Sun Oct 26
I share a vector retrace of my Saint Tail manga artwork from 2021 and discuss the process using Inkscape..
Heaven knows how many Penguin books must have passed through my hands in the course of my reading life. They've always been there, right from my boyhood, when my father, for some reason, kept shelves of Penguins, mostly Crime, in the lavatory. I read some of those, then many many more over the years. But, in all my...
Tabbed browsing, was, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the last significant web browser innovation. Although tabbed browsing didn’t become common place until around 2002, the idea dates back to 1994, with the arrival of InternetWorks, a browser made by BookLink Technologies. Altman seems to be suggesting browsers have...
I disliked this episodes from the get go, as I've coughed a glimpse of the synopsis. One of the Borg-kids on the Voyager, Icheb, is reunited with his family and it goes wrong. Well, authors pulled a fast one me and I ended really enjoying it. And while, yes- most of it went as I expected. Seven was not buying it,...
Today’s Fotovorschlag on Mastodon is “Bäume” / “Trees”. Ah well, Trees – I do have a couple of them in my archive. But as we …
I’m filling up my Field Notes notebooks quickly, so I’ve been on the lookout for my next set. I figured I would go cheaper this time, since Field Notes (it’s a brand) are quite pricey. I found some generic A6 size notebooks on Amazon that looked nice and have about 10 times the number of pages as the Field Notes....
In which I hear a pheasant and engage in the Sisyphean task of raking leaves
Problem: Windows automatically goes to dark or light mode, no matter what is set in the system settings. Even worse: when you change the mode in the system settings, windows switches back after a few seconds. Solution: Check if you have MS PowerToys installed (and very likely updated recently) and disable “Light...
If anything, it's making the case for how difficult PC Game QA can be
The world is loud. Sometimes we need a break. Peace and quiet. But, not all that is quiet is calm. Some of what we consume is nearly silent, but percussively loud. Social media. Mindless chatter. News reports. Advertisements. Distractions and noise creep into our lives from all directions. Our phones, the break room...
I have a few domains registered but I’ve done little with them. Hosting a blog was one of the long-pending things to do. I chose to use Hugo - it’s familiar ground - Markdown, a single command to generate the pages and I have a handy server at my disposal. I have long abandoned mainstream social media and news. Now...
October 2025. Fancott. Toddington. Oooh look ! An actual hamlet, comprising some woods, a stream, a miniature railway, and a pub, your second on the exciting “Pub Crawl from Toddington Services”. A debut Good Beer Guide dining pub, too, looking exactly as you’d expect. I love those figures in the back of the...
《Voodoo》是一张情感驱动、突破传统的Neo Soul专辑，它挑战了音乐创作的既定范式。专辑融合了多种风格，以其松散而紧密的“layback”节奏和即兴演奏的现场感著称。D'Angelo的歌声与器乐深度融合，共同营造出一种纯粹的“感觉”传递。文章通过具体曲目分析，展现了D'Angelo如何探索音乐表达的边界，弱化歌词和传统形式，最终创造出一部富含深层情感和艺术探索的杰作，让听者沉浸其中，感受音乐的无穷魅力。
Allow me to crash out for a second. Since roughly a month, I’m experiencing a flareup in my spondyloarthritis (Ankylosing Spondylitis or Bechterew’s disease…). This is a type of arthritis that primarily affects the spine and usually some other joints. I first noticed it in the base of my right thumb that was painful...
Radio P1 har ett nytt debattprogram som heter “Krasch eller konsensus” och jag tyckte det var vanskligt på flera sätt. Grundidén är att programledaren kör en bil där två meningsmotståndare sitter med honom; alla tre sitter på främreraden på nåt sätt, och så ska han inte sluta köra förrän dom har kommit överens. Jag...
What a good week – I mostly spent it right next to a pretty lake or overlooking it. Having a lot of pizza and pasta and more Aperol Spritz, Limoncello Spritz, Peroni and Ichnusa than I can count. (To be honest: counting got a bit complicated after a while.) Add a few small walks, a […]
A few notes to close out this roadtrip, + 28 photos through a windshieldCurrently Listening: Todd Rundgren “Just One Victory”Reply via email
Erinnerungen an ein Edgeland. Es ist Sommer oder wenigstens Herbst. Man reißt das Moos und das Gras aus mit den Freunden und gräbt im Dreck und es riecht nach Wald oder Feld, nach Sonne jedenfalls. Aber die Erde ist schwarz und dunkel und die Steine, die so seltsam aussehen und gar nicht wie Steine, nicht wie von...
I've been writing quite a bit about AI the last few years. First, I talked about what LLMs are in the first place: really big Markov chains that have hit a threshold where they appear to be reasoning, to a level of fidelity that it makes no sense to argue about whether they are really "thinking" or not. Computers...
It’s been about eight years since I started running network services in my home. It all started with Pi-hole, which I ran not on a Raspberry Pi, but an Atom-powered Dell Mini “thin client” I acquired from eBay. Today I run a lot more and it’s become what is now known as a Homelab. I’m quite fond of it all, so...
Updates from the bridge: Been a fun and eventful weekend! Finally got around to setting up my own git server with soft serve. It's a much simpler take on a git server in that it doesn't have any web ui, just a TUI if you ssh into the server. I was able to setup mirrors for all of my GitHub repos and it syncs them...
In the tennis world, one common theme is the challenge of tennis parents. By tennis parents, we're usually referring to parents who devote their whole lives to tennis, and who hope to train their children to become future champions. I myself have gone through some challenging experiences with my parents in the...
2010 saya hadir di Pasar Seni sebagai panitia. 2014 sebagai pengunjung muda. 2025 saya hadir dengan kacamata yang berbeda.
Qu’est-ce que l’outil va faire de moi ? Je ne peux résister à vous partager cet extrait issu de « L’odyssée du pingouin cannibale », de l’inénarrable Yann Kerninon, philosophe et punk rocker anarchocycliste : Quand on m’envie d’écrire des livres et d’être un philosophe, j’ai toujours envie de répondre « allez vous...