Thu Nov 27
Not much of tremendous interest has been going on lately; I took the week off because I forget to take time during the year, and thanksgiving is as good excuse as any to cram in some PTO at the end of the year. I’ve also been taking Fridays off lately. Sol and I had planned to spend thanksgiving day with their...
If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive. At first I thought: OneDrive = file storage. Easy. But … there’s also my offsite backp being...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 11/27/2025 - Morpeko It's Thanksgiving day here in the US; a holiday predicated on lies about 'peaceful relations' with the indigenous peoples of North America that the colonists violently killed and stole land from - in our household it's...
I first started trying to be vegan 6 or 7 years ago because animal agriculture is extremely resource intense when compared to plant agriculture, and I want to minimize my contribution to climate change. Animal welfare was always a side-benefit. Like it's nice that I'm also reducing my contributions to animal...
Robert had the foresight to use a platter which really works well when there are so many options.Currently Listening: Marshall Family “I Just Want To Thank You, Lord”Reply via email
Back in 2015 when I reviewed devices like the GPD XD and similar Android handhelds, the whole ecosystem felt half-baked. Emulation wasn’t particularly good yet, the devices came from obscure Chinese manufacturers, the ROMs were loaded with questionable apps, and the SOCs couldn’t handle much. A decade later and the...
Gave my About page a long-overdue update. I’ve also added a /now page to the site too.
I have been working with OpenStreetMap for a while now from the developers’ perspective, who can use it to conjure up attractive maps, such as my Photo Map, on the web free of charge. However, I am not part of the community, nor have I given much thought to where all the data comes from and how it finds its way into...
November 2025. Leeds. My last train back from Leeds to Sheffield would have been a ridiculously early 22:37, with a half hour walk from my gig out in Hyde Park’s student land. Could I possibly make it back ? I asked ChatGPT for my chances of making that train, based on probable stage times (often a bit earlier on...
I watched the first Star Wars film (aka “Episode 4”) on the big screen of a crappy cinema of Buenos Aires somewhere in 1978 or 1979 (I was 5 or 6 years old). After seeing my eyes watching the movie, my mum bought me my first Star Wars action figure (the now highly sought-after original ones from Kenner) and it was,...
A story of how I bought a digital photo frame, and how I created a tool to generate miniatures of my photo collection to fit them all on the device.
Thanksgiving is not the last Thursday of November. I mean, it is this year, and it usually is, but that’s not how it’s determined. Since 1942, Thanksgiving—the US one, not the Canadian one—has been set by federal law to be the fourth Thursday in November. The law was passed in December of 1941, when you would have...
The Xbox 360 turned 20 last week. That's kind of crazy to think about. Is it retro now? Somehow it doesn't feel like it, but if a thing that came out 20 years ago isn't retro, then what is? For context, the Amiga came out 40 years ago this year, and in 2005 it was definitely retro. This also means that the same...
This week’s Nonfiction November 2025 festivities are being hosted over on Deb Nance’s site, ReaderBuzz, with the prompt being: “New To My TBR: It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR?” What a great month it’s been, and I feel exhausted! So many great new reads,...
[El Cultural, Viernes 28/ 11/ 2025] ¿Novelas sobre Barcelona? ¿Cómo decirlo? Tal vez me alcance con este verso de Mallarmé: “Nada habrá tenido lugar salvo el lugar”. De esa ciudad, en 1932, se ocupó a fondo, como nunca antes se había visto, Josep María de Sagarra en su novela Vida privada. Le dio al lugar una...
I recently bought a house with an Ideal boiler and a wireless thermostat called a “Halo”. The boiler has a “Halo Smart Interface” fitted into it, which should tell the boiler when to fire. The Halo itself contains the thermostat and communicates with the Smart Interface using Zigbee. During some decorating work the...
I got my lab results back regarding my hormone levels.Normal estradiol levels are 100-200 pg/mL.Mine were 31.So anyway, I’m doubling up on my patches for now, and hopefully my doctor can get me a prescription for higher-strength patches (and proper regular monitoring of my levels) going forward. Fortunately, my new...
Actualizar Raspberry Pi OS a la última versión nos permitirá utilizar nuestra Raspberry Pi con mayor estabilidad y seguridad. Para actualizar a la última versión de los paquetes podemos ejecutar una serie de comandos directamente desde el terminal. Para empezar, aunque es un proceso seguro, es recomendable hacer una...
Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web. Music of Wellness (From Severance: Season 1) By Theodore Shapiro・Right next to the music from GoldenEye for Nintendo 64 as one of the best music to play while working. (via Kottke) Random...
When Gary Whippet turned up dead, Pinnacle Ergonomics had to cancel its Tuesday lunch-and-learn. Apparently, the forfeited catering was the greater of the two losses. More than one co-worker walked by muttering, “goddamn Gary.” The man rated lower than a turkey sub. Some guys are just assholes.The scene of the crime...
