Sun Jun 07
A week in which some things happen and some things do not happen, much like other weeks. Current situation: Not pictured: The 3 different kinds of beef jerky we just got at Buc-ee’s. The pain of having children who become driving teenagers is the exorbitant cost of auto insurance. The joy is getting to stare out the...
Can anyone tell me anything about these? I know almost nothing about them. They were my dad's, but I have no idea when he bought them, why, or how old they are. He passed away six years ago. Mum moved house four years ago, and as part of the tidy up I came across these. She has no information about them. I know it's...
I've read less this week than the prior one. I was catching up on a lot of recorded talks from re:publica 26, which I couldn't attend (those talks will get their own post!). I was also a tad busy with meeting people and doing the ring class, and also unfortunately struggling with depression. I didn't manage reading...
A sosit vremea ca băncile și nu numai să își lanseze sau să își facă aplicațiile publice și pentru alte sisteme de operare în afară de iOS și Android. Pentru că nu există numai iOS și Android, altele sunt mult mai securizate și mult mai axate pe securitate și confidențialitate decât iOS și Android. Mulțumesc că...
1st June - 7th June The cabbage tree in the garden has begun to flower; the bees are beyond excited. I am grateful for the rain because it dampens the powerful stench of cat piss emanating from the tree. I don't know how Aotearoans cope! A solitary wren was sat on the floor of the utility room. Must have flown in...
This is a Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) test, using EchoFeed to post to Bluesky. Lets see if this triggers once or twice. x-post on: Bluesky
Many, many years ago, my darling and I planned a long weekend in Hamburg, including a sightseeing bus tour, a harbor cruise, and all the other things you typically do in Germany’s northernmost metro area when you’re there together for the first time. Since even as a grown man, I can hardly shake off my inner child,...
I have this love/hate relationship with LGBT fiction. Either it's too sugary sweet for me, or so bitter and miserable that I want to lie in bed with the covers pulled over my head and not turn another page. I was trying to describe this to a friend, and they explained the concept of queer fiction being ‘hug-boxing'...
Code isn’t just a way to implement a design, it’s a way to find one. With an interface, you have to use it, feel it, interact with it, and poke at it to see the relationships between things. Change X, see Y react. If it doesn’t feel right, tweak it. Change X again, now Y reacts differently. Better. Keep tweaking —...
It pays to check notifications on your discarded social media every once in a while I guess lmao Because “curious quail” is our band name but also has been my primary online identity since like 2008, if I have an account somewhere and I stop using it for any reason, I usually don’t delete the account because I don’t...
Why does everyone in #F1 love #Monaco? It's by far the most BORING race on the calendar. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
Liked Personal Search Engines by Jason J. Gullickson (mr's Preposter.us Blog) A Personal Search Engine (PSE) is a search engine that specializes in your interests. It provides personalized search results by indexing only the things you are interested in, not by spying on you. Instead of crawling the entire Web and...
When I moved to Newcastle, as a student, back in 1986, I was introduced to many new things. So many new things. Different folk. Different accents. Different backgrounds. People from the south! But, as well as all the eye-opening things that student life had to throw at a working-class Yorkshire lad, there were also...
Esse post é uma maneira de trapacear já que o último post da minha meta inicial ser sobre como eu fiz a meta talvez tenha um pouco de roubo, mas faz parte e temos que seguir com a vida assim mesmo, não é? Mas brincadeiras a parte foi incrível. Eu de verdade notei como você criar o hábito de escrever sobre alguma...
Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point, by Danika Ellis. Colorado Gov. Polis Signs New Conversion Therapy Ban, Defying Supreme Court, by Erin Reed. Also by Erin: Latest Gallup Poll Shows Republicans Will Not Stop With Transgender People. Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ?, par Lionel Dricot. La mue du serpent, par...
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been receiving more security bug reports for Perfetto’s trace processor than I ever have before, all of them found by AI. And I’m very happy about it! These are bugs that would almost certainly not have been found a year ago and it feels good to close these loopholes even though...
A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. This is part two (of three), part one images can be viewed on this post Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 & MC-14.
Paper Magic is notoriously untimeable with its ten APNAP windows per turn, plus two more APNAP widows for every spell or ability, including for triggered abilities. That’s why this is a variant. For the kitchen table. Not Comp REL. First, some terms Slam Gently and carefully press your side of the chess clock so...
Some people are tired of streaming, says Iskhandar Razak, writing for writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). I’m not sure if it’s the actual process of watching, say, a movie online, or having to deal with streaming content providers, that’s fatiguing viewers, it sounds like a bit of both I’m...
Checking how ZFS compares against ext4 for my NAS, with an encrypted RAID1 array.
📝 Life Notes A busy week! Final check-in with Jack’s nursery and he’s doing great. We knew that, but we also know he’s a different person when he’s not with us, and the structure they have there seems to work for him; we were told that a lot of the other kids look to him […]Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive....
Imagen: Fabricio Trujillo Joe Bloggs se sentó frente a su portátil nuevo, pulsó el botón de encendido y esperó. Le había costado una buena suma, pero bien lo merecía: había tenido su dispositivo anterior durante casi seis meses. Mantenerlo más tiempo seguro que le costaría aparecer en un registro en algún sitio. Eso...
