Tue Sep 16
The following is an excerpt from a private exchange. I am sharing it with the express permission of my correspondent, without disclosing their identity. The quoted/indented parts belong to my correspondent. It just randomly occured to me to ask you how do you food? Because I’m guessing food is also a facet of life...
Born on this day in 1880 was Alfred Noyes, a poet now largely forgotten, but for the gloriously melodramatic ballad 'The Highwayman', which regularly features in anthologies and in polls of the nation's favourite poems – and why not? It's pretty irresistible...PART ONEThe wind was a torrent of darkness among the...
7:05 am teeeeewwzday slept embers 16 2025 had broken sleep, but had a recurring dream, anxietyish, with some changes naturally, early this morning. these days, my recurring dreams have and are of this...
I’m not in a hurry to update my Apple devices to the 26 “crop” of OSs, but Safari on macOS… why not? Every year Apple ships the big update to its browser for older macOS releases. It’s an exception to the rule of updating native apps only with the OS. The list of changes is […]
Here are my weeknotes from September 9 to 15, 2025!
A friend recently recommended Craig McCaskill’s article “The Bubble That Knows It’s a Bubble” with a disclaimer “it’s quite a read”. After forgetting it and coming back to it later I can say: it’s so worth reading it! I admit that I thought it was some “AI hate” article, but in fact it isn’t. Craig […]
Two weeks ago I entered mortal combat with Covid, and have emerged victorious but not unscathed. This bout featured an unexpected symptom: persistent vertigo, especially when looking at text. Not a great situation for someone in my line of work! (And with my personal preferences.) But if I kept my computer screen at...
Check it out on Letterboxd Technicolor maximalism at display. Every shot feels controlled and patient and you can feel the craft shining through. The story is immaterial, maybe even treated as a crutch to let the visuals speak some narrative. Oh, the visuals. Sitting in the theatre on a Monday evening; and I almost...
In the spring of 1859, as On the Origin of Species was going to press, New Yorkers flooded the first studio building for artists to see The Heart of the Andes — a single painting exhibited by itself in an unknown young artist’s studio. Alexander von Humboldt’s account of his time Latin America, which had sent Darwin...
Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface — was jarringly bad. Without much experience in desktop UX, Apple's first OS...
Thankful am I that: Good things are happening in my children's lives; Not a small amount of writing was accomplished today; Friends are studying with others to show them the Way. ¶ So much evil in the world, but saints can see the good that God is doing. ¶ Time is a gift of God, which, once spent, can never be...
pbs-tui Figure 1: A terminal dashboard for monitoring PBS Pro schedulers 👀 Overview A terminal user interface built with Textual for monitoring PBS Pro schedulers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. The dashboard surfaces job, queue, and node activity in a single view and refreshes itself automatically so...
Photo of the Seattle Central Library, taken 1 January 2000 by Thomas Hawk. By the start of 2000, blogging was becoming a communal activity. One of its pioneers, Cameron Barrett, had a “Sites I Visit Often” list in his sidebar that had gotten longer over the past year and now included many weblogs. Although there...
People have been a bit weirded by what happened during this period. People have been interested in this after the post by Jonathan Riddell was written. Here's what I remember from the situation. Order of events I get laid off from previous job in 2023-10-10. Nate Graham learns of this and invites me to join Blue...
I never thought how fixing my sleep schedule could improve my life so much. It isn't an exaggeration to say I'm a different person now. It all began sometime at the end of the last month. I was anticipating my regular check-up by my GP, which has been postponed like 4 times because either they had a vacation or fell...
Despite having been in a drawer for ten years, this old Kindle still works fine
