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Quoted Research traces evolution of anglerfishes’ famed fishing-rod lures by Brendan M. Lynch (KU News) The researchers determined the original anglerfish lure developed in the common ancestors of today’s variety about 72 million years...
I'm sat on the sofa, MacBook perched on my lap, going over some photos and generally feeling pretty tired in a really satisfying way. We've just had a brief weekend run to one of my favourite places on the planet, back in the county I...
Title: Intrepid Knitting on the High Seas, or, Pointy Things and Tangly Stuff Website: knittingpirate.com RSS Feed: knittingpirate.com/feed I've been blogging about my knitting (and other fibre arts) adventures since 2007. RSS users are...
Ce que quitter mon travail salarié pour me consacrer à l'écriture m'a appris pour le moment
The cart’s handles fit Tan Ah Kow’s palms the way his father’s tools had—worn smooth where hands pressed. He’d oiled them last night while his eldest son swept the workshop floor. The buffalo stood patient in her traces. The camphor-wood...
I have had a difficult time stringing together words to make sentences lately, and my mind is all mixed up. What makes this sensation different from times in the past, is that it feels very good this time. There are things that have...
[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.] In this morning’s blog/newsletter,1 Paul Krugman included a couple of unusual graphs that I want...
Since refactoring my site back in 2023, authoring posts is pretty simple. But to make it even easier, I wrote a little helper script. When I run node tools/new from my project directory, the script… Greets me with some friendly kaomoji...
So I'm in the middle of prepping for two events: UWEC Baron County GEEKCon on April 25th and No Brand Con the weekend after from May 1-3. And yeah, it's as exhausting as it sounds like. The con prep for UWEC Baron County GEEKCon is...
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AI makes particle board. As a child, woodworking was part of my school’s curriculum. One of our projects was making a simple sailboat, with the kind of shape and blockiness of those wood toys you see for little kids. From a solid block,...
This morning I was reading and writing. Listening to this mix on Spotify of acoustic morning easy listening. It offers a wonderful cornucopia of what I like sometimes. Coffee figures prominently. Writing the journal means dipping my oar...
Il recente ritorno della mitica campagna Telecom degli anni ’90, “Una telefonata allunga la vita“, ha risvegliato ricordi sopiti, strappando persino qualche lacrimuccia. Sì, amara. Noi, in provincia, siamo custodi delle tradizioni. Ed è...
April 2026. Monsal Head. The Peak District. Mrs RM had been reminding me how little of the Peak District we’d actually done since moving to Sheffield (hardly any new GBG pubs), so I gave her a mystery trip into the heart of the Peak last...
Surprise vinyl is kinda the best type of vinyl (Go listen to Dogcatcher) Why that's the very game boy I used!! I got a pretty rad surprise package in the mail this morning. I'd been asked for my address for this thing so it wasn't a...
Talking about my balcony garden and this year's newest addition, a little Venus flytrap.
I was recently listening to an episode of The Idea Roastery about personal life gamechangers and toward the end of the episode, Herman asked Jason: What is the best purchase you've ever made for less than £100? For Jason is was an egg...
A stack of paper, folded, with the words to the project I’m discussing in the post This cobbled together document (printed on one of those A4 thermal printers because who wants to pay for ink these days) is something that lived in my...
I have “released” my first Mac application, Meshmaker, on GitHub as a public repository, so anyone can download the project and run/install it using Xcode. I’m proud of this guy. Now, this isn’t really “A release”. The project isn’t...
Hiked part 17/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 8.2 kilometres from Dieren to Rheden. At Dieren, the enormous game park is a former hunting area of the House of Orange. At De Steeg there is a large boulder, the Devil's Stone. The Posbank is...
One of the cafés I really like recently started using those li’l “beepers”. Customers get one when ordering their food and when they start beeping you’re supposed to bring it to the disk and pick up your plate yourself. So far so good....
I mentioned a few days ago that I should put together a list of all the TBR Challenge reviews I’ve posted over the years, with the month and themes they were for, just for the sake of tidiness–if not completeness, given that the first...
Every day I carry a little creature with me. It sits near my right ear, perhaps perched on the intertragal notch (that little divot at the bottom of the external ear), where it has easy access to my brain via the ear canal. Throughout...
This post is a part of my word-vomit series. Feel free to skip it.Last two days felt hard, and I have no idea why. From Monday morning (i.e., yesterday) I have felt lethargic. I am still trying to contemplate why this is happening. I...
Spotify members in the United States and United Kingdom will soon be able to buy paper, or physical books, through the music streaming app, by way of a partnership with Bookshop.org, supporters of local and indie bookstores. With just...
Christina (left), founder of Fuerza Collective, and her niece, Jahnee (right) -- rockstars of the day. Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending Fuerza Collective’s friends & family coffee cart soft opening. I got to taste test some...
Start of my series "Aks Plays EVE" where I just post some things I did in the online spaceship game. I do these small posts on fedi every now and then, but began to feel like I should do these on my site instead. So, here you go! I just...
The enormous iron padlock on the doors of the wall cupboard was the only object in the room on which the eye could rest without becoming afflicted by the miserable unloveliness of forms and the poverty of material. Unsaleable in the...
In March 2024, I published an essay titled Humane Content in World of Language Models. While I have since taken a stronger stance about describing meaningful writing and media as content, it fits here. This essay was prompted by an...
NASA released a gallery of “posters”, and there are some great ones in there. For instance:
End of an era: Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O., by Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle. Community Letter from Tim, by Tim Cook. Also with big “end of an era” energy: Tick, by Chris. As I tried to say elsewhere, everybody who...
