Fri Nov 07
October 2025. Ticknall. 2 miles from Calke, in the heart of the National Forest, is yet another of those âHOW had I not been here before ?â pubs that the Beer Guide continues to throw up. Ticknall is a gorgeous little Derbyshire village, the sort of place recently retired footballers used to run pubs in,⊠Continue...
Today I was thinking about things, or experiences, I believe are under appreciated. Here are just a few on my list: fresh popcorn a book you can't put down the bubbling sound of a stream "sweatshirt" weather the smell of the forest after a rain shower a good playlist on a long road trip local bookstores campfires...
Installing GNOME on OpenBSD 7.8 2025-11-07 This post is just a quick guide to get your OpenBSD desktop or laptop up-and-running with the GNOME desktop environment quickly. You can take things further once everything is setup, but Iâll be keeping things basic for now. Installing GNOME on OpenBSD 7.8 GNOME Packages...
âObtain free publicity for your conference by writing a post for Daily Nous in which you get to mention it.â Thatâs not really part of the post, but I have to give Craig Agule (Rutgers University-Camden) and Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania) credit for thinking to do this, as it does fit with what theyâre...
Way back in 2011 I ran probably one of the best known storylines in UnCONventional called "I Hate November." In the comic, Lynn is pretty much just having a shitty time. We find out some of her backstory, but the focus is much more on her emotional state than any specific events or plot. Its core is a feeling that I...
Hace años escribĂ un poema llamado âEscriboâ, que era una especie de declaraciĂłn o manifiesto, donde dejaba claras mis razones para hacerlo. âEscribo porque puedoâ decĂa en una de las lineas, es algo muy simple, realmente tonto, pero, no me parece una mala linea, escribo porque puedo hacerlo, escribo porque amo...
Podcasts are nice. They show up in chronological order, download in the background, and work the same in every app. In a world of algorithmic walled garden social âplatformsâ, this is a small miracle. Why canât more of the internet be like that? As Yair Rosenberg wrote in 2023, you can take back control of what you...
I seem to be settling into an every-other-week cadence with these weeknotes. I donât think thatâs a permanent thing, but Iâm glad I gave myself the space to do these at indeterminate intervals. On Tuesday, I started my 22nd year of working elections. I first worked back in 2004 as a regular ol' election officer just...
Masto-mailo-inator 0.1.1 has been released: Stop breaking long URLs on hyphens Fix encoded-word FROM since people think emoji is ok to use as display names Fix attachments name & mimetype (allow Python to guess it)
I took the doorbell camera off to recharge in revenge it took this extremely unflattering picture of my man boobs, I blurred out my face in sheer embarrassment. From this picture alone you will be able to see that I am a man who likes cake. Three months ago I did a DEXA scan which confirmed what I already knew that...
Iâve recently noticed that my desktop monitor is not turning off like it used to after 30 minutes of inactivity. It was working perfectly on Linux Mint 21 but after upgrading to LM 22, the monitor stays on, running the screen saver. Today, I noticed the screen turn off then come back on again after about 30-40...
hammer in the wind pastel maroon pink tangerine and greyblue cloud something in one smear against the faint urine water yellow. and I assume this is the sky. for the moment. not just colour. now its g...
Beginning in 2001 and running through the end of my tenure in high school (at least), I regularly watched ESPN. I still watched it at times through 2015 or 16 or so, which when I last had Cable/Sling TV. ESPN has changed a bit since then, as evinced by a new Morning Brew report titled ESPN [âŠ]
This is my entry for this monthâs IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Alex Sirac, on the topic of âCycles and fluctuationsâ. The life of a journalist is governed by schedules, but iâm not a journalist anymore. Iâve always prided myself on knowing the exact time instinctively, but now that i donât have a work routine...
I feel like the big difference between the Pluribus hivemind vs either of the two most obvious comparisonsâMetaâs social networks and LLMâs like ChatGPTâis that those two are corporate-owned. Pluribus is âimposedâ in a lot of the ways they are but not all: if the âpsychic glueâ description ends up being true thatâs...
We are in November already. Only about seven weeks are left in 2025. Itâs been running fast, but at least it seems to be ending on a good note with Zohran Mamdani winning NYC. The Bihar elections have started. I donât know which way it will go, but itâs good to see large...
