Tue May 19
I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links. 1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold Their Mouths Open for No Clear Reason. Tourists Are Helping Scientists Understand the Rare Behavior (Margherita Bassi for...
In the media streaming world there’s specific setups that go overlooked. Edge-cases, if I may. I am one of them, and there’s nothing that satisfies me more than Plex. But there’s always the “but” factor in this. Reason #1: Emby is shittierReason #2: Jellyfin is even worseI will NOT contribute to Jellyfin. Even...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-45584 for the project Microsoft Windows, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a memory safety vulnerability resulting in arbitrary code execution inside the virus scanner Windows...
Last night I watched an episode of Andrew Graham-Dixon's The Art of Scandinavia. The subject was Danish art, so I was expecting good stuff. Alas, I was disappointed: for one thing, this was more a potted cultural history of Denmark, from Christian IV and the Frederiksborg Palace to the original Legoland, by way of...
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships. The fellowship program provides support to PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences writing dissertations on questions of religion, ethics, morals, or values. Twenty new fellows were announced,...
Dionysos Skêptouchos, flanked by Maenads (a collage of three of my Acid Renaissance photographs It’s one of those times when numerous disparate articles I read, written by people who I doubt are even aware of each other, seem to be swirling around a shared theme. The zeitgeist of the past few weeks seems to be a...
I am not a historian. I'm sure this is all very simplistic and reductive. BUT I got spicy this morning and searched "why did the Roman Empire fall?" And this pop-history listicle seems to have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to teach us in the present moment: History dot com: 8 reasons why Rome fell I'm sure reviewing these is...
TIL: 移除图片下方多余的空白 問題和原因 <div style="border: 2px solid;"> <img src="/images/album/20251226T172918--梦想家-the-dreamer__20241018_khalilfong_albumwall_image_方大同.webp" /> </div> 留意上面的图片， div 里只有一个 img 元素，但 img 没有占滿 div ，在 img 下面还空了些許高度。 這是因為 img 是行內元素，行內元素的特性是： 行内元素按行布局 每行都有一个基线 (baseline) 基线由字体决定 默认情况下，所有行内元素都与基线对齐 图1...
I just got off the phone with my bank, wasting about 30 minutes of my ever-shortening life to be told that I need not worry about the email that came in this morning and nearly gave me a heart attack. Opening my email inbox this morning, I see two emails about my address and information being updated from my bank....
Just some random rambles. The usual.Currently Listening: Gary Numan “Random (Live 79)”Reply via email
Ayer en el autobús había una mosca volando cerca de mi, no me di cuenta porque siempre me dedico a mirar por la ventana, y pues tampoco es que haya mucho que hacer sentado en un camión, las otras opciones incluyen: mirar el celular, chismear conversaciones ajenas, ¿leer? si tienes una concentración supernatural (es...
Language has the power to shape how we think about all kinds of things. You see this criticism come up with mainstream news outlets (including purportedly liberal & leftist outlets) and how they frame their headlines - often in a way that minimizes U.S. cruelty and paints other countries as the bad guys, as the...
Oh boy, am I all about this! I’ve been trying to live this not only since coming to Bear, but going back into the dark ages of the blogosphere. If I like your blog and you’ve got a contact button, there’s a pretty good chance that I’ve sent you an email giving you praises. There are solid humans in this little...
emilyadel.lol via naiveweekly.com This is really creepy... but also a cool way to take something creepy and make something cool on the internet with it... I can't get myself to actually listen to any of these... but the rest of Emily's site is also a delight so it's worth just going straight there as well.
Em um dos episódios dos programas de idol que eu assisto, eles pediram para as meninas fazerem um gráfico de tudo que influenciou a vida delas até o momento e eu achei extremamente interessante ver como séries, filmes ou músicas influenciam as pessoas e o tipo de % que cada uma deu. Com isso, pensando por um total...
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A séance with the Internet, told through tens of millions of digital media files from the Internet Archive.
[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 the first of the derivations for the center deflection of a simply supported beam with a uniform load. We start with the differential relationship between the bending...
I visited Arctic Lights ComicCon and it was fun! Here's some photos and thoughts on the whole thing. I had fun at the ComicCon! I mostly spent the days in my cosplay, hidden behind my lizard mask. Sadly the mask took some damage during the whole ordeal, but nothing major. For example I hugged a fellow furry and it...
Pretty much every project that I actively maintain on my GitHub account has a change log of some description. For a long time now, whenever I add a new entry to the log, I'll include a link to the PR that implements that change. Inevitably, this results in me adding the ChangeLog entry, creating the PR, then doing a...
Fleurons, and other printer's ornaments are decorative elements used in typography. Many of these have made it into fonts in the digital age, with Unicode supporting classic fleurons like ❦ and ❧, but also additional symbols-turned-visual indicators ranging from the aptly named ❀ (White Florette) to the lesser known...
Last edited 12 minutes ago. Living as little as possibleHello. Yes, I am, in fact, still alive. Haven't had the energy to do much, though. I think I've mentioned this in previous posts but—been living as little as possible lately. Which, in turn, means I've been living inside my own head a lot. I'm realizing now...
Note: Written in response to Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 16, 2026. Something unusual is happening in the Russian military’s information environment. The bloggers and commentators who built their audiences by cheerleading the invasion — men whose professional identity is bound to Russian military...
Oigan, ya tenía mucho sin escribir sobre juegos aquí en mi blog. Les digo que de repente hay temporadas en las que ando muy “gamer” (me choca esa palabra) y luego como que me desconecto de todo y mi atención se centra en otras cosas. Aparte de que apenas acabo de actualizarme a un Switch 2 y parece que fue justo el...
