Thu Feb 19
I don't know about you, but I'm at the point which I seem to reach every year around the middle of February, where I'm just done with winter. It was grey and dark and snowing all day yesterday, and today it's freezing cold and I'm just ready for spring now. Six months from now in late August I will of course say the...
The yellow bar appeared in the corner of my wall-screen three days before midnight. Just a thin line at first, easy to ignore while I was trimming the hydroponic lettuce in Unit 47-C, my fingers slick with nutrient solution, the chemical tang of it sharp under my nails. But by evening it had numbers: red digits...
As we go into another year, I have paired down even further as to what is allowed on my mobile device. You can see my previous posts about smartphones here, here and here. I am running a Samsung s24 - with ADB you can disable much of the bloat, but it is not perfect. I would recommend going with a Google Pixel...
KDE Plasma 6.6 was released yesterday, and since I’m an Arch Linux user (btw), I already have it installed. I use sway on the desktop, primarily because it handles multi-monitor setups so well, and KDE Plasma does not. One of the major annoyances I’ve had with it, is that virtual desktops switch on both my monitors....
Por fin jueves, ha sido una semana cargada de jale pero también se vale despejarnos. Ahora quiero compartir una lista de datos curiosos sobre mí, creo que nunca he hecho esto antes, pero la intención es compartir este post y que ustedes también se animen a compartir datos curiosos sobre ustedes. 🫶 También la...
There is no best Linux. But there are reasons to switch to a different operating system. Linux is not an alternative operating system, it is a different operating system. And users can do everything with it. Everything that can be done on MacOS or Windows can be done on Linux.
Mood: Tired. Ranty. In need of a hunk of a man to bake me cookies so I can stress eat. There is a specific, suffocating hell to a conversation with a leftist who has decided that voting is a moral failing. It feels like trying to explain the concept of "drowning" to someone who is standing on dry land, criticizing...
Jo and I are trading blog post titles. The title Jo chose for me is “A perfect day.”What would my perfect day look like? Reflecting on this question, I started to think about the days that have brought me the most joy in the past. I realised that the days that stick out in my memory as being really good were all...
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This is the second vomit post, and the proper first one. The previous one was more about setting up the rules and laying out the plans for the series. However, it is supposed to be the third post since it's the third day of the series, but due to some unavoidable circumstances, I could not find time to sit in front...
It is I, the workspace. Featured my mini pc and portable monitor, Switch playing some bkg music, Boox Palma as my clock and paper planner on the side. Got to my auntie's on Monday, and finally finished setting up my workspace here. I'll be staying with her until late March. I got a big translation project to tackle...
At the Fukuda Museum of Art, looking across the water terrace at the Oi River. After a walk through the modern galleries, a gaze out the window to enjoy the beautiful landscape outside. Shot on Velvia 50 film. 福田美術館で、水庭越しに大堰川を眺める。モダンな美術館の展示室を散策した後、窓の外の美しい風景を眺める。Velvia 50フィルムで撮影。
The song cover I was working on finally went up, and I feel...bad? I mean, I'm proud of myself for finishing it! I'm proud of myself for doing it all on my own when I'm used to working in a group! I'm glad to know I can do things like that. But I just feel like I could have done better, somehow, even though I know I...
TitleThe Empire Strikes Back CreatorIrvin Kershner Year1980 Kindfilm Watched2026-02-20
They kiss, and for the first time in forever, Annika allows herself to hope. The prince has slain the witch responsible for her misery, saving her from a cruel fate. All that remains is to break the curse with true love’s kiss. But when she pulls back, there’s no grand display of light or purging of black magic....
Days without turning off site blockers: 3 I'm a little under the weather, but I pulled through, and I finished my mitts!
The most popular link last time was the Wallace & Gromit font, with these twelve reasons February is awesome coming in second. Mona Eltahawy on being childfree by choice: "By refusing to give birth, I have birthed the version of myself that I always wanted to be."On "trench composting": you can just dig a...
Our travellers spent the first day very agreeably. They were delighted with possessing more treasure than all Asia, Europe, and Africa could scrape together. Candide, in his raptures, cut Cunégonde’s name on the trees. The second day two of their sheep plunged into a morass, where they and their burdens were lost;...
