I’d been invited to lunch there by a friend who is a Fellow of the…

Two trees we found in Spain whose branches have fused together. They grow up in parallel but hold hands along the way. My wife and I just celebrated our five-year anniversary. It was a little surreal…

Technical Reading List

The week of 12 to 18 October on social.omgmog.net had a pile of retro software running in odd places, from the first iPhone in a browser tab to PS2 games on WebGPU. There’s also some Nintendo…

Week 10 I usually write parts of my weekly post throughout the week. And for some posts, I take about 30 mins to sit down and recap the week straight...

#636 — Oct. 18, 2026 At a Seattle museum, young volunteers answer the call to preserve phone historyWoman who rescued injured crow keeps getting ‘thank-you gifts’ from birds How botched…

D&D was fun this week, I’m enjoying Luke’s creative encounters, we had to defuse some peanut-butter-smothered dynamite before some squirrels got to it. Weekly is quite nice tbh, something to look…

This week holds the last days of a Libra Sun, the last days of retro Scorpio Venus, and Mercury slows to a standstill before turning retro into the weekend. As this transpires, the Sun and Venus draw…

Felt like I really benefited from having last week off work, and that feeling lasted about an hour into my Monday morning. Turns out a lot happened last week so I spent most of this week trying to…

The American Sign Museum is ten minutes away from my house, but I'd never gotten around to a visit until my friend Sam and I were invited to type poems for guests at a bat mitzvah party there last…

I wrote a short diary blog about my microSD card woes, and I added a new illustration of Ashley to my gallery ♥

A busy week catching up on what I'd missed while at Open Source Summit last week Mostly wrote up the main TODOs I had last week, but still need to get a lot of them thought out more and prioritised…

This is part of a series as I document the life of a dress worn and lived in, in one real life, in the Highlands of Scotland. Object 003: Highland Mess Dress I took the kids to the Eden Court comic…

I loved learning about Sundays Company from this post. Their Field Stool looks neat! The most important thing is that you have to give up the idea that it’s going to be perfect. Inviting people you…

Howdy, link fans! I wanted to get this one out a little earlier than the end of the month because this issue marks ONE FULL YEAR since I started whatelseison.net , and therefore one full year of…

'What Else Is On?' is a collection of things from elsewhere on the web that I want to share. Howdy, link fans! I wanted to get this one out a little earlier than the end of the month because this…

The heaven I imagine, and the questions I will never stop asking. Oh, how I wish I could wake up naturally every morning, and have time for the things I wish to do. Today, I had an extraordinary need…

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