Wed May 27
CadeyWhat is an operating system, really?AoiI mean, isn't it obvious? It's something like FreeBSD or Fedora that has a kernel, userspace, graphics stack, core set of programs, and everything else you need to be able to use a computer. Is this a trick question?NumaWell it depends, is the Nintendo Switch OS an...
Hace años me consideraba agnóstico. Hace tiempo ya que soy ateo. Crecí en una familia católica practicante que drenaba cualquier atisbo de felicidad que uno pudiese experimentar. El maltrato psicológico que sufrí todavía me afecta. Obviamente, al obrar en nombre de dios, estas personas no consideraban (ni lo siguen...
A poem arrives on thin, pale paper, bound to a withered branch. It speaks softly of the exhaustion of too much care, the heavy burden of words. One should read it, let the sleeve fall, and simply watch the rain. Instead, the receiver, bursting with earnest helpfulness, immediately grinds fresh, thick ink to explain...
I’ve been reading about farmland lately because in my area, I’ve noticed more and more real estate listings for farm properties that are getting split up and subdivided. I’m not talking about the 1,000-acre tracts that are getting graded, compacted, and turned to housing—that’s happening here, too. I see small farm...
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Games I have covered thus far are slow-paced experiences: puzzles that you piece together to reveal their secrets. They tell you a story without expecting you to be decisive in your actions. Borderlands 3 (hereinafter referred to as “Borderlands”) is the exact opposite (spoilers throughout this article). It is a...
Imagine waking up in your favourite fantasy world. Except, what if it's Game of Thrones? And what would you do? Try to warn Ned? “Don't take the job!” Help Tyrion? Try not to change the plot? Except portal fantasy is deliberately designed to allow outsiders to mess around with the plot, ever since there was A...
The vibeThis week had a little bit of everything: proud dad moments, focused work, website tinkering, Formula 1, and the return of my weekly cybersecurity roundup. It felt busy, but in the good kind of way where several things actually moved forward.Highlights🎾 My youngest had her tennis tryouts for next year. It...
On the NES version of Clu-Clu Land, Bubbles goes to a rave between levels as the background screen rapidly cycles. That might’ve looked okay on CRT but does not look good on OLED or LCD. Clu-Clu Land is my favorite game but I never heard of it back in the day (go figure; we played Devil World, Ice Climber, Little...
I’ve been asking myself for a while now, with all the hype surrounding AI, who’s supposed to pay for all the money being thrown into this technological meat grinder… or rather, when the enthusiastic managers will realize that it’s them. So every fanboy deserves a look at this website … #AI Is AI Profitable Yet?...
A quick update to BlogMore, with a small accessibility improvement, and also a whole new set of data for the graph. The accessibility update follows on from a change published yesterday. In that release I did a little bit of work to disambiguate links to categories and tags that had the same link text; this time...
Some link titles have been slightly modified for style. Arts and entertainmentAre.na: Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (CARI)Learn about various categories of consumer aesthetics from 1970s to present. Bye Spotify, hello MP3sMinimal bought 16 secondhand CDs and ripped those albums as MP3s for their VLC-powered...
Based on Just Fucking Use Go Yo, you just wanna build something that works? Do you have a Device that goes blep blop, chances are that there is a JVM for it. Brother I do not care what is trending at the moment, Java has been sitting here chugging along for decades. "But muh performance" my man the JVM is fast. But...
The Kingdom of the Lombards played a major role in early Venetian history, as it was the Lombard invasion of Italy in 568 which started the formation of later Venice.
2026-05-27Hello! We're back. Sorry, Jerry.Before the guided tour of the clay factory with the steam engine ended, I walked upstairs to rush through the remaining rooms before we had to go. It was warm enough to make me want to go home by that point, and we hadn't had food.I passed by this room, and took a photo...
Went for my first run in goodness knows how long last night. Managed 3km in in 21 min with an avg heart rate of 172bpm(!) Considering I used to do 5km in 18 mins, this is disappointing, but i need to focus on the positives...I got off my arse and ran! Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you....
Revisando mi cuaderno tengo muchos textos pequeños que he escrito, fueron ideas rápidas que se me ocurrieron y que no pude extender más, porque ahí acaban. Pensaba publicarlos uno por uno, pero pensé que sería mejor ponerlos todos juntos en un post. ¿Cómo descubrimos que las nueces eran comida?Por fuera tienen una...
In my previous blog post, Omnibus Update: April 2026 Edition, I mentioned that I would collect my thoughts on my 2026 Subaru Trailseeker after 3000 miles (4830 km). I am planning to do that write-up after having the car for 3 months rather than 3000 miles.
The summer I turned forty, my maternal grandmother, then ninety, gave me an astonishing embroidery she had completed it when she was my age after, having worked on it for years. The cascading geometries of blue, black, and white, interlocking extraordinary precision and extraordinary passion, may have taken less...
日本語へ勉強の近況 A year ago I reflected about why am I learning Japanese . The brain is a most wonderful thing. As of lately, a year later, the intensity of my dreams have been making it’s return — this is more to do with my toddler finally sleeping thorough the night than anything else — and with these dreams, attention...