Moving to a small town in Northern Jutland means moving far away from all airplane photography opportunities I enjoyed in Germany. So I'll be getting my daily dose of aviation from other sources, such as YouTube live streams from my favorite airports.
Our understanding of the nature of consciousness derives mainly from our understanding of the nature of consciousness in our favorite animal (us, of course). But the features of consciousness in our favorite animal might be specific to that animal rather than universal. Let's consider two such features and whether...
My favorite place in the city of Geneva is the main train station of Cornavin, because I can quickly jump on a train and leave that shithole of a city behind me as fast as possible. To a large degree, and I don’t chew my words, Geneva is a shithole and definitely the place in Switzerland that I abhor the most. Maybe...
Every old Christian person I know (which is basically my entire family) thinks it's the end of the world. They're convinced that we're living in "perilous" times and that it's a wrap. Get ready. Christ is coming! (Although they say this every decade.) Even outside religious circles, I've noticed this energy of doom...
La Edad de las Redes Sociales, el momento que estamos viviendo, en el que unos algoritmos, alimentados por nosotros mismos, nos roban toda nuestra atención. Está claro que la polémica ha surgido después del anuncio, por parte del gobierno español, de limitar el acceso a los menores de 16 años a estas redes. También...
Khaire, Oh, our beloved Hermes Mechaniotes! Your cunning is known to all Gods and mortals, Brilliance and confidence radiates from you. Just how skillfully you stole Apollon's cows And deceived the shining God with ease. Oh, Clepsiphron, please grant me your guidance In the deceit and cunning that I have to face....
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. AsteroidOS 2. There is a Linux-based operating system for smartwatches. And the second version has just been released. Chrome gets split viewing and PDF annotations. Does anyone...
I've seen the handful of other posts over the years about Eboshi and all the other Ghibli characters being neither good or evil. I mean, that's what makes a good character, right? You don't want the hero to be good to a fault or else they come off as saccharine and unrealistic. Most commercial writing formulas talk...
In the spirit of not letting the proverbial wine linger too long in the cellar, I've been using these pinback stamps. ⊕Currently Listening: They Might Be Giants “Stuff Is Way”Reply via email
I read a January 27, 2026 article on Time Extension, a video game website focused primarily on retro games and emulation, titled Apparently, The PSP Counts As A Failure To Some People Now, with “PSP” referring to Sony’s erstwhile PlayStation Portable handheld console, which was officially supported from 2004 to...
Hey all, I hope you're doing well. I'm going to be on medical leave until early April. If you are a sponsor, then you can join the Discord for me to post occasional updates in real time. I'm gonna be in the hospital for at least a week as of the day of this post. I have a bunch of things queued up both at work and...
I’ve been using Google’s Call Screening feature for a while now. I turned it on mostly to filter out calls from numbers I don’t recognise (I’ve signed up with TPS and reported numbers to the ICO, and neither has made much difference), but in practice it’s doing something I didn’t quite expect: it’s almost...
I spent years building for other people. Then I realized I wanted no part of it. When you publish on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Medium, you're stuck in their world. Their platforms. More problematically, platforms optimize for engagement—which almost always means maximizing emotional reaction (outrage,...
What’s the point of writing on a blog that few people (or no one) reads? The eternal question. The question Brittany asked in her post. A question that, despite our best efforts as a blogging community, we haven’t managed to answer definitively. And it’s not that it’s a difficult question, but rather that it’s one...
"In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi centers on the acceptance of transience and imperfection." – Wikipedia It feels especially relevant now in AI-slop days, but I guess that knife could cut both ways. What I take out of it is that the imperfections of being human, on having opinions and a unique taste,...
During this penultimate week of February, here are a few things I am grateful for: Book shops Talking to strangers Orange blossom mochas The rain Pen and paper writing Dungeons and Dragons unfortunately
Hi Jo! I’m so happy I came across your site once again (because I lost it in my ♾️ opened tabs + windows). I came across your Instagram export page initially; it’s nicely executed (I hope to have something like that one day on my site). Last week I created a /guestbook too, I hope you get more entries soon! Yours is...
