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Tue Apr 21
Lots of driving today. Fuck driving, man, seriously. I had another medical appointment today for my SSDI benefits application. It's been about two and a half years now, still trucking. It reminded me a lot of the last one, except this...
Jake, bud, I know there’s a lot of cultural context I’m missing here, but I don’t think “Please excuse my wife, she’s being emotional” is a good call in any culture ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ “We cannot let you bring your war here” is honestly a pretty...
A British imperial commission proposes splitting Palestine in 1937. Jewish leaders across bitter ideological divides — Labor socialists, Revisionist maximalists, diplomatic moderates — submit responses that converge on one requirement:...
when i first joined bearblog, i actually didn’t post anything. i was obsessed with creating lists and edited the homepage of my blog more times than i can count. if i wasn’t doing that, i was reading what everyone else was posting about...
Now the cabin is a little quieter when I’m driving! I did have a proper original ‘hood carpet’, but due to the diesel heater fire and the transmission oil that went everywhere, it needed replacing. But getting one is a pain in the ass...
Thanks for your patience, everyone. It took a lot of work to process this year’s applications. There were lots of good applications. We are a micro-grant, but that said, this is the biggest year for NMG, with 5.6 lakhs in the grant pool,...
If you subscribe to the notion that the presence of em dashes (—) in a body of text means — in the AI age — the piece must have been composed by an AI agent, you could consider using am dashes instead. Yes, that’s right: an am dash, as...
This article did the rounds on my socials and on Bubbles, on how the publisher Panic receives mail by asking for it at the end of their games. It’s something I was aware of, I finished one of their games (Thank Goodness You’re Here!) and...
“Words are events, they do things, change things… transform both speaker and hearer… feed energy back and forth and amplify it… feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her magnificent...
Spoiler alert: I did not go to Boiler Room. But, there was a DJ (Erik Flow) in front of the Eaton Centre in Toronto, and my sister and I had a lot of fun dancing ... even though we were rudely interrupted by a tweaker that started...
A professor writes in with some questions that arose during the recent season of graduate admissions. They write: How are departments putting up their prospective graduate students during visits? Are they housing them with current grad...
I have started seeds and early planting, so I also started a list. I have four times the available full-sun garden space this year, and I fully intend to use it. Started Indoors Acorn squash White acorn squash Butternut squash Spaghetti...
De ceva vreme mă tot gândeam că thinkroot.xyz arată prea auster. Nu era nimic greșit în mod particular, dar ori de câte ori îl deschideam îmi dădea senzaia unui document tehnic mai degrabă decât a unui loc în care scriu cu plăcere despre...
I've been on vacation for a while and just now returned home. Still gotta reply to some e-mails, sorry! But also: Got a huge backlog of interesting data protection stuff to catch up on, and why not write about the most interesting...
<-- Splitting a set top box HDMI output To convert my HDMI output to USB, I am using a Ugreen HDMI to USB capture card. This little device will allow me to connect the output from the Sky Stream box to my laptop. The Ugreen version I...
In 2018, David and Chris recorded a podcast episode about the indie web in which the topic “living the indie web life” came up. As soon as I heard the phrase, I thought to myself: what does living the indie web life mean to me?This...
35 hours of class...done! Last night was the final lecture class for Virginia Master Naturalist training. 35 hours of classes, 10+ hours of field trips, and a few additional hours of continuing education since January. It was like being...
I've seen a few posts on Bear Blog where people list / show the tools they are currently using, and I always find them interesting to read. So in this post, I want to showcase my current setup for quick notes when I'm "on the go". I own...
First asparagus dinner of the season. Can’t complain except someone wasn’t peeling them properly which was a bit of a problem. (That someone was me, obviously.) Went to have a quick planespotting evening with my cousin, which ended up...
I started my own Zonelets blog for writing that I feel like don't fit the rest of this website.
The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, four...
My daily reading is deliberate at this point. I’ve settled on a small set of tools that surface the kind of internet I actually want, rather than whatever’s performing well today. Hacker News I use hcker.news rather than the main site,...
Disclaimer Technical information on this page is merely a log of my amateurish self-hosting experiences. I have no professional training in networking or self-hosting security. Allowing public access into your home network is...
April 2026. Eyam. Derbyshire. The landlady at the Three Stags’ Heads gently chided me for my mispronunciation of the name on the pump clip, which made me keen to visit Eyam, pronounced just as you’d expect (or not). Our last American...
2026-04-21Back at the gardens...Hello!I walked into this desert exhibit, with loads of succulents both tall and small. One of my common struggles with photography is that I don't fill the frame enough. When I take portraits, I walk back...
The April issues of Foofaraw Zine is here!While I know it's horribly late, I didn't want to let Tony's beautiful cover art go to waste... Of course, all stories will be published for free on the web throughout the month, but paid...
T is for Tavern (short fiction) The thing about riding the same twenty miles every Saturday is that you know your route. You know it and you memorize what you see along the way. The faulty sprinkler that kicks off in your far neighbors...