Quiero darle una vuelta de tuerca a ¡Blog!¡Blog! . Estoy pensando en una forma en que todos podamos colaborar en difundir a los blogs del directorio. Por otro lado, desde hace tiempo vengo recopilando frases que me gusta. Quiero hacer algo útil con ellas para poder compartirlas. Estoy dándole forma a eso.
Five years since my PhD: Anisotropy, multivalency and flexibility-induced effects in colloidal systems The cover of my PhD thesis: Anisotropy, multivalency and flexibility-induced effects in colloidal systems. What do clouds, whipped cream, milk, photographic film, cheese, smoke and marshmallows have in common with...
Heya! So, i just saw herman's Resurfacing posts, and figured that now is as good a time as any to talk a bit about some of my favorite posts I've made on this blog. That last time I did this was... what, like 80+ posts ago, i think? So, some things have changed in the meantime, meaning that I've got more stuff to...
Subtitle: If I was a… We don’t buy tickets for the lottery very often, and if I do I always just put on a Lucky Dip. We do like the fun chat of what we would do if we won but, being quite happy with our lives as they are, there are only a few […]Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.
最近手机电量掉到 5% 以下时，我依旧不太慌。有时甚至会坐在路边，把最后一点电量用完，看几个短视频，然后慢慢走回家。 大概就是在这样的时刻，我意识到自己开始熟悉这个住了一年多的小镇。它不再是个游客城市，变成了一个让我有安全感的地方。 还有一些很小的事情，也会提醒我这一点。 英国的移动网络信号很不可靠，特别是在非伦敦区域。即使在镇子中心，也经常没信号。刚来的时候，我会因此很无助，拿着手机到处走，只想快点找到一点网络。 现在则很从容。过去这一年，和朋友们去了很多酒吧、咖啡店和餐厅，连过很多 Wi-Fi。手机没信号的时候，总能在附近找到能上网的地方。 这种藏在琐碎经验中的熟悉感，挺好。
Gisteren verscheen de brief waarmee de staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken en Klimaat liet weten dat ze de overname van Solvinity door Kyndryl ging verbieden. Een forse cast mensen, waaronder 200.000 ondertekenaars van een petitie, hebben geholpen de zorgen over deze overname bovenop de stapel te krijgen. Ook...
This is the tin some markers came in. It was sturdy enough to keep and perfect because it has a window so I can see what’s in it. But the tin was printed with the info about the markers and I didn’t think that looked very pretty. So I got out some other paint markers with a brush tip and started to doodle. Some...
I have been thinking a lot about the meteoric rise - out of nowhere - of a new player in the social media space: W Social, a platform soft-launched at Davos built on the promise of becoming the European answer to X. Earlier this month I published a long article about its surprise unveiling. And yet, I felt there was...
It's that time again where I rant reflect on the impact of AI on my life. Those who follow along will know I have no time for such Automated Ignorance. The uninformed may see it as the next big thing; something new and sparkly; the enhancement to their dominance. Recently I was incandescent (i like a bit of...
I missed talking about music! fall out boy...againOkay, I know I wrote about them the last time I did one of these posts, but they just never get old for me. In my quest to finish college I put myself in danger of never listening to American Beauty/American Psycho ever again, just from the sheer amount of times I...
It’s our 26th anniversary today. We had a nice lunch at Jesse's favorite restaurant. Very nice meal. I've never had a banana split and have been trying to get Jesse to share one with me for a couple of years. So we walked to the ice cream shop and they had it on the menu. We were too deep into it when we discovered...
Has that frequency changed as you've gotten older? Is there a dream that has particularly stuck in your memory? If so, have you had that dream more often later in life, or was it just a one-time thing? If you’d like to share your thoughts, why not reply with a Re: blog post? Or on Mastodon, Bluesky or by email, if...
It’s beginning to feel like summer here in Stephen King Country. The air is growing muggy and hot, the black flies and noseeums are beginning to bite and try to crawl into your eyes and nose whenever you go outside, and the summer people are back in town, bringing with them their poor driving habits and lack of...
The fan favorite champions – now joined by Johnny Cage himself – are pitted against one another in the ultimate battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders. First of all, I love all the MK movies. They’re over the top, raunchy, gorey and they are...
Introducing Our Sixth Birthday Project Conclusion I celebrated The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday on April 27, 2026, by starting a sixth birthday project wherein I would share on a schedule six articles featuring my blogging wisdom in the month of May. I have already published five “wisdom” articles, so today’s...
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds.AI is such a hot topic now a days that rarely any day passes when I do not encounter a single post in my blogroll, which is small, only around twenty people. Majority of the posts are rants, or rants about someone else's rant. Is this a rant as well?...
YO BACK UP NOW AND GIVE A BLOGGER ROOM, THE THREE FLOWERS OF VIRTUE ARE ABOUT TO GO BLOOM I started this book on my Palma while lying in a makeshift fort1 in my wife’s daughter’s family’s house, recovering2 from both the heat and an outing with additional visiting family to the Phoenix Children’s Museum, which was...