...asumiendo que soy tu bloguero favorito. Pues nadie los pidió, e inspirado en Luis Carlos Pando - Datos curiosos sobre mi algunos datos que nunca quisiste saber, aunque ahora ya los tienes… Soy más #TeamCalor aunque más cargado hacia los 21 a 25 grados. Diría que #TeamTemplado. Eso sí, entre #TeamColaSudada y...
February 2026. Stockport. Hah ! Clickbait. Not a new local for me, though Mrs RM is already tired of Sheffield as our house has a garden that she now regrets buying. Why can’t you make an increased offer to buy a property without a garden. Youngest lad Matthew is looking to leave the rents of central Manchester and...
The other day I went to the hairdresser to get my hair back in shape. After the man asked me if I wanted anything to drink (no, I just want you to cut my hair), he began his job. As you do when you're just sitting there with nowhere to go, you start talking with each other about the important things in life, like...
Today was Tank Cleaning Day, which, in human terms, is roughly equivalent to winning the spa lottery while also getting a home renovation. Most fish would panic. Brian? He did three victory laps around his castle and practiced his ‘I’m so innocent, I would never spit out my food at the glass’ face. The transfer to...
How the actions of the ruling clan in Kanazawa centuries ago lead to it surviving WWII.
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Here’s a geometry puzzle from the March issue of Scientific American. If you see the trick, it’s easy to solve.1 After doing it the easy way, I decided to solve it again the...
I had the oddest phone-call tonight. Firstly, let me set the scene. I'm away from home at a conference related to work. I spent seven hours travelling the length of Scotland last night. The conference is also in the hotel I'm staying in. An out of town, traditional pile, in a country-esk style. In my head it's...
I recently added Poda on Facebook. He's the guy who booked POPIK's gig in Novi Sad back in April 2017, and we lost touch after that. I didn't know his full name, so when he popped up in suggestions, I just hit add. This morning, scrolling through my feed, I saw Poda had posted some grim news: Mark Sawickis,...
Veamos en este tutorial cómo instalar una versión anterior de un paquete de software en openSUSE Tumbleweed Después de una actualización normal de openSUSE Tumbleweed, al reiniciar el sistema para que se tomaran en cuenta las actualizaciones, mi sistema se quedaba congelado a medio camino entre el fin de la pantalla...
A pair of essays has been rattling in my head for a while. First is Kyle Chayka from October, in “TextEdit and the relief of simple software”: Over the past few years, I’ve found myself relying on TextEdit more as every other app has grown more complicated, adding cloud uploads, collaborative editing, and now...
This essay is adapted from Traversal. We look at a thing — a bird, a ball, a planet — and perceive it to be a certain color. But what we are really seeing is the color that does not inhere in it—the portion of the spectrum it shirks, the wavelength of light it reflects back unabsorbed. Our world appears a swirling...
Echo passed away last night. We gave her the best life we could, and she has been my Grandmother's shadow for the last 16 years. As I type these words my eyes well up in tears. How lucky we all were to have been around the same time as her. Nothing will fill the void you have left in our hearts. Shadow and Pixel are...
"Mascara" (Mask) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
I think Jonathan Snook summarized it perfectly when he made Organize around passions, not destinations one of his travel tips. One of my passions is cooking and I try to take a cooking class wherever I go, preferably in a home or small restaurant kitchen. There just is something about cooking classes that allows me...
I went to the temple today. I'm trying to go at least once a week during lent. In the LDS faith, the temple is a separate experience from Sunday meetings at your local church building. It was peaceful and reverent, but I didn't get any answers or have any profound experiences. It was familiar. But it was...
Philosophy is a “fact-based discipline” that makes progress, says Bryan Frances, and to prove it he offers up “200 straightforward facts directly about philosophical matters that virtually all philosophers know and non-philosophers don’t know.” They are listed in the appendix to a recent article of his in...
I’ve certainly said it before: I haven’t slept well for years. I believe it’s been five or six or seven years, but it’s all blurry now to the point that I could also be convinced my poor sleep has existed for all the years. My cycle in recent history has been to distract myself away from sleep with YouTube or...