Fri Nov 28
Both my wife and I are going through the annoying process of trying to search for new jobs. I’m still at my current one, but I want to see if something better is out there in the region we wanna move to. But it is absolutely nuts. How have these services not gone out of business? My experience, almost entirely the...
Right now I'm sitting in my favorite chair in my living room, safely home after having spent Thanksgiving with most of my family in Milwaukee. Normally I'd still be there, and wouldn't have come home until tomorrow night -- but the forecast has a massive winter storm coming through tonight through tomorrow...
It was a thing of beauty. Like-minded, wholesome and frankly fun folks gathered at Casa da Achada, in the maze-like streets of Lisbon’s old town, to collectively share strategies for leaving Big Tech behind when the time comes to build community and organise online. We discussed RSS (in portuguese) as a...
“Daily heart rate per step (or DHRPS) is a simple calculation: you take your average daily heart rate and divide it by the average number of steps you take. Yes, you’ll need to be continuously monitoring both measurements with a health tracker like an Apple Watch or Fitbit (the latter was used in the study), but the...
The fifth novel in the Hannish Cycle is the first time I can say that I hated something by Le Guin. There always have to be a first time. We go back in time, and the League is still a thing. We are at the planet Athshe where a mostly peaceful Athshean live as one with nature in a never-ending forest. But evil...
A cascade of golden maple leaves at the entrance to the temple building, glowing in the late afternoon sunlight. 鹿王院本堂の入り口、午後遅くの陽光に輝く黄金色のモミジ。
Today when I visited the supermarket, there was a lady at the entrance handing out leaflets. She was asking people to buy a few extra items and place those in the box to be donated to the local foodbank. The leaflet gave ideas on the type of foods that were appropriate. I was only in for a few items myself, but I...
This recipe is unmodified from my revision of the Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens book. I never really know if I should call it a recipe or cookbook, because it is that, but it is more too. I highly recommend grabbing a copy for your kitchen bookshelf, it has a lot of gems. This makes one loaf. Cinnamon Loaf 1/4 C...
Posted on November 29, 2025 Keen readers of this blog, if there are any, might remember that I have some great black runner beans. Obviously I planted some more this year. Not that I really needed to, because runner beans are a perennial, growing from a tuber, and indeed the vines from last year’s tuber are way more...
Tener un dump de las bases de datos es una buena practica, pero asumamos que de las dos formas, de guardar tus bases, elegiste la mas radical. Introducción Un respaldo regular te permite deshacer cambios en caso de que estés trasteando en tus sitios web, con lo que puedes ir probando loo que cause algún problema....
Hugh Kenner to Guy Davenport, 27 April 1962 (I:99): Yes, machines evolve, as Disney knows. His art utterly germane to a machine biology. The clue to decline of silent film was switch for 24 f.p.s., with introduction of sound. Before that, projection speed was 16 f.p.s., and camera speed was whatever the cameraman...
I probably spent too much on music today. I tend to do that on Bandcamp, especially when labels are having sales on their entire catalogs so I can buy multiple titles and save on shipping costs. “Hey, its supporting small and independent artists and labels,” I tell myself. I recently discovered a label called...
I'm told the Perfect Apple Pie recipe is on the package of Pillsbury's Pie Crust and great, now I'm hungry.Currently Listening: Pulp “The Man Comes Around”Reply via email
I’ve reached out to my friends, asking them to share photos of their faces for me to hone my skills in sketching facial anatomy. Meet Carmen, one of my absolute favorite people in this world. Today I dedicated about an hour to sketching her, and the experience helped me figure out a few techniques I hadn’t tried yet.
Recentemente tem tido muita discussão no meio que eu olho as coisas de que qualquer mínimo erro deve ser apagado. Por muita discussão você entenda que são só uma meia dúzia de pessoas. Na maioria das mídias audiovisuais recentemente tem se buscado uma perfeição absurda. Eu por exemplo, gosto o suficiente de K-Pop...