May 2026. Sibiu. Romania. The Untappd check-in map tells a tale of a well-pubbed town. Some doubts I’d been having about the strength of the Romanian economy (Sighisoara and Alba Iulia were very quiet by dusk) were removed that first evening in Sibiu, as hundreds of families and gentlefolk descended on the central...
De când mi-am construit propria platformă de jurnal (blog) pe placul meu, nu prea mai scriu pe alte rețele de socializare. Încă mai intru pe Mastodon, dar nu mai scriu aproape nimic acolo, doar citesc ce scriu cei pe care îi urmăresc. Și îmi place acest lucru :) Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi...
I was out the door early on Tuesday to head to Heathrow to pick up our eldest son, who has come back from university for the summer. It’s great to have him back; the house is a very different place with him in it. He arrived on a cold and drizzly day and had to listen to my insistence that this was an anomaly...
I generally avoid think pieces about AI because a) a lot of them are boring, and b) they rarely match the pragmatic posture of this blog. But this essay on a new No One’s Happy blog was really interesting to read, and feels different in a few ways. First, it examines what happens as AI slop spreads in the context...
The small Nakanoshima Bridge, connecting Nakanoshima Island with Arashiyama. 中ノ島と嵐山を結ぶ、小さな中ノ島橋だ。 🎞️ Fujifilm Velvia 50 Film
Some time ago, I reviewed a variety of Wild Berry incense sticks and cones. If you don’t know how that went, here’s an idea: It’s the kind of smell that makes you feel that your lifespan is being reduced… off-notes are tremendous… beginning to feel as though I’ve french-inhaled my way through a pack of menthol...
After dinner with Eryn at El Farolito tonight, Laurel, Andy, Erin, and I went to The Fox to catch The Last Dinner Party on their From the Pyre Tour. The show was great! They played a bunch of stuff off of their new album. #from-the-pyre #music #oakland #thelastdinnerparty ∎
Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or implementing it? If so, what issues, disputes, or questions have contributed to the delay? Does your department even...
I have a busy day ahead of me, but not too busy for Pook-Emu Bee links. Before getting to links from around the web, I note that I just published the sixth and final part of my New Leaf Journal sixth birthday project, Be the Blogger You Want to Be (Or Read). Now watch me follow my own advice. I took this photo from...
Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:The_Shard_as_photographed_out_of_a_cab_window.webp}}|thumb|I love London so even nondescript photos of the streets make me nostalgic]] {{Tweet | name = Aella | username = Aella_Girl | text = I'm so mad at everyone in my life who told me never to pick stocks, that smarter ppl will...
What have I been upto? We have quite a bit of a heatwave at the moment in the UK. Been largely getting on top of both personal and professional projects. Personal has seen me sort out a potential pest problem that manifested itself last month, along with some car related activities. Professional has seen me begin to...
I've never appreciated 21c and a North Sea breeze more than I did this morning. After the last few days of excessive heat and humidity, getting to sit outside with a cup of tea at 8am and being able to blink without sweating was perfectly serene. I'll suffer the heat and humidity if it brings a decent storm, but...
As a heavy emacs user, Guix system seems to be the logical place to rest one’s head in the perpetual distro hop. As an all-or-nothing type guy, I’ve been running NixOS for the better part of a year now, but Guix seems to philosophically align with me. That’s right, forget about pragmatism when you can have...
So there I was, in the supermarket car park, gazing happily at a tough-looking low-growing shrub covered with tiny white flowers (maybe a Contoneaster of some kind) – and there, drinking their fill of nectar, were three glorious Painted Lady butterflies, all in my field of vision at once. Some years that is as many...
The bar for not engaging with media that directly supports genocide is in hell, apparently Photos unrelated, thought we could use some pretty. Here's Monday's sunset. I don't have a greater throughline here or moral but I kinda needed to just put some thoughts down. This week, worker-owned gaming news site Aftermath...
Making steady progressThe three runs for week 5 of Couch to 5K are not all the same. There’s a gradual increase from run 1 to run 2. Run 3 is a different beast altogether. There must be a logic to it that I don’t see, but it’s an inordinate increase, and I’ve been dreading it for days. Run 1 5-minute warm up walk...
A glorious day. I'm filing a few drive-by snapshots away for when we have gray skies that persist.Currently Listening: Metronomy “The Look”Reply via email
El pasado sábado pude experimentar una de las experiencias que más se está repitiendo en un país paralizado y sin futuro cómo España, opositar. Realmente, es algo que pude haber hecho hace muchos años, cuando estuve casado por primera vez y mi suegro, por aquel entonces, sindicalista él, me invitó a aprobar una...
May 27, 2026 I was bored this morning, so with Claude I built a set of shell scripts to export Bear notes to various locations, triggered via Keyboard Maestro. All scripts query Bear's SQLite database directly at: ~/Library/Group Containers/9K33E3U3T4.net.shinyfrog.bear/Application Data/database.sqlite