Tue Nov 18
Started the swap of summer to winter clothes. This results in chaos as I sort and determine what still fits.Currently Listening: The La's “Timeless Melody”Reply via email
I'm reading a good fiction book right now (This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger). Inexplicably, I feel a bit guilty because it is my third fiction book in a row. I like to mix in nonfiction to feel like I'm "learning" something. I suspect my compunction about reading for enjoyment is due to years of feeling an...
Artificial intelligence is an amazing technology, but also one that seems to pose threats to human relations, to aspects of human flourishing, and to education. It’s not going to go away, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do about it. How AI affects us is in part a function of its infrastructure, and, if...
Age of Empires II Chronicles: Alexander the Great es el último DLC de la famosa saga de estrategia en tiempo real de Microsoft. Volvemos a la Edad Antigua y escribiremos la crónica que nos llevará, junto a Alejandro Magno a forjar uno de los imperios más grandes de la Historia. Continuando con la serie Chronicles y...
November 2025. Rye Harbour. One of the BIG questions, along with “Why ?” and “Would you like some wine Mrs RM ?“, is “Can you get a good Shepherd Neame beer anywhere ?“. Well, I’ve not found it in a generation, and the Sheps managed houses (including the nice looking one near the in-laws) seem to have given up on...
International English seems to have developed a rule: never, ever use a hyphen, ever, on pain of death. I really want to blame American English here because that is where I find it is most prevalent, but I’m seeing this everywhere now, even in the UK. Hold my tea and crumpets while I have a rant! As an outsider...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot This is a wonderful story from a guy posting on YouTube about his experience as a steelworker. I never manage to find it when I want to, so I'm mirroring it here: {{Quote |text=Great video clip. I had a job once at the US Steel Pipe Works, Geneva Plant,...
NieR: Replicant is a distant continuation of an older series - Drakengard. No, I also never heard about it. NieR: Automata is a distand sequel of the NieR: Replicant. This one I even played! Replicant is a terrible action game which forced the poor player to finish it multiple times to tell it's mind-blowing story....
I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus calling for a decentralized internet infrastructure. Within the span of a few weeks we have seen web outages on a global scale caused by problems with AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, and now Cloudflare. I'm reminded of the old addage: “never put all your eggs...
Mój pierwszy, prawdziwy komputer do pracy (wcześniej miałem nieprawdziwe komputery do studiowania) kupiłem gdzieś około roku 2014 - lekko licząc ponad 11 lat temu. Ponieważ pracowałem już wtedy jako programista iOS, nauczony doświadczeniami poprzednich zakupów, postanowiłem "wymaksować" mój najnowszy komputer, i tak...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 351 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/7.1 – ISO 640 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
When I first chose Bear Blog as my blogging platform, I didn’t realize that it had such a vibrant and wholesome community (discover other Bear Bloggers). I saw a Bear Blog carnival going on for Nov 2025 (hosted by Absurd Pirate) and I’m certainly not going to miss it! The prompt— What’s your everyday carry (EDC)?...
A slight thing this, but it caught my eye, and I think it does say something, or enact something, true about the line between prose and poetry... Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetryby Howard Nemerov Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzleThat while you watched turned to pieces of snowRiding...
I have been writing about my play-through of Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore (see prologue, chapter 1, and first intermisson takes). I am in the middle of chapter two. While playing chapter 2, I completed a side quest for Kiria Kurono. I played White Album back in 2023 (after having watched the peculiar anime...
The results are in! If you just want to read the winning stories you can jump down to the bottom.But first, I’d like to give a tremendous thank you to our wonderful judges, Casey Aimer (of Radon Journal), Charlie Fish (of Fiction on the Web), and Joel Glover (author and Foofaraw alum), as well as all of the writers...
A group of strangers, each grappling with a difficult past, pass by each other in a spooky neighbourhood. They are all drawn to a mysterious light shop on a secluded alleyway. There, we discover that the shopkeeper is certainly more than what he seems, and the frightening events in their lives hold a deeper...
It's been 3 days since I moved to Quezon City, Manila, in the freaking philippines. And if you can't tell, I love it.
Rebecca Patterson’s recent New York Times essay uses a Jenga tower as a metaphor for the American economy in 2025. Blocks are being removed—small businesses cutting jobs, federal layoffs, consumption concentrating among the wealthy—while AI companies pile massive investments on top. Eventually, she warns, Jenga...
It's almost Christmas, which means I can recommend you films to remind you of summer and write about a very pleasant pinch of nostalgia towards the times that have never been but that have a chance to roll out somewhere in the future. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988; Pedro Almodóvar) Women on the...