Last Friday I attended a useful conference organized by Microsoft. It lived up very well to its title: “Justice, Security and Fundamental Rights: Dialogue on EU Law Enforcement Policies” Many thanks are due to various proofreaders who improved this article tremendously. From the original invitation tl;dr: European...
Chris Zielecki from Sturmsucht.de has written a good blog post about the Fediverse. Luckily not focused on technology but on users and needs. Few may know, but there is currently a network on the rise that brings back what made the internet so great in the early days before big tech corps took over Chris […]
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The next morning Dorothy kissed the pretty green girl goodbye, and they all shook hands with the soldier with the green whiskers, who had walked with them as far as the gate. When the Guardian of the Gate saw them again he wondered greatly that they could leave the beautiful City to get into new trouble. But he at...
I didn’t attend the recent themes of the FotoVorschlag because I didn’t have anything to contribute. Yet, today morning when I saw today’s theme ‘Autumn …
Every so often I do a little roundup of my (current) favorite things and/or a peek at what's on my desk/in my general vicinity...
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The National Day of Mourning has been held on Thanksgiving every year since 1970. UAINE organizes the primary observance, at Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, around 20 miles from where I grew up. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Indigenous Peoples’ Sunrise Gathering takes place annually at Alcatraz, and recalls its...
I started writing about newer blogs and personal websites earlier this year, and then somehow stopped. A busy year at work has been getting in the way of things as ever. Let’s try and get this going again, since there can’t be enough sharing of links within the blogosphere. Having said my focus was to feature newer...
I am in Kuppalli, the home of poet Kuvempu. We rode today and reached this evening. We are visiting the memorial of Kuvempu (Kavishaila) and Poornachandra Tejaswi here. Over the weekend, we are riding to Agumbe, Karkala, Kudremukha, and back to Bengaluru by Sunday night. Kavi shaila Kavishaila 💻 The workweek was...
Today the IndieWeb community hosted a Create Day event in which participants were invited to make something on the web. The theme of the event was “Build Don't Buy”, an invitation to make something this Black Friday.While I wasn’t sure what I wanted to make, I knew I wanted to make something. I consulted my list of...
November 2025. Norwich. I’ve taken more rail journeys these last 3 years than I had in all the previous 57, and despite the overcrowding on the Sheffield to Manchester routes and the unpredictable late cancellations I’m glad to get away from the car. No, really. But Monday nights trip south was a nightmare, an...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 185 mm focal length – 1/280″ at f/8 – ISO 800 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
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1. I finally decided it's time to give 3D printing a try, and I've bought myself a Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer. It's the cheapest and most user-friendly 3D printer I could find. And after a couple of nights of monkeying around with it, I'm hooked.
I’ve been digging into Scott Galloway’s take on healthcare, something he talks about a lot on Pivot and honestly, his phased Medicare expansion idea makes a lot of sense for America. He thinks the path to a national system isn’t some overnight revolution. It’s a slow rollout: cut the Medicare age by two years every...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
Over the years, I have gone from hosting websites and applications over a DSL connection at home, to hosting them on virtual private servers (VPS), shifting some of the static content hosting to GitHub Pages and made use of services like Cloudflare, Google Analytics, and Google Fonts. In the past year, I have been...
While I was at Hilton Head Island, I noticed a lot of things stood out about it. The first was that it is such a peaceful, relaxing place. Because you could be right by the ocean and beaches, it reminded me of the time I spent in Florida, where I was in a very quiet and serene spot. I found that being close to...
Substitute is a set of commands that perform text replacement (i) throughout the buffer, (ii) limited to the current definition (per narrow-to-defun), (iii) from point to the end of the buffer, and (iv) from point to the beginning of the buffer. Variations of these scopes are also available. These substitutions are...
HarvardThe dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.Four hundred thousand kids dead in less than a year. But hey, the Trump administration saved less than...
When I first saw news about the fire, I actually thought the building was just under construction. Meaning, it was being built, uninhabited, the like. In Malaysia, buildings only look like this if it’s being built. My apartment, which is considered old, once had a repainting job done. There were no scaffolding or...
Ahhh one month left to 16. Honestly, 16 doesn't feel as monumental to me as much as others make it out to be.