Thanks to Pablo for adding me to the group! I love stuff like powRSS and indieblog, and it's how I find most of my quality reads other than Kottke. Long live the webring[1]! Technically neither is a webring based on Wikipedia's definition, but it'
Tumbleweed es una distribuciĂłn de GNU/Linux "Rolling Release" o de actualizaciĂłn contĂnua. AquĂ puedes estar al tanto de las Ășltimas novedades.
Because power, greed and corruption blindsided us and we got complacent with short term profits? Beyond ridiculous that weâve been running on layered CR band-aids almost every year making it more of a norm than an exception. đ
It's all a bit dark this week; goth, baroque pop, indie sleaze, and heavy f'king metal
I flashed Rockbox on my music player but that made me deviate about how software is installed on computers and people today don't learn about these things anymore
Rainy day. Not the most ideal conditions for moving houses but thatâs what my friends have on the docket. Dropped off a premade lasagna with some tacky lettering to make the end of the day a little easier.Currently Listening: Dijon âFIRE!âReply via email
"Nobile sopra l'incanto" (Noble as Auctioneer) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Frecciarossa by Trenitalia, AD 2025: servizio impeccabile, insuperabile direi.
Google Maps ha rimosso una mia vecchia recensione di una delle sedi greche di Teleperformance dove ho lavorato
What's changed in the last two years? Would I do it again, knowing what I know now? TL;DR - yes.
Here they come, grinning ear-to-ear and guffawing as they saunter in 15 minutes late. My other students try hard to not roll their eyes or huff in despair.The Generati are here. There are a few in every class.They are the students who party hard and who will cruise through the semester without a care in the world....
TIR: Magical systems thinking 2025-11-08 Today I read Magical systems thinking, by Ed Bradon in the Works in Progress magazine. What a cool-looking magazine! The article discusses the aura of systems thinking in todayâs upper level management and political circles; how it tends to be viewed as a silver bullet that...
Un amigo ha puesto en marcha una web para promocionar el protocolo Gopher. De momento el sitio es una introducción para neófitos. La web, originalmente, estaba solo en inglés y francés pero un servidor ha hecho las traducciones también al castellano y al italiano, y otra persona ha hecho lo propio para el alemån,...
Finished reading my 22nd book of 2025. Some of my favorite quotes from Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Where no fairy flies there are forerunners who build in silence their world of magic
There was this church out here, Grace House, giving out free coffee. Cool guys, but I figured they're a church and went in there planning to fend off some evangelical conversation, get the coffee and get out. It was a Thursday evening and I was nursing a mild headache. But as soon as I enter the lady asks: we have...
A view of northeastern Kyoto from atop Yoshidayama on a warm, sunny afternoon, with the city nestled against distant mountain ranges. æăăȘæ„ć·źăăźäžăćç°ć±±ăźé ăăçșăăäșŹéœćæ±éšăźéąšæŻă
đ· Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR đïž 339 mm focal length â 1/500âł at f/7.1 â ISO 3200 đ Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States â Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and TsĂ©sthoâe (Cheyenne) land
Iâve been trying to read the Dresden Files for over a year now. I love wizards. Harry Potter is one of my favorite series of all time, despite the many qualms I have with it. Iâve read many other books with wizards. Why? Because magic is effinâ cool. So, I thought Iâd be able to pick up the Dresden Files and have a...
Preamble: The whole affair is Googleâs fault and not Bear Blogâs. Huge thanks to HermanâBear Blogâs founder and devâfor his patience and help. A month after I started my first Bear blog at blog.james-zhan.com, my blog was entirely de-indexed by Google for no apparent reason: I have since migrated to...
El tutorial de hoy es sencillo y se puede realizar con unos cuantos comandos. Claro, si estas usando una GUI para MySQL no lo necesitarĂĄs, pero bueh, es otra cosa que es bueno aprender IntroducciĂłn Esta es una tarea sĂșper puntual que surgiĂł por la necesidad de reparar una tabla que no conozco, pero que [âŠ] La...
A hyped Minneapolis roaster that didn't live up to what I thought it was going to be. Dark roast, bitter notes, and an underwhelming shop experience.