建好博客并且写了几篇文章之后，我在 お名前.com 注册了一个域名。考虑了好几天，选择了 arayr 这个对于我个人很有意义的字母组合，以及在 お名前.com 上可以首年免费的 .com。 在 Claude 的帮助下顺利完成了配置，次日上班期间收到了要回复身份证件照片的邮件，一边吐槽怎么还要实名，一边给邮件加了旗标，然后就把这事抛在了脑后。直到昨天下午突然不能访问，我才想起来忘记回那封邮件了。点开一看截止时间竟然被定在了星期二的下午三点，虽然是我的疏忽但是我还是要吐槽——这究竟是什么迷惑操作，头一次见这么让人困惑的截止时间。只好暂时先把 hugo 配置文件里的baseURL先改回了 vercel 的免费域名。...
What is your relationship with your phone? Does it make you happy or sad? Do you get a new one frequently or infrequently? I recently installed Niagra Launcher to reduce the clutter I was experiencing with Samsung’s One UI. Honestly, I’d love to root the device and switch to something other than Samsung, but that’s...
Album#8 Soulboy 图1 Soulboy 专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：Soulboy 歌手：方大同 (Khalil Fong) 年份：2005-11-18 风格：流行、Soul、R&B 时长：49:26 2005 年 11 月 18 日，方大同发布了他的第一张专辑 Soulboy ，今天是 2025 年 11 月 18 日，正好 20 周年。 Hopico 为此还做了一个专门的节目：方大同的20年，给soulboy一首“新歌”，推荐一看。 尽管很早就知道方大同，但那时还是他的歌迷，只是偶尔听到一首喜欢的歌（春风吹、黑洞里），在翻看原唱的时候，发现原来是方大同。后来也是看了...
A bright red maple tree along the path to the entrance of Kamigamo Jinja shrine. The flags are promoting Shichi-Go-San, a shrine festival for 7, 5, and 3 year olds. 上賀茂神社の参道沿いの真っ赤なモミジ。七五三の旗が立っている。
About a year ago, I asked ChatGPT “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture what my current life is.” It came up with this: Aside from the fact that it has that typical AI feel about it, I was intrigued by the elements it contained. Last week, after another year of interactions, I wondered what that picture...
For arcane (hah) reasons known only to me and my browsing history, I’ve recently taken an interest in alchemy, and to that end, was tipped to Titus Burkhardt’s Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul. I’ve made no small amount of noise in the past that I generally try to take a syncretic view of the...
Agama es el nuevo instalador de sistemas openSUSE y SUSE y se acaba de publicar su versión número 18 Después de prácticamente 3 meses desde la publicación de Agama 17, el trabajo detrás del código del nuevo instalador para openSUSE y SUSE, no se ha detenido. El equipo de desarrollo sigue mejorando el código,...
The mission is simple: spend less time looking at my phone. I’ve made several adjustments to my information diet and to how I consume content online, but many of these changes made me even more tethered to my phone. So I set out to read more on my e-reader instead of constantly staring at my phone. Put the phone...
I got a NuPhy keyboard 2025-11-19 I also got a NuPhy Air75 v2 for my birthday! I really like the low-profile switches and the wireless-ness, and also the not-a-gajillion-dollars-ness. I went with the “Wisteria” tactile switches; after one day of use I feel like I might appreciate the even heavier “Moss” ones, but I...
On October 20th, quite some parts of AWS went down (AWS Outage Analysis: October 20, 2025, What caused the AWS outage – and why did it make the internet fall apart?). I don’t follow thouse outages very intensly, but the last such outage I remember(!) was end of February 2017 with the big S3 outage […]
One day not long after I moved to New York, I looked up from my writing desk at a shared studio space on the Brooklyn waterfront and saw the Manhattan Bridge halved, only the Brooklyn side remaining, the rest vanished into a sea of fog that had erased Manhattan. A sight with the strangeness of a dream, piercing the...
I’ll admit, that I like having a lot of subscribers. I’m also pretty realistic in knowing that I’m never going to be Mr. Beast. It’s unlikely that I’ll ever get to 1 Million subscribers. But I will also admit to being human and being a bit jealous of Linux YouTubers who started well after me and have done better....
Long weekends while home alone are the best! You are going to find quite a lot of gaming was done this time around, however, I also catched up on quite a bit of manga, and went through some painful stuff at work, but nothing too bad. 🎨 I have completed and published my AdwaitaPod-based theme (with Arcticons) for the...
“We cannot be far from the road of yellow brick, now,” remarked the Scarecrow, as he stood beside the girl, “for we have come nearly as far as the river carried us away.” The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning his head (which worked beautifully on hinges) he saw a strange beast...
There's a particular kind of engineer I've been noticing more and more lately. They show up in Slack channels with half-formed questions. They post screenshots of error messages on Twitter asking "anyone know what this means?" They copy-paste compiler errors into ChatGPT and treat whatever hallucination comes back...
After nearly a year of not posting anything on my blog I have decided, at last, that I ought to do something about it. It has been a difficult year in many ways but especially because my siblings, my husband, daughters and I have been dealing with my mother’s death and the associated tasks of sorting out all her...