I never did fall back asleep last night. My soul was in too much turmoil. So I decided to watch a movie to distract me. I think there was a little divine intervention at work because the movie I picked was exactly what I needed. Of all movies on my Amazon Prime watch list, I picked The Hiding Place. It's based on...
"Greenwitch", the third part of Susan Cooper's beloved "The Dark is Rising" Sequence – marking the halfway point – sees us back on the Cornish coast with our intrepid city mice; Simon, Jane, and Barney, as they embark on another jolly hockeysticks cucumber sandwiches rip-roaring adventure. What Cooper has done...
Estou fazendo esse post bem antes do ano terminar já que não devo terminar nenhum dos livros que eu quero ler até o fim do ano, então vou dar uma desculpa pra eu mesmo caso eu não consiga terminar eles. Mas esse ano eu me botei uma meta de ler 10 livros durante o ano inteiro, o que comparado com o ano passado e o...
Thank you, lords of the latent space, for the gift of convenience—for promising ease while siphoning our clicks, our keystrokes, our midnight sighs,our grocery lists, our panic searches, our private rants to dead relatives in the cloud—all ground fine in your data mills.You call it “training.” We call it the...
"Abito" from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 467 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 1600 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
It can be hard to remember how much good there is in the world, especially when each morning’s news brings us some fresh horror. But today is Thanksgiving and I’ve got a lot to be thankful for. First and foremost, I’m thankful for our little family: Eryn, EJ, and our kitties. We’re each healthy & able to afford a...
Want to send me into a loop? I have Firefox installed on my Android phone. Every once in a while it “misbehaves” by not loading any web page. Nothing at all, as if it has lost connection to the Internet. There is nothing wrong with my network; Chrome on the same device can load web pages. So, Firefox is misbehaving....
The earliest book I remember reading is a picture book that I think my father bought (or was it a gift, a giveaway?) from his office in New Delhi. I remember only the brown paper packaging–a thin envelope, the kind in which you often get snacks packed from an expensive bakery–and the shade of purple that was used to...
Streets of Port au Prince, Haiti In December I plan on systematically going through my possessions and minimizing as much as possible. Not only do I want to reduce what I own, but I want to be more cognizant about what I spend. Therein lies the rub. How do you distinguish between wants and needs? This...
TitleThe Word for World Is Forest CreatorUrsula Le Guin Year1972 Kindbook Read2025-11-28
In a previous Thanksgiving post that first appeared in 2016, I noted that a 1975 article in Ethics by Fred Berger (then a philosopher at UC Davis), “Gratitude“, begins with the following: Gratitude is not a subject much discussed in the philosophical literature, though hardly a book or article is published without...
I never did drugs in my youth because I was too afraid, but I always had this curiosity of how it would feel to be high. I imagined pure awesomeness and bliss. Turns out I do need a lot of drugs, prescription ones, and the effect is not an incredible high, but just plain normality. I need to drug myself to feel like...
Problem statement: My blog automatically selects a light or dark color theme depending on the user’s browser or system preferences. Assume it currently defaults to light. How to force dark mode temporarily? This is needed for local testing and theme development purposes. Stack Overflow: Open Chromium (or Google...
If you will allow me, I want to show you something simple and strange: that only one thing can ever be proven to exist. You might laugh at this. Look around, you say. The world is overflowing. Branches trembling in the wind, rivers gliding through stone, the warmth of another person passing by, a sky filled with...
Content warning: Brief mentions of disordered eating habits. Whenever I am deeply and actively involved in my passion topic (data protection law), I don’t care about the superficial stuff anymore. Writing, researching, talking to others about it, attending events just completely takes me out of the usual thought...
There are few greater joys in life than the creation of a strongly worded email. I have an innate love for the medium. It is an art form that sits at the intersection of literature, warfare, and therapy. Strongly worded emails are, perhaps, the most completely backwards form of communication that the human race has...
Despite spending the past few months hidden inside my own cocoon of despair, the kind created from personal life happenings, I still wanted to take the time to acknowledge the things I’m thankful for this year. Even when the world feels like it’s burning at the edges and the headlines make me want to curl into...
Dorothy wept bitterly at the passing of her hope to get home to Kansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had not gone up in a balloon. And she also felt sorry at losing Oz, and so did her companions. The Tin Woodman came to her and said: “Truly I should be ungrateful if I failed to mourn for...
Born on this day (in 1920) was the actor Buster Merryfield, who achieved fame as 'Uncle Albert' in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, which I rate as the best long-running British sitcom ever (though, like most, it ran a little bit too long). His career path was quite extraordinary, indeed unique, as I wrote here...