Quoted Framework wants its Wireless TouchPad Keyboard to be a better keyboard for your living room by Brad Linder (Liliputing) Expected to hit the streets later this year, this keyboard has chiclet-style keys with a trackpad on the right...
O YouTube atualmente é um ciclo de problemas, não necessariamente problemas mas imagino que muito dos funcionários são obrigados a fazer qualquer tipo de mudança em uma plataforma que não precisaria de mudança alguma se ainda estivesse...
Last Friday I checked out (hello, short interruption, brackets spu here, you might want to read this footnote1 before clicking the next link) nudel.cc2 for the first time. I was a bit disappointed at first as it seemed quite dead and I...
Another wee update to blogmore.el, with a bump to v4.2. After adding the webp helper command the other day, something about it has been bothering me. While the command is there as a simple helper if I want to change an individual image...
Otra cita ineludible en el calendario de eventos de retroinformática nacionales es Retrópolis Valencia. Un evento que se celebra en la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia bajo el paraguas del Museo de la Informática de la antigua...
Since building Pika I’ve wanted to incorporate a “now and then” sort of now page with dynamic history. With the recent flurry of updates to Pika variables, I realized that my dream could now be made reality. It turns out that my recent...
After the nice walk here today and then ordering a pizza for delivery, it came to me I should go downtown tomorrow. My wife let me know I am expected to attend a Khmer wedding thing all the way in Kampot. This is a big family thing so...
The risks and benefits of hosting your own on-line services
Azaleas in bloom on a cloudy day. 曇りの日、ツツジが咲いていた。
I'm taking a quick break this evening from my RPG story to air out my head a little. So as with any story I write I do a bunch of research and refresh my memory on how things were or are. What I remember about a video game from twenty...
East Clear Creek, Arizona - a place of peace and quiet Peace and quiet. Rare commodities. Perhaps, a bit like peanut butter and jelly (sorry if you are allergic, or not a fan). It is possible to have one without the other, but they are...
When a small-town police station is threatened with shutting down because of too little crime, the police realize that something must be done. Absolute funny comedy, feels like a Swedis Super Troopers. It’s raunchy at places,...
La película Piratas de Silicon Valley te va a encantar si te interesa la historia de la informática personal. Este cuenta el nacimiento de Apple y Microsoft.
I came across a long-form essay in Aeon by Carlo Iacono, a university librarian, titled Books and screens. Mr. Iacono argued against the idea that phones and other modern technological innovations are driving us toward a post-literate...
Soy una persona que desayuna. Esto no coge a nadie de sorpresa porque casi todo el mundo desayuna. Bueno, técnicamente todo el mundo desayuna en algún momento del día, pero digamos que soy una persona que toma un desayuno canónico a una...
Roshan: Created page with "My daughter and me, both in our childhood, with my mother holding us San Francisco's current state of affairs is pretty amazing When I was a young child, around 8 months old, my parents were doctors in a...
I've noticed that travel has become, of late, an act of collecting places. I've literally heard people referring to visiting a place as doing that place, as in "Have you done Japan?", assuming that one can do an entire country, and once...
This post is a part of my word-vomit series. Feel free to skip it.I am tired from a constant struggle to write a report about results I have obtained in the past few months of my postdoc. The main issue is that my mind does not want to...
NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions A couple of critical changes from NIST on how we challenge CVE’s in our infrastructure. Any CVE submission that doesn't meet these thresholds will be marked as "Not...
Este es uno de los sonidos que me molestan demasiado, me puedo acostumbrar hasta cierto punto a su presencia, pero sigue ahí de fondo. Me refiero a los ventiladores grandes, los pequeños no son tan ruidosos. Me siento mucho mejor cuando...
Tinkered with CSS again. Also now embeds should work properly, with better names and things. I found out about something called Open Graph protocol that helps apps like Discord and Matrix clients etc. to figure out what the important...
Here's some thoughts about how Gundam 00 adapted as a live performance is better than it has any right to be For some backstory, a few months ago I'd been doing a re-watch of 2007's Mobile Suit Gundam 00 with my kids; for one of them...
After years of posting photos only to Instagram I decided to build a dedicated photoblog at photos.clintmcmahon.com. This is the story of why I built it, how I used AI to migrate 250 old Tumblr posts and why the photos — not the code —...
(all about man-on-man sex, described in street language, so entirely unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest) My latest gay porn DVD, ordered on sale and on spec, on the basis of Malik Delgaty’s brief appearance in a different MEN.com...
One of the things I’m trying to do with my life is lower the amount of money I spend on things I don’t really need. I call it The Don’t Buy Shit Challenge. I’m actually doing really well with that so far, which I’m proud of. I do have...
Hiked part 18/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.6 kilometres from Rheden to Rozendaal. From Rheden the trail climbs into the Veluwezoom National Park and crosses the rolling heath of the Posbank, with wide panoramas over heather,...