Sun Sep 14
Consideration of Anders Kølle's tech criticism via information theory
Enough with the whining. Silvia and I have decided to kickstart the process that will ultimately lead us to share a dual citizenship. We came back to the UK two years ago, after failing to find common ground with our home country, and settled in our former house once again. Not coincidentally, we managed to find a...
The fellowship was created in 2011 to honour the memory of late Australian writer and biographer Hazel Rowley, who died in the same year. Past recipients of the fellowship, which supports the work of Australian biography writers, include Mary Hoban, the inaugural winner, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Matthew Lamb, and Mandy...
First Contact Back when I was a wee child, playing free games and downloading viruses on my hand me down computer, I initially found Arma 2 Free which was the stripped down version of Arma 2. I have vague memories of joining public games, running around and looking for enemies and not finding any. Though not being...
Walk it out. We’re walking past Stüssy again on Prince Street. There’s a center funnel between two parts of a roped queue, with hordes of bored-looking, phone-staring, monogamously-dressed androgynous youth. Loafers, white Nike socks, baggy long jorts or wide jeans, cropped boxy tee is the uniform. Previously seen...
Roshan: Fix bot summary [[File:AI Conception of Beadman.png|thumb|The expression is pretty spot-on though the Beadman's fashion sense had deteriorated by the time I met him]] A recent Reddit story that I read today reminded of a time when my friend Takashi and I encountered a colourful San Franciscan. The Reddit...
Table of Contents Using business cards Designing the face of the card First draft Second draft Third draft Fourth draft Fifth draft Sixth draft Seventh draft Eighth draft Designing the back of the card Design one: Just keep it Design two: Adding some simple text Design three: Work in the crest Conclusion Using...
The United States was founded on political violence and has been further forged by its flames throughout our history. To appeal to our better virtues and to hope for a brighter future is admirable, but cognitive dissonance is a deceptively sweet fruit, nurtured by the blood and tears of those who suffer under the...
over the past week, i have reformatted & wiped my lenovo thinkpad t480s a total of 6 times. windows (to dual boot with nixOS) custom microwin install (to dual boot with nixOS) nixOS with encrypted btrfs (by itself). arch linux with encrypted btrfs (install #1). arch linux with encrypted btrfs (re-install #2). and...
#arte #historiadelArte #pintura #podcast #ElSueñodelArtista Hace realmente algunas cuántas semanas que no grababa un nuevo episodio para el podcast de igual nombre que este blog muchas por situaciaciones ajenas a mi voluntad que casi me era imposible incluso realizar el guión pero una noche se dio la oportunidad de...
I'm still playing catch-up with the monthly reading updates. Thus, it is September and I'm still on May. Fingers crossed I meet myself in the present before the end of this year... This wasn't a month that particularly reflected my reading goals for 2025
Ayer me comí una mora. Vi un zarzal que todavía tenía algunas que no estaban secas, localicé una más o menos gordita, la cogí, la lavé bien lavada con agua fresca, y me la comí. Y estaba rica. Dulzona, no especialmente jugosa pero sin tener tampoco demasiado pipo, y con un sabor que sin duda es indicativo de que...
这篇书摘分享了词作人周耀辉回忆母亲的散文集《纸上染了蓝》。文章通过摘录书中的片段，展现了作者对母亲的深沉怀念，以及对生命、亲情和道别的独特思考。尽管主题是逝去，但文字哀而不伤，充满歌词般的美感与触动。读者可以从中感受到作者与母亲之间深厚的情感联结，以及对人生经历的哲学反思。
I remember the feeling of the light shining around and through the curtains. Then there was music: melodies in chirp. I wanted to close my eyes and go back to sleep for just a while longer, enjoying the warmth of my bed, but I didn’t want to forget the light and the music – there was a moment so wonderful just...
I’m a man of habit. I do the same things every day, I eat the same things every week, I wear the same three colors all the time. I also have bad habits, like everyone does, and my bad habits are just as entrenched into my lifestyle as the good ones. I definitely get caught up in my habits. I tend to get very grumpy...
So I spent the last two days at two different conventions. Saturday, of course, I was at Eau Claire Comic Con here in town, selling copies of my novels and comics. It was a good time overall -- saw some old friends, made some sales, and got to meet some new readers. Overall, it's just a great little convention, and...
This weekend I spent hours tweaking little cosmetic and technical aspects of this blog. I finally managed to change the HTML of the footnotes, which I am happy to say is now an <aside> element and not a <section> element anymore. Semantically, I think it makes more sense like this.1 I wonder why the footnotes module...
I've been wanting to get back into sketching after so many years of apathy, or worse, fear that I will just be bad, and that I was always bad. Well, I am bad. Whatever sketchbooks I did fill up, or digital art I did make, was under the constraints of being bad and trying to bring out my head something. It allowed me...
It's that time of year again. Summer has elided into autumn, and that sure calendrical marker, the Last Night of the Proms, has been and gone. Watching it on television, I found this year's event rather underwhelming – too many musical 'lollipops' with little of substance to balance them, efficient but uninspired...
10:30 am good sad sad good sunday 09 14 2025 this morning, started watching the film Triangle of Sadness (2022, written & directed by Ruben Östlund) on dvd and yeah, soo good. brilliant n intensely fu...
UPDATE 2025-09-16 09:17 +0300: There now is a dedicated “selfies” section on my website: https://protesilaos.com/selfies. A while back I noticed that I did not have a single selfie in my phone’s camera roll: https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2025-05-16-not-one-selfie/. In fact, there is no human element in the...
A weekend run takes an unexpected turn when a familiar route is suddenly blocked.
Testing out an avatar from a gist Wild! Found this code snippet here How neat. Giant Umaru for me thanks to live2d L2Dwidget.init({ "model": { //"jsonPath": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/evrstr/live2d-widget-models/live2d_evrstr/koharu/model.json" "jsonPath":...
Thanks to the Fediverse integration of Flipboard I just saw the post from National Geographic where they link “Grace for the World: Recreating Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican“. At first I thought it was mainly about how impressive the show itself was. But there’s also another topic: the technology and...
Wahlhelfer im Briefwahlzentrum sein ist wirklich ein Erlebnis: Über 4000 Menschen in zwei Messehallen. Altersmäßig zwischen 16 und 89, allgemein ein diverser Haufen. In meinem Fall ein tolles Team mit viel Humor und Freude an der Arbeit. Warme Live-Worte von Henriette Reker. Und immer wieder dieser wilde Applaus...
