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For the last several days the dog has been under the weather. She's been lethargic, miserable looking, and melancholy. I had hoped she would perk up in a day or two, and on Tuesday she seemed to have bounced back to her usual cheery,...
Harriet entered the building through the main lobby doors and checked her watch. Satisfied, she bypassed the elevators, and walked purposefully to the stairwell. The stairs would take longer, but she savored the anticipation. She...
“Sometimes I’m sad and I don’t know why. It’s just a cloud that comes along and covers me up.” “Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be,” Joan Didion wrote after losing the love of her life. “The people we most love do...
Dark River is a mysterious assassin organization which we first saw in The Blood of Youth. In Blood River, when the Patriarch of Dark River is severely poisoned. This presents a golden opportunity for the three Blood River families (Su,...
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Petals from the cherry trees along the Philosopher's Path collect downstream, forming a pink canvas for a tree's shadow. 哲学者の小道沿いの桜の木から散った花びらが川下へと流れ着き、木の影をピンク色のキャンバスに描き出している。
Cielo sucio, un libro del escritor argentino Edgardo Cozarinsky, lo encontré dando vueltas por la biblioteca. Usualmente, visito la biblioteca dos veces por semana, una para estudiar y otra con mis hijos. Es en esa segunda visita cuando...
Right in the middle of a set of squats, it happened. A small twinge in my lower back. Not severe, but sensitive enough to quickly put the weights back in the rack. A few minutes' rest and then try again, I thought. But it was too tender....
A “Man From the Future” arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial...
Couples who don't have children all do one thing together: play board games. I feel like that's all me and my husband and all our friends do when we're together. Someone cooks and makes drinks, while the men get way too into the game and...
Kunming was the best first impression of Yunnan with its mild weather, delicious food, and rich history.
Some time ago, I tried to use my web browser with JavaScript turned off by default. The experiment didn’t last long, and my attempt at a privacy-protecting, pain-free web experience failed. Too many websites rely on JavaScript, which...
(Escrito ayer) Justo hoy me enteré del viaje del Artemis II, no estoy muy al pendiente de las noticias del mundo (ya que muchas deprimen) pero lo mencionaron en un video y así fue como supe que hoy sería el despegue. Luego estuve viendo...
Accessibility overlays (sometimes called ‘accessibility plugins’ or ‘accessibility widgets’) are tools placed on websites that claim to improve accessibility. They usually appear as a small icon on the side or in a corner of a website’s...
Quoted Toothpaste Expiration Dates by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The New Leaf Journal) How am I going to eat all this toothpaste before it expires? This is the 59th entry in Nicholas A. Ferrell’s long-running Justin and Justina dialogue...
Claude Code has helped me create a quality-of-life improvement for Obsidian that I thought others might make use of, so I am here to share that with you today. It's true: There are 48 active plugins installed in my Obsidian vault....
They were back in the lab, and Ada was trying to convince them that they had been making progress. "Let me try again, we were really getting somewhere last time," she said. Utsab handed over the device. Wemly could tell when he was...
March 2026. Sheffield. Sheffield is a great city but I can’t spend a whole day there. Mid-afternoon on Monday I headed down to the station, intending to bring you exciting reports from, I dunno, Retford or Adwick. But there was “trouble...
In the spirit of the Passover season, a Frank Cotham cartoon in the 4/6/26 issue of the New Yorker: A gentle jab at the stereotypical Jewish inclination to public disputation, alluding to the saying two Jews, three opinions or three...
A writeup on the Homebrew Website Club meeting and some thoughts on building websites by hand.
“In the early 1970s, fewer than 10% of articles cited any empirical sources. However, by the 2020s, this grew to over 50%.” That finding is from a new study by Michael Prinzing (Wake Forest University), “The Role of Empirical Evidence in...
Since this weekend it's Easter and tomorrow I'm off work, I'm posting these weeknotes a day early. Tomorrow the plan is to do absolutely no computer touching. Tomorrow I'll wake up, bring my daughter to school, go for a run, play a video...
Canon desplazado Canon Canon Canon de cámara oscura es el título de la última novela de Enrique Vila-Matas, autor de una brillantísima trayectoria a la que esta se suma contribuyendo una vez más a ensanchar un personalísimo mundo...