Des gouvernements incapables de réguler une économie financière de plus en plus détachée du réel, c’est le symptôme d’une époque où les délires mégalomanes d’une poignée d’hommes suffisent à détruire des sociétés, des pays, des vies… et...
S is for Smoke Thought a little 4-20 subject would be fun. I was trying to think, back in college and earlier what I used to get up to on this day and honestly, I can’t remember. Joke or not it cracked me up. So what was my favorite...
When people talk about the “internet dying” - what they are really talking about is slop overtaking the algorithm - of social media becoming unuseable because it’s all bots. But that is not the internet, not by a long shot. If you live...
If you read this via your RSS reader, you won’t notice the tiny design refresh of the site: nothing major, just a new header, a new icon/logo, an improved HTML structure, and an overall simplification and further reduction in weight to...
Read David's story, Out of the Band, now!Are you a musician yourself? Absolutely not. No talent, not enough patience. But I am a life-long music obsessive, record buyer and attendee of obscure gigs. Indie, reggae, synthpop, punk,...
The kitchen was scattered with rainbows as the sun shone through the frosted glass. Maybe the glass was put there to make rainbows; what was the architect thinking when they designed this place? I saw the shadows of my head and my hair...
Welcome, to my week notes! Can you believe that we are almost done with April already? There have been a lot of things going on lately, but hey, at the very least I keep reading on my XTEINK X4 and nudging other people to buy it too,...
Heya! So, I got a new phone a couple weeks ago! After, what, like 3 years, I've upgraded to an Honor Magic8 Lite. Mainly because the battery on my old one was slowly dying, and the device generally just started feeling kind of sluggish....
"Lazzaretto Nuovo" from the "Venetia, citta nobilissima et singolare" (1581) by Francesco Sansovino, translated by René Seindal.
Bullet points of our last 36 hours in Minnesota. Want to go back!Currently Listening: HEALTH “ORDINARY LOSS”Reply via email
Los rumores eran ciertos. A partir del 1º de septiembre Tim Cook deja Apple y en su lugar asume John Ternus. Se viene una nueva era.
I haven't done the math, but these are pretty cheap to make. I got the bristol board for a dollar, and only a third of it made five covers so far! When I finish standardizing my process, I'll make a tutorial zine & blog post.
For this entry in the series I have picked a song from the collection of composer and songmaker Manos Loizos. Manos was among the most influential artists of his era. Do not ask me is an old song that remains relevant:...
I use the free version of ChatGPT occasionally, and a week or two ago I started seeing ads. I knew they were coming, but it was still irritating to have one show up in the middle of a conversation. Most of my use is on my MacBook using...
Mediados de mes y apenas he publicado cinco notas, de las que tres son de estas retros. No quiero dejar de escribir, me gusta, me hace sentir bien, pero cierto es que cuando llega el calor queremos hacer más actividades de exterior, y...
2026-04-20Hello!As soon as I heard about a free event for students to experiment with crazy camera gear, I reserved my ticket and cleared my calendar. This kind of opportunity doesn't come often, so it's important that I try and make...
Here's a cute little tune for y'all.
When Eric Cartman and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame. I think I’ve seen this movie billions of times on all formats and I think I still know it by heart. It’s...
#30DaysOfDXing is where I am trying to receive various radio wave transmissions and listen to them using either my Radio, SDR, etc. I am currently using ShortwaveSchedule, Short-Wave Info, ShorWave DB, QSL.net, etc. as my sources. Look...
Ironically, the home-brewed application I use most is also the most neglected one. I’m talking about Tinble, the tiny blog engine that powers this very blog. At long last, I got my act together and spent some time tweaking and improving...
The number one thing that keeps getting hammered home to me, by experience and the folks at work I'm responsible to, is that the point of data/analytics engineering is to generate value for the business.New pipelines and data sources...
Roshan: [[File:Dall-E 3 reimagining - A couple walking down 4th street cleaning.png|thumb|The good samaritans as depicted from my memory. They looked younger and in better shape but you get the picture.]] When we were kids there was this...
Fellas, is it wrong to just wanna sit on a guy's face? Sigh. Hormones have been going crazy lately, idk if it's medication or what. All I know is that in the past I never had real crushes on famous personalities and now I feel like I'm...
It seems that we've been bitten by a certain bug, one that takes any sense of meaning and truth and tries to reject it for the sake of something different. With our ability to constantly access so much media and escape to any place we...
I am not a people person. Despite being a YouTuber and now a “professor”, I would much rather be away from people as much as possible. Of course, that’s not very healthy, so I try to put myself out there as much as I’m comfortable with....
As reported in January, the American Philosophical Association (APA) recently began—and halted—an experiment with making one of its three divisional meetings each year a wholly-online conference. The experiment with online meetings was...
Antecedently: Operation Let’s Steal A Guy; a new green homie appears; Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE! We are outside the home of threatened weirdo Vashon Gattlebee, whom we are here to extract for his own safety and whom Amy insists on...
Perusing the Bear Blog Discovery Feed has become a part of my daily routine (usually during my commute / on the train). Semi-intentionally, I've established a mini-practice that I call "Bear Blog picks", where I scroll through the "Most...
Fractional house numbers can be found across New York’s older brownstone and townhouse neighborhoods. Usually the half refers to an adjacent carriage house or backhouse, or sometimes even a basement apartment. But as far as I can tell,...
What have I been upto? I’ve had a couple of quiet weeks with work, so been using this time to catch up. This week is largely the same – I’ve only got one contracted day in the calendar at the moment. I used to be a bit nervous about...
What goes around comes around. Could we be facing a new dystopia where retro-computers are proscribed by the state?
SwiftBar: Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool It is comparable to i3bar and i3status, but on macOS. My current setup: This screenshot is from a few months ago (January). From left to right, skipping the default macOS Control...