A calm and rather cool summer week. Not quite as rainy as forecast but not the hot temperatures of the last few weeks.I didn’t do all that much – slept a lot, futzed around with my websites and learned more about Vietnamese addresses, reverse geocoding and the OpenStreetMap data model than I ever wanted to know....
Plain Text Slop Soup, Anyone? I was initially excited to discover a new plain text productivity site this week, with sections on open format apps and tips for plain text workflows. Hooray! I thought. Another resource to add to my Blogroll! But a few seconds in, things began to feel off. It didn’t take long to...
Some of the tech giants for the past few years have tried hard to kill the most important tool of the web, links. AI companies have stolen content from the web without ever asking for permission just to wrap it into the soulless chats that keep on forgetting to credit the original authors. They rarely mention where...
May 2026. Congleton. I’d walked east from Congleton station, along the canal, west along the disused railway line, and now after Bass in the Throstle’s Nest it was a walk past the cemetery into town. I must stop reading gravestones; to have all three children predecease you is unimaginable. Congleton is a quaint...
The Master wakes to a pager. Coffee is ready. Apprentice: “Master, who created the drift?” Master: “Which drift?” Apprentice: “The bucket tag — live state ≠ terraform config in git.” Master: “Show me the chain.” They follow: pipeline → cronjob → github actions container → terraform CI bot → github pull request →...
I first had trouble displaying the symbols Spencer-Brown uses for his Laws of Form when I wanted to include them in my essay on femininity and death. I wrote the paper in Google Docs, so using LaTeX wasn't an option, and the equation-menu being fairly constrained, I resorted to drawing my katjects – yielding...
All photos were taken and edited with iPhone 14. Yesterday, I had brunch at Casetta del Divino Zelo1 to celebrate M and J's birthdays. While I ate spaghetti alla puttanesca, they had ravioli and lasagna, respectively. We also tried some slices of prosciutto pizza and glasses of butterfly pea tea (infused with lemon...
For this entry in the series, I have picked a traditional song from Heperus (Ήπειρος), the northwestern part of mainland Greece. Traditional Heperotic music is renowned for its laments: slow-paced songs that revolve around themes of loss, suffering, and hardship, but also of honour and commitment to ancient values....
I’m apparently supposed to know how to build loyal subscribers. Because I have a blog. By the same logic, if you own a bird feeder, you should understand birds. I do not understand birds. I understand that they arrive. They eat. They leave. Sometimes they scream for reasons known only to themselves. The same can be...
★★★★☆ (as a book) ★★★☆☆ (for the purposes of this blog) There are as many books about Steve Jobs as there were Quadra models, but they focus mostly on two phases: 1955–1985 – Steve Jobs befriending Wozniak, the early days of Apple, Lisa, and the Mac 1997–2011 – Steve Jobs’s “second act” at Apple, and the creation of...
A list of some of the main events of the Lombard conquest of Byzantine Venetia and other parts of Italy.
The say ″the hype is real″, but more often than not, the hype is entirely fabricated. The more a product is hyped on Reddit and other places, the greater the chance it’s a marketing psyop. Unless that product happens to be the Uniball Zento Signature rollerball, in which case the hype is absolutely real. The...
Hello markdownWhen my Astro migration is complete, I will have to set used to writing in markdown exclusively. I thought I should get a headstart on it. My first instinct was to find a markdown writer that will sync across devices—my two Macs and the iPhone—and ideally have a web interface as well. Turns out, such...
Hermann Hesse looking serious. CC BY-SA 3.0 NL image courtesy Dutch National Archives and Wikimedia Commons. Two weeks away from the ol’ blog felt especially long, trapped as I was in a van with people half my age who were shit-talking nonstop. When we pulled to a halt in front of the tourist shop in Hooker, OK—town...
We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already believe, rarely stopping to ask what's actually being measured, or whether the official interpretation is the only one. We see what we see and move on. I understand the impulse. Most data is exactly...
2026-06-06（土） 時間：18:30~20:45 地稽古：FM老师・KD老师 心得：上周去东京看比赛所以没有去道场稽古，这次是我时隔 12 天穿上护具，本来还很怕自己手生，结果可能是因为去现场看了很多比赛，对于进攻以及打击的时机都有了更清晰的感知。 轮转稽古的时候打到了几本有效打击，和各位老师稽古的时候明显感觉自己的步法更灵活，并且没有再被吐槽不进攻了。下面来说一下问题。 基本练习的时候要多注意小手的打击距离，虽然在比赛或者地稽古的时候可以积极地利用身高来从更远的距离打，但是基本练习的时候还是要注意进攻一步到交剑距离再打。...
2026-06-07Hello! I think I'm going to try and make this a cohesive series involving dice outside.I used to make loads of pre-constructed photos with minimal effort just to be creative and unconventional. I've described that process a bit before, but I haven't published any of them to this site. I also haven't done...
A round-up of what I shared on social.omgmog.net between 1 June and 7 June.
Valor sentimental (Affeksjonsverdi) es un drama noruego dirigido por Joachim Trier y premiado en la última edición de los Oscars como Mejor Película Internacional. Joachim Trier nos cuenta la historia de la familia de un director de cine, Gustav Borg, centrada en la casa familiar. La familia de Gustav ha vivido en...
I wanted to put my regained attention span to a test: can I, once again, watch complex films? All three Godfather films, played night after night looked like the perfect choice. Those are the most famous films of all time, often called crowning achievement of the form. Long (between 3 and 3,5 hours long each), slow,...