I have no connection to the authors of the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code, but I have been raving about it to everyone I talk to. Using Claude Code with Superpowers is so much more productive and the features it builds are so much...
When John Ruskin first visited the Alps, at the age of fourteen, his father took care to entrust him to a reliable and expert guide, Joseph Marie Couttet, with whom the young Ruskin soon formed a close bond, which lasted throughout...
B is for Brainstorming Have you got “hopes, dreams, and goals” for your blog? If not, why are you doing this? Im doing this because its a challenge. The warning from this post was that writing for writing sake can cause burnout, but im...
Right now as I'm writing this, humans are travelling to the moon for the first time within my lifetime. I'm not the biggest space nerd, but spaceflight and especially the Apollo moon program have always kind of fascinated me. And so I'm...
I’ve recently got myself an Elgato Stream Deck, and although it doesn’t natively support Linux, there’s a nice app called Boatswain that does the trick (not to be confused with the OCI container monitoring app of the same name). I tried...
The denote-sequence package is an optional extension to denote that empowers users to write “sequence notes”, else “folgezettel”, in the style of Niklas Luhmann. Sequence notes are created in relation to other notes, as parent, child, or...
I. In 1998, biologist E.O. Wilson diagnosed the human condition: “Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” The formulation endures because it identifies architectural mismatch—perception systems calibrated...
Spring blooms at Lewis Ginter Botanical Park
The North Westerly flow continues with another day of lethargic hail showers. It was either way too warm in the sunshine or way too cold under the showers, and that triggered more wardrobe changes than your average Swifty event. In...
A bummer post about politics, insidious "good news only" accounts and being racially perceived in 2026 (a few good cat photos though) This morning I realized I haven't done a non-pokemon post on this blog in a while, and mostly I can...
2026-04-02Hello!After watching James Popsys's video on the three shot rule, I thought I might give it a shot.I tried to capture the same scene, but from three different perspectives: wide, middle, and close-up. This is that wide shot;...
So, yesterday I wrote more about pens and how I keep buying them. I need to stop buying stuff, not just pens. I’ve tried to do the low-buy or no-buy challenges in the past, but I’ve failed every time. This time is going to be different....
I fell asleep! To be fair, it was scheduled for around 23:30 BST on a school night and I was dog tired. My eyelids won the battle. I managed to watch the lift-off replays this morning, however. I missed the stop-clock event and slept...
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. Artemis II astronauts have two Microsoft Outlooks running, neither of which works, 404 Media. Some...
Given how long it takes me to update my now page I might just rename it my then page. Must try harder.
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. ¡El boletín de noticias de la FSF está aquí! La Free Software Foundation (FSF) es una organización...
Following on from yesterday's release, I've bumped blogmore.el to v2.5. The main change to the package is the thing I mentioned yesterday about the toggle of the draft status. The draft toggle yesterday was pretty simple, with it working...
Sometimes I admit to human weakness. Well probably often really. Lately I’ve felt this need. This desire to just go sit and drink beer downtown. Today I realized I needed to actualize that desire. So I went. I like going to sit at this...
Marcin Wichary brings attention to this lovely dialog in ClarisWorks from 1997: He quips: this breaks the rule of button copy being fully comprehensible without having to read the surrounding strings first, perhaps most well-known as the...
Mais um Dia da Visibilidade Trans se passa, mais uma vez pessoas transmasculinas são, ironicamente, invisibilizadas. Já é de praxe, já estamos acostumados. Por que nos destacar? Por que se importar? Afinal somos desinteressantes e...
TL;DR: Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, antitrust bodies around the world are struggling to find their footing, and an incurious tech press is letting it pass with nary a nod. Browsers are app...
La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond Outre la première victoire au Tour de France d’Eddy Merckx, 1969 fut une année qui marqua trois événements très importants. 1. Le premier homme sur la Lune 2. L’invention du système UNIX 3. La...
Yesterday was quite tiring. I was asleep for practically the entire day. That kind of thing happens whenever I take my olanzapine, which is what I did the night before yesterday. That night, I had slept from 5 PM till about midnight....