Last night I had another dream of my brain processing Japanese as I began official serious immersion at least 1 hour a day. (Meaning focused full Japanese videos without trying to study the grammar). It was weird, seeing a lot of Kanji on my "screen" inside my head and also trying to make group of related words to...
I forgot to post about this, but my friend and colleague Dr. Eric Rodgers was in a documentary made by Dave Feldman about low-carb and keto diets. It is more than a how-to. It is a moving story of a movement that mainstream medicine is trying to stop at every turn. I urge you to watch The Cholesterol Code on Amazon...
It’s been a long time since I wrote poetry, honestly too long. When I was writing poetry fairly regularly, I wrote a mixture of free verse and formed verse. Verse forms are fun because they’re an exercise in constrained writing, which provides just enough structure to make the poem a sort of puzzle to be solved. The...
“Do one thing and do it well”, they said. → What Color Is This (iOS only). Via Kottke. — § —Reply via email#dev #serenity
Photo from Unsplash Don’t worry, I am not going to expose anyone but myself here. A few weeks ago I saw a YouTube video: The Performative Epidemic (Invidious) by chon digital, that was about something I think everyone has heard about in one way or another. Basically, people that pretend to do or engage in a certain...
Terminé de leer La insoportable levedad del ser de Milan Kundera. Me gustó bastante, tiene reflexiones muy interesantes, aunque hay capítulos de partes políticas que se me han hecho un poco aburridas. Las quitaría sin remordimiento.
2026-05-19Hello! A return to normalcy today. The weather is warm but manageable, my classes are wrapping up, loose ends are being tied, and I can't kick a kickball the right way. Out, every time...While the crazy American boys go nuts with hacky sack (which, by the way, I love that I can pinpoint the instant this...
Many boats on the Katsura River in Arashiyama on a warm, sunny day. 暖かく晴れた日、嵐山の桂川には多くの屋形船が浮かんでいる。
Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers”. Via I had to verify this one myself with my favourite source, Etymonline: Cowcumber was the common form of the word in 17c.-18c., in good literary use and representing the modern evolution of the Middle English form. Cucumber is an attempted reversion to Latin. In 1790s the...
I witnessed this Siemens locomotive depart yesterday and for a second I thought I was losing my mind. Then, I smiled so hard: Turns out, the startup melody was intentional in this particular model. The power converters have to adapt the current from the overhead line to convert it to the three-phase motors of the...
When it rains, I feel safe. The outside transforms into a place that should be avoided. Sunny weather will push you to go outside to take advantage of the chances it offers, but rain will not push you. It signals that you'd better stay inside, that this is the only place you should currently be because there is no...
May 2026. Richmond. North Yorkshire. Every fourth year Richmond gets a new Beer Guide pub demanding my attention, and every fourth year I leave a Yorkshire tiwn considered one of the country’s best wondering what the fuss is about. This time, I have myself a whole two hours and asked ChatGPT for the essential...
In the spirit of seasonal home organizing, here are several dependency updates I’ve made to this site since my last refactor follow-up (most quite recently). Fonts After years of embedding my heading fonts via Adobe, I finally started licensing Freight Sans for self-hosting. I subset the fonts with Glyphhanger to...
I see a lot of posts on e.g. Bubbles and PowRSS. And that's awesome! Every now and then, there's a certain writer I would like to see more from, but they haven't posted in a while. And then I realise that I haven't either.
Forgive the higher-than-usual rate of direct quotes from these links, which replace a few regular comments, but as you can see, there is a general theme in my recent readings. Even though I’m trying to avoid focusing on it in these monthly collections of links, the theme is so rich, so complex and consequential (and...
Roshan: To the UCL final, we'd been to the UCL as a whole many times [[File:Roshan at the Emirates - Arsenal v Everton - Feb 3, 2018.webp|thumb|Arsenal 5, Everton 1. Aubameyang's introduction. The last photo I took at the Emirates.]] Today, for the first time in twenty-two years, Arsenal are champions of England...
Denote aims to be a simple-to-use, focused-in-scope, and effective note-taking and file-naming tool for Emacs. Denote is based on the idea that files should follow a predictable and descriptive file-naming scheme. The file name must offer a clear indication of what the contents are about, without reference to any...
Every application I love has some kind of power-user mode where I can add my own code or scripting to make it useful to me. Simple examples are Firefox with its addons or VLC with its plugins. Ideally, any significant or valuable application should have such a feature. But as a developer or builder, it’s not easy to...
We can talk about our periods now, and it's relieved a little shame from the shameful condition called womanhood.
Ich bin der Idee eines digitalen Gartens nicht abgeneigt. Ich mag Idee von living documents, (persönlichen) Wikis, dem Teilen von idiosynkratischen Texten, der Verbindung von Texten durch Links … Ich bin, anders gesagt, ein Freund des Hypertextes. Geschichten dieser Idee haben andere geschrieben. Wichtig ist da vor...
Pasa el tiempo, gira una vez más el planeta, y acá estamos celebrando un año más. Desayuno con familiares, convivencia, algunos regalos, faltar un día al trabajo, no hacer mucho durante el día... Ha sido un día distinto Este ha sido un año peculiar, de cambios personales, vivir en una nueva ciudad, volver a un...
As I reported in January, Arsenal broke me. It was the loss at home to Man Utd. that did it. I didn’t feel that I cut my ties to the club so much as that my ties were cut, in some involuntary yet definitive way. I still don’t fully understand it, but it has a lot to do with being a senior citizen, I